59E59 Theaters has announced the lineup for its 2025 Brits Off Broadway festival, which celebrates the best of independent British theatre. This year's edition will include eight shows from U.K. writers and producers. 

The festival will kick off with The Last Laugh, written and directed by Paul Hendy and featuring Damian Williams, Bob Golding, and Simon Cartwright. Performances will run April 22–May 25. Currently playing London's Noël Coward Theatre in the West End, the play reimagines the lives of three of Britain's greatest comedy heroes –Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, and Bob Monkhouse. The New York staging is presented by Evolution Productions and Jamie Wilson Productions. 

From April 23–May 11, Red Rose Chain will present The Ungodly, written and directed by Joanna Carrick. Set in 1645 England with suspicions of witchcraft on the rise, the production will star Christopher Ashman, Nadia Jackson, Vincent Moisy, and Rei Mordue. 

Essential Theatre will present Michael Mears' The Mistake April 24–May 11, with Rosamunde Hutt directing. Riko Nakazono and Michael Mears will star in the play, which tells the stories of a Hungarian scientist who helped create the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, an American pilot who delivered them, and a Japanese daughter who suffers the devastating consequences. 

Next in the festival will be Gertrude Lawrence: A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, written and performed by Lucy Stevens and presented by Astor Theatre. Performances will run May 13–25, with Sarah-Louise Young directing. Stevens stars as 1930s musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence telling her own story in her own words via theatrical cabaret. 

From May 13–June 8, Richard Jordan Productions and 412 will present Shellshocked, with Lawrence Batley Theatre and Harrogate Theatre, and in association with Pleasance. Written and directed by Philip Stokes, the play follows young, newly returned soldier Wesley Hepton, whose mother submits his art portfolio to a painter to help support the family. But when Hepton attends an interview to become the painter's apprentice, he encounters a new kind of madness. Lee Bainbridge and Jack Stokes will lead the cast. 

Tim Marriott and Jeff Stolzer's A Special Relationship will run May 29–June 29, with Margarett Perry directing. Marriott and Brian Dykstra will star in the production, which follows two headstrong men from opposite sides of the pond as they try to forge an alliance long enough to get through their children's wedding. A Special Relationship is presented by Twilight Theatre Co. and Take Note Theatre. 

From May 30–June 29, Guildford Shakespeare Company will present Abigail Pickard Price, Sarah Gobran, and Matt Pinches' stage adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Luke Barton, Gobran, and April Hughes will star in the Jane Austen tale, with Price directing. 

The festival will close with Kafka, presented by Twilight Theatre Co. and running June 12–29. Written and performed by Jack Klaff (Star Wars), the piece depicts the life of Franz Kafka through the voices of his friends, lovers, and critics, including Alan Bennett, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Camus, and more. Colin Watkeys will direct. 

“59E59 Theaters continues to be a welcoming space where theatre artists, from New York to Britain, can feel at home and are invited to cultivate their creativity and artistry to the fullest,” Artistic Director Val Day said in a statement. “From a comedic adaptation of Pride & Prejudice that sold out theatres in London to the origin stories of witchfinders in 17th-century England as told in The Ungodly, each production showcases the bold, experimental and often humorous voices of U.K.-based artists. We are proud to offer a space for these creative minds to share their work with New York City.”

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