Abi Titmuss

With under a week to go before the 2012 HighTide Festival gets underway, Artistic Director Steven Atkinson has announced full casting for HighTide Festival 2012. Familiar names include Louise Brealey, Brendan Coyle, Russell Floyd, Elizabeth Hopper, Danny Kirrane, Lesley Nicol, Abi Titmuss, Rosie Wyatt, andMatilda Ziegler. Also announced are the guests for the HighMind Talks at the Festival, including Alan Bissett, Will Gompertz, Ben Hammersley, Owen Jones, Juliet Stevenson and Griff Rhys Jones.

Tabloid sensation turned critically acclaimed actress Abi Titmuss and ex Emmerdale star and West End favourite Ben Freeman will headline a brand new production of the hit 1975 Broadway comedy Same Time, Next Year for a strictly limited season at Jersey Arts Centre in St Helier, Jersey, from 10th to 14th May ahead of an anticipated London transfer.

Tabloid sensation turned critically acclaimed actress Abi Titmuss and ex Emmerdale star and West End favourite Ben Freeman will headline a brand new production of the hit 1975 Broadway comedy Same Time, Next Year for a strictly limited season at Jersey Arts Centre in St Helier, Jersey, from 10th to 14th May ahead of an anticipated London transfer.

The UK editor-in-chief talks to the gossip-page and lads' mag regular about her career as an actress

Following her success as Lady Macbeth in the recent touring production of Macbeth, Abi Titmuss is to continue her transformation from lads' mag favourite to credible actress as she takes the female lead in Stage Fright at London's Canal Cafe Theatre in February, directed by Emma Taylor.

According to an article in The Official London Theatre Guide: Abi Titmuss is to take her second London theatre role in the new comedy Fat Christ, opening at the King's Head theatre on Tuesday 28 February.

Dirty Dancing officially opened last night at the West End's Aldwych Theatre in London. The musical is based on the 1987 film of the same name.