Lots of change at KINKY BOOTS as the show extends booking through to March 2018. While we're sad to say goodbye to Olivier Award winner Matt Henry, we're clicking our heels for ensemble member Simon Anthony-Rhoden stepping into the role of Lola full time and look forward to welcoming Verity Rushworth and other new cast members in July...

Hallelujah! Four of the male stars from last summer's Olivier and Evening Standard Award-winning production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR are confirmed to return for this summer's return season at the Open Air Theatre, including Declan Bennett and Evening Standard Award winner and Olivier nominee Tyrone Huntley...

After rocking his role as alternate Dewey since Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Olivier award-winning SCHOOL OF ROCK opened last year, #StageFaves superstar Gary Trainor will lead the cast from 17 May 2017 with Stephen Leask 'joining the band' as the alternate Dewey. We think Gary will truly blow the roof off the New London Theatre and we can't wait to hear Stephen hit the high notes when he makes his debut...

How do you keep the revolution going 33 years on? Impresario Cameron Mackintosh knows the answer: keep casting to the hilt. Direct from Broadway, Killian Donnelly makes his Les Miserables debut as Jean Valjean in a new cast that also features Carley Stenson and a whole bunch of other #StageFaves...

Bob Dylan's 1963 song "Girl from the North Country", from his second studio album, provided inspiration for writer-director Conor McPherson for this world premiere new musical (or is it a play with music?) at the Old Vic Theatre. Who'll be singing that and other classic Dylan tracks?

We'll never give up on her. We'll be rooting for Lucie Jones when she represents the UK next month at the Eurovision Song Contest. And we'll be rooting even louder when she goes blonde in the major new UK tour of LEGALLY BLONDE, also starring Rita Simon, Bill Ward and... who else? More cast announced here...

We're already imagining a tug of war between Annies and Matildas, with some School of Rockers thrown in: so many cute kids in the West End at the moment! So, yep, the full cast - including three young stars to share the title role, plus a Labradoodle in the limelight - have been announced to join Miranda Hart in Nikolai Foster's revival of ANNIE...

Hadley Fraser returns to the musical stage to play Dr Victor Frankenstein with comedian Ross Noble going bug-eyed and hunchbacked as his loyal servant Igor in the much-anticipated UK premiere of Mel Brooks YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Other #StageFaves in the cast include Lesley Joseph, Dianne Pilkington, Summer Strallen, Patrick Clancy and...

Brilliant, versatile West End star and #StageFave Jessica Martin will take on the central role in the European premiere of Broadway musical BALLROOM at Waterloo East Theatre next month...

Donna and the Dynamos are still going strong with Sara Poyzer leading the group from 18 June, along with several other changes to the West End cast of MAMMA MIA!. The show celebrates its 18th birthday this month and has just announced another extension taking it well into 2018...

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...

They're already celebrating a collective Olivier Award nomination (tune in Sunday to see if they win). Now five #StageFaves from the original cast of OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR can also look forward to their West End debuts as they're confirmed to accompany the National Theatre of Scotland production as it transfers next month to the Duke of York's Theatre...

As ALADDIN approaches its first birthday in the West End, producers have announced a new leading man, Matthew Croke, who graduates from Wicked ensemble to title role. Jade Ewen and Trevor Dion Nicholas continue, while Nick Cavaliere joins the cast and others step up into new roles...