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Voting closes on Friday for this year's BWW:UK Awards! The Book Of Mormon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Once all look set to win for the musicals - and Hadley Fraser may pick up a special double award for his performances in a musical and a play.

The first part of UK editor-in-chief Carrie Dunn's chat with the tenor…

We ask the tricky questions so you don't need to...Kellie Shirley stars as Pauline, 'dumbest of all blondes', in One Man Two Guvnors at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Book of Mormon is leading in many of the New Musical categories - but Once and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is running it close!

One has to admire the bravery of anyone who's willing to launch a brand-new musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Despite the successes of Hairspray and Rock of Ages, people seem to enjoy whispering about the 'curse of the Shaftesbury' due to its string of flops, and it seems to me that a fair number of onlookers really do want new shows to fail just for the continuation of this coincidental curse.

Big West End showstoppers Once, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Book of Mormon are leading the way, with the competition just as tight for the fringe categories - Chichester's The Pajama Game and Southwark Playhouse's Titanic are also garnering the votes at the moment.

TV actress, celebrity masterchef, and cabaret singer - Denise Black is a woman of many talents. She's also a woman of seemingly boundless energy: yesterday she spent the day filming for Emmerdale before heading off to see a movie

Voting opened this week for the 2013 BWW:UK Awards - and we've already had a record number of votes in!

Today Hackney Empire announces the principal cast of its brand new pantomime, Puss in Boots. Written and directed by Susie McKenna with music by Steven Edis, the cast will include Kat B as Puss in Boots, Sharon D Clarke as Queen Talulah, Josefina Gabrielle as the witch Evilena and Stephen Matthews as Dame Nettie Knowall. In true Hackney style this rarely performed classic Perrault pantomime will be reimagined for today's audience, packed with show-stopping songs, dazzling dance routines and side-splitting comedy.

Nominees this year include stars from The Bodyguard, Merrily We Roll Along, The Book of Mormon, Once, Barnum, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Color Purple.

It's been a busy year for Ben Forster. After winning the ITV1 search for a Superstar, he's been performing in arenas all round the UK - and in Australia - and then returned to more traditional musical theatre as Brad in the UK tour of The Rocky Horror Show. Now the arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar is returning - and he couldn't be more excited.

You might have seen that Tony-winning producer and Chief Executive Officer of Just For Laughs Theatricals Adam Blanshay has teamed up with Gareth Lake, Chairman of the Board of The Active Theatre Company in New York to form new producing company Glass Half Full Productions.

After last year's exciting awards, where Sweeney Todd and Matilda mopped up the musical awards and One Man Two Guvnors picked up the prizes for plays, it's time to open nominations for the 2013 BWW:UK Awards!

Want to win tickets for Kerry Ellis's performance at Singular Sensations: Up Close And Personal With The Stars Of Musical Theatre?

She came to worldwide attention thanks to her Total Eclipse of the Heart viral video - and this weekend Christina Bianco is in London doing her Diva Moments cabaret at the Hippodrome!

Carrie Dunn reviews the musical at the Landor Theatre

The Sound of Music is a show that's very difficult to stage badly. Nuns, cute kids, Nazis to boo - throw in some of musical theatre's most hummable songs and it's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

We talk to London's new Maria about Mamma Mia!, working in the Park, and being younger than Liesl...

We speak to the legendary lyricist about Bond, Lloyd Webber, and the forthcoming celebration of his work!

The cast list for Amzi Entertainment presents 'The Songs of Scott Alan' is presently: Willemijn Verkaik, Richard Fleeshman, Ricardo Afonso, John Owen-Jones, Shoshana Bean, Cynthia Erivo, Simon Bailey, Scott Garnham, Greg Oliver, Nathan James, Anton Zetterholm, Riccardo Greco, Siobhan Dillon, Ashleigh Gray, Julie Atherton, Jodie Jacobs, Katie Paine, Annalene Beechey, Chloe Hart, Sophie Thierens and contest winners Nathan Lodge and Holly-Anne Hull.