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Updated Friday 29 August, 6.17pm
Saturday 30 August
BATH, Theatre Royal, Harriet Walter, Gloria Obianyo in As You Like It, to 6 Sept.
Forum, Milkshake Live, noon: Sky Full of Stars, tribute to Coldplay, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, BMTC in Shrek-the Musical, 2.30 and 7.30.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Fiddler on the Roof.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Roses, film, to 9 Sept: Jaws, 50th anniversary, and Sun/Wed.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Northcott Young Company in Hold, Please!, new play by Jacob Blackburn set in WW2, 2.30 and 7.30.
FROME, Merlin Theatre, Black Hound Theatre in At the Edge, 2 and 7.30pm, Sun 2pm.
HONITON, Beehive, Absolute Oasis, tribute, 7.30
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Ninebarrow and Friends, folk, 8pm.
NEW MILTON,Forest Arts, Dee Anderson, Growing Up with Thunderbirds, tribute to TV show, 8pm.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Hamilton, to 6 Sept, Mon-Sat 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Dinosaur World Live, and Sun 11am and 2pm: Cinema, The Roses, and Sun and 2-4 Sept.
SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Paul Taylor Mills summer rep, Murder in the Dark by Torben Betts, 8pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Mary Poppins, to 20 Sept.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Andre Rieu 2025 Maastricht concert, Waltz the Night Away, 2pm: Pleasuredome Theatre with Somerset Opera and Taunton Sinfonietta in Cesare, an adaptation of Handel’s Julius Caesar, 7.30.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Mud, 7.30.
WAREHAM, Careys Secret Garden, Purbeck Film Festival Cinema under the Stars, A Complete Unknown.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The Ed Sheeran Experience with Jack Shepherd, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Bohemians.
Sunday 31 August
BERKELEY, Castle, Three Inch Fools in The Most Perilous Comedie of Elizabeth I, and Mon.
BRISTOL, St Georges, The Drifters, 7.30.
CHURCHINFORD, Cricket Ground, Pantaloons in Hamlet, 3pm.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Project Dance in Busk, contemporary dance, 7.30.
HAM HILL, Country Park, Chill on the Hill with Take Art.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Spooky Men’s Chorale, 8pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Give Me Moore, tribute to Gary Moore, 7.30.