Cumberbatch’s Hamlet most in-demand show of all time

The 2015 run of Hamlet at the Barbican, which will star Benedict Cumberbatch, has become the most in-demand theatre production of all time, according to ticket website Viagogo.

The curtain does not go up on the production for another year, but Cumberbatch’s Hamlet is nevertheless outselling the next most popular show, the current run of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic, by four to one. The show has even registered 214 per cent more ticket searches in the hours after tickets were released than Beyoncé and Jay Z’s global On the Run tour.