Les Dennis News

Gareth Gates and Jennifer Ellison join the cast of the international award-winning hit Legally Blonde The Musical as 'Warner' and 'Paulette' from today, 17 July. Faye Brooks continues to star in the role of 'Elle' and Iwan Lewis plays 'Emmett'.

Gareth Gates and Jennifer Ellison are to join the cast of the international award-winning hit Legally Blonde The Musical as 'Warner' and 'Paulette' from 17 July. Faye Brooks continues to star in the role of 'Elle' and Iwan Lewis plays 'Emmett'. Further casting will be announced.

William Burdett-Coutts, the artistic director of Assembly Theatre, the organisation which ran Fringe shows at the Assembly Rooms before moving to George Square due to the building's refurbishment in 2010, has suggested that Assembly Fringe is 'passing off'. As previously reported in BroadwayWorld, the Assembly Fringe will be running shows in the Assembly Rooms this year from July onwards.

Tommy Sheppard, the new Fringe Director of the Assembly has announced that a newly refurbished Assembly Rooms will showcase forty producton as part of the Assembly Festival's programme for the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.

Legally Blonde - The Musical comes to the Lyceum Theatre for the first time ever from Tuesday 14 - Saturday 25 February.

Legally Blonde - The Musical comes to the Lyceum Theatre for the first time ever from Tuesday 14 - Saturday 25 February.

Actor Johnny Depp will have a cameo appearance in the Ricky Gervais's upcoming mockumentary series LIFE'S TOO SHORT. The mockumentary will focus on the life and career of dwarf actor Warwick Davis and will air on BBC Two and HBO.

Steps member, Lisa Scott-Lee, Coronation st and Waterloo Rd actress Tupele Dorgu and Jazz singer Nina Ferro have confirmed that they will perform at the concert in aid of the baby loss awareness campaign on Tuesday 11th October at the Leicester Square theatre in London.

The UK première of the award-winning musical THRILL ME: The Leopold & Loeb Story, with book, music and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff, will be at the Tristan Bates Theatre, Tower Street,WC2 for a four-week season from Tuesday 5 April until Saturday 30 April 2011, starring George Maguire as Richard Loeb and Jye Frasca as Nathan Leopold and with off-stage dialogue recorded by Les Dennis, Patricia Quinn and Lee Mead.

Making its London premiere, Ayckbourn's sharp and timely comedy about the cult of celebrity will be performed for four weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre, with previews from February 22nd 2011.

Making its London premiere, Ayckbourn's sharp and timely comedy about the cult of celebrity will be performed for four weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre, with previews from February 22nd 2011. First performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2004, Drowning on Dry Land will run until March 19th, with a press night on February 24th.

Making its London premiere, Ayckbourn's sharp and timely comedy about the cult of celebrity will be performed for four weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre, with previews from February 22nd 2011.

Making its London premiere, Ayckbourn's sharp and timely comedy about the cult of celebrity will be performed for four weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre, with previews from February 22nd 2011. First performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2004, Drowning on Dry Land will run until March 19th, with a press night on February 24th.

Making its London premiere, Ayckbourn's sharp and timely comedy about the cult of celebrity will be performed for four weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre, with previews from February 22nd 2011.

Photos from the First Family Entertainment Pantomime photocall at the Piccadilly Theatre on November 26, 2010 in London, England.

The most-downloaded and recognisable icon of this millennium PAMELA ANDERSON has been confirmed to appear as the Genie of the Lamp in this year's production of Aladdin at the Liverpool Empire. Pamela returns to pantomime following her enormously successful appearance in the same role at the New Wimbledon Theatre, Christmas 2009/10.

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that the UK tour of High School Musical 2: Live on Stage will close three months early. The production, a follow-up to the wildly successful original High School Musical, was initially scheduled to close on 29 May, 2010 after launching at London's New Wimbledon Theatre on 22 August. It will now take its final bow on 27 February, 2010.

Stage, film, and television star Henry Winkler will join the cast of USA's 'Royal Pains' in its second summer season. Winkler will join the cast in a major role next season as Eddie R. Lawson, father of the show's two lead characters Hank and Evan Lawson, played by Mark Feuerstein and Evan Paulo Costanzo respectively. It was revealed at the end of the first season that Winkler's would be character stole all of the money from his sons' business, HankMed. The show will air on Thursdays on USA during the summer. A premiere date and time slot have yet to be announced.

The producers of HAIRSPRAY are delighted to announce full, all star casting for the show that will embark on its first ever tour of the UK and Ireland this year.

Henry Winkler is currently starring in his fourth annual production of PETER PAN in Liverpool; however, this is not the typical production of PETER PAN. This production is what's known to English audiences as a pantomime, which means, as described by the New York Times, 'recastings of old children's stories with vaudeville, audience participation, puns, singing and cross-dressing.'