Stage Play
The Da Vinci Code
Stage Play
In this thrilling multi-award winning play, based on Dan Brown’s bestselling international phenomenon, Professor Robert Langdon is called to the Louvre in the dead of night, where he unwittingly becomes the center of a murder investigation. When cryptologist Sophie Neveu arrives at the scene, she alerts Robert that, not only is he being asked to solve the crime, he is also the prime suspect. Soon they are in a race against time to clear Robert’s name and decipher a labyrinthine code before a shocking historical secret is lost forever.
The stage version of The Da Vinci Code has just been released for licensing by the Dramatists Play Service (Broadway Licensing).
To obtain the English-speaking rights to perform the stage version of The Da Vinci Code, please contact DPS here.
For non-English-speaking rights, please contact:
Dan Usztan, United Agents: [email protected]
Reviews
Eighty million readers can’t be wrong. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a phenomenon and this adaptation by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel is a masterpiece in its own right… Simply a corker.
Behind the Arras
A beautiful, commanding and visually stunning production; The Da Vinci Code started as a book, became a film and has now found its forever home on stage.
Black Country Radio
A gripping live realisation of something that for one I thought impossible…An extraordinary piece of work.
Latest, Andrew Kay
You’ll come away exhilarated by possibilities.
Fringe Review
As jaw-dropping as the book.
Shropshire Star
An exciting, fast-paced, two-hour roller-coaster of thrills.
London Theatre
The play is true to the book, fast moving and with an ingenious storyline offering twists and turns that keep us guessing. It makes excellent use of historical figures and famous artworks, with a few mathematical conundrums to keep the mind ticking over. It proves to be a rattling good murder mystery as we uncover those responsible for the death of four guardians of an ancient secret. And it becomes a love story between a grandfather and granddaughter, a voyage of discovery of the self.
Theatre Reviews North
Absolutely thrilling.
Southampton Echo
I highly recommend this staged adaptation of The Da Vinci Code by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, alongside the superb talents of director Luke Sheppard. This staged version maintains the storyline of the original book where the codes come thick and fast and the dialogue is clear and concise allowing you to follow the storyline with ease.
Art Reviews
A sensational, adrenaline fuelled piece of story-telling… a thrilling piece of theatre that deserves to be with us for many years to come. Get down to the Mayflower this week to make sure you are one of the lucky ones to see it now and not one of the many that in a year or so time will look back and say if only, I wish I’d seen it then.
Overtures
The show delivers the pulse-racing atmosphere you want from a thriller, with the added tension of a story that transfers these concerns onto an epic, existential mystery. Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel have adapted the book so that the show flows effortlessly from one code to the next… a stage thriller of the highest quality.
Brum Hour
A gripping mystery at the Ogunquit Playhouse.
Portland Press Herald
A play for thinkers, based on Dan Brown’s mega-bestselling, controversial, 2003 mystery-thriller about symbols and religion, myths and truths, and family and faith… it works, and then some, in this well-crafted, expertly acted production that will leave you on the edge of your seat and questioning what you may have believed. Expertly adapted for the stage by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel. Dan Brown, who was in the audience opening night, must be thrilled with this new American production of his landmark bestseller. So, too, was the satisfied audience, including me. See it, and be thrilled…
Weekly Sentinel
There were sparks in the air at the Ogunquit Playhouse on opening night of the American premiere of The Da Vinci Code… With one of the co-script adapters, Rachel Wagstaff, in the opening night crowd along with author, Dan Brown, in person, waving to the sold-out house… The Ogunquit Playhouse’s The Da Vinci Code is one great mystery that comes to a rewarding conclusion.
Broadway World
Media
The Da Vinci Code at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow
The Da Vinci Code at the Ogunquit Playhouse
An Inside Look
Michael Urie, Hannah Cruz, and Dan Brown break down the secrets of The Da Vinci Code in this interview available from Broadway World.
Productions
To obtain the English-speaking rights to perform the stage version of The Da Vinci Code, please contact DPS here.
