Pygmalion tickets at the Garrick Theatre starring Alistair McGowan and Kara Tointon

The UK’s national tourism agency, VisitBritain, has launched an international TV campaign featuring some of Britain’s best known celebrities, inviting the world to visit Britain. British theatre is well represented with Dame Judi Dench and Rupert Everett both featured in the campaign, along with Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev Patel, fashion icon Twiggy and chef Jamie Oliver. Alongside a number of 30 and 60 second commercials that have been created for the campaign, are longer films featuring each of the celebrities. Rupert Everett presents much of his film from the Garrick Theatre, where he is currently starring as Professor Higgins alongside Kara Tointon in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. VIDEO VisitBritain extended commercial featuring Rupert Everett httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYJYhrdkETo LINKS Book tickets to Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre in London VisitBritain website

Reviews round-up of Pymalion at the Garrick Theatre, starring Rupert Everett, Kara Tointon and Diana Rigg. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon in Pygmalion. Photo: Alastair Muir"][/caption] Following a sell-out run in Chichester, George Bernard Shaw’s classic play Pygmalion comes to town starring Rupert Everett as egocentric Professor Henry Higgins and Kara Tointon (EastEnders) as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle. Read a round-up of Pygmalion reviews, below. LINKS Book tickets to Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre in London

Dame Diana Rigg is to join Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon in the Chichester transfer of Pygmalion. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Dame Diana Rigg"][/caption] The Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2010 revival of Pygmalion, directed by Philip Prowse, is transferring to the Garrick Theatre this Spring (12 May to 3 September 2011). Revisiting the part of Professor Henry Higgins will be stage and screen star Rupert Everett, joined by Strictly Come Dancing winner and former EastEnders actress Kara Tointon as Eliza Doolittle. George Bernard Shaw's famous play was turned into the successful1956 musical My Fair Lady. The play will also star Peter Eyre as Colonel Pickering, alongside Rigg as Mrs Higgins. Diana Rigg’s credits include Hay Fever and The Cherry Orchard at Chichester, Honour, Suddenly Last Summer, Follies, All About My Mother, Mother Courage and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She won a Tony award on Broadway for her performance in the Almeida production of Medea. Book tickets to Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre in London