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Dean John-Wilson and Na-Young Jeon will play the young lovers alongside Broadway stars Kelli O'Hara, Ken Watanabe and Ruthie Ann Miles in the transatlantic transfer of Rodgers & Hammerstein classic THE KING & I, which has announced a final, three-week extension at the West End's London Palladium.
Stars of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will join Collabro’s Jamie Lambert in Road to the Oliviers, a new four-part series celebrating this year’s #OlivierAwards nominations, launching this week.
There's something exciting happening in the Cotswolds. A brand-new, 200-seat, state-of-the-art theatre is opening with a brand-new, actor-musician production of THE SECRET GARDEN. And there's a cast of #StageFaves who've made the journey from London to be a part of The Barn Theatre's launch. See who's who here...
Paul Rider will join the previously announced Cuba Gooding Jr, Sarah Soetaert, Josefina Gabrielle and Ruthie Henshall in the multi award-winning Chicago at London’s Phoenix Theatre.
Performances from Danny Mac & Sheridan Smith in the touring productions of Sunset Boulevard (also named Best Musical) & Funny Girl come out on top with judges at the ‘most important theatrical prize-giving outside London’.
Could HAMILTON win as many Oliviers as it has Tony Awards? To add to its 11 Tony wins, Lin-Manuel Miranda's blockbuster dominates the Olivier Awards shortlists, announced today, with a record-breaking 13 nominations. Who else has got a shot in the musical categories? Full list of musical contenders and the live announcements, by Elaine Paige and Alexandra Burke, here...
Catherine Tate follows in the footsteps of Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton, Jason Manford, Clive Anderson and Anthony Head to host the UK’s biggest theatre awards. This year’s Olivier Awards take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 8 April 2018.
It’s nearly a decade since the last UK tour of Les Miserables sold out within days, but don't worry, the Broadway production is back on tour from November 2018.
You KNOW she's got the lungs for it. After a 30-year absence, British pop legend Lulu will return to the West End next month, taking over from fellow chart-topper Sheena Easton in 42nd Street. Other newcomers to the cast from 19 March include Ashley Day, who's just starred in fellow Broadway dance classic, An American in Paris...
The world premiere musical adaptation of AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN includes a cast chock-full of #StageFaves led by Jonny Fines and Emma Williams. The tour opens in Leicester in April. Who's hoping for a London transfer? We are!
The mods are still in fashion. After previous London runs at The Vaults and extensive touring, ALL OR NOTHING – THE MOD MUSICAL will move direct from its current five-week season at the Arts Theatre to ten weeks at the West End's Ambassadors Theatre. Is that anywhere near Itchycoo Park?
Ahead of Company in the West End, Rosalie Craig will reprise her award-winning musical performance in Tori Amos musical The Light Princess, for one night only in concert alongside her real-life prince and fellow #StageFave, Hadley Fraser...
OFFICIAL! Michael Ball returns to the West End stage in the first revival in over 30 years of CHESS, and he's leading a top-notch cast at the London Coliseum that also includes Alexandra Burke, Cassidy Janson, Tim Howar and Superstar legend Murray Head...
If looks could kill... These three veterans - Ruthie Henshall, Sarah Soetaert and Josefina Gabrielle, all now confirmed to headline the West End return of CHICAGO alongside Hollywood's Cuba Gooding Jr - smoulder in these new images released in the show's trademark black-and-white style...
Strictly Ballroom the Musical has officially launched at the Cafe de Paris in London ahead of previews at the Piccadilly Theatre from 29 March. Love London Love Culture is excited… and gives five reasons why
This weekend the West End production of MOTOWN THE MUSICAL will celebrate its second birthday at the Shaftesbury Theatre and from 6 March 2018 the West End cast will be led by Jay Perry as Berry Gordy, Natalie Kassanga as Diana Ross and Carl Spencer as Marvin Gaye. Who else is joining them?
Get ready to camp it up. The 'all-female' cast for the UK premiere of long-running Off-Broadway spoof RUTHLESS! includes Broadway's Judy Maresca (reprising her role from New York), West End legends Tracie Bennett and Harriet Thorpe and, um, Australian singer, choreographer and Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardiner...
SAN DOMINO, a new musical exploring Benito Mussolini's persecution of homosexuals, is coming to London's Tristan Bates Theatre. Watch our video from writer Tim Anfilogoff, who recounts the real Second World War atrocity that inspired the show. And heads up: Faves founder Terri Paddock is organising a post-show Q&A...
Australian dynamo Caroline O'Connor is returning to our shores, direct from her success in Anastasia on Broadway, to star as Anna in the first major London revival in 20 years of Kander and Ebb's THE RINK...
Bakers, this is a cherry atop your jubilee. Much-loved Great British Bake-Off co-host Mel Giedroyc will return to the musical stage later this year to star in Marianne Elliott's much-anticipated revival of Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY, alongside Rosalie Craig as the show's first-ever female Bobbi, and Broadway legend Patti Lupone...