Here come THE GIRLS! What a wonderful assemblage of #StageFaves divas who will be strutting on and stripping off in Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s new British musical. Based on the true story, the film and the award-winning play by Tim Firth, Calendar Girls, THE GIRLS opens in the West End in the new year. Full casting now unveiled...

Fancy a Wild West-style festive jaunt to Sheffield? It's worth toting your guns anywhere to see Anna-Jane Casey as Annie Oakley. And she's now joined in the full cast, announced today, of the Crucible's Christmas ANNIE GET YOUR GUN by a sharp-shooting gang of familiar #StageFaves, including Ben Lewis and Nicolas Colicos...

A role in the London premiere of David Bowie's posthumous musical is a pretty good way to follow up an Olivier Award nomination. Amy Lennox (nominated for Kinky Boots, pictured with her then co-star Killian Donnelly) is amongst the Brits #StageFaves who will complete the cast of LAZARUS, which starts performances next month at King's Cross Theatre...

HALF A SIXPENCE and SHOW BOAT are both in the running for UK Theatre Awards as are #StageFaves Charlie Stemp, Emmanuel Kojo, Rebecca Trehearn, Clare Burt, Jennifer Saayeng, Nina Toussaint-White and Allyson-Ava Brown. Full shortlists for the 2016 awards, presented at a ceremony on Sunday 9 October, are announced today...

When you know someone can do the job, why wouldn't you ask them back? After Rachel Tucker's current tenth birthday return run in WICKED, another popular former 'Elphaba', Dutch star Willemijn Verkaik, flies back into the show - along with 'Madame Morrible' returnee Sue Kelvin and new 'Nessarose' Sarah McNicholas - in the new year...

On Friday, Haydn Oakley was announced for the UK premiere of An American in Paris in the West End. Five days later, he's announced to star in another UK premiere of another Broadway musical, SIDE SHOW, in which he'll star next month alongside 'conjoined twins' Louise Dearman and Laura Pitt Pulford at Southwark Playhouse. Busy man! Full SIDE SHOW casting is announced today...

Best known for its radically modern adaptations of classic plays from the canon, Lazarus Theatre company makes its #StageFaves debut as it turns to musicals. The company, under artistic director Ricky Dukes, will re-imagine THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, John Gay's ground-breaking 1728 musical satire of London, which went on to inspire Brecht's The Threepenny Opera and The Busker's Opera, both staged in London this year...

You're never too old to become a #StageFave. At the age of 70, Jane Asher is adding her West End musical debut to an extraordinary list of credits in a career spanning six decades. She'll play Madame Baurel in the Broadway transfer of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS. She joins the show's already-announced Broadway stars and a host of other #StageFaves, including Haydn Oakley, Zoe Rainey, David Seadon-Young and Ashley Day...

David Fynn is swapping his TV comedy roles in the likes of The Inbetweeners, Sherlock, Game of Thrones and Undateable to play Dewey Finn (a distant, fictional relation?) in the Broadway transfer of Andrew Lloyd Webber's SCHOOL OF ROCK. He's joined by a band of #StageFaves stalwarts and 39 child actor-musicians found after a nationwide search...

MUTED - a musical written by two multi-talented #StageFaves, Tim Prottey-Jones and Tori Allen-Martin - premieres as part of the inaugural season at brand new fringe theatre The Bunker, opening in a former underground car park near London Bridge...

She became a star overnight stepping up as Sheridan Smith's understudy in FUNNY GIRL, and now Natasha J Barnes is headlining a West End show in her own right. This CINDERELLA will go to the ball at the London Palladium in December...

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...

Joanne Clifton gave us a sneak-peek this past Sunday - singing "Gimme Gimme" from THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE as part the Summer at the Musicals concert line-up, supported by #StageFaves. Now the Strictly star is stepping into the role full-time, starring as Millie Dillmount in a major new UK tour of the Broadway hit...

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...

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...

We reckon the cast of the European premiere of ADDING MACHINE - including Joseph Alessi as Mr Zero, James Dinsmore as Mr One and George Rae as Mr Two - adds up pretty nicely. Offie Award winner Josh Seymour directs at Finborough Theatre in October...

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...

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...

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...

There are a few reunions to look out for in the cast of Robert J Sherman's BUMBLESCRATCH, premiering at the West End's Adelphi Theatre on Sunday 4 September. Elf's mother and son are back together, and Michael Xavier is joined by two other Sunset Boulevard alumni. Any others you can spot?...