This summer sees the world premiere in London of a stage comedy musical collaboration between Harry Shearer - star of The Simpsons and This Is Spinal Tap, top comedy writer Tom Leopold (Cheers & Seinfeld) and Peter Matz, award-winning conductor and composer.
From July 10 to August 16, Here Comes J Edgar! machine guns its way onto the stage of Kings Head Theatre, headed by a crack team of creatives.
As Director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, J. Edgar Hoover secured his position as the most powerful man in America by gathering information on the private lives of others. Yet, behind all the the machismo, was his concealed sexuality, his flamboyant partying and his lifelong love affair with his deputy, Clyde Tolson. Here was a man who stopped at nothing to use the secrets of others to build and exert his control … yet underneath the petticoats of power lay his own secrets … hidden … there … in plain sight.
Here Comes J Edgar! is an irrepressible musical comedy about the love of power and the power of love, and what a simple black dress and a single strand of pearls can do for a guy!
The weird and twisted tale, told in the style of a 1950s comedy musical, will be directed by Josh Seymour, with choreography by the celebrated Bill Deamer.
Harry Shearer says: “Hoover used his “secret files” to keep half a dozen US Presidents from firing him. He was the first government figure to make a self-serving alliance with a gossip columnist. He was one of a kind – we hope."
HERE COMES J EDGAR!
King’s Head Theatre
116P Upper Street, Islington Square. London N1 1QP.
Opens July 2026
Limited tickets from £10
BOX OFFICE 0207 226 8561
Book online here.
