Catherine Tate will play Mary Todd Lincoln in the Tony Award-winning smash hit comedy OH, MARY!
Catherine Tate will play Mary Todd Lincoln in the Tony Award-winning smash hit comedy OH, MARY! at Trafalgar Theatre from 27 April until 18 July 2026 with booking also extended until 18 July 2026.
Also joining the cast is Scott Karim, who will play Mary’s Husband from Monday 16 March.
Mason Alexander Park’s final performance as Mary Todd Lincoln will be Saturday 25 April and Giles Terera’s final performance as Mary’s Husband will be Saturday 14 March.
REVIEW: “OH, MARY!” (Trafalgar Theatre) ★★★★ – December 2025
OH, MARY! currently stars Kate O’Donnell as Mary’s Chaperone, Oliver Stockley as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant and Dino Fetscher as Mary’s Teacher.
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).
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. It had its West End premiere at Trafalgar Theatre on 3 December 2025.
In addition to Cole Escola (Writer) and Sam Pinkleton (Director), the full creative team includes dots (Scenic Designer), Holly Pierson (Costume Designer), Cha See (Lighting Designer), Daniel Kluger (Sound Design and Music), Drew Levy (Sound Designer), Leah J. Loukas (Wig Designer), David Dabbon (Arrangements) with Casting by Stuart Burt CDG.
Additional information about the West End production of Oh, Mary!
When is Oh, Mary! playing in London?
Oh, Mary! is playing until 18 July 2026
What time does Oh, Mary! start?
Monday to Saturday at 7:30pm
Thursday & Saturday at 3:00pm
How long is Oh, Mary!?
Oh, Mary! is 1 hour 20 minutes with no interval
What Theatre is Oh, Mary! on at?
Oh, Mary! is on at the Trafalgar Theatre
What is the age recommendation for Oh, Mary!?
Oh, Mary! is suitable for ages 14+
Are there any Accessible Performances for Oh, Mary!?
TBC
Who is Cole Escola
Cole Escola (they/them) is a comedian, actor and writer. For their work on Oh, Mary!, they received two Tony Award nominations, winning the Tony for Best Actor in a Play. They also received a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Citation, a Drama League Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and an Obie Award for the show; the play was also named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. Notable TV includes Search Party, At Home With Amy Sedaris, Difficult People (on which they also wrote), Man Seeking Woman, Mozart in the Jungle and Ziwe (for which they were also a writer). Cole consulted on Hacks for HBO and also wrote for The Other Two for Comedy Central.
They were the co-creator, writer and star of the lo-fi cult-hit TV show Jeffrey and Cole Casserole, and were named one of Vanity Fair’s 25 Best Performances of 2023 for their special Our Home Out West and Best Sketch Comic of 2020 by the New York Times for their special Help! I’m Stuck!, which they filmed alone in their apartment during quarantine. Both self-produced specials are available on YouTube.
More about the cast of Oh Mary!
Catherine Tate (she/her) is an actor and writer known for her award-winning work on stage and screen. Her many West End credits include Under the Blue Sky at The Duke of York’s Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham’s Theatre, Some Girls at the Gielgud Theatre, The Catherine Tate Show Live at the Wyndham’s Theatre and Hammersmith Apollo, and most recently, Sleeping Beauty at the London Palladium and The Enfield Haunting at the Ambassadors Theatre. Her other theatre credits include The Way of the World, The Princes Play and Season’s Greetings, all for the National Theatre, the RSC’s A Servant To Two Masters in the West End and on an International Tour, The 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic and on Broadway, Assassins at The Menier Chocolate Factory, The Vote at the Donmar Warehouse, and The Exonerated at Riverside Studios.
Catherine recently filmed two series of the new sitcom Going Dutch opposite Denis Leary, for Fox, and previously returned to Doctor Who alongside David Tennant in 2023’s 60th anniversary specials. Her other television work includes Queen Of Oz for the BBC which Catherine created, wrote and executive produced, Hard Cell and The Bad Mother’s Handbook, both for Netflix, My First Nativity for Sky, and Big School and Leading Lady Parts, both for the BBC. She had huge success for her work on the multi award winning BBC comedy series The Catherine Tate Show, Nan’s Christmas Carol and Catherine Tate’s Nan. She is best known to American audiences for playing the iconic Nellie Bertram in the US version of The Office on NBC and as Magica De Spell in the Disney reboot of Ducktails.
Catherine’s film credits include The Nan Movie, Monster Family, Super Bob, Nativity 3, Monte Carlo, Gulliver’s Travels, Sixty Six and Starter For Ten.
Scott Karim (he/him) most recently received rave reviews for his performance as ‘Smee’ in the RSC’s Wendy & Peter Pan at the Barbican. His many other stage credits include London Tide, Dara, Great Britain and Othello, all at the National Theatre, as well as The Flea at The Yard Theatre, the award-winning 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Lyric Theatre, Chasing Hares at the Young Vic, Ayad Akhtar’s The Invisible Hand at the Kiln Theatre, Bijan Sheibani’s The Arrival at the Bush Theatre, Oklahoma! At Chichester Festival Theatre, Young Marx at the Bridge Theatre, and The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe. Scott’s television credits include Channel 5’s The Game alongside Jason Watkins, Halo for Paramount+, Dracula and The Dumping Ground for the BBC, The Great and Electric Dreams: Crazy Diamond for Channel 4, and Sky’s Brittania.
Kate O’Donnell (she/her) is a Manchester-based performer, writer, director and curator. Her theatre work includes the autobiographical shows Big Girl’s Blouse at Soho Theatre and You’ve Changed at The Lowry, Feste in Twelfth Night at the Royal Exchange, Electra in Gypsy at the Royal Exchange and Sunset Boulevard at the Royal Albert Hall.
Since 2018 Kate has curated and hosted Trans Vegas Arts Festival and Manchester Pride’s HIV Vigil. In 2021 she created Trans Filth and Joy a cabaret collective with Milk Presents which supported Christine and the Queens as part of the Meltdown festival at Royal Festival Hall.
Oliver Stockley’s (he/him) theatre credits include Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends: A Celebration at the Sondheim Theatre, Maria Friedman & Friends at the Menier Chocolate Factory), and the Offie-nominated The Great Gatsby at the Actor’s Church.
Dino Fetscher’s (he/him) theatre credits include The Normal Heart at the National Theatre, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor, Torch Song at the Turbine Theatre, As Is at the Trafalgar Studios, and Ghost Stories at the Arts Theatre. His screen credits include Netflix’s Fool Me Once, Silent Witness, The Split, Years & Years, and Gentleman Jack all for the BBC, Humans, and Cucumber and Banana for Channel 4, and will soon be seen in Sky’s new series Under Salt Marsh.
