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Production photographs have been released for Holy Fool, the Shostakovich play now running at Park Theatre, which has added two more Carducci Quartet concerts alongside the run.
Rehearsal images have been released for Three Men in a Boat, a new comedy with songs opening at Rose Theatre in Kingston on 18 September.
The Yard Theatre has added two weeks to its revival of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, which now runs to 17 October and reopens the rebuilt Hackney Wick venue.
Jonathan Bailey has stepped away from Sunday in the Park with George a month after Ariana Grande left the same production. The Barbican run goes ahead in summer 2027, with new casting to be announced.
Michael Ball will play Willy Wonka in a brand-new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the London Coliseum next summer, with tickets on sale from 29 September.
Four young performers will share the role of The Boy in Birmingham Rep’s new staging of The Snowman, with Olivier-winning Paddington designer Tahra Zafar making the Snowman costume.
Mei Mac and Isabella Wei will play the two roles in The Hungry Ghost, a debut play billed as a sexy horror rom-com, at the Bush Theatre from 1 October.
Five plays picked from roughly 4,000 unsolicited scripts get a staged reading in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from 14 September, at £8.50 a ticket.
Sapling, which won the 2025 Women’s Prize for Playwriting, gets its world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond from 5 June 2027.
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