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2017
Daniel Radcliffe recently starred in a major New York revival of this Broadway musical comedy classic. Who will take on the role of the ad exec trying to get ahead in this first London production in over 50 years?
Is having a snack whilst watching a show is a good thing, or too distracting for everyone else? Musical Theatre Appreciation Society's Dawn Bush gives her take on the current issue of eating in the theatre...
2017
If last month's Women's March taught us anything, it's that Girl Power is as powerful as ever! It can't be totally unrelated (can it?) that 1990s nostalgia musical 2 BECOME 1 is returning for another run at the King's Head Theatre, where it spent this past Christmas, with the four-strong cast of #DazzlingDivas reprising their roles...
2017
We're still hoping the actual stage show will join fellow Disney hits The Lion King and Aladdin in the West End at some point. But in the meantime, UK audiences can experience the Tony Award-winning delights of Disney's NEWSIES on the big screen from 19 February. Check out these behind-the-scenes photos..
2017
Hold on to your Wicked witches' hats. One of our all-time favourite Broadway #StageFaves is crossing the pond with her latest concert show this summer. The one and only Idina Menzel will play the Royal Albert Hall in June as part of a handful of UK concert dates...
2017
Feeling the Monday blues? Kick back to the weekend with our 10 tweet guide to having a #StageFaves Sunday!
After his cross-dressing turn last year in MOBY DICK!, actor, singer-songwriter, poet and former X Factor contestant Anton Stephans this week brings his one-man show Brave to Live at Zedel. Musical Theatre Review talked to him about the show, which draws on his experiences in musical theatre and working with some of the best musicians in the business...
You'll have to wait a little longer to see Carley Stenson and her real-life fiance and Strictly Come Dancing star Danny Mac following in love onstage. Their planned pairing in the screen-to-stage musical adaptation of 1993 romcom Sleepless in Seattle, which was due to premiere in April in Plymouth ahead of a West End transfer, has been postponed...
Maybe all good things do come to those who wait. After last year's postponement, Broadway legend Audra McDonald's West End debut is back on, with the transfer of her Tony Award-winning LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL now confirmed for this summer...
She's a #StageFaves legend, the 'understudy' who saved the day last year when Hollywood star Glenn Close was taken ill at the London Coliseum. And now, Ria Jones, who originated the role at Andrew Lloyd Webber's private Sydmonton Festival workshop in 1991, will fully make Norma Desmond her own in a major new production that opens at Leicester Curve in September ahead of a UK-wide tour...
2017
Full casting has been announced for the London premiere of Neil Sedaka musical BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, which opens at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in March...
2017
As WICKED welcomes cast changes this week - including Willemijn Verkaik returning to the role of Elphaba - yet-another new booking period for the long-running West End production at the Apollo Victoria Theatre...
2017
Tim Minchin's GROUNDHOG DAY has been named the Best Musical of 2016 by the people who really know - the critics. The annual Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, held today at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre, also featured a sneak-peek performance of a musical that will be facing the critics in a few weeks...
2017
As it celebrated its 600th West End performance last night (30 January 2017), KINKY BOOTS has announced the opening of a new booking period until Saturday 30 September 2017...
2017
To celebrate HAMILTON public booking opening today we've got the the third and final part of our countdown of great new musicals coming to London in 2017! Make 2017 your #YearofTheatre...
2017
Stefan Bednarczyk, Claire-Marie Hall, Dale Rapley and Simon Willmont star in the world premiere of new Bateman and Conley musical THE SORROWS OF SATAN, which has a limited season starting next month at London's Tristan Bates Theatre...
2017
Broadway legend Lillias White makes her London stage debut in THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN', the concert show celebrating - and radically reinterpreting - the music of jazz icon Fats Waller, which comes to The Other Palace studio in April...
We always suspected specs-tacular #StageFaves Michael Matus and George Rae were Greek gods - and here's the proof. They'll play Dionysus and Xanthias (well, ancient Greek characters anyway) in a version of THE FROGS (Stephen Sondheim and Nathan Lane after Aristophanes), receiving its UK premiere in March...
Any early predictions for which of your #StageFaves will be in the running for #OlivierAwards this year? Start planning for how you're going to congratulate and celebrate for theatre's biggest night of the year, which this year will be bigger than ever at the Royal Albert Hall...
As part of the National Theatre's announcement of its wide-ranging plans for the next year, there are two productions that are cause for major excitement amongst musical lovers: a star-studded revival of Sondheim's FOLLIES and a world premiere stage adaptation of PINOCCHIO directed by John Tiffany (Once, Harry Potter)...