For non-English-speaking rights, please contact:
Dan Usztan, United Agents: [email protected]
UK Premiere – Churchill Theatre, 2022, followed by a UK tour
The stage adaptation of THE DA VINCI CODE was commissioned by Simon Friend and first produced at the Churchill Theatre Bromley, England, in January 2022, before touring in the United Kingdom, general managed by Hanna Osmolska for Simon Friend Entertainment. It was directed by Luke Sheppard, associate director Leigh Toney, the set and costume design were by David Woodhead, the video design was by Andrzej Goulding, the composition and sound design were by Ben and Max Ringham, the lighting design was by Lizzie Powell, musical director Chris Poon, movement director Tom Jackson Greaves, fight director Alison de Burgh and casting director Stuart Burt.
- ROBERT LANGDON
- Nigel Harman
- SIR LEIGH TEABING
- Danny John-Jules
- SOPHIE NEVEU
- Hannah Rose Caton
- VERNET
- Basienka Blake
- RÉMY
- Alasdair Buchan
- SILAS
- Joshua Lacey
- COLLET
- Leigh Lothian
- SAUNIÈRE
- Andrew Lewis
- SANDRINE/GRANDMOTHER
- Debra Michaels
- FACHE
- Alpha Kargbo
- UNDERSTUDY
- Adam Morris
American Premiere – Ogunquit Playhouse, 2023
The American premiere production of THE DA VINCI CODE was produced by Ogunquit Playhouse, (Bradford T. Kenney, Executive Artistic Director; Deborah Warren, Managing Director; Brian J. Swasey Producing Director, Amber Wallace, Artistic and New Works associate.) Ogunquit, Maine, in August 2023. It was directed by Leigh Toney, based on the production directed by Luke Sheppard. Associate director, Phoebe Brooks. The music composition was written by Ben and Max Ringham and directed by Andrew Bourgoin, the movement director was Esosa Oviasu, based on original movement by Tom Jackson Greaves, the fight director was Rick Sordelet, the scenic and costume design was by David Woodhead, the lighting design was by Richard Latta, based on original lighting by Lizzie Powell, the projection design was by Andrzej Goulding, projection supervisor Brad Peterson, the sound design was by Kevin Heard, the wig design was by Roxanne de Luna, and the production stage manager was Daniel Everett. The casting was as follows:
- ROBERT LANGDON
- Michael Urie
- SOPHIE NEVEU
- Hannah Cruz
- SIR LEIGH TEABING
- Charles Shaughnessy
- SILAS
- David T. Patterson
- SAUNIÈRE
- Howard Kaye
- RÉMY/OFFICER/PHILIP
- Glenn Morizio
- BEZU FACHE
- Tarik Lowe
- SISTER SANDRINE/MARIE
- Thursday Farrar
- VERNET/DOCENT
- Jennifer Regan
- COLLET
- Katya Collazo
- UNDERSTUDIES
- Marissa Parness, Josh Kolb, Michael Liebhauser
Playwrights
Duncan Abel
Duncan Abel co-adapted the multi-award winning stage adaptation of The Da Vinci Code (2022), which toured the UK before its American Premiere at Ogunquit Playhouse (2023). His co-adaptation of The Girl on the Train (2018) transferred to the West End following a successful UK tour and has been performed internationally. He has written for BBC Radio Drama and Sing London. Duncan’s short fiction has appeared in numerous literary anthologies, most recently Comma Press.
Rachel Wagstaff
Rachel wrote the book for multi-award winning musical, Flowers for Mrs Harris, which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre after premiering at the Sheffield Crucible. The original production won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical and the London premiere at Riverside Studios won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production in 2024. Her award-winning adaptation of Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks, premiered in the West End, directed by Trevor Nunn. It has since enjoyed four UK tours and an award-winning online release in lockdown with the Original Theatre company. For Agatha Christie Ltd., she adapted The Mirror Crack’d, which recently toured the UK in a new production by Original Theatre, after its UK premiere at Salisbury Playhouse, followed by a UK tour. The play has also been performed at NCPA in Mumbai; and in Shanghai. Her musical Moonshadow, co-written with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), played at the Royal Albert Hall and the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. Rachel wrote the book for original musical Only The Brave, which opened at the Wales Millennium Centre. With Duncan Abel, Rachel adapted Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, which toured the UK in 2021, and made its US premiere at the Ogunquit Playhouse in 2023 in a multi-award winning production; and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, which had a record-breaking UK tour and West End run in 2019 and is now performed across the world. For radio, Rachel adapted Sebastian Faulks’ novel The Girl at the Lion d’Or as a five-part series and, with Duncan Abel, wrote When I Lost You, both for Radio 4.
