GINA ISAAC is now in rehearsals for Made in India, a co-production between Tamasha, Coventry's Belgrade Theatre and Pilot Theatre which will tour from 24 January. Written by Satinder Chohan and directed by Katie Posner, the play will run at Soho Theatre from 8 to 25 March.
Pepter Lunkuse in King Lear on BBC Four
PEPTER LUNKUSE can be seen on Christmas Day playing Cordelia in the filmed version of King Lear originally staged at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. The production airs at 7pm on BBC Four and stars Don Warrington.
Jessica Baglow in Educating Rita at Octagon Theatre, Bolton
JESSICA BAGLOW is in rehearsals for Educating Rita at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton. The show is directed by the Octagon's Artistic Director Elizabeth Newman and will run from 19 January to 11 February before a run at Derby Theatre.
Amie Burns Walker in The Great Gatsby at VAULT Festival
AMIE BURNS WALKER will play Daisy Buchanan in an immersive production of The Great Gatsby as part of VAULT Festival at The Vaults in Waterloo. The show will run from 25 January to 5 March and is produced by The Guild of Misrule and The Immersive Ensemble.
James Rigby in The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus at Finborough Theatre
JAMES RIGBY is now in rehearsals for The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus which will run at the Finborough Theatre from 3 to 28 January. The play by Tony Harrison, which rediscovers the Greek satyr play, was originally written for a one off performance in the ancient stadium of Delphi in 1988 and then ran at the National Theatre in 1990. This will be its first production in London for nearly 30 years.
Maxwell Hutcheon in The Girls in the West End
MAXWELL HUTCHEON has joined the cast of The Girls, Gary Barlow's musical adaptation of The Calender Girls. The show will arrive at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End on 28 January.
Lorna Anderson in Snow White at Gaiety Theatre, Ayr
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.