Joshua McGuire and Jessie Buckley join the cast of Amadeus at Chichester

Joshua Mcguire and Jessie Buckley will star alongside Rupert Everett in Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Amadeus this summer.

Mcguire, who is currently appearing in Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse, will play Mozart alongside Buckley as Constnze Weber and Everett as Salieri. John Standing will play Count Franz Orsini-Rosenberg.

The cast also includes Simon Jones, Richard Clifford and Timothy Knightley.

Amadeus, which runs from July 12 to August 2, will be the first production staged in the newly refurbished Festival Theatre, which reopens following a £22 million redevelopment.

Meanwhile, Paulette Randall will direct Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which stars the previously announced Dervla Kirwan, and will run in the Minerva Theatre from November 6 to December 6.

Jonathan Coy, Mike Grady, Paul Ready and Marcia Warren join the cast of a double bill of Miss Julie and Black Comedy, which also features Rosalie Craig and Shaun Evans and also runs in the Minerva from July 4 to August 9.

Casting already announced for productions elsewhere in the season includes Imelda Staunton, Lara Pulver and Kevin Whateley in Jonathan Kent’s production of Gypsy, Zoe Wanamaker in Hugh Whitemore’s Stevie, Patricia Routledge in An Ideal Husband and Penelope Wilton in Taken At Midnight.

The festival also includes Pressure, a new play by David Haig, Pitcairn by Richard Bean directed by Max Stafford-Clark and Guys and Dolls choreographed by Carlos Acosta.