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MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the new West End musical that tells the electrifying story of the night in 1956 when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis came together to make music and ended up making history, will star Bill Ward as Sam Phillips, the legendary music producer and founder of Sun Records in Memphis and the man who discovered the 'Million Dollar Quartet'.

DAWN STEELE leads an all-star cast in the Agatha Christie Theatre Company's new production of the compelling drama VERDICT, which opens at the Theatre Royal Windsor on Tuesday 11 January 2011 before embarking on a national tour.

This festive season, Chickenshed takes you on a journey through a treasury of Spike Milligan's best-loved children's characters.

Toby Jones will play one of the most celebrated British artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner - in the world premiere of The Painter by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, written to open the new Arcola Theatre at 24 Ashwin Street in January 2011.

With music and lyrics by Adam Linsson, book by Adam Linsson and Alex Hughes, Heaven Sent will be directed by Helmi Fagan, choreographed by Samantha Zoe French and musical direction from Ben Wiles. Heaven Sent is produced at the New Wimbledon Studio by Hidden Talent Productions in association with the New Wimbledon Studio as part of their 2011 Fresh Ideas season. Casting will be announced in the New Year.

Following an international selection process the Director of one of Ireland's most respected and fastest-growing arts festivals is set to take the reins of Norfolk & Norwich Festival. The Board of Directors announced today that William Galinsky, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Cork Midsummer Festival will succeed out-going Festival Director Jonathan Holloway in early 2011.

Kate Finburg reviews the family musical by Stiles and Drewe

Comic close-harmony vocal trio Scales Of The Unexpected have announced two Christmas shows in London this month.

Joining the previously announced Mark Evans (Fiyero) are: Zoe Rainey ('Amber Von Tussle' in Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre) as Nessarose, Ben Stott ('Jack' in Sondheim's Into The Woods at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park) as Boq, and Chloe Taylor (WICKED, 2009) as Standby Glinda.

Marc Blitzstein's show is revived off-West End

WICKED, the long-running hit musical at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, is pleased to announce that Mark Evans will join the cast on Monday 7 February 2011 in the starring role of Fiyero opposite Rachel Tucker (Elphaba) and Louise Dearman (Glinda).

The UK editor in chief talks to one half of the incredibly successful Stiles and Drewe duo!

The 39 Steps, Priscilla and Legally Blonde also pick up prizes!

Carrie Dunn talks to one of the actors in this little-know show

Harold Rome's 1937 Broadway musical revue Pins and Needles is beginning its UK premiere run at Kilburn's Cock Tavern, which ends on December 11th.

The cast includes Stephen Fry, Henry Goodman, Stephen Mangan, the Marquez Brothers, Natascha McElhone, Bill Paterson, Maggie Steed, Juliet Stevenson, Catherine Tate and Olivia Williams who are accompanied by musicians and children's choir.

London's Elle Woods picks up yet another prize for her portrayal

With five days to go until voting closes in the 2010 BroadwayWorld:UK Awards, new musicals Legally Blonde and Love Never Dies are set to win all the major prizes.

The Bush Theatre is delighted to announce that Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt and Brick Lane's Christopher Simpson will be starring in The Schools Season: The Knowledge by John Donnelly and Little Platoons by Steve Waters. In response to one of the most urgent and divisive issues of our times, the season brings together an ensemble company of 11 actors and a series of talks, debates and events which will examine education in Britain today.

It Had To Be You, the classic Broadway comedy by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna, will be at the New End Theatre from Tuesday 23 November for a five-week season to Friday 24 December 2010.