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2017
Six young performers straight out of drama school will make their professional stage debuts alongside #StageFaves veterans in the European premiere of Stephen Schwartz musical WORKING, opening next month at Southwark Playhouse. Wonder how excited they must be feeling about now...
2017
The OffWestEnd Theatre Awards, or Offies, are an annual award celebrating outstanding achievement in off-West End theatre. Last year's winners celebrate their success today at a swanky hotel in Mayfair. Here's a recap the 2016 winners from musical theatre...
THE TOXIC AVENGER was monstrous fun at Southwark Playhouse last spring so we're looking forward to it sliming its way into the West End, for a strictly limited season at the Arts Theatre direct from the Edinburgh Fringe, where we're confident it'll become a festival fave...
We are having fun picturing Liam Tamne as a fireman... He joins Gillian Bevan, Dean Chisnall, Krysten Cummings, Siubhan Harrison, and Peter Polycarpou to show a variety of faces from the great American workforce in their daily grind in the European premiere of Stephen Schwartz's genre-defining musical WORKING this summer...
He has been in the business for almost 70 years, but Michael Blakemore is back at the helm of THE LIFE, a Broadway show he first tackled more than 20 years ago and is now receiving its long-overdue UK premiere. Musical Theatre Review's Scott Matthewman caught up with Blakemore to see if the show was as daunting second time round...
Grant McConvey sang 'Don't Look Down' to Stiles & Drewe prize-winning effect at the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition two years ago. Now THE SUPERHERO, the one-man musical from which it hails, receives its world premiere at Southwark Playhouse. Who will star in the premiere production?
2017
It’s #InternationalWomensDay and to celebrate we’ve found some fabulous female #StageFave stars with incredible live gigs coming up soon! Take your chance to see these supremely talented West End and Broadway leading ladies in a more intimate setting…
2017
How are preparations going for the long-awaited UK premiere of Cy Coleman's Tony Award-winning masterpiece THE LIFE? We sent fellow #StageFave and Backstage Jam creator Michael Watson along for a sneak-peek at rehearsals. Check out his mini video interviews including with stars Sharon D Clarke, Cornell John and the musical's legendary original director Michael Blakemore...
2017
It’s Part Two of our countdown of great new musicals coming to London in 2017! Spring is approaching, the days are getting longer, holidays and chocolate are on the horizon and there’s even more to add to your #YearofTheatre. Here are some #StageFaves shows we’re looking forward to seeing this March and April…
2017
#BlueMonday became HAMILTON DAY as priority list tickets for the London production went on sale. We just can’t ‘Wait For It’! Public booking opens on 30th January so there’s still a chance to get yours if you forgot to sign up to the priority list. And there are still lots of other great musicals to see in London before HAMILTON comes along. We’ve made a list of some of our favourites for you to put in the diary. Make 2017 your #YearofTheatre! We're starting with Part One: The First 11. That's how many great musicals we've found for you to enjoy in January and February 2017!
2016
It’s a busy time for lots of our #StageFaves as rehearsals started this week for BAT OUT OF HELL, PROMISES and DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY as well as continuing for GIRLS and so many other productions we’re looking forward to in 2017! To celebrate all the long hours and energy that goes into making great shows here are some of our favourite rehearsal tweets...b
What would the Village People make of Stephen Schwartz's WORKING? The genre-breaking 1978 Broadway musical - based on interviews with a cross-section of the American workforce and featuring songs from Grammy winner James Taylor and, more recently added, Lin-Manuel Miranda - gets its European premiere at Southwark Playhouse next June...
Say a Little Prayer for Gabriel Vick, Daisy Maywood and Paul Robinson - or have their prayers already been answered? They get their hands on that and other classic songs from Burt Bacharach's catalogue as they lead the cast of PROMISES, PROMISES. The first London production in 20 years of the Broadway musical Bacharach wrote with Hal David and Neil Simon, based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment, comes to Southwark Playhouse in the new year...
We've only had to wait 20 years for the Broadway transfer of Cy Coleman's Tony Award-winning masterpiece THE LIFE, but boy are we getting it good: with its legendary original director Michael Blakemore at the helm and two legendary #StageFaves, Sharon D Clarke and Cornell S John, leading the cast. Another Off-West End coup for Southwark Playhouse, where it premieres in March...
2016
Seven of your #StageFaves performers are in the long-list running for Best Musical Performance in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards - plus, audiences will decide which of six shows take home the Best Musical gong on 13 November 2016. Congratulations to them all, we say!
On Friday, Haydn Oakley was announced for the UK premiere of An American in Paris in the West End. Five days later, he's announced to star in another UK premiere of another Broadway musical, SIDE SHOW, in which he'll star next month alongside 'conjoined twins' Louise Dearman and Laura Pitt Pulford at Southwark Playhouse. Busy man! Full SIDE SHOW casting is announced today...
2016
Our #StageFaves get around. They're not just in London, there's a whole world out there and with summer holiday season upon us, Twitter's been playing host to some terrific shots of some of our favourite performers making waves around the world...
2016
If this first song release is anything to go by, we are in for a mighty treat with Rodgers and Hammerstein's ALLEGRO. The 1947 Broadway musical receives its long-awaited European premiere next month. Watch and listen here as #StageFave Katie Bernstein sings "The Gentleman Is a Dope" from the show...
Faves founder Terri Paddock chaired a Q&A with THROUGH THE MILL's three Judy Garlands - #StageFaves Helen Sheals, Lucy Penrose and Belinda Wollaston - after Wednesday evening's performance at Southwark Playhouse. Catch up on photos, podcast and video here...
Not content with running a season of four major musicals at Charing Cross Theatre, director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento return to Southwark Playhouse with Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO in August. Gary Tushaw stars as Joseph Taylor. The full cast also includes these #StageFaves...