All the nominees and nominated productions across 27 WhatsOnStage Awards categories, based on over 80,000 theatregoer submissions

Listen to two new songs that have been released from Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson's The Light Princess, currently running at the NT Lyttelton

The 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards Launch Party, when the full shortlists are announced and voting opened, takes place today (6 December 2013) at London's Cafe de Paris. Tune in from mid-day for all the star-studded action

The EastEnder will earn his musical theatre chops alongside Richard Fleeshman, who leads the Urinetown cast in their first sneak-peek performance of "Run Freedom Run" at the WhatsOnStage Awards Launch Party this afternoon

Cafe de Paris is more than just the much-loved venue for our annual WhatsOnStage Awards. It's also a Grade-II listed building with a rich cabaret past - which it's not reclaiming in style

The Perfect Nonsense and I Can't Sing! director will direct the production which will feature a hot air balloon flying over the audience and a 20 foot high steam-powered elephant

I remember a colleague once saying that Toby Stephens played Coriolanus very well as Henry V. I'm sure Tom Hiddleston won't make the same mistake when he plays the same role soon at the Donmar

Next summer's open-air season will include four new plays - by Howard Brenton, Richard Bean, David Eldridge and Simon Armitage - and classics around the "Arms and the Man" theme

The Kinky Boots choreographer and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels director is directing a showcase reading of a new musical adaptation of the 1999 fillm

The international circus phenomenon has extended its annual residency at Royal Albert Hall until 14 February 2014

Listen to the podcast from our latest Outing to Julie Madly Deeply at the Trafalgar Studios

Broadway star Eden Espinosa kicks off the WhatsOnStage Awards Launch Party this Friday 6 December with a performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein "There's Music in You". The song, which features in the current Broadway production of R&H's Cinderella, has been specially chosen as a tribute to the West End musical nominees gathered in the room. Espinosa is in London this month to headline the Christmas in New York concert at the Palace Theatre on 9 December. Here, she runs us through her other favourite R&H showtunes

The award, which was set up for theatre professionals who are not playwrights, was won by Pickles for his play Dead Party Animals

The Ambassador Theatre Group has bought out former partners The Tulbart Group and the Tulchin family respectively

As if the WhatsOnStage Awards Launch Party line-up this Friday couldn't get any starrier, Robert Lindsay and Rufus Hound join in the fun. Plus, Hound will be back in February with Great British Bake-off star Mel Giedroyc to co-host the Awards Concert

Once A Catholic, directed by Kathy Burke, opened at the Tricycle Theatre last week. Starring Molly Logan, it is set in a convent girls' school in 1950's London, and runs until 18 January 2014

Francesca Annis is set to join the cast of the Donmar's Versailles when it opens next February, and full casting has been announced for the Hampstead Theatre's upcoming Rapture, Blister, Burn starring Emilia Fox

Love them or loathe them, Christmas shows offer a rare opportunity to get new audiences enthusiastic about the possibilities of theatre

There's nothing more tedious than critics going on about how much they're seeing or how much they enjoy what they do despite everything, blah-blah; similarly, the old critical stand-by of how