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Check here for the latest musical news with links to all your #StageFaves performers, shows and theatres. Also look out for our regular #GetSocial features and contributions from our syndicate media partners including MyTheatreMates.com and the Musical Theatre Appreciation Society.

01 Sep
2016

On Golden Pond has inspired the new musical OUT THERE, which is written by Loserville's Elliot Davis and James Bourne and stars #StageFaves legend Dave Willetts. The full cast is announced for the premiere production, opening at the Union Theatre later this month...

31 Aug
2016

She just finished a long run in SHOW BOAT in the West End on Saturday and before than Sheffield, but Rebecca Trehearn isn't taking a break. She's back treading the musical boards in a few weeks starring alongside Ashley Robinson in Jonathan Butterell's new production of FLOYD COLLINS at Wilton's Music Hall. Full cast and creatives now announced...

31 Aug
2016

The musical hit factory that is Chichester Festival Theatre churns out one more West End transfer before outgoing artistic director Jonathan Church departs: the joyous new version of HALF A SIXPENCE with massive new #StageFaves star Charlie Stemp, just two years out of drama school, is confirmed for the Noel Coward Theatre this autumn...

30 Aug
2016

Do Broadway musicals get better than Bernstein? The great composer's 1953 classic WONDERFUL TOWN gets a chamber production overhaul care of All Star Productions and director Tim McArthur at Ye Olde Rose and Crown in October...

22 Aug
2016

How can you not have a whale of a time with a cast that includes powerhouse personalities like Brenda Edwards and Anton Stephans, both former X Factor finalists? They're amongst the full company of #StageFaves announced for the 25th anniversary revival of cult musical comedy MOBY DICK! at the Union Theatre...

22 Aug
2016

We've got him back! After his recent Broadway run, reprising his role as Javert in Les Miserables, Earl Carpenter returns to the London stage in October to star alongside Anita Louise Combe and a #StageFaves-stuffed ensemble cast in Thom Southerland's revival of RAGTIME at Charing Cross Theatre...

12 Aug
2016

Many #StageFaves make the running in this year's third annual West End Wilma Awards, for which the nominations are announced today ahead of public voting opening on 2 September 2016 and the awards ceremony on 4 November 2016.

05 Aug
2016

We'll be singing the "Lullaby of Broadway" at the top of our voices in the West End next year when this big-budget blockbuster revival of comedy classic 42nd STREET, directed by the show's author, hits the 2,100-seat Theatre Royal Drury Lane...

03 Aug
2016

Stage Traffic Productions in association with the Park Theatre will present the world premiere of the new musical This Little Life Of Mine for a limited season, running 4 to 29 October 2016. The full cast is now announced...

02 Aug
2016

Show Boat won't be the only Broadway classic shuttering in the West End this month. Chichester Festival transfer GUYS AND DOLLS has posted closing notices at the Phoenix Theatre for 21 August 2016, at the end of Hollywood's Rebel Wilson acclaimed stint as Miss Adelaide...

01 Aug
2016

He broke records as the longest-running West End star as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys. Now Ryan Molloy helps premiere a new British rock musicals about stars whose careers are cut short... at the age of 27. Cassie Compton, Greg Oliver and Jack Donnelly join him in 27, directed by Arlene Phillips at the Cockpit Theatre in September...

29 Jul
2016

Our #FirstNightTakeover series continues with Perry O'Bree attending the world premiere of EXPOSURE THE MUSICAL - Life Through a Lens at the St James Theatre. This new photo-mad musical, supported by Getty Images, is written by Mike Dyer with a cast including Michael Greco, Natalie Anderson, Niamh Perry and, in the starring role as a young photographer on a dangerous commission to shoot the seven deadly sins, David Albury...

28 Jul
2016

The stars of 38 shows across Theatreland - including 20 #StageFaves musicals - joined in the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's campaign to declare to the world that #LondonIsOpen - to business, to creativity, to talent, following last month's EU Referendum. See all the musical cast photos here...

26 Jul
2016

From love rat to plague rat? One of London's original musical theatre geezers, Darren Day, returns to the West End stage to star alongside #StageFaves stalwarts Michael Xavier and Jessica Martin in the concert premiere of Robert J Sherman's BUMBLESCRATCH at the Adelphi Theatre for one night only. Watch as Darren Day gets to grip with the material in his first day of rehearsals at the piano...

21 Jul
2016

Casting for the new production of Stephen Schwartz and John Caird’s musical Children of Eden has been confirmed...

19 Jul
2016

RADIO TIMES - which was due to follow the critically acclaimed Titanic as the second offering in director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento’s season of musicals at Charing Cross Theatre – has been postponed...

17 Jul
2016

While The Secret Garden took home the trophy, the sheer scale of the Titanic's cruiseliner cake astounded all at WEST END BAKE OFF this weekend. Here the cast shares its recipe for (near) success, inspired by lyrics from the show....

17 Jul
2016

The world premiere production of Crime and Punishment: A Rock Musical will run at The Scoop in London from 31 August until 25 September 2016...

17 Jul
2016

The #StageFaves team had a blast at WEST END BAKE OFF on Saturday. Not only did we gorge ourselves on myriad sweet treats, we also won an Olivier Award for best-ever musical theatre social media directory and got to see the incomparable Christopher Biggins in full-on auction action. And we captured both incidents via Facebook Live. Watch here...

17 Jul
2016

The team from the upcoming West End production of The Secret Garden won the second annual WEST END BAKE OFF on Saturday 16 July 2016, with a blooming marvellous cake. More than £4,500 was raised for Acting for Others...