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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.

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...

02 Jun
2018

We're counting down to the UK premiere of John Bucchino's award-winning American musical revue IT'S ONLY LIFE, starting at London's Union Theatre on 13 June 2018. Watch what Noel Sullivan and his co-stars have been getting up to in the rehearsal room, including a beautiful rendition of the title song...

02 Jun
2018

We're counting down to the UK premiere of John Bucchino's award-winning American musical revue IT'S ONLY LIFE, starting at London's Union Theatre on 13 June 2018. Watch what Noel Sullivan and his co-stars have been getting up to in the rehearsal room, including a beautiful rendition of the title song...

31 May
2018

Did you miss murderous musical hit Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story in its previous London dates or at last year's Edinburgh Fringe? Then get your diary out now and plan to catch it at The Other Palace, where it returns for one week only at the end of June...

31 May
2018

Did you miss murderous musical hit Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story in its previous London dates or at last year's Edinburgh Fringe? Then get your diary out now and plan to catch it at The Other Palace, where it returns for one week only at the end of June...

30 May
2018

Rehearsals are in full swing for the UK premiere of John Bucchino's award-winning American musical revue IT'S ONLY LIFE. But how do you prepare for a show when there is - literally - NO SCRIPT? Director Tania Azevedo took a break from putting the cast through their paces to tell us...

30 May
2018

Rehearsals are in full swing for the UK premiere of John Bucchino's award-winning American musical revue IT'S ONLY LIFE. But how do you prepare for a show when there is - literally - NO SCRIPT? Director Tania Azevedo took a break from putting the cast through their paces to tell us...

30 May
2018

It's #HamiltonHumpDay and this one is a beauty! Josh Castile is an actor best known for the recent Broadway production of SPRING AWAKENING with a cast of deaf actors. He's currently playing Quasimodo in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME in America and recently stopped by the ASL Cabaret to perform arguably the best song from HAMILTON - Satisfied...

26 May
2018

West End LIVE 2018 is back – for an incredible 14th year – and we will be making sure you know everything there is to know about the event in Trafalgar Square on 16 and 17 June 2018. Starting with the packed list of shows queuing up to take part.

25 May
2018

They can do nothing wrong! London Musical Theatre Orchestra have announced their 2018 season, featuring three musicals in concert: Camelot at the London Palladium; Girlfriends (starring Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels) and the return of festive favourite A CHRISTMAS CAROL...

25 May
2018

Time for another #PalladiumPicks and this week it's a song from the longest running musical in the West End, LES MISERABLES. Jeremy Secomb popped by the London Palladium for a very intense rendition of "Stars" sung by the character Javert. We reckon those sideburns deserve an acting credit of their own...

24 May
2018

Beverley Knight and a host of fabulous StageFaves have been confirmed for the new musical SYLVIA which will play at London's Old Vic Theatre this September 2018. See the full casting below...

24 May
2018

Casting has been announced for the revival of THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE which will play at the Drayton Arms Theatre May-June 2018...

22 May
2018

What's the secret to a modern librettist-composer relationship? How did an episode of BBC Radio Four's From Our Own Correspondent lead to an original British musical? Ahead of SAN DOMINO's full-scale run at London's Tristan Bates Theatre, we catch up with collaborators and former bandmates Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker about their partnership and the show's journey to date...

22 May
2018

As part of the Finborough's Celebrating British Music Theatre series, David Heneker and Warner Brown's love letter to Hollywood's first movie stars THE BIOGRAPH GIRL receives its first revival since its 1980 West End premiere. We caught up with #StageFaves Sophie Linder-Lee and Lauren Chinery about the show and the real-life Hollywood legends they play: Mary Pickford and Dorothy Gish...

22 May
2018

As part of the Finborough's Celebrating British Music Theatre series, David Heneker and Warner Brown's love letter to Hollywood's first movie stars THE BIOGRAPH GIRL receives its first revival since its 1980 West End premiere. We caught up with #StageFaves Sophie Linder-Lee and Lauren Chinery about the show and the real-life Hollywood legends they play: Mary Pickford and Dorothy Gish...

22 May
2018

As part of the Finborough's Celebrating British Music Theatre series, David Heneker and Warner Brown's love letter to Hollywood's first movie stars THE BIOGRAPH GIRL receives its first revival since its 1980 West End premiere. We caught up with #StageFaves Sophie Linder-Lee and Lauren Chinery about the show and the real-life Hollywood legends they play: Mary Pickford and Dorothy Gish...

21 May
2018

What a cast! Rebecca Trehearn, Adam J Bernard, Alexia Khadime and more have been confirmed for the concert performance (and UK Premiere) of Andrew Lippa's A LITTLE PRINCESS this May...

Wade McCollum, known for playing the Wizard in Wicked on Broadway) sings ‘Undying Love’ from new American romantic musical comedy It Happened in Key West in a new video, released today.

17 May
2018

'A show viewed through a microscope may also be seen through a magnifying glass': Warner Brown had consigned THE BIOGRAPH GIRL, which he co-wrote with the late David Heneker in 1980, to the history of his youth. Mercurius artistic director Jenny Eastop and the Finborough Theatre have made him consider it anew. Here, he explains the 'small is sublime' approach and new additions to the material...