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03 Sep
2018

Letitia Hector stars as Lewis Hamilton in racy new parody HAMILTON (LEWIS). Is she a fan of the Lin-Manuel Miranda blockbuster that it lovingly spoofs? How much did she know about F1 before she got the job? Find out in our interview here - and then get booking!

If 2018 is year of the woman (and it is!), then it all seems to be coming together now. This September, there are a host of fantastic musicals with women right in the centre of the action. Even more exciting, they all bring something totally new to the theatre scene, telling stories we rarely get to hear in commercial productions. Here are our Top 5 Feminist Picks opening over the next month...

30 Aug
2018

New British musical thriller MIDNIGHT, written by Timothy Knapman and Laurence Mark Wythe, is based on an Azerbaijani story about life in the Soviet Union in the 1930s at the height of Stalin's Great Terror. See who's in the seven-strong cast of actor-musicians bringing it to the Union Theatre this September...

As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 20 September 2018, Faves founder Terri Paddock makes her Union Theatre debut to talk to the writers and the stars of new actor-musician British musical MIDNIGHT. Got any questions?

16 Aug
2018

Amber Gray and Patrick Page originated the roles of Persephone and Hades in New York Theatre Workshop's premiere of Anais Mitchell's album-to-stage HADESTOWN musical and will now recreate them in the UK premiere at the National in November ahead of a 2019 Broadway premiere. Full cast, including Eva Noblezada and Andre De Shields, also announced...

08 Aug
2018

This promises to be operetta as you've never seen it before. PIRATES!, a new dance spectacular version of Gilbert & Sullivan's 1879 classic The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is readying for a 2019 premiere in the UK...

05 Aug
2018

Less than a week now until our featured artist RACHEL TUCKER returns to Feinstein's/54 Below in New York, for two concert performances only on 10 and 11 August 2018. We continue our series looking back on some of her previous performances at the renowned club. Here she is singing Sara Bareille's ballad "She Used to Be Mine" from the hit 2016 Broadway musical Waitress, based on the 2007 film. Have you entered our competition yet?

04 Aug
2018

Our current featured artist RACHEL TUCKER has been invited back this month to Feinstein's/54 Below in New York by popular demand. Small wonder given the response of audiences and critics to her concert performances. Check out what people are saying here... And don't forget to enter our competition!

03 Aug
2018

We're continuing to count down to featured artist RACHEL TUCKER's return to Broadway's renowned supper club Feinstein's/54 Below on 10 and 11 August 2018, by looking back on some of her previous performances there. Here she is dueting with the one and only Sting on "Practical Arrangement" from The Last Ship.

02 Aug
2018

This month's #featured artist is West End and Broadway star RACHEL TUCKER. We're counting down to her return to New York's legendary cabaret club Feinstein's/54 Below on 10 and 11 August 2018, by looking back on some of her previous performances there. Here she is singing "Waving Through a Window" from Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen.

02 Aug
2018

It's been an exciting few months for the cast and creatives of new musical BROKEN WINGS. With an exciting debut run underway at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, the buzz is getting louder every day, but they've been up to all sorts in the run-up, including this stop-off at the British Lebanese Association's 2018 Gala Dinner where Nadim Naaman and Rob Houchen performed for Salma Hayek herself!

01 Aug
2018

There's a brand new musical in town! BROKEN WINGS, co-written by StageFaves superstar Nadim Naaman, plays a strictly limited number of semi-staged shows this week at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End. Faves founder Terri Paddock got to ask the cast and creatives some questions recently during the rehearsal period...

31 Jul
2018

With Club Tropicana the musical soon to tour the UK, and an ex-Dreamgirls cast member Samira Mighty starring on the ITV2 show, it seems that Love Island and the theatre world are being inescapably drawn together.

31 Jul
2018

Like the plot of, well, a musical! With around a week to go before the first semi-staged run of BROKEN WINGS at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, ensemble member Nikita Johal stepped into the female lead role of Selma after Hiba Elchikhe had to drop out for personal reasons. But Nikita is a leading lady in her own right, having already starred in a recent production of SPRING AWAKENING...

30 Jul
2018

On Emily Bronte's 200th birthday today (30 July 2018), casting - including Funny Girl star Natasha Barnes - is announced for WASTED, the new rock musical based on the life of the Bronte sisters and their brother Branwell, coming to Southwark Playhouse in September...

30 Jul
2018

There's an exciting new musical coming to the Theatre Royal Haymarket this week and it's been co written by wonderful StageFave Nadim Naadam! A semi-staged production of BROKEN WINGS runs this August 1 - 4 and is based on the writings of Kahlil Gibran, the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi!

27 Jun
2018

Another Hamilton will be hitting the London stage this September after a run at the Edinburgh Fringe. HAMILTON (LEWIS) is the musical parody that'll have you laughing in your (driver's) seat! It tells the story of Lewis Hamilton, the most successful British F1 driver ever and it sounds hilarious...

26 Jun
2018

Have you written the next great British musical!? Well, Theatrical Rights Worldwide want to meet you! They've recently opened a UK office and they're looking for talented Brits to work with for The British Musicals Collection...

22 Jun
2018

BROKEN WINGS, the new musical penned by PHANTOM OF THE OPERA alum and superstar StageFave Nadim Naaman, will get its West End Premiere this August with a strictly limited run of four days! Check out the beautiful song "Selma" from this new show, sung by Rob Houchen...

04 Jun
2018

Is 'playing dead' on Spotlight's list of actors' skills? Alyssa Martyn will - literally - corpse it in the upcoming world premiere of IT HAPPENED IN KEY WEST, playing for seven weeks only at Charing Cross Theatre. See which other #StageFaves are joining Broadway's Wade McCollum in the cast...