The Easter weekend is almost upon us! Everyone's getting ready to enjoy a glorious 4 day break, soak up the sun and take part in some festive fun. But what about your favourite stars and shows? They may be busy over the weekend entertaining us all but your #StageFaves are celebrating the Easter holidays in their own unique way!

Only a few days (or are you already counting the hours) to the 2017 Olivier Awards ceremony this Sunday (9 April) at the Royal Albert Hall, but today we want to wind the clock back rather than forward. Do you remember just how much excitement was generated around the openings of the Best New Musical nominees: DREAMGIRLS, THE GIRLS, GROUNDHOG DAY and SCHOOL OF ROCK?

The #OlivierAwards nomination celebrations continue today at the official Nominees Celebration lunch. Let's have a look at the reactions to the #StageFaves up for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical...

The true-life story of a Yorkshire chapter of the Women’s Institute who posed nude for a charity calendar 18 years ago has already been a hit film and a record-breaking stage play. But, far from being tapped out, the tale of love and friendship and coping has, according to critics, now found its ideal form in Tim Firth and Gary Barlow’s musical adaptation THE GIRLS, officially opened last night in the West End. Here’s a round-up…

V for victorious West End gala! Gary Barlow wowed the audience last night at the West End's Phoenix Theatre, when he took to the stage along with Tim Firth and the original Calendar Girls for the curtain at the star-studded gala night for THE GIRLS musical, held in the presence of HRH The Duke of Kent and HRH The Countess of Wessex. Access gala night video and pics here...

Our #FirstNightTakeover series continues with Perry O'Bree attending the gala night (on 20 February 2017) of the premiere of THE GIRLS, Tim Firth and Gary Barlow's musical adaptation of the story of Yorkshire's Calendar Girls, at the West End's Phoenix Theatre.

Michele Dotrice has had to temporarily withdraw from THE GIRLS under doctor's, but it's a dream come true for her 67-year-old understudy who takes a starring role in the new Gary Barlow and Tim Firth musical ahead of next week's official opening and star-studded gala...

#BlueMonday became HAMILTON DAY as priority list tickets for the London production went on sale. We just can’t ‘Wait For It’! Public booking opens on 30th January so there’s still a chance to get yours if you forgot to sign up to the priority list. And there are still lots of other great musicals to see in London before HAMILTON comes along. We’ve made a list of some of our favourites for you to put in the diary. Make 2017 your #YearofTheatre! We're starting with Part One: The First 11. That's how many great musicals we've found for you to enjoy in January and February 2017!

It’s a busy time for lots of our #StageFaves as rehearsals started this week for BAT OUT OF HELL, PROMISES and DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY as well as continuing for GIRLS and so many other productions we’re looking forward to in 2017! To celebrate all the long hours and energy that goes into making great shows here are some of our favourite rehearsal tweets...b

Dust off your dancing shoes and grab a watermelon! It’s the first performance of DIRTY DANCING at the West End's Phoenix Theatre tonight, returning for a Christmas run in London before another UK tour in 2017. We’re sending lots of #stagey love to everyone and rounding up our top ten countdown-to-opening tweets from #StageFaves cast members...

Seven of your #StageFaves performers are in the long-list running for Best Musical Performance in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards - plus, audiences will decide which of six shows take home the Best Musical gong on 13 November 2016. Congratulations to them all, we say!

The stars of 38 shows across Theatreland - including 20 #StageFaves musicals - joined in the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's campaign to declare to the world that #LondonIsOpen - to business, to creativity, to talent, following last month's EU Referendum. See all the musical cast photos here...

UPDATED: Winners' conversion rate now added to this story... There are 13 musical productions in the 2016 Olivier Awards running, all but three of them still running (or, in the case of Bugsy Malone, soon to be returning). Brush up on the tallies and #GetSocial with them all here.