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The first rehearsal images of Lolly Adefope as Mary Todd Lincoln have been released, twelve days before she takes over the title role in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre.
Alex Young hosts this year's Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize at The Other Palace on Monday 12 October, and the thirteen performers singing the twelve songs in contention have now been announced.
Warren Carlyle will direct two invited readings of For the Love of Miss Lucy, a new gothic comedy by Mary Lynn Dobson, at Underbelly Boulevard Soho on Thursday 1 October 2026.
Clive Rowe directs this year's Hackney Empire pantomime and plays Dame Trot in it, with Kat B alongside him as Simple Simon Trot. The full company for Jack and the Beanstalk was announced today.
Jamie Bogyo and Glenn Adamson will play Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde in Stoker Wilde, a new glam-rock musical playing seven performances at Wilton’s Music Hall from 27-31 October 2026.
Headlong has released the first production photographs of Fences, now open at Leeds Playhouse and bound for the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in October.
The first rehearsal photographs have arrived from the UK tour of Back to the Future The Musical, with Roger Bart back as Doc Brown and Axel Duffy as Marty McFly ahead of opening night in Bristol next month.
Ethan Rouse and Bill Stanley will play Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy in the reimagined one-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which begins performances at the Palace Theatre on Friday 9 October 2026.
Rose Ayling-Ellis has joined the cast of Letters to My Younger Future Self, the National Youth Theatre 70th anniversary show at the Royal Festival Hall. It runs for one performance only, on Sunday 20 September 2026.
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