Amadeus

Amadeus returns to the West End at the Noël Coward Theatre in a major revival of Peter Shaffer’s play, directed by Jeremy Herrin. Michael Sheen stars as court composer Antonio Salieri, with Callum Scott Howells as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Shaffer’s fictionalised account of 18th-century Vienna, Salieri’s admiration for Mozart’s extraordinary music turns into jealousy and obsession, setting faith, ambition and mediocrity against creative genius. The production is a drama about the composers’ imagined rivalry, not a biography or concert.