Friday, June 12, 2020
Do you want to see the first live performances – with a live band – in a theatre since the West End and Off-West End closed in mid-March? Then tune in from tonight (12 June 2020) to see …
Linked From Stage Faves at 10:00AMThursday, June 11, 2020
When can we all get back to our fave shows? The most recent statement from the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) – on behalf of the major commercial West End theatre operators – confirms …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
Ease on down the road: Way before Wicked, The Wiz reinvented children's classic on Broadway. The star-studded live American telecast of the soul and R&B take is the next free-to-view str…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMThursday, June 4, 2020
Jason Robert Brown's ever-popular song cycle The Last Five Years gets a new 'virtual lockdown production' this month, starring Lauren Samuels and Danny Becker. Pre-sale begins today (4 June …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Are you already humming Any Dream Will Do in anticipation? You'll have to wait a year longer but Jac Yarrow will reprise his acclaimed performance in Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dre…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Imelda Staunton won't be back where she belongs - the theatre, that is - quite when we expected. HELLO, DOLLY! is the latest West End postponement in the face of the ongoing coronavirus cris…
Linked From Stage Faves at 09:00AM'Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning': Peter Pan Live! is next up on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel this Friday. How well do you know the Broadway musical? Watch the …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMMonday, June 1, 2020
Oh how we do wish they were somehow here again... Killian Donnelly and Holly-Anne Hull only had 13 performances as the Phantom and Christine, and sadly they won't get any more as the remaind…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMFriday, May 29, 2020
As part of the city-wide sourced Bristol Arts Channel on YouTube, Bristol Old Vic will screen its acclaimed macabre musical THE GRINNING MAN, free to view for one week from 7pm on Friday 26 …
Linked From Stage Faves at 06:00AMThursday, May 28, 2020
Bring It On The Musical, starring Amber Davies and Olympian Louis Smith, was meant to spend Christmas at London's Southbank Centre as part of a UK-wide tour. It has now been postponed until …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
You can't stop the beat! Ahead of the London stage revival starring Michael Ball, due at the London Coliseum later this year (fingers crossed), you can catch Hairspray Live! on lockdown musi…
Linked From Stage Faves at 07:00AMThursday, May 21, 2020
We were worried after Andrew Lloyd Webber signed off, but The Shows Must Go On free musical theatre lockdown viewing will continue on YouTube. Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is…
Linked From Stage Faves at 09:00AMTuesday, May 19, 2020
Something to look forward to during theatre lockdown: WEST END LIVE is going virtual next month. Which musicals would you most like to see showcased?
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMMonday, May 18, 2020
After ten weeks, 72 virtual shows and over £30,000 raised for musical theatre performers during lockdown, the hugely successful #LeaveALightOn online concert series will come to a close nex…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMThursday, May 14, 2020
Craig Revel Horwood's new production of Baz Luhrmann's STRICTLY BALLROOM only announced its big-name star, Strictly Come Dancing's Kevin Clifton, in mid-March, just as theatres were locking …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMWednesday, May 13, 2020
The Open Air Theatre has announced its third musical cancellation this year. Carousel follows news about 101 Dalmatians and its transfer of Evita to the Barbican, along with the postponement…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Never mind the panned 2019 big-screen release. True feline fans know that the 1998 recording of CATS, featuring Elaine Paige reprising her role as Grizabella, is where's it's really at. And …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMThursday, May 7, 2020
When will be able to see our fave West End musicals again? The rolling cancellations continue as the National Theatre artistic director Rufus Norris and Nimax Theatres' owner Nica Burns warn…
Linked From Stage Faves at 06:00AMHow gutted are you? As the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) confirms that all West End performances are now cancelled until at least 28 June 2020, the Broadway transfer of Sondheim's SUNDAY …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMTuesday, May 5, 2020
It was last in the West End more than twenty years ago so this may be the first opportunity for many to see Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn's sole collaboration. Their musical comedy …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:30AMWednesday, April 29, 2020
Another weekend must-watch for musical theatre fans. The latest broadcast on the lockdown line-up for The Shows Must Go On freeview YouTube channel is the star-studded 50th birthday concert …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:45AMTuesday, April 28, 2020
She got to perform 'And I Am Telling You' with Jennifer Hudson on The Voice... and soon Nicole Raquel Dennis will get a chance to sing all of Effie White's songs every night as she is cast t…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMMonday, April 27, 2020
Sadly, it's getting to be a habit announcing coronavirus postponements and cancellations. SISTER ACT, including the much-anticipated return of Whoopi Goldberg to the role of Deloris Van Cart…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMFriday, April 24, 2020
Will a brand-new digital song cycle bring you hope in dark times? The casting alone is raising ou hopes. Over 100 performers, recording in lockdown isolation, will bring to life this new mus…
Linked From Stage Faves at 08:49AMThursday, April 23, 2020
Tickets to the star-studded special staged concert of Les Miserables were like gold-dust last year when the West End's longest-running musical moved temporarily to the Gielgud Theatre while …
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
Another must-watch for musical theatre fans. The latest broadcast on Andrew Lloyd Webber's lockdown The Shows Must Go On freeview YouTube channel is the award-winning Australian production o…
Linked From Stage Faves at 05:00AMFriday, April 17, 2020
Another Theatreland casualty of the coronavirus outbreak, this summer's London premiere of LOCAL HERO has been cancelled at the Old Vic Theatre.
Linked From Stage Faves at 10:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Another must-watch for musical theatre fans. Andrew Lloyd Webber is giving you an unmissable opportunity to see the spectacular 25th-anniversary Royal Albert Hall staging of THE PHANTOM OF T…
Linked From Stage Faves at 12:00PMTuesday, April 14, 2020
Bring on the champions. Queen wanted to give musical theatre fans something to look forward to so scrambled quickly to reschedule We Will Rock You's 2020 tour, which had been due to start ne…
Linked From Stage Faves at 07:00AMSaturday, April 11, 2020
Another lockdown must-watch for musical theatre fans takes place on Tuesday 14 April 2020. And the producers of CURTAINS are inviting fans to get involved too with their own #ShowPeople vide…
Linked From Stage Faves at 07:00AMFriday, April 10, 2020
Here's something to look forward to - and cannily announced on National Siblings Day (10 April 2020) - Samantha Barks' Elsa has found her new little sis Anna in the form of Stephanie McKeon …
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