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21 Mar
2017

If the mere mention of A Slice of Saturday Night has you humming the title song and yearning for the Club-a-Go-Go (it does us), pay attention: the writers of that hit musical are back with a brand-new musical comedy which takes aim at evangelical television. We love it already! The title from the blasphemers? HOLY CRAP, of course...

16 Mar
2017

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?

15 Mar
2017

Off-Broadway musical PETE 'N' KEELY gets its European premiere at London's Tristan Bates Theatre in May, with David Bardsley and Katie Kerr playing the Swingin' Sixties TV sweethearts from the show's title...

08 Mar
2017

Jack Wolfe makes his professional stage debut playing the titular Louis Braille opposite West End star Jerome Pradon in the world premiere of THE BRAILLE LEGACY at Charing Cross Theatre. Lots of other great #StageFaves in this cast too...

07 Mar
2017

Tony and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Duncan Sheik follows up American Psycho with another musical thriller. WHISPER HOUSE, which premieres at The Other Palace in April, boasts a superb cast of West End #StageFaves: Simon Bailey, Nicholas Goh, Simon Lipkin, Niamh Perry and Dianne Pilkington...

28 Feb
2017

As #StageFaves legends go, Peter Straker is right up there. Now he returns to one of the show's that helped launch his career: The Who's TOMMY. The rock opera is revived care of Ramps On the Moon, the consortium of seven major theatres that puts deaf and disabled artists centre stage, and it comes to London's Stratford East in June...

27 Feb
2017

Homegrown musical MISS NIGHTINGALE, set in London during the Second World War, finally gets an extended London season after five successful UK tours. It runs for eight weeks this spring at The Vaults (which is near-enough to a bomb shelter?)...

27 Feb
2017

Homegrown musical MISS NIGHTINGALE, set in London during the Second World War, finally gets an extended London season after five successful UK tours. It runs for eight weeks this spring at The Vaults (which is near-enough to a bomb shelter?)...

24 Feb
2017

The life and career of the late Cilla Black is coming to the stage, adapted from the successful TV mini-series starring Sheridan Smith. Producers are holding open auditions to find a new Cilla. We've been playing the #StageFaves fantasy casting game in the office today. Which other names should we add to the list?

22 Feb
2017
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After looking back at the musical theatre successes of 2016, Musical Theatre Review opened the year by previewing some of the 2017 musical theatre openings we know about so far in the West End, on the London Fringe and across the UK. Here are some of the big ones coming up fast. Where are we up to?

20 Feb
2017

After West End success with Half a Sixpence and, transferring later this year, The Wind in the Willows, the Stiles & Drewe juggernaut continues this Easter with the 20th anniversary production of HONK!, the story of the Ugly Duckling, at London's Union Theatre, where the pair's Soho Cinders was revived in November...

17 Feb
2017

It's the age of Aquarius... again! The ultimate 1960s hippy musical, HAIR, transfers to London as it hits the grand old age of 50, transferring - care of the mighty Katy Lipson and Aria Entertainment - after an acclaimed run at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre...

16 Feb
2017

Miranda Hart has 'a spring in her step' - thanks to being cast as villainess Miss Hannigan in the new West End production of ANNIE, which comes to the Piccadilly Theatre in May. We reckon she'll be as big a success on the musical stage as she is in comedy world...

15 Feb
2017

After its current premiere of new British musical My Land's Shore, All Star Productions will continue its 2017 season at east London's Ye Olde Rose & Crown in Walthamstow with a rarely seen 1963 musical 110 IN THE SHADE in May...

09 Feb
2017

Now it's official, we can start properly thinking of which #StageFaves we want to star in Mel Brooks' screen-to-stage Broadway musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, which will have its West End premiere in September at the Garrick Theatre...

03 Feb
2017

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...

03 Feb
2017

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...

27 Jan
2017

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)...

26 Jan
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...

18 Jan
2017

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...