We can't wait to witness this busty blonde bombshell's version of "Miss Adelaide's Lament"... Or better yet, her "Bushel and a Peck". The Hot Box won't know what hit it! Australian comedian turned Hollywood film star Rebel Wilson makes her West End debut, getting a cold as Miss Adelaide in GUYS AND DOLLS for a strictly limited eight-week season this summer...

If you love the Sherman Brothers, then you must check out the work of the family's next generation: Robert J Sherman. After his critically acclaimed Love Birds (about penguins and parrots) was a hit at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, Sherman's new musical BUMBLESCRATCH (about rats!) arrives in the West End, for one night only, on Sunday 4 September 2016...

She's coming home! After wowing Broadway audiences, Rachel Tucker returns to the UK to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of WICKED in the West End. She'll reprise her role as Elphaba alongside Australian import Suzie Mathers as Glinda from 5 September. Also joining the cast is Anita Dobson as Madame Morrible and some other familiar names return to mark the milestone...

Already a mega-hit in New York, Andrew Lloyd Webber's screen-to-stage adaptation of SCHOOL OF ROCK will receive its West End premiere in November at the New London Theatre, following the early closure of Show Boat...

The Menier Chocolate Factory has made its name in the US by transferring acclaimed Sondheim revivals - including Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music - but the Sondheim traffic is coming the other way with Fiasco Theater's award-winning INTO THE WOODS...

Two British talents spotted on rival British reality TV shows, The Voice and The X Factor, will cover American Glee star Amber Riley in DREAMGIRLS. Singer-songwriters Ruth Brown and Karen Mav will alternate as Effie White on Wednesday evening performances once the show commences at the West End's Savoy Theatre in November...

After touring in Guys and Dolls and delivering Flowers for Mrs Harris in Sheffield, respectively, #StageFaves favourites Louise Dearman and Laura Pitt-Pulford will return to the London stage, working very closely together... as conjoined twins in the UK premiere of Broadway musical SIDE SHOW in October at Southwark Playhouse...

Sheridan Smith is taking a leave of absence from FUNNY GIRL over the next few weeks. We know there will be many Sherifans out there disappointed that they won't get a chance to see her in the show. But we're sending the stressed-out star all our best for a much-needed rest and speedy recovery. And in the meantime, we are cheering to the rafters Smith's understudy who has stepped heroically into the limelight...

We've waited a long time to catch six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald's West End debut... and unfortunately, we're all going to have to wait a little longer. She and her husband, fellow Broadway star Will Swenson, have just announced their having a baby. So the summer transfer of LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL has been unavoidably postponed...

We are not happy. Mrs Henderson Presents announced its premature closure last week and now, just two weeks after opening to a new round of rave reviews, Daniel Evans Sheffield Crucible revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein classic SHOW BOAT has posted closing notices too.

Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of HALF A SIXPENCE will introduce two young actors – Charlie Stemp as Arthur Kipps (replacing Bryan Dick*) and Devon-Elise Johnson as Ann Pornick – alongside three times Olivier-nominated actor Ian Bartholomew as Chitterlow, three times Olivier-nominated actress Emma Williams as Helen Walsingham, and Vivien Parry as Mrs Walsingham...

Remember Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell falling in love over and over again in GROUNDHOG DAY onscreeen? They'll be brought to live - again and again - onstage in Tim Minchin's new musical adaptation by Broadway's Andy Karl and recent RADA graduate Carlyss Peer. And they'll be joined by several other regular #StageFaves in the full cast, now announced for Matthew Warchus' premiere production, soon opening at London's Old Vic Theatre.

Not content with taking over Charing Cross Theatre and helming a season of major musicals there, director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento return to Southwark Playhouse with another major coup: the European premiere of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO, nearly 70 years after its Broadway premiere.

We hate it when musicals post early closing notices, but we especially hate it when it happens to a homegrown British musical that we absolutely adore. Sad but true: Mrs Henderson Presents will close at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre on 18 June 2016...

The UK premiere of THE SECRET GARDEN was a big-budget production, transferred to the West End care of the Royal Shakespeare Company. What will a 75-minute version of the same musical, performed by 300 kids be like? We can't wait to see...

In its new season - which includes high-profile plays and big-name casting including Mark Gatiss and Hollywood's Anne Archer - Off-West End powerhouse the Park Theatre, in Finsbury Park, north London, has announced two new musical premieres, which follow hot on the heels of next month's premiere of Dougal Irvine's The Buskers Opera at the same address.

The Tony Award-winning screen-to-stage adaptation of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS receives its West End premiere at the Dominion Theatre in March 2017, with its Broadway stars Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope recreating their roles in London.

All the buzz from the West End opening night of Funny Girl, starring Sheridan Smith amongst a company of #StageFaves.