The Wanderers

Your Experience

Why watch The Wanderers

• Anna Ziegler, award-winning writer of Photograph 51 starring Nicole Kidman, returns with a stirring new drama—winner of the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best New Play.
• Following acclaimed U.S. runs at venues like Roundabout Theatre Company, The Wanderers comes to the Marylebone Theatre for a limited run. Book now to catch its UK premiere in London.
• Directed by Lucille Lortel winner Igor Golyak (Our Class), this bold production explores the restless urge for more, even when life seems perfectly in place.
• Two Jewish marriages—one modern, one Orthodox—walk into a play. What unfolds is a sharp, soulful take on love and legacy, hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “the finest play of the year”.

The story

Abe, a successful Brooklyn novelist, starts a secret email exchange with a movie star—an unexpected connection that deepens as his marriage to his wife, Sophie, quietly unravels. Decades earlier, in an Orthodox Jewish community, Schmuli and Esther build a life bound by tradition, duty, and silence. As both stories unfold, a deeper question emerges: can we ever truly escape the past we’re born into, or are we bound to repeat it in new forms?