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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'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...
2016
We'd heard rumours for months but now it's official: David Bowie's musical LAZARUS, based on his final album Blackstar, will receive its posthumous London premiere this autumn. It transfers to London, following its sell-out Off-Broadway success, bringing along for the ride its American stars including Michael C Hall (a.k.a TV's favourite serial killer Dexter)...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Burt Bacharach will have gained a lot more fans after the success of Close to You, which finished its West End run in February, and now they can get another fix. Bacharach's Nearly 50 years after its West End premiere, Bacharach's Broadway hit PROMISES, PROMISES - which includes classic songs like I'll Never Fall In Love Again and I Say A Little Prayer - gets its first London revival at Southwark Playhouse next year. Full dates, cast and creatives are still to be announced...
West End Live wasn't a one-off: Samantha Barks is coming back to the London stage for a longer run. She'll star with Jonathan Bailey in a new production of Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed two-hander song cycle THE LAST FIVE YEARS, helmed by the composer himself, at the St James Theatre in the autumn...
Ready to be blown away? High-camp cult musical MOBY DICK! - not seen in London since its brief run at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre in 1992 - returns to London in the autumn. The musical is about a group of girls who stages a musical version of Moby Dick to raise money to keep their school open. Bonus fun: If you turn up at the Union Theatre in school uniform, you get a front-row seat and a part in the show! How's that for a whale of a time?
The Menier Chocolate Factory announces that rehearsals start this week in New York for innovative and ground-breaking theatre company Fiasco’s enchanting reinvention of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s masterpiece Into The Woods. Both Sondheim and Lapine will join the company in rehearsal this week. The production opens on 12 July 2016 at the Menier, with previews from 1 July, and runs until 17 September. Casting of the original US company has also now been confirmed...
Not a surprise at all but no less welcome for it. After sweeping the board at last night's Tony Awards with 11 big wins, including Best Musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway mega-hit HAMILTON confirms its West End transfer today. Co-produced by Cameron Mackintosh in London, it will reopen Mackintosh's recently acquired Victoria Palace in October 2017, after a major refurbishment o of the theatre. Big question: will Miranda or any of the Tony-winning Broadway cast accompany the show to London?...
Ross Hunter and Billy Cullum will play Roger and Mark to bring Jonathan Larson's modern Broadway classic RENT to mark the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical's 20th anniversary - and to bring it to a new generation... just in time for Christmas. Get ready to unwrap this present...
A major new musical based on the life and career of Frank Sinatra is in the works, care of the Ambassador Theatre Group, and aiming for a 2018 world premiere. But the big question on our mind - apart from when exactly and where it will run - is: which of your #StageFaves should play Ol' Blue Eyes? Any ideas?
In its new season - which includes high-profile plays and big-name casting including Mark Gatiss and Hollywood's Anne Archer - Off-West End powerhouse the Park Theatre, in Finsbury Park, north London, has announced two new musical premieres, which follow hot on the heels of next month's premiere of Dougal Irvine's The Buskers Opera at the same address.