A new cast is to take over in P G Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves And Wooster In Perfect Nonsense.
From April Robert Webb will play Bertie and Mark Heap will play Jeeves the roles currently played by Stephen Mangan and Matthew Macfadyen.
Webb's stage credits include the UK première of Fat Pig by Neil LaBute; he is better known for his BAFTA award winning television work and long–time collaboration with David Mitchell.
Mark Heap is also a television favourite having played long-running role (Thomas Brown) in Lark Rise To Candleford, Spaced and Green Wing.
Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense plays The Duke Of York’s Theatre to September For further information and booking visit the show's web site.
Other star casting to emerge this week is that for Other Desert Cities.
The UK première of Jon Robin Baitz's play opens at The Old Vic in March with a cast led by Sinéad Cusack and Clare Higgins. Other cast members are Peter Egan, Daniel Lapaine and Martha Plimpton.
The venue will be transformed once again for the new season's programme to be presented in-the-round. Lindsay Posner directs Other Desert Cities.
A top cast of Russian performers will play Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters in repertoire when the productions transfer from Moscow’s Mossovet State Academic Theatre in April.
The full cast comprises Aleksandr Domogarov, Julia Vysotskaya, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Filippenko, Vladas Bagdonas, Natalia Vdovina, Alksandr Bobrovsky, Larisa Kuznetsova, Galina Bob, Aleksey Grishin and Vitaly Kishchenko.
Both productions are directed by award–winning theatre and film director and screenwriter Andrei Konchalovsky.
Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters plays Wyndham’s Theatre from 23 April to 3 May. Both plays will be given in Russian with English surtitles.
A take on the same Chekhov classic features at London's Park Theatre which has given a casting update for its new season
Physical comedy Storm In A Teacup, opening on the 18th of this month, is inspired by Three Sisters; it has been devised by its performers Margot Courtemanche who plays Olga, Clare-Louise English who takes the part of Masha, and Jo Sargeant who makes her professional London debut as Irina.
The Park Theatre new programme also includes The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, World Enough And Time and Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief. The venue's first musical, Do I Hear A Waltz? has been reported on separately.