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2016
The four-strong cast of #StageFaves for the return of satirical West End review JEST END are: Bronte Barbe, Daniel Buckley, Jemma Alexander and Adam Bailey. The show returns to the Off-West End Waterloo East Theatre this month..
Say a Little Prayer for Gabriel Vick, Daisy Maywood and Paul Robinson - or have their prayers already been answered? They get their hands on that and other classic songs from Burt Bacharach's catalogue as they lead the cast of PROMISES, PROMISES. The first London production in 20 years of the Broadway musical Bacharach wrote with Hal David and Neil Simon, based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment, comes to Southwark Playhouse in the new year...
2016
Five lucky winners got to see the 25th anniversary revival of MOBY DICK! in our #StageFaves competition. And one of them was extra lucky: Denise Dixen also got to meet her #StageFave and star of the show Anton Stephans. Here's what happened when they met...
2016
Was Mrs Henderson Presents underrated? YES. Is Kinky Boots and its luscious Lola, Matt Henry, still strutting strong? YES. Do #StageFaves Kerry Ellis, Mazz Murray, Claire Machin and Natasha J Barnes deserve gongs a-go-go? YES, YES, YES, YES. We are in broad agreement with the talent celebrated at this year's West End Wilma Awards, announced today...
We've only had to wait 20 years for the Broadway transfer of Cy Coleman's Tony Award-winning masterpiece THE LIFE, but boy are we getting it good: with its legendary original director Michael Blakemore at the helm and two legendary #StageFaves, Sharon D Clarke and Cornell S John, leading the cast. Another Off-West End coup for Southwark Playhouse, where it premieres in March...
We've only had to wait 20 years for the Broadway transfer of Cy Coleman's Tony Award-winning masterpiece THE LIFE, but boy are we getting it good: with its legendary original director Michael Blakemore at the helm and two legendary #StageFaves, Sharon D Clarke and Cornell S John, leading the cast. Another Off-West End coup for Southwark Playhouse, where it premieres in March...
2016
Following Rent's revival at the St James Theatre this year, next year we'll get a second dose of Jonathan Larson with Aria Entertainment's revival of his early autobiographical piece, first staged after his death, TICK TICK BOOM!, which runs at the Park Theatre in May...
It's official! After increasing rumours - and hints from Mel Brooks - following the death of Gene Wilder in August, it's announced today that YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN will get its West End resurrection in 2017. The 'all-singing, all-dancing' new production of the musical, based on Brooks' cult 1974 film starring Wilder, will have a brief run in Newcastle before transferring to the West End next autumn...
We're feeling more festive at the very thought of it! Just in time for the holidays, American musical ANOTHER NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS gets its UK premiere at the Bridge House Theatre in Penge, south London - with a quartet of West End #StageFaves taking part: George Maguire, Rachael Wooding, Rachel Tucker and Oliver Tompsett...
Les Dennis returns to musical theatre this Christmas with the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of SHE LOVES ME, alongside #StageFaves stalwarts including Alastair Brookshaw, Katherine Kingsley, Mark Umbers and Dominic Tighe as well as leading lady Scarlett Strallen...
2016
Our #FirstNightTakeover series continues with Perry O'Bree attending the much-anticipated revival of Tony Award-winning Broadway musical RAGTIME, part of director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento's season of work at London's Charing Cross Theatre.
StageFaves teamed up with The Hope Theatre and our sister website MyTheatreMates.com today to exclusively announce the stars of the theatre's upcoming 25th anniversary revival of Bryony Lavery‘s bodice-ripping gay musical comedy HER ACHING HEART. Watch our rough-and-ready video with artistic director Matthew Parker and co-producer Andrea Leoncini (the upside-down moment is priceless!)...
2016
Mac is Back! After George Maguire in The Buskers Opera and Rory Kinnear in The Threepenny Opera, newcomer Sherwood Alexander takes on the notorious role of highwayman Macheath in the original musical that started it all. The full cast is announced today - exclusively with #StageFaves - for Lazarus Theatre's all-new staging of John Gay's THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, which opens at the Jack Studio Theatre next month...
Following The Wild Party and Whisper House, the third offering in The Other Palace inaugural season is a world premiere musical stage adaptation of Fellini's Oscar-winning Italian film masterpiece LA STRADA. It comes to London after a 16-week national tour, directed by Sally Cookson. Full details and ensemble cast now announced here...
"A role she was born to play," said a Twitter fan about the casting of Frances Ruffelle in The Other Palace's inaugural offering: the first major London production of Michael John LaChiusa's gin-soaked 2000 Broadway musical THE WILD PARTY. We couldn't agree more. Plus, the production is directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie. Pure class....
We can hardly contain ourselves with excitement over today's news about the St James Theatre's rebirth as 'The Other Palace'. Under the ownership of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the artistic direction of Paul Taylor Mills, this is undoubtedly a new mecca for musical lovers. We think #StageFaves fans will be spending an inordinate amount of time here in the months and years to come. It officially launches in February 2017 and the inaugural season is announced today...
Good things come to those who wait. After more than 15 years in development (did we really read that right?), homegrown musical MY LAND'S SHORE at last receives a full-scale, world-premiere production with a run in the new year at Walthamstow's Ye Olde Rose & Crown, care of All Star Productions...
The tiny, 50-seat Hope Theatre in Islington is best known for its acclaimed play productions. But, as its artistic director Matthew Parker turns his attention to the rarely seen Bryony Lavery musical HER ACHING HEART and brings onboard a West End co-producer, we wonder: could there be more musicals, and more transfers on the cards?
Join #StageFaves founder Terri Paddock at Lazarus Theatre's THE BEGGAR'S OPERA on Tuesday 15 November 2016 for a post-show debate on John Gay's ground-breaking, 18th-century musical satire and its enduring political and artistic legacy to this day...
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...