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26 Oct
2017

Hard to believe Hope Mill Theatre is just a little over a year old. This Manchester musical factory is already onto its third London transfer with today's news that its acclaimed revival of Stephen Schwartz's PIPPIN is coming to Southwark Playhouse in the new year...

26 Oct
2017

Matthew McKenna is “handsome hero” Bananaman. But who are Doctor Gloom, Crow, Eric Wimp and General Blight? Full cast now announced for the comic book page-to-stage premiere of BANANAMAN, commencing at London's Southwark Playhouse in December.

26 Oct
2017

British cult musical comedy EUGENIUS! gets a full six-week run at The Other Palace in the new year, after a star-studded one-night concert at the West End's London Palladium last May.

25 Oct
2017

Great news for fans of ORDINARY DAYS - the show is returning to London with two new #StageFaves in the cast. After impressing audiences at London Theatre Workshop and taking Edinburgh by storm, two original cast members return with the production and are joined by two new faces - can you recognise them from the musicals in which they've previously starred?

24 Oct
2017

Happy Birthday HAIR, 50 years young this October 2017! The 50th anniversary production of HAIR, currently running at THE VAULTS, celebrated with a fantastic gala evening! Tribes old and new came together with many original London cast members in attendance. We’ve rounded up 10 top tweets that make us love that hippie life!

24 Oct
2017

On 11 May 2018, London's Old Vic Theatre will celebrate its 200th birthday and they have announced an amazing bicentenary season which includes the world premiere of new musical SYLVIA. A co-production with ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, SYLVIA uses dance, hip hop, soul and funk to shed new light on a remarkable story at the heart of the Suffragette movement.

23 Oct
2017

Have you caught Stephen Leask as Dewey Finn yet? The alternate, who also wowed audiences this year at West End Live, steps into the lead properly from next month, with Stella TV star Craig Gallivan as the new alternate Dewey. Find out who else is in the new adult cast as the show enters its second year...

23 Oct
2017

We like a bit of history here on #StageFaves and musicals help us to learn. For the eighteenth century we've got Hamilton, teaching us about the nineteenth century is Les Misérables, and now to help us through the twentieth century is brand-new musical THE END OF HISTORY. Written by the creative team behind Blair on Broadway (“An unmissable evening in the theatre – Sir Derek Jacobi), the show opens for a three-week run at the Tristan Bates Theatre on 14 November.

20 Oct
2017

We can't wait to see how Southwark Playhouse is transformed for the first major London revival of Kander & Ebb's THE RINK. Adam Lenson will direct the new production next May, twenty years after the Broadway hit had its West End premiere...

20 Oct
2017

Just in time for Christmas: Meera Syal returns to the West End musical stage (who saw her in Bombay Dreams in 2004?) to follow in the footsteps of Craig Revel Horwood and Miranda Hart in ANNIE for the production's final months at the Piccadilly Theatre. Meet her Miss Hannigan in this new video released today...

20 Oct
2017

They're the leading ladies of the West End and now they're a supergroup! Beverley Knight, Amber Riley and Cassidy Janson have teamed up and will be releasing their first album this November. They officially launched the group in September 2017 with a special concert where the terrific trio blew the roof off with their tremendous pipes...

19 Oct
2017

We love what our friends at RyCa Creative get up to and their recent RyCa: Refresh concert was no exception! This talented lot reworked famous favourites in ways we'd never heard before. They've released a video of a wonderful 5-part arrangement of "The Fools Who Dream" from the fab film La La Land and we have to say, it gave us the feels BIG time...

18 Oct
2017

It's been a fantastic first year for the debut West End production of DREAMGIRLS and the winning streak is set to continue with the announcement that the show celebrates its first birthday by extending into June 2018. Not only that, but they're welcoming a new Effie to the cast along with a host of other StageFaves...

18 Oct
2017

The talented trio of Beverley Knight, Cassidy Janson and Amber Riley have teamed up to create a brand new all-female supergroup "Leading Ladies" and will release an album this November...

17 Oct
2017

It's official! Broadway's Adrienne Warren, who took part in the workshops of TINA The Musical, will make her West End debut portraying her idol, rock legend Tina Turner, in the new bio-musical, which premieres next spring, directed by Mamma Mia!'s Phyllida Lloyd. Read what the two American divas had to say about each other at today's media launch event...

17 Oct
2017

It's been a loud and exciting 15 years but in January 2018 the record-breaking, worldwide phenomenon will put down its trash-can lids for one last time and take a final, raucous bow! But, is this the end for STOMP in the capital..?

16 Oct
2017

The Park Theatre kicks off 2018 with a bang as it announces the UK Premiere of ROTHSCHILD & SONS, charting the Rothschild family’s rise from poverty to a global banking dynasty with new, never-before-heard songs. With the writing team behind FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, it's sure to be a must-see show and joins a particularly interesting line-up of plays...

16 Oct
2017

It was a big night for EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE last night as the show won the "Best Musical Production" category at the UK Theatre Awards with StageFave John McCrea taking the Best Performance category! But it wasn't just Jamie's night, with the fabulous TOMMY tour and Bristol Old Vic's THE GRINNING MAN picking up awards too...

16 Oct
2017

They've always been our favourite furry friends, but The Muppets have taken a dark turn in this video which casts each lovable goofball as a character in SWEENEY TODD. With Miss Piggy taking her rightful place as Mrs. Lovett and Kermit as Sweeney himself, it's the most fun you'll have in three minutes...

14 Oct
2017

Friday 13th is supposed to be the unluckiest day in the year, but looking at our #StageFaves we’re not so sure! We tempted fate with 13 Friday 13th tweets! Lucky for some...