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London theatre’s biggest night of the year is this Sunday – West End casts are rehearsing, the set is being built at the Royal Albert Hall and fans are working on their best selfie faces for the Red Carpet…

It's not only Easter Sunday. More importantly, in the theatre world, it's only one week to go until this year's Olivier Awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall. Congratulations again to all of our #StageFaves nominated for 2018 gongs. Here's a quick round-up of our top 10 tweets of our favourite nominees' responses to their nominations. We just wish you could all win!

There’s the West End cast of Hamilton opening the Olivier Awards ceremony, US musical theatre legend Chita Rivera will lead a West Side Story tribute and past stars of Joseph are celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary – it’s going to be quite a night…

27 Mar
2018

It's back and better than ever! ‘Magic at the Musicals with Cadbury Dairy Milk’ is set to return to London’s Royal Albert Hall for one night only on 21st May 2018 with a brand new show and a 60 piece orchestra...

26 Mar
2018

With Rock of Ages confirmed to return this year, amongst other current touring shows such as Jersey Boys, Cilla, Son of a Preacher Man, Beautiful and The Band (now announced for the West End too), Amanda Reynolds asks, are ‘jukebox musicals’ taking over the theatre world?

It’s only two weeks until the biggest theatre awards of the years, so time to see how excited the lucky nominees are getting about the big night, starting with Best New Musical.

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s John McCrea was on the sofa in the Oliviers Facebook studio, plus Girl From the North Country’s Sheila Atim gave viewers a quick sneak peek into her dressing room...

WATCH HERE! Nominees including Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’s Josie Walker & Be Inspired champion Willy Mukendi, from our friends at the Musical Theatre Appreciation Society, joined Collabro’s Jamie Lambert in the first episode of Road to the Oliviers, a new four-part Facebook series.

15 Mar
2018

Stars of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will join Collabro’s Jamie Lambert in Road to the Oliviers, a new four-part series celebrating this year’s #OlivierAwards nominations, launching this week.

07 Mar
2018

Mousetrap Theatre Projects’ 21st-anniversary gala celebration this month will feature musical excerpts from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Mamma Mia! and Dreamgirls as well as appearances from Michael Xavier Tyrone Huntley and Rachel Tucker. It's all happening Sunday 18 March 2018 at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre.

Could HAMILTON win as many Oliviers as it has Tony Awards? To add to its 11 Tony wins, Lin-Manuel Miranda's blockbuster dominates the Olivier Awards shortlists, announced today, with a record-breaking 13 nominations. Who else has got a shot in the musical categories? Full list of musical contenders and the live announcements, by Elaine Paige and Alexandra Burke, here...

06 Feb
2018

This week we're using our #StageFavesSongOfTheWeek to spread ALL the Musical Theatre joy! After John McCrea won Most Promising Newcomer at the #CriticsCircleAwards last week, we've been so struck by his charm, we just HAD to choose a song from EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE

31 Jan
2018

It was clear to see that musical theatre dominated the 2017 Critics Circle Awards. The ceremony was live-streamed and all of the speeches are still online. We've rounded up all of the winners related to Musical Theatre so you can see what it was like to be there in the room where it happened...

Musicals dominated the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards in a ceremony held today at the West End's Prince of Wales Theatre (and organised by none other than Faves founder Terri Paddock). Full list of musical winners here. And have you seen our live-tweeting from the event itself?

15 Jan
2018

Producers have announced an extension for the West End transfer of original British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. The award-winning production, first seen in Sheffield in spring 2017, opened at London’s Apollo Theatre in November and had been due to run until 21 April –...

01 Dec
2017

As we come to the end of the year, it's time to start celebrating what our #StageFaves have been getting up to this year, and the brilliant guys over at The Curtain Up Show have just announced the nominees for their Album of the Year 2017, in association with TodayTix.

After a hugely successful opening night, everyone really is talking about Everybody's Talking About Jamie! Coming to the West End after a sold-out run in Sheffield, this new British musical opened at the Apollo Theatre on 22 November 2017 and just take a look at all these 4- and 5-star reviews. We've rounded up some of the best reviews from press night here.

23 Nov
2017

Our #FirstNightTakeover series continues with Perry O'Bree attending the West End premiere (on 22 November 2017) of EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE at the Apollo Theatre. What happened when he met the real-life teen drag queen Jamie Campbell, who inspired the musical?

22 Nov
2017

EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, inspired by the real-life story of teen drag queen Jamie Campbell, receives its much-anticipated West End premiere tonight (22 November 2017) at the Apollo Theatre and our fave first-night vlogger Perry O'Bree will be there. Ahead of that, here are eight videos you should watch to get you good and excited about seeing this show...

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...