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I Wrote. Casting has yet to be announced.

Birmingham Rep, May 3-25; birmingham-rep.co.uk
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Hello, Dolly!

Here comes a taste of ye olde Broadway. Fresh from playing Queen Elizabeth in The Crown,

Imelda Staunton takes on a quasi-regal role in the producer Michael Harrison and the director
Dominic Cooke’s revival of the barnstorming Jerry Herman Broadway musical about an

indomitable matchmaker. With Jenna Russell in the cast too, it has all the makings of

another Gypsy.

London Palladium, Jul 6-Sep 14; hellodollyldn.com
Comedy

Rhod Gilbert & the Giant Grapefruit

When life gives you lemons make lemonade. And when life gives you giant grapefruits make a

stand-up show. Rhod Gilbert, the fulminating Welsh comic, finds his own spin on citrus-based

coping methods in a tour that gives levity to his diagnosis of stage 4 head and neck cancer and
the successful surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy that followed.

Courtyard, Hereford, Jan 11, 12, then touring to Nov 16, 2025; rhodgilbertcomedian.com

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