LORNA ANDERSON will be spending the Christmas period in her native Ayrshire, playing Snow White at Ayr's Gaiety Theatre. The show will run from 28 November to 3 January.
Sean Kearns in Pinocchio at the MAC Belfast
SEAN KEARNS is now in rehearsals for Pinocchio at the MAC Belfast. The show is produced by theatre company Cahoots NI and will run from 29 November to 1 January.
Simon Carroll-Jones in Phone Home at Shoreditch Town Hall
SIMON CARROLL-JONES can be seen in Phone Home at Shoreditch Town Hall until 30 October. The show is based on the true stories of refugees and is the result of a collaboration between theatre companies based in London, Munich and Athens. One play will be performed in all three cities, interlinked by video-conferencing and broadcast live online.
Nicholas Gerard-Martin in Amadeus at National Theatre
NICHOLAS GERARD-MARTIN is now in rehearsals for Amadeus at the National Theatre. The show is directed by Michael Longhurst and will play in the National's Olivier Theatre from 19 October.
Joanna Kirkland in Adding Machine at Finborough Theatre
JOANNA KIRKLAND will soon be appearing in Adding Machine: A Musical. The UK premiere of the award winning musical, which is an adaptation of the 1923 Elmer Rice play, will be directed by Josh Seymour and runs from 28 September to 22 October at the Finborough Theatre.
Sean Kingsley in The Grinning Man at Bristol Old Vic
SEAN KINGSLEY is now in rehearsals for The Grinning Man at Bristol Old Vic. The new musical is based on The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo and will run from 13 October to 13 November in a production directed by Tom Morris.
Kirsty Oswald in Frantic Assembly's Things I Know To Be True on tour
KIRSTY OSWALD is now in rehearsals for Frantic Assembly and the State Theatre Company of Australia's production of Things I Know To Be True. The show will run at the Lyric Hammersmith from 10 September to 1 October and then tour the UK until 26 November.
Patrick Romer in A Tale Of Two Cities on tour
PATRICK ROMER will soon be appearing as Manette in the Royal & Derngate and Touring Consortium production of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, a remount of the production that appeared at the Royal & Derngate in 2014. The show will open in Northampton on 10 September and then tour to Oxford, Richmond, Bradford, Blackpool, Wolverhampton, Brighton, Edinburgh, Cheltenham and Nottingham.
Roseanna Frascona in Norwich Medieval Mystery Plays at Norwich Castle
ROSEANNA FRASCONA will be appearing in The Norwich Medieval Mystery Plays at Norwich Castle this month. The immersive performance of the Norwich Grocer's Play Paradyse and four other mystery plays will run from 25 to 27 August.
Gregory Gudgeon in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Bath Theatre Royal
GREGORY GUDGEON is now in rehearsals for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theatre Royal Bath. The production is directed by Laurence Boswell and will also feature Phill Jupitus in the role of Bottom. It runs from 4 to 20 August.
Sean Kingsley in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
SEAN KINGSLEY will soon be appearing in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's seminal musical returns to the London stage in its 45th anniversary year, in a new production directed by Timothy Sheader.
Simon Carroll-Jones in This Much at Soho Theatre
SIMON CARROLL-JONES can be seen at Soho Theatre until 2 July performing in This Much (Or An Act Of Violence Towards The Institution Of Marriage). The production from Moving Dust Theatre Company is getting its London premiere following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer.
Greg Patmore in Educating Rita at the Rhodes, Bishop's Stortford
GREG PATMORE will soon be appearing in Contexture Theatre's production of Educating Rita at the Rhodes Arts Complex. He will be playing Open University professor Frank in the Willy Russell play which will run from 7 to 12 June.
Julie Teal in Lady Anna: All At Sea on tour
JULIE TEAL is in rehearsals for Lady Anna: All at Sea which is soon to set off on a UK tour following last year's run at the Park Theatre. The show, directed by Colin Blumenau, opens at Theatre Royal Bath on 13 June.
Jessica Baglow nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards
The wonderful JESSICA BAGLOW has been nominated for the Ian Charleson Awards for her performance as Marina in Pericles at Shakespeare's Globe. The Awards are run by the National Theatre and the Sunday Times and reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors under the age of 30. The winner will be announced at an event at the National Theatre on 24 June.
Melissa Allan in Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour on tour
MELISSA ALLAN is about to head back on tour with the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour. Adapted from Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos, the show was a huge success at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It opens at Brighton Theatre Royal on 18 May before touring, and will run at the National Theatre of Great Britain through August and September.
Roseanna Frascona in Realife TV at Barons Court Theatre
ROSEANNA FRASCONA is currently working on Realife TV which will run at the Barons Court Theatre from 17 to 29 May. The new play by Ian Buckley is inspired by the true story of Erez Tivoni, an amnesiac who turned destructive after a BBC film crew reunited him with his family for a scoop in 1999.
Maeve O'Sullivan in The Easter Rising and Thereafter at Jermyn Street Theatre
MAEVE O'SULLIVAN will be appearing in The Easter Rising and Thereafter at the Jermyn Street Theatre from 26 to 30 April. The show, timed to coincide with the centenary of the Easter Rising in Ireland, will be part drama, part revue, part session. Incorporating poems, songs and speeches by W.B. Yeats, Dominic Behan, James Mangan, Louis MacNeice, Walter Savage Landor, Roger Casement, Winston Churchill, Sean O'Casey and others, it reveals the contrasting takes of the Easter Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War and their legacies for Britain and Ireland.
Julie Teal in The Vortex at the Raffles Hotel, Singapore
JULIE TEAL will soon be heading to Singapore to appear in Noel Coward's The Vortex at the Raffles Hotel, directed by Bob Tomson. The show will star Jane Seymour and runs from 27 April to 15 May.
Ranjit Krishnamma in Zindabad at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
RANJIT KRISHNAMMA is currently working on Zindabad which will run at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford from 27 April to 7 May. Playwright David Conville's latest work is set in the Punjab during August 1947, a time of seismic historic change. Richard Digby Day will direct.