Blog / From: My Theatre Mates

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09 Nov
2017

Casting has been announced for the West End transfer of the Old Vic's production of GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, which begins its run at the Noel Coward Theatre in December. With many of the original cast being joined by some fantastic new faces, we can already tell it's going to be wonderful! Check out the full cast, watch the new trailer and send them some StageFaves cheer!

08 Nov
2017

Get jumping for joy - FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE has announced it is extending its run at the Marble Arch Theatre for a second time! Proving that there really aint no party like a Five Guys party, Clarke Peters’ Olivier Award-winning and Tony-Award nominated musical will now play until Saturday 24th March 2018.

07 Nov
2017

Everybody get ready, a brand new leading man will be unleashed on London's West End from Tuesday 7th November! Ben Irish joins the cast of the critically acclaimed rock musical THE TOXIC AVENGER for the rest of the run at the Arts Theatre...

01 Nov
2017

These boots were made for walking, so that's just what they'll do! The hugely successful KINKY BOOTS - winner of every Best Musical award - has announced a UK tour from autumn 2018, starting at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton in a real homecoming for the show. Which of your #StageFaves do you want to see strutting their stuff on tour?

30 Oct
2017

Sting's debut musical THE LAST SHIP is coming home, opening in his native Newcastle in March ahead of a UK tour with Jimmy Nail reprising his Broadway starring role. But will it come to London? And which other #StageFaves will star this side of the pond?

30 Oct
2017

The UK premiere of ROTHSCHILD AND SONS opens next year at the Park Theatre and if the cast are anything to go by, it's going to be one hell of a show! Stars of the original New York production Robert Cuccioli and Glory Crampton are heading across the pond and will be joined by our favourite West End rocker Gary Trainor this coming January...

27 Oct
2017

A Christmas miracle for #StageFaves in South London and beyond - the UK premiere of musical MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET will happen at the Bridge House Theatre this winter. Who would your ideal Kris Kringle be?

27 Oct
2017

In some amazing #StageFaves news, the ENO have announced that their next musical theatre production will be the first major West End revival of CHESS in over 30 years. The original production starred Elaine Paige and Murray Head, the 2008 Royal Albert Hall concert featured Idina Menzel and Kerry Ellis, and previous musicals here have attracted the likes of Alfie Boe and Glenn Close - which of your #StagesFaves would you like to see in this new revival?

26 Oct
2017

Hard to believe Hope Mill Theatre is just a little over a year old. This Manchester musical factory is already onto its third London transfer with today's news that its acclaimed revival of Stephen Schwartz's PIPPIN is coming to Southwark Playhouse in the new year...

26 Oct
2017

Matthew McKenna is “handsome hero” Bananaman. But who are Doctor Gloom, Crow, Eric Wimp and General Blight? Full cast now announced for the comic book page-to-stage premiere of BANANAMAN, commencing at London's Southwark Playhouse in December.

26 Oct
2017

British cult musical comedy EUGENIUS! gets a full six-week run at The Other Palace in the new year, after a star-studded one-night concert at the West End's London Palladium last May.

25 Oct
2017

Great news for fans of ORDINARY DAYS - the show is returning to London with two new #StageFaves in the cast. After impressing audiences at London Theatre Workshop and taking Edinburgh by storm, two original cast members return with the production and are joined by two new faces - can you recognise them from the musicals in which they've previously starred?

23 Oct
2017

Have you caught Stephen Leask as Dewey Finn yet? The alternate, who also wowed audiences this year at West End Live, steps into the lead properly from next month, with Stella TV star Craig Gallivan as the new alternate Dewey. Find out who else is in the new adult cast as the show enters its second year...

20 Oct
2017

We can't wait to see how Southwark Playhouse is transformed for the first major London revival of Kander & Ebb's THE RINK. Adam Lenson will direct the new production next May, twenty years after the Broadway hit had its West End premiere...

20 Oct
2017

Just in time for Christmas: Meera Syal returns to the West End musical stage (who saw her in Bombay Dreams in 2004?) to follow in the footsteps of Craig Revel Horwood and Miranda Hart in ANNIE for the production's final months at the Piccadilly Theatre. Meet her Miss Hannigan in this new video released today...

17 Oct
2017

It's official! Broadway's Adrienne Warren, who took part in the workshops of TINA The Musical, will make her West End debut portraying her idol, rock legend Tina Turner, in the new bio-musical, which premieres next spring, directed by Mamma Mia!'s Phyllida Lloyd. Read what the two American divas had to say about each other at today's media launch event...

13 Oct
2017

Small faces, big talent! Following a third, critically acclaimed sell-out tour, ALL OR NOTHING – THE MOD MUSICAL, based on the story of the Small Faces, will play a limited West End season at the Arts Theatre next year. The story of four East London lads comes home to the big city and we can't wait to rock and roll along with the talented cast...

10 Oct
2017

In recent years, Roger Allam and Simon Russell Beale have taken on the role of cross-dressing Captain Terri Dennis, at the Donmar Warehouse and West End's Noel Coward Theatre, respectively. Now, Simon Green steps into the role for this major Off-West End revival of Peter Nichols' 1977 farce PRIVATES ON PARADE at the Union Theatre next month...

06 Oct
2017

Creepy does it! We predict this may become another cult hit. Bristol Old Vic's fantasy gothic musical THE GRINNING MAN, starring Shockheaded Peter legend Julian Bleach and Louis Maskell, is coming to the West End's Trafalgar Studios.... just in time for a very alternative Christmas.

04 Oct
2017

It's been a sell-out at the Old Vic, where it finishes this Saturday, now more theatregoers will have the chance to see Conor McPherson's amazing musical makeover of Bob Dylan classics in GIRL FROM THE COUNTRY. It transfers to the West End for a limited season from 29 December 2017. We've got the new show trailer to remind you just how stunning it is...