Katie Holmes will star in the title role of a new production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at San Diego's Old Globe, with performances running February 7-March 8, 2026. Opening night will be February 12.

The project will reunite Holmes with Barry Edelstein, Old Globe's artistic director who is staging the revival. The two previously worked on Off-Broadway's The Wanderers in 2023. Additional casting and creatives are to be announced.

Ibsen's classic, about a woman whose world begins to crack just after her honeymoon, has been reimagined by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, The Girl on the Train), in an Old Globe–commissioned new adaptation.

“Hedda Gabler is one of the landmark works of world drama and I’m truly thrilled to bring a bracing new take on it to the Globe,” says Edelstein in a statement. “Hedda, like Hamlet, rises or falls with the actor in the title role. She’s everything: victim, tyrant, femme fatale; funny, scathing, tragic. Only an actor with immense imagination and charisma can take on Hedda Gabler, and in Katie’s radiant and powerful performance, Globe audiences are going to witness something rare and special. She’s an artist at the height of her powers and we’re lucky to have her in San Diego. This is going to be a memorable moment at The Old Globe, and I can’t wait to share it.”

Tickets are currently on sale via Old Globe subscriptions at TheOldGlobe.org. A launch for single ticket sales is to be announced.