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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.

15 Jul
2016

If you haven't yet seen Thom Southerland's production of Broadway musical TITANIC, you'll definitely want to after watching this video footage of the stunning #StageFaves cast in action at the Charing Cross Theatre. The limited season has just extended by one extra week to 13 August 2016...

15 Jul
2016

If you haven't yet seen Thom Southerland's production of Broadway musical TITANIC, you'll definitely want to after watching this video footage of the stunning #StageFaves cast in action at the Charing Cross Theatre. The limited season has just extended by one extra week to 13 August 2016...

14 Jul
2016

The original West End production, care of the Royal Shakespeare Company, may have been relatively short-lived (four months in 1991) but its cast included Frances Ruffelle and Ruthie Henshall. Twenty-five years, who will star when CHILDREN OF EDEN, is reclaimed as the second production in the new Union Theatre? Let us know your casting suggestions....

14 Jul
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...

14 Jul
2016

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...

13 Jul
2016

It's music to our ears in every way. Listen in to samples from the upcoming London cast album for the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of FUNNY GIRL, with vocals by now-returned title star Sheridan Smith. It's released on 5 August...

13 Jul
2016

You have one extra week to see TITANIC, the first offering in Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento's Charing Cross season of musicals. And, with a special Tuesday matinee, other West End #StageFaves performers are especially invited...

13 Jul
2016

You have one extra week to see TITANIC, the first offering in Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento's Charing Cross season of musicals. And, with a special Tuesday matinee, other West End #StageFaves performers are especially invited...

12 Jul
2016

A dozen #StageFaves musicals will be contesting the second annual WEST END BAKE OFF, judged by Michael Ball, Barbara Windsor and Christopher Biggins. We've set up a special Event page and will be there live-tweeting on the day...

12 Jul
2016

A dozen #StageFaves musicals will be contesting the second annual WEST END BAKE OFF, judged by Michael Ball, Barbara Windsor and Christopher Biggins. We've set up a special Event page and will be there live-tweeting on the day...

08 Jul
2016

What a trooper! Sheridan Smith has returned to FUNNY GIRL, and will continue until the end of the run, with her heroic understudy Natasha Barnes now continuing to alternate as Fanny Brice on Monday evening and other performances. Two-for-one #StageFaves...

06 Jul
2016

Here's a show to make many #StageFaves fans very happy: Lauren Samuels, Lizzy Connolly and Ashleigh play harmonise as 1960s Dallas cheerleaders and sorority friends in the European premiere of "classic American story", VANITIES THE MUSICAL...

04 Jul
2016

Ever feel like killing your boss? Worried about being replaced by a machine? The hilariously dark anti-musical ADDING MACHINE, a 2008 Off-Broadway hit, may have the answers. It receives its UK premiere at London's Finborough Theatre in September...

30 Jun
2016

A new production of Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's 1996 Obie Award-winning, Off-Broadway musical FLOYD COLLINS, directed by Jonathan Butterell, features in the autumn season at the world's oldest surviving music hall in east London...

26 Jun
2016

In this fifth and final in Perry O'Bree's WEST END LIVE vlog series for #StageFaves, from Sunday of the two-day festival, we see improv masters The Showstoppers in action plus star turns – and more Perry interviews – with Pixie Lott, Nathan Amzi, Stephen Rahman Hughes, Ramin Karimloo and Dean John Wilson. Ending on a high!

26 Jun
2016

In this fifth and final in Perry O'Bree's WEST END LIVE vlog series for #StageFaves, from Sunday of the two-day festival, we see improv masters The Showstoppers in action plus star turns – and more Perry interviews – with Pixie Lott, Nathan Amzi, Stephen Rahman Hughes, Ramin Karimloo and Dean John Wilson. Ending on a high!

26 Jun
2016

In this fourth in Perry O'Bree's WEST END LIVE vlog series for #StageFaves, from Sunday of the two-day festival, he captures performance highlights from The Lion King, Thriller, Matilda and American Idiot, plus turns – and interviews – with Michael Xavier, Sam Mackay, Matt Cardle, Samantha Barks and Beverley Knight.

26 Jun
2016

In this fourth in Perry O'Bree's WEST END LIVE vlog series for #StageFaves, from Sunday of the two-day festival, he captures performance highlights from The Lion King, Thriller, Matilda and American Idiot, plus turns – and interviews – with Michael Xavier, Sam Mackay, Matt Cardle, Samantha Barks and Beverley Knight.

24 Jun
2016

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...

22 Jun
2016

In this third in Perry O'Bree's WEST END LIVE vlog series for #StageFaves, we get sneak-peeks at Richard O'Brien's new musical The Stripper, premiering this summer at the St James Theatre, and Robbie Sherman's Bumblescratch, as well as tub-thumping West End longrunner Stomp. Plus Perry celebrates at the Theatre Cafe's after-party with his own bid for StageFavedom at the open mic. How did he do?...