Gavin Spokes returns to the West End playing Charles Ingram, ‘the coughing major’ in James Graham’s new play Quiz. Directed by Daniel Evans, the Chichester Festival Production opens for a limited season at the Noel Coward Theatre from 31 March 2018. (click to watch trailer) Anita Reynolds joins the cast of Absolute Hell at the National Theatre with Joe Hill Gibbons directing and Laura Rogers plays the leading role of Kay Summersby in the London premier of Pressure opening at the Park Theatre. Other openings include Ben Dilloway as Jack Brennan in The Sheffield Crucible’s production of Frost/Nixon directed by Kate Hewitt, Christopher Harper in ATG’s Strangers On A Train which tours until April and Daniel Rabin in the West End transfer of Robert Ike’s critically acclaimed Mary Stewart playing at The Duke of Yorks Theatre. Josie Walker and Tamsin Carroll, meanwhile, continue in acclaimed new musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie whose run has been extended at the Apollo Theatre until Christmas 2018 (click to watch trailer).
Sandy Foster returns to the RSC as Joan in a new play about the life of Joan Littlewood, also for the RSC Graham Turner reprises his Fool in King Lear for a New York transfer whilst Kate Fahy reprises her role as Maggie Thatcher in the US premiere of Handbagged opening in Washington DC. George Caple plays Alex in A Clockwork Orange and Patrick Brennan Iago in Othello both for Liverpool Everyman, Nicholas Lumley joins the NT touring production of This House whilst Molly Logan plays Ethel in Lucy Bailey’s production of Love From a Stranger, also on tour.