Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre and its producing partner, Katy Lipson at Aria Entertainment, is on a roll. After news in February of the upcoming London season of its 50th anniversary production of HAIR, it's now announced another transfer: its UK premiere of war-time gay love story YANK! comes to Charing Cross this summer....

We're already imagining a tug of war between Annies and Matildas, with some School of Rockers thrown in: so many cute kids in the West End at the moment! So, yep, the full cast - including three young stars to share the title role, plus a Labradoodle in the limelight - have been announced to join Miranda Hart in Nikolai Foster's revival of ANNIE...

Hadley Fraser returns to the musical stage to play Dr Victor Frankenstein with comedian Ross Noble going bug-eyed and hunchbacked as his loyal servant Igor in the much-anticipated UK premiere of Mel Brooks YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. Other #StageFaves in the cast include Lesley Joseph, Dianne Pilkington, Summer Strallen, Patrick Clancy and...

THE TOXIC AVENGER was monstrous fun at Southwark Playhouse last spring so we're looking forward to it sliming its way into the West End, for a strictly limited season at the Arts Theatre direct from the Edinburgh Fringe, where we're confident it'll become a festival fave...

Korean actress Sooha Kim makes her professional debut as Kim in the major new UK tour of MISS SAIGON, along with Filipino stars Red Concepcion Gerald Santos, and West End #StageFaves Zoe Doano and Ashley Gilmour. Further casting now announced for the tour opening in July in Leicester...

In the same week that Tim Minchin's Groundhog Day won the Olivier, his previous Best New Musical winner (and musical writing debut) MATILDA announces a major UK and Ireland tour that will launch in March 2018, as West End booking continues. Everyone can do with a little more Minchin in their lives...

In the play and design categories, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child swept the board with a record nine wins at the 2017 Olivier Awards. In the musical categories, there were double wins for Dreamgirls, Groundhog Day and Andrew Lloyd Webber, but Half a Sixpence and The Girls went home empty-handed...

Donna and the Dynamos are still going strong with Sara Poyzer leading the group from 18 June, along with several other changes to the West End cast of MAMMA MIA!. The show celebrates its 18th birthday this month and has just announced another extension taking it well into 2018...

Audra McDonald will perform exclusively for the Memoriam section of this year's Olivier Awards on Sunday, while further #StageFaves presenters announced for the final line-up include Amanda Holden and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda...

We are having fun picturing Liam Tamne as a fireman... He joins Gillian Bevan, Dean Chisnall, Krysten Cummings, Siubhan Harrison, and Peter Polycarpou to show a variety of faces from the great American workforce in their daily grind in the European premiere of Stephen Schwartz's genre-defining musical WORKING this summer...

How does an original British musical about gay wartime love become a cult phenomenon? Join #StageFaves founder Terri Paddock for an exclusive post-show Q&A with the creators and cast of MISS NIGHTINGALE on 13 April...

They're already celebrating a collective Olivier Award nomination (tune in Sunday to see if they win). Now five #StageFaves from the original cast of OUR LADIES OF PERPETUAL SUCCOUR can also look forward to their West End debuts as they're confirmed to accompany the National Theatre of Scotland production as it transfers next month to the Duke of York's Theatre...

Ahead of the Olivier Awards on Sunday, we're sending big congrats to Charlie Stemp, Jon Robyns, Simon Lipkin, Giles Terera and other #StageFaves who've been #AlsoRecognised in the online awards run by our sister site My Theatre Mates. And we can't stop watching the hilarious video acceptance from former Avenue Q co-stars Jon, Simon and Giles. View it here...

THE BAND is off to a fan-frenzy start - taking £2 million in the first two hours of its touring on-sale today! Check out our video and photos from the Take That musical's secret launch yesterday at Manchester Apollo to see what all the fuss is about. Then #GetSocial for THE BAND & its Let It Shine-winning stars on the show's new #StageFaves page...

Let the good times roll! Nearly 30 years on, Clarke Peters is bringing his Olivier Award-winning FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE back to London and it'll run in its own 1940s New Orleans jazz bar, created inside the brand-new Marble Arch Theatre, a pop-up Speigeltent venue...

As ALADDIN approaches its first birthday in the West End, producers have announced a new leading man, Matthew Croke, who graduates from Wicked ensemble to title role. Jade Ewen and Trevor Dion Nicholas continue, while Nick Cavaliere joins the cast and others step up into new roles...

Chris Jenkins returns to the Park Theatre to star as Jon in a new production of the late Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical breakthrough musical TICK, TICK... BOOM! Full #StageFaves casting now announced for the three-hander running this May...

The full cast for the West End run of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS is announced today. And its stars - Gary Wilmot, Denise Welch, Simon Lipkin and Craig Mather, joining the previously announced Rufus Hound and Neil McDermott - gathered at the London Palladium for a very swish photoshoot (nice ones, Darren Bell!)...

If the mere mention of A Slice of Saturday Night has you humming the title song and yearning for the Club-a-Go-Go (it does us), pay attention: the writers of that hit musical are back with a brand-new musical comedy which takes aim at evangelical television. We love it already! The title from the blasphemers? HOLY CRAP, of course...

Dreamgirls stars Tyrone Huntley and Marisha Wallace (alternate Effie) join a cast of other #StageFaves in a major one-off concert presentation of THE COLOR PURPLE, running for one night only at London's Cadogan Hall in May...