Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley Tickets

Debate London tickets 

Following acclaimed runs in New York, London, Chicago, and Los Angeles, the american vicarious’ radical restaging of the historic Baldwin–Buckley debate comes to Wilton’s Music Hall for a strictly limited run. Book your official tickets now.

About Debate

“Is The American Dream At The Expense Of The American Negro?”

On February 18, 1965, an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union for a historic televised debate between James Baldwin - the voice of the civil rights movement - and William F. Buckley Jr., America’s leading conservative thinker.

It was a defining clash: Baldwin’s call for moral reckoning versus Buckley’s defense of the establishment, exposing the fractures at the heart of American democracy — divisions that still echo today.

In restaging this debate, Baldwin and Buckley’s words are told through contemporary voices. Sixty years later, the arguments remain sharp, the stakes undiminished, the question still urgent.

It’s worth the applause

• Utterly captivating - The Guardian
• Unmissable - Vulture
• Intriguing & Defiant - The Times
• 5-Stars! - Broadway World UK
• Absolutely riveting - The Stage
• Commanding - The Observer
• Startlingly current...both of its moment and timeless - The Chicago Tribune

Debate cast

• William F. Buckley Jr - Eric T. Miller

Further casting to be announced. 

Debate creatives

• Adaptor and Director - Christopher McElroen