Cast announced for the London premiere of Jewish play The Wanderers

Both couples find themselves confronting the same essential question: can we rewrite the stories we’ve been told, or are we forever shaped by the ones we’ve inherited?

Described as poignant and humorous, The Wanderers explores themes of love, belief, trust and what it means to steer your own life.

Katerina Tannenbaum plays Esther[Missing Credit]

Its writer, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Anna Ziegler, won London’s WhatsOnStage best new play award for Photograph 51, starring Nicole Kidman. Ziegler was born in Brooklyn and holds a Master’s degree in poetry from the UK’s University of East Anglia. Her film adaptation of Photograph 51, set for 2026, is being directed by Tom Hooper and will star Natalie Portman. Ziegler’s play The Janeiad was a 2025 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn award and received a 2025 Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association new play award, while her new play Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) will premiere next year in New York. Inspired by a true story, her play Boy was nominated for the John Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle.

Of The Wanderers coming to the capital, Ziegler said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring these five characters – each restless, each full of yearning – to wander in London under Igor Golyak’s inventive, poetic, and emotionally rigorous eye.”

Igor Golyak added: “Theatre, at its essence, is a quiet conversation with the soul, unravelling the delicate threads between tradition and change. In The Wanderers, we see the poetic tragedy of longing – beautiful, endless, and profoundly human.”