Carrie Hope Fletcher to Star in Ballad Lines at The Other Palace in 2027
Carrie Hope Fletcher will play Sarah in the musical Ballad Lines, which will run at The Other Palace in London from 11 April to 4 July 2027. The casting was announced on 12 November 2026, according to WhatsOnStage.
The run lasts 12 weeks from April. The Other Palace is a theatre in central London. Ballad Lines first played in the capital at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, a smaller venue, before this booking. The producers said the move to The Other Palace lets them expand the cast, the story, the design and the show's themes.
The musical has music and lyrics by Finn Anderson, and a book, meaning the spoken script, by Anderson and Tania Azevedo. It mixes original songs with reworked traditional ballads from Scotland, Ireland and Appalachia, the mountain region of the eastern United States. The songs are played by an all-female band.
The story follows Sarah, a New Yorker who moves into a new apartment with her girlfriend. Soon after, she receives a mysterious box from an aunt she was estranged from, who has since died.
The show has a long history. The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Northwestern University's American Music Theatre Project commissioned it in 2018. An earlier version, called A Mother's Song, opened at Macrobert Arts Centre in Stirling in 2023.
Fans of the score can already hear it. A 17-track concept album, a studio recording of the songs released before any staging, came out in September 2025. It has been streamed more than two million times.
Katy Lipson, for Aria Entertainment, and Kate Taylor, for KT Producing, produce the show. A producer raises the money and puts the production together, so these are the people behind the booking. No dates have been given yet for ticket sales.
