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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...
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)...
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS is one of 2017's biggest musical openings in the West End. It will be led by Rufus Hound and, now confirmed and also reprising his performance from last year's tour, Neil McDermott as, respectively Mr Toad and Chief Weasel. Several other #StageFaves have also been announced to join them at the London Palladium...
If you didn't manage to get HAMILTON tickets via last week's priority booking, you'll want them even more now with initial West End casting announced. #StageFaves stalwarts including Rachelle Ann Go, Jason Pennycooke, Giles Terera and more...
2017
What have Jews dominated the entertainment industry? And musical theatre in particular? New musical revue THAT'S JEWISH ENTERTAINMENT, which premieres at north London's Upstairs at the Gatehouse next month, has the answers...
If Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins as supernaturally separated lovers Billy and Julie wasn't enough to get you excited about CAROUSEL at English National Opera, today's further principal casting - including Only Fools and Horses' Nicholas Lyndhurst and #StageFaves favourites Brenda Edwards, Derek Hagen, Alex Young, Gavin Spokes and Martyn Ellis - is likely to do the trick...
Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett and a cast of #StageFaves join impressionist-narrator Jan Ravens in the West End concert presentation of new British musical of THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (well known to Disney fans as Fantasia)...
2017
Full casting has been announced for Welsh musical MY LAND'S SHORE, which, after more than 15 years in development, receives a full-scale, world-premiere production at Walthamstow's Ye Olde Rose & Crown next month...
Jodie Prenger predicts the small screen-to-stage musical adaptation of Kay Mellors FAT FRIENDS will be 'a big fat hit' - and one that she gets to star in when it premieres in Leeds later this year...
Bad news for fans of Maxwell Caulfield, who's withdrawn from the imminent European premiere of DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY at Charing Cross Theatre. But the show must go on - and on schedule - with #StageFave Mark Inscoe saving the day...
After Miss Saigon and Groundhog Day in the West End, #StageFave Carolyn Maitland hits the road to star opposite Hollyoaks hunk Andy Moss in the continuing tour of screen-to-stage adaptation GHOST...
After starring in the European premiere of DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY in London this month, Miss Saigon and Show Boat hunk Chris Peluso will hit the road to star opposite Sheridan Smith's Fanny Brice as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl. The full cast of #StageFaves performers for Funny Girl's extensive post-West End tour also includes Darius Campbell and Sheridan's former understudy Natasha J Barnes, reprising their roles as Nick and Fanny later in the run...
Announced on World Braille Day (4 January 2017), the world premiere of THE BRAILLE LEGACY tells the true-life story of the inventor of the language for blind people - and is supported by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Jerome Pradon stars, continuing director Thom Southerland's run of musicals at Charing Cross Theatre...
Carley Stenson and her real-life fiance and Strictly Come Dancing star Danny Mac star as Annie and Sam, the roles immortalised on screen by Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, in the screen-to-stage musical adaptation of 1993 romcom Sleepless in Seattle. SLEEPLESS premieres at Theatre Royal Plymouth in April ahead of a short tour and planned West End run.
Cast - including Karis Jack and Sophia Mackay as young and old Viveca, the title character - have been announced for the London premiere production of award-winning Off-Broadway musical THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN, which opens at Theatre Royal Stratford East in February.
2016
There are SO many fantastic #StageFaves announced to join Frances Ruffelle in Michael John LaChiusa's THE WILD PARTY, we hardly know where to start - Donna McKechnie, John Owen Jones, Simon Thomas, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Tiffany Graves, Ako Mitchell, Lizzy Connolly and more. Safe to say: the rebranded The Other Palace is launching in stellar style...
It's sad when a headliner has to withdraw from a show, as Ciara Renee has done with LIZZIE due to a scheduling conflict. But when the fallback is a mega Broadway star like Eden Espinosa, there's reason to celebrate too. She'll now join the quartet of #StageFaves in the UK premiere of the axe-wielding Lizzie Borden musical in February...
After Titanic and Ragtime, Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento's Charing Cross Theatre season of musicals continues in January with DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY. Today, the full cast - led by Maxwell Caulfield, Zoe Doano and Chris Peluso - is announced...