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?...

After speculation in the national press that Sheridan Smith may have left the West End production of Funny Girl for good, producers have issued a statement today, confirmed that she will return, albeit much later than anticipated.

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...

Is Tyrone Huntley the most in-demand actor in West End musical theatre at the moment? From Memphis to The Book of Mormon and, come the autumn, Dreamgirls, in the commercial West End in 12 months, he's also sneaking in some sunshine work this summer in Regent's Park to play Judas to Declan Bennett's Jesus in Timothy Sheader's Open Air Theatre revival of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. Also cast: jazz singer Anoushka Lucas, Olivier Award winner David Thaxton and many other #StageFaves stalwarts....

Ibanabo Jack and Liisi LaFontaine join Glee's Amber Riley as the Dreams in DREAMGIRLS, with other #StageFaves casting including Tyrone Huntley, Joe Aaron Reid and Adam J Bernard. The Broadway classic receives its long-awaited West End premiere in December at the Savoy Theatre...

No paparazzi fears here! Soap stars Michael Greco (EastEnders) and Natalie Anderson (Emmerdale) join stage regulars including Niamh Perry and, in the starring role, David Albury of EXPOSURE THE MUSICAL - Life Through a Lens, the photo-mad musical supported by Getty Images...

Samantha Barks and Tom Chambers back in the West End, Beverley Knight and Matt Cardle reuniting post-Memphis, sneak-peeks of new shows including Murder Ballad and The Secret Garden, plus TONS of other #StageFaves shows (25!) and performers (too many to count?!) will take part in this year's WEST END LIVE...

Samantha Barks and Tom Chambers back in the West End, Beverley Knight and Matt Cardle reuniting post-Memphis, sneak-peeks of new shows including Murder Ballad and The Secret Garden, plus TONS of other #StageFaves shows (25!) and performers (too many to count?!) will take part in this year's WEST END LIVE...

We can't wait to witness this busty blonde bombshell's version of "Miss Adelaide's Lament"... Or better yet, her "Bushel and a Peck". The Hot Box won't know what hit it! Australian comedian turned Hollywood film star Rebel Wilson makes her West End debut, getting a cold as Miss Adelaide in GUYS AND DOLLS for a strictly limited eight-week season this summer...

Already a mega-hit in New York, Andrew Lloyd Webber's screen-to-stage adaptation of SCHOOL OF ROCK will receive its West End premiere in November at the New London Theatre, following the early closure of Show Boat...

The UK premiere of THE SECRET GARDEN was a big-budget production, transferred to the West End care of the Royal Shakespeare Company. What will a 75-minute version of the same musical, performed by 300 kids be like? We can't wait to see...