Claire Sweeney

There are going to be some seriously awesome women taking to the stage during the Edinburgh Fringe this August! Four fab female leads will be stealing the spotlight during the festival to share their stunning vocals and personal stories with audiences...

Another great piece of casting news for theatre-fans to look forward to in 2018! Claire Sweeney will be heading off on the national tour of CRAZY FOR YOU opposite Tom Chambers and Charlotte Wakefield. The "Brookside" actress is no stranger to the stage and we can't wait to see her take over as Irene in the acclaimed production...

How do you measure success when it comes to one of Europe's largest free performing arts festivals? Check out these stats for West End Live, both in terms of what happened in Trafalgar Square, and how the event became a top trending topic across both Twitter and Facebook. We think the organisers definitely #GetSocial!

We took an awful lot of photos ourselves at West End Live this year, and we looked at thousands more over the weekend. But as #WestEndLive trended globally, there was one snapper whose pics we were continually favouriting: Ollie Cole (a.k.a. @ProducerOllie). Check out some of his Twitter collections of your #StageFaves below...

The mark of true #StageFaves is that not only are they great performers onstage, but that they are also great people offstage. So it is amazing to see how many performers have answered the call from Giles Terera and Danielle Tarento to join Songs and Solidarity on Sunday 25th June. Taking place at Trafalgar Studios 1 at 7.30pm, Songs and Solidarity is a West End fundraising gala evening of song, dance and comedy for the hundreds of families made homeless and the relatives of those who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire.