Watch out for . . .

ZiZi Strallen (right) and leisha Mollyneaux (far right), who have been cast by director Dominic Cooke to play the roles of young Phyllis and young Stella in his production of the Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman musical Follies, which will run in the Olivier at the national theatre from august 22. Strallen’s role is the younger version of Phyllis rogers Stone: who will be played by Janie Dee. Ms Mollyneaux will be the younger version of Stella Deems (played by Dawn Hope). Phyllis, Stella and Sally Durant Plummer (imelda Staunton) were chorus girls in the fictional Weismann Follies show, which ran in new York between the two World Wars (the already announced alex Young will play young Sally). the tale focuses on Phyllis and Sally, who meet up again in 1971, at a reunion — during which Stella leads the former Follies in a rousing tap number called Who’s that Woman? the cast also includes Philip Quast, Peter Forbes, tracie Bennett — and Gary raymond as Dimitri Weismann.

JOHN TIFFANY (the director of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child), who has cast Liz White, Mark Hadfield, Michelle Fairley, Faye Marsay, Mike Noble, Dan Parr, Lemn Sissay and d June Watson in a new production on of Jim Cartwright’s debut play Road, which will run in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court from July 21 — 322 years after its first performance e in the Court’s upstairs studio space. e. The company directed by Simon n Curtis Curtis, way back then, included Edward Tudor Pole, Lesley Sharp and Susan Brown (who’s giving a series of breathtaking performances as multiple characters in the unmissable Angels In America at the National Theatre right now). Cartwright once said that Road features the ‘nutters, mystics and drunks’ that he’dhe’ met in school and at the pub.pub It explores the dead end manyma found themselves in duringdu Margaret Thatcher’s timetim in Downing Street.

nikki A-muka-bird, who will join the small list of actressesc — which includes Va Vanessa redgrave and natasha ri richardson — who have taken on Henrik ibsen’s heroine el ellida Wangel in his play the la lady From the Sea: a story of a womano a tornto betweenb her husband and the tidal pull of a former lover from her days in a coastal town. the superb Ms amuka-Bird will lead a new version of the play by elinor Cook, directed by kwame kwei-armah, into the Donmar Warehouse theatre from October 12. kwei-armah is returning to the Donmar after directing the successful One night in Miami there last year.