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.
Nine performers from the UK and Ireland, New York and Australian companies share a single Candy Store in a video released for Heathers Day, filmed across three continents.
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.
Sara Poyzer and Richard Standing return as Donna and Sam in a new West End cast for Mamma Mia! from 12 October, and booking now runs to 2 October 2027.
The Reckoning tours to Coventry and Chichester in the new year before returning to the Arcola Theatre in February, timed to the fifth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Tickets for Denouement go on sale at 10am on Friday 4 September 2026, for a six-date UK tour running from 29 May to 5 June 2027.
Every singer who opened Angel’s Bone in Manchester this spring returns for the opera’s six-performance run at the London Coliseum in October.
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