“They were born to lead!” Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical has found its agents for the North American leg of its world tour. The North American touring regiment features Mariah Copeland as Johnny Bevan & Others, Katie Kleiger as Ewen Montagu & Others, Luke Antony Neville as Hester Leggatt & Others, Erin Ramirez as Jean Leslie & Others, and Jake Bentley Young as Charles Cholmondeley & Others. Rounding out the cast are Cassie Austin, Noah Berry, Genevieve Ellis, and Loren Stone.

In Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself),Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.

The musical was written by by triple Tony Award nominees SpitLip (comprised of David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts, and began performances on Broadway in February 2025. It has played the West End’s Fortune Theatre since March 2023, and is widely recognized as one of the best-reviewed shows in West End history, holding the record for the most five-star reviews for a new musical.

The North American leg of Operation Mincemeat’s world tour launches at the Providence Performance Arts Center on Sept. 20, 2026. Stops include Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Full dates for the 2026/27 season can be found here. 

Max Wolf Friedlich’s new play The Holes will premier at the Wild Project this September. The play will run for a strictly limited engagement from Sept. 8 through Oct. 18 with official opening set for Sept. 22 The Holes will be directed by Michael Herwitz and star Bubba Weiler, Grantham Coleman, and Tina Benko. 

The Holes is set in a decaying bar in a rapidly gentrifying city upstate, where a padlocked back room offers pleasure, relief, and perhaps something far more dangerous. A chilling dark comedy about the great wars shaping our future, the play sets shame against desire, tradition against progress, and community against individualism.

Friedlich is best known for his breakout success from his critically acclaimed play JOB, which premiered Off-Broadway at Soho Playhouse in 2023 before transferring to Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre in 2024. 

The creative team for The Holes includes scenic designer Anna Grigo, lighting designer Evan C. Anderson, sound designer Brandon Bulls, costume designer Lily Cucinelli, creative director Stefan Kohli, marketing strategist Ian Tarbert, publicist Ava Tunnicliffe, head of socials Vincent Perella, graphic designer Julian "the Brainwave" Alicea, general manager Mix and Match Productions, and production counsel Jenny Waxman. Getts and Rodner produce alongside co-producers Cathy Sarkowsky, Alex Levy, Elizabeth Salem, Jeff and Caryl Hahn. 

The Holes runs at the Wild Project on East 3rd Street in New York City from Sept. 8 to Oct. 18, 2026. For tickets and more information, visit here. 

On the eve of their confirmation, puppyish Michael has been thinking about God’s plans for him and Paul. Surely, there’s a reason his family relocated to this new town, where he landed at the same Catholic school as his now-best friend, with whom he can’t wait to go on to college. Wouldn’t it be sweet, Michael thinks, to honor this obviously divine friendship and choose each other’s name for their confirmation? Paul isn’t so sure; his devotion faltering both on earth and above.

In The Saviors, Bubba Weiler’s sophomore play, issues of grace, commitment and calling are explored through a tightly woven quartet whose relationships (to each other and to the narrative) remain thrillingly mercurial. While centered around a latent queer kid’s coming of age in the Catholic church, it also evades cliches and any trappings that might’ve made this a dreary, trauma-forward experience.

The play is something of a miracle, both in the terrain it covers and the way it manages to do so without constricting itself to convention or condescension. It begins with the tragicomedy of Michael’s clear attraction to Paul before deepening their duality and complicating their small world. Michael (Ivan Howe), who spouts bible facts with earnest fervor, might not be the godliest of the two, as evidenced when an unhoused man Julian (Stanley Simons) arrives seeking shelter. (Director Jack Serio nicely utilizes the entirety of the Linda Gross theater, a neo-Gothic former church, beyond David Zinn’s detail-perfect set.) It’s Paul (Julius Rinzel) who doesn’t hesitate to help the man, and the two develop a bond he must keep hidden from Judy (Crystal Finn), the leader of their rapidly dwindling youth group.

I did not care for Well, I’ll Let You Go, Weiler and Serio’s previous collaboration. Despite Weiler’s talent for well-realized characters, his genuine interest in humanity was frustrated by that play’s writerly withholding of information, and made it a fundamentally dishonest work. Serio’s direction similarly trafficked in lack-as-purposeful-minimalism. The two have seriously sharpened their skills.

Serio draws profound performances from his cast, especially his two child actors. Rinzel is a sharp young performer and, with the slighter larger role, Howe is a serious talent to watch—a massive empathy machine able to sell a laugh and a tear. On those grounds, he’s matched by Finn, already a 2026 MVP for her turn in Cold War Choir Practice, again combining her knacks for kookiness and devastating pathos. Simons, a recent screen star best known for The Iron Claw, more than acquits himself as a warm, watchable presence in his stage debut.

Weiler extends an overwhelming grace to each of his characters, and to the contentious space they inhabit. There’s not a whiff of disdain towards faith or religion, even as Weiler charges a powerful undercurrent of tragedy to Michael’s arc; we know his dual devotions must, at least to some degree, reach an intense turmoil. We glimpse some of that during The Saviors, though there’s more than enough emotion and story to contemplate throughout. With this as his latest offering, Weiler’s undoubtedly a playwright worthy of devotion.

The Saviors is in performance through August 15, 2026 at Atlantic Theater Company on West 20th Street in New York City. For tickets and more information, visit here.