Imelda Staunton, Rupert Everett and Carlos Acosta lead Chichester 2014 season

Imelda Staunton is to star as Mama Rose in Gypsy at Chichester Festival Theatre this autumn, in a show that will reunite the creative team behind the venue’s 2011 production of Sweeney Todd.

Gypsy, part of the theatre’s 2014 season, will be one of the opening productions in the newly refurbished grade II-listed Festival Theatre following a £22 million restoration that has included reinstating 100 seats in the balcony level and improving the foyer and dressing rooms.

The Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim musical, which runs from October and is directed by Jonathan Kent, will also star Lara Pulver and Kevin Whateley.

Launching the revamped space will be a production of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer, starring Rupert Everett as Salieri. It runs from July and will be directed by CFT artistic director Jonathan Church.

Following this, Carlos Acosta will choreograph a production of Guys and Dolls in August overseen by US director Gordon Greenberg. It will feature Peter Polycarpou and Sophie Thompson in the cast.

In November, Patricia Routledge will star in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh.

Meanwhile, in the venue’s second space – the Minerva Theatre – the season will include new works from David Haig and Richard Bean, a debut play by documentary maker Mark Hayhurst and a production of Hugh Whitemore’s Stevie, starring Zoe Wanamaker.

Haig’s play, Pressure, is about two weather forecasters who were hired by US commander Dwight D Eisenhower to advise on the timing of the D-Day landings. It is a co-production with Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, and the cast features Haig and Malcolm Sinclair.

Pitcairn, by Bean, is about the colonisation of the remote South Pacific island from which the play takes its name. It is a co-production with theatre company Out of Joint and will be directed by its artistic director Max Stafford-Clark. It premieres at CFT before transferring to Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

Hayhurst’s play, Taken at Midnight, will star Penelope Wilton and will be directed by Church.

Elsewhere in the season, Rosalie Craig will star in the lead role of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, in a double bill that incudes Shaffer’s Black Comedy. Dervla Kirwan will appear in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally.

CFT artistic director Church said the theatre’s renovation would create more staging options and allow it to present work in repertoire more easily.

“The theatre now has the benefits that every other theatre that operates all year round that was built in the 1950s and 1960s has,” he said. “The stage is now on the same level as the scene dock, and there is improved access between these areas.”

Church added: “Whether it’s Amadeus or the musicals, of course the designers are going to explore with shows of that scale the possibilities we’ve got. We’ve briefed all the designers to think about how we will use the stage and scenery differently, and we’re looking at what we can do across the season to surprise the audience.”