Elementary! Creative Team Announced for Broadway & West End-Bound Sherlock Holmes

We've obviously dream cast this one already. Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel's new original stage play, Sherlock Holmes, is eyeing Broadway and the West End. The production is set to premiere in the U.K. in the summer of 2017.

Helmed by Tony nominee Daniel Evans (Show Boat), the production will feature scenic design by Tony winner Christopher Oram (Wolf Hall), lighting by Tony winner Hugh Vanstone (Matilda) and costumes by six-time Tony winner William Ivey Long (Hairspray).

The character of Sherlock Holmes has appeared in multiple and various incarnations since his original appearance in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novel, A Study in Scarlet. Conan Doyle went on to feature Sherlock in four novels (including The Hound of the Baskervilles) and in 56 short stories.

William Gillette starred in the famous detective’s 1899 Broadway debut. Sherlock Holmes was also seen on the New York stage in 1928 at Broadway’s Cosmopolitan Theater; in 1929 at the New Amsterdam Theatre; in 1936 at the Theatre Masque; in 1953 at the New Century Theatre; in the 1965 musical Baker Street directed by Harold Prince; in the 1974 Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Broadhurst Theatre; in the 1978 play The Crucifer of Blood featuring Glenn Close at the Helen Hayes Theatre; in the 1980 off-Broadway play The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes; in the 1982 off-Broadway play Grit in a Sensitive Instrument; in the 1987 off-off-Broadway play Sherlock Holmes and the Hands of Othello; in the 1987 Broadway play Sherlock’s Last Case starring Frank Langella at the Nederlander Theatre; and, most recently, in the 2007 off-Broadway play The Blue Carbuncle.

Many stage and screen icons have donned the world famous hat and pipe in various film, television, and radio dramas, including: John Barrymore, John Gielgud, George C. Scott, Roger Moore, Leonard Nimoy, John Cleese, Christopher Plummer, Peter O’Toole, Charlton Heston, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Downey, Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch.