⭐ COLE ESCOLA TO STAR IN WEST END PRODUCTION OF OH, MARY! ⭐
New casting for the Olivier and Tony Award-winning smash hit comedy OH, MARY! has been announced.
Cole Escola will make their West End debut reprising their Tony Award-winning role as Mary Todd Lincoln for a strictly limited 4-week season from 20th July – 15th August 2026.
OH, MARY! currently stars Catherine Tate as Mary Todd Lincoln, Kate O’Donnell as Mary’s Chaperone, Oliver Stockley as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant, with Dino Fetscher as Mary’s Teacher, and Scott Karim as Mary’s Husband.
Catherine Tate’s final performance as Mary Todd Lincoln will be Saturday 18th July 2026. Casting for the role of Mary Todd Lincoln from Monday 17th August 2026 onwards is to be announced.
The West End production has also announced to be extending its run at the Trafalgar Theatre, now booking until 2nd January 2027.
OH, MARY! is a dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln, through the lens of an idiot (playwright Cole Escola).
Declared “one of the best comedies in years” by The New York Times, OH, MARY! received Tony Awards for Best Leading Actor in a Play (Cole Escola) and Best Direction of a Play (Sam Pinkleton), Drama League Awards for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Direction of a Play, as well as a special citation from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. It was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
OH, MARY! premiered off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in January 2024, before a Broadway transfer to the Lyceum Theatre in July 2024, where it broke box office records and continues to play to sold out audiences.
OH, MARY! is directed by Sam Pinkleton and written by Cole Escola, featuring scenic design by dots, costume design by Holly Pierson, lighting design by Cha See, sound design & music by Daniel Kluger, sound design by Drew Levy, wig design by Leah J. Loukas, arrangements by David Dabbon and casting by Stuart Burt CDG.
OH, MARY! is playing the Trafalgar Theatre, London, now booking until 2nd January 2027.
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