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...

Final casting has now been announced for NEW SONGS 4 NEW SHOWS, which runs for one night only at the West End’s Lyric Theatre on Monday 28 November. Olivier Award winner Sally Dexter and Clive Carter, both Wicked West End alumni, and rising star Katie Bernstein (Allegro, Mrs Henderson Presents, Urinetown) join the previously announced members of the line-up below...

Yippee! Another Stiles & Drewe musical confirmed for the West End. Following this month's transfer of Half a Sixpence (which also has a book by Julian Fellowes), THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS opens next June at the London Palladium, where Rufus Hound will reprise his performance as Toad, with further West End casting to be announced...

First performances are always a special occasion, especially when there's a Lord in attendance. Dawn Bush from our friends at the Musical Theatre Appreciation Society was at the very first preview of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical School of Rock and reports back. Can you guess how many standing ovations it got...?

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...

Taking the Morning Train to the West End! Grammy winner Sheena Easton makes her West End debut at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the new year with 42ND STREET, in a cast that will also include Emmerdale's Tom Lister and #StageFaves Clare Halse, Jasna Ivir and Norman Bowman...

Has theatre etiquette has taken a dramatic turn for the worse? Our friends at the Musical Theatre Appreciation Society have been sharing their experiences with misbehaved theatre audiences and also offering us their magic five top tips for ways to behave once the curtain has risen. Willy Mukendi-Wood reports...

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...

Ready for some Paradise by the Dashboard Light? Composer Jim Steinman is bringing Meat Loaf's trilogy of BAT OUT OF HELL albums to the musical stage, officially opening at the London Coliseum where the mega-production will have a limited run from 5 June to 22 July 2017. We can't wait to see the #StageFaves casting for this one. Motorcycle skills a prerequisite?

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...