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With rehearsals starting today, the full cast has been announced for Aria Entertainment's prestigious festival of new musical theatre, From Page To Stage (FPTS), which returns with gusto for a 6th successful year from September 2018 at London's Southwark Playhouse. Jane Deitch has cast the 37-strong company, who will each star in one of the seven brand new musicals featured in the 2018 festival.

Following a highly successful UK tour earlier this year, Denise Van Outen's new one-woman musical play, SOME GIRL I USED TO KNOW, which she co-wrote with Terry Ronald, comes to London's West End with an exclusive run of 24 performances at the Arts Theatre from tonight, 22 August to 13 September 2014.

Following a highly successful UK tour earlier this year, Denise Van Outen's new one-woman musical play, SOME GIRL I USED TO KNOW, which she co-wrote with Terry Ronald, comes to London's West End with an exclusive run of 24 performances at the Arts Theatre from 22 August to 13 September 2014.

Denise Van Outen stars in a new one-woman play with music, SOME GIRL I USED TO KNOW, which she has also co-written with Terry Ronald.

From the second that the new Watermill theatre production of 'Martin Guerre' begins through to its final chilling note, the audience is totally captivated in the atmosphere of a spine-tingling dramatic and musical world that represents all that is best in musical theatre. In the Watermill's intimate space - with the aid of Diego Pitarch's highly effective set, Richard G. Jones's evocative and atmospheric lighting and Sarah Travis's beautifully crafted orchestrations - a group of 12 talented actor-musicians under the masterful direction of Craig Revel Horwood succeed in not only telling a story that tears everyone's emotions apart but also in creating a musical sound that is quite beautiful throughout.

Australian-born actor/singer Andrew Bevis will play the title role of Martin Guerre in Craig Revel-Horwood's re-invention of the Boublil and Schonberg musical at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury from July 11 to September 1. Having begun his career as a musician and musical director, Bevis first gained attention down under as a musical theatre performer when he was cast in a revival of 'Hello Dolly', playing alongside Warren Mitchell and the grande dame of Australian musical theatre, Jill Perryman. In the West End he played star-crossed lover Romeo in the ill-fated Gerard Presgurvic/Don Black musical 'Romeo and Juliet', Marius in 'Les Miserables' and wowed audiences as the 'chick with a dick' in 'Jerry Springer, the Opera'.

Jonathan Broadbent and Matthew Kelly will star in John Doyle's upcoming London revival of Amadeus