Blog / Theatre News
Check here for the latest musical news with links to all your #StageFaves performers, shows and theatres. Also look out for our regular #GetSocial features and contributions from our syndicate media partners including MyTheatreMates.com and the Musical Theatre Appreciation Society.
2016
From love rat to plague rat? One of London's original musical theatre geezers, Darren Day, returns to the West End stage to star alongside #StageFaves stalwarts Michael Xavier and Jessica Martin in the concert premiere of Robert J Sherman's BUMBLESCRATCH at the Adelphi Theatre for one night only. Watch as Darren Day gets to grip with the material in his first day of rehearsals at the piano...
2016
We'd heard rumours for months but now it's official: David Bowie's musical LAZARUS, based on his final album Blackstar, will receive its posthumous London premiere this autumn. It transfers to London, following its sell-out Off-Broadway success, bringing along for the ride its American stars including Michael C Hall (a.k.a TV's favourite serial killer Dexter)...
Casting for the new production of Stephen Schwartz and John Caird’s musical Children of Eden has been confirmed...
RADIO TIMES - which was due to follow the critically acclaimed Titanic as the second offering in director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento’s season of musicals at Charing Cross Theatre – has been postponed...
The world premiere production of Crime and Punishment: A Rock Musical will run at The Scoop in London from 31 August until 25 September 2016...
2016
If you haven't yet seen Thom Southerland's production of Broadway musical TITANIC, you'll definitely want to after watching this video footage of the stunning #StageFaves cast in action at the Charing Cross Theatre. The limited season has just extended by one extra week to 13 August 2016...
The original West End production, care of the Royal Shakespeare Company, may have been relatively short-lived (four months in 1991) but its cast included Frances Ruffelle and Ruthie Henshall. Twenty-five years, who will star when CHILDREN OF EDEN, is reclaimed as the second production in the new Union Theatre? Let us know your casting suggestions....
2016
If this first song release is anything to go by, we are in for a mighty treat with Rodgers and Hammerstein's ALLEGRO. The 1947 Broadway musical receives its long-awaited European premiere next month. Watch and listen here as #StageFave Katie Bernstein sings "The Gentleman Is a Dope" from the show...
Faves founder Terri Paddock chaired a Q&A with THROUGH THE MILL's three Judy Garlands - #StageFaves Helen Sheals, Lucy Penrose and Belinda Wollaston - after Wednesday evening's performance at Southwark Playhouse. Catch up on photos, podcast and video here...
It's music to our ears in every way. Listen in to samples from the upcoming London cast album for the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of FUNNY GIRL, with vocals by now-returned title star Sheridan Smith. It's released on 5 August...
You have one extra week to see TITANIC, the first offering in Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento's Charing Cross season of musicals. And, with a special Tuesday matinee, other West End #StageFaves performers are especially invited...
A dozen #StageFaves musicals will be contesting the second annual WEST END BAKE OFF, judged by Michael Ball, Barbara Windsor and Christopher Biggins. We've set up a special Event page and will be there live-tweeting on the day...
Due to public demand, Queen star Brian May and singing sensation Kerry Ellis today announced they are teaming up once more for a new series of UK concerts at the end of the year. May and Ellis will play 11 shows across the country in the lead-up to Christmas..
Rufus Norris’ production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera will be broadcast live to cinemas around the world as part of the NT Live season...
What a trooper! Sheridan Smith has returned to FUNNY GIRL, and will continue until the end of the run, with her heroic understudy Natasha Barnes now continuing to alternate as Fanny Brice on Monday evening and other performances. Two-for-one #StageFaves...
2016
Prepare ye the way of the Lord! #StageFaves mega-stars Ramin Karimloo, Kerry Ellis and Preeya Kalidas are passing it on to a new generation of musical theatre performers in a special concert presentation of GODSPELL, which launches the new British Theatre Academy in August...
Here's a show to make many #StageFaves fans very happy: Lauren Samuels, Lizzy Connolly and Ashleigh play harmonise as 1960s Dallas cheerleaders and sorority friends in the European premiere of "classic American story", VANITIES THE MUSICAL...
2016
Ever feel like killing your boss? Worried about being replaced by a machine? The hilariously dark anti-musical ADDING MACHINE, a 2008 Off-Broadway hit, may have the answers. It receives its UK premiere at London's Finborough Theatre in September...
A new production of Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's 1996 Obie Award-winning, Off-Broadway musical FLOYD COLLINS, directed by Jonathan Butterell, features in the autumn season at the world's oldest surviving music hall in east London...
Not content with running a season of four major musicals at Charing Cross Theatre, director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento return to Southwark Playhouse with Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO in August. Gary Tushaw stars as Joseph Taylor. The full cast also includes these #StageFaves...