Updated July 15: Ticket sales for the London 2027 revival Sunday in the park with George Deadline has confirmed that the Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande starrer will debut this fall, a delay of several months from the original May 2026 launch.
The summer 2027 production of Sondheim’s musical, which is scheduled to be directed by Marianne Elliott at the Barbican Center in London, remains unchanged.
Tickets will go on sale in fall 2026 and will only be sold via Barbican official website And the box office.
Producers chose to postpone the sales date to allow Grande to complete her “Eternal Sunshine” tour, which ends on September 1 with multiple shows at the O2 in London.
Updated at 9:14 a.m. on January 14: Empire Street Productions and London’s Barbican have confirmed that Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande will star in a new stage production of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Sunday in the park with George.
Performances will begin at the Barbican Center in London in the summer of 2027. The production will be directed by Marianne Elliott, with design by Tom Scott. Sunday in the park with George Produced by Empire Street Productions and presented in association with the Barbican. Tickets will go on sale in May 2026.
Additional production details will be announced later. Watch the first production artwork here:
previously: Jonathan Bailey appears to confirm Deadline’s report that he and Ariana Grande will star in a movie Sunday in the park with George Revived with an Instagram post shared this morning.
Billy posted a photo of himself and her evil He co-starred opposite Georges Seurat’s painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatt,” which served as the inspiration behind the musical, which was penned by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine.
“Everything should be good,” Billy captioned the post.
Baz Bamigboye reported in December 2025 that the revival will have a potential summer opening at London’s Barbican Theater in 2027. Tony and Olivier Award winner Marianne Elliott will direct the film.
As Baz reported in December, Seurat’s artworks depict people from different social classes strolling and relaxing in a Parisian park on the Seine River. Lappine and Sondheim show how an artist can bring his monumental painting together by imagining the people in Seurat’s painting. They include the character George, a fictionalized version of the painter, and his intelligent lover and muse, Dot. In the second act of the play, the same actress plays Dot’s daughter, Mary. These roles originated in the Booth Theater on Broadway by Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, respectively. Philip Quast and Maria Freedman created the parts here in London in a production at the National Theater directed by Stephen Pimlott. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical.
Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the Broadway revival of the play in 2017 alongside Annaleigh Ashford. The pair were due to star in the show at London’s Savoy Theater in 2020, but the production was postponed due to Covid.
