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Updated Thursday 25th June, 5.35pm
Friday 26 June
ALRESFORD, The Grange, BSO cond Lidiya Yankovskaya, Eugene Onegin, Grange Opera, and 28 and 30 June, and 4/10 and 12 July.
BATH, Forum, Barry Steele – The Roy Orbison Story.
Theatre Royal, Tamzin Outhwaite in Abigail’s Party, and Sat, Sat mat 2.30.
Rondo, Holmes and Watson: The Curious Case of the Masked Magician, with Peter Clifford and The Great Baldini, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
BISHOPSTONE (nr Salisbury) Village Hall, H is for Hawk. MOVIOLA
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Lipstick on Your Collar, hits of 50s and 60s, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Shiry Rashkovsky, viola, Lana Suran, piano, 11.30.
Electric Palace, Our Land, documentary film about the right to roam, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Royal York Crescent Garden, Festival Players in The Comedy of Errors, 7.30.
Hippodrome, Matilda, the Musical, and Sat.
Old Vic, Rifco Arts in Frankie Goes to Bollywood, to Sun, 7.30, Sat/Sun mats 2.30: Weston Studio, Prentice in I’m Not Being Funny, by Piers Black, and Sat, 8pm, Sat mat 3pm.
Tobacco Factory, Awkard Productions in The Fit Prince [who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)], and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
St George’s, Hannah Scott, folk singer songwriter, 7.30.
CHARLTON MACKRELL, Charlton House, Nell! – The Musical, and Sat, 7pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent, The Sound of Springsteen.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, to 22 Aug.
CORSHAM,Pound Arts, James Rowland, Team Viking, storytelling and comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Dorchester Young Company in When This Is Over, devised performance, 7.30.
EXETER, Powderham Castle, Live at Powderham with Alanis Morissette.
Northcott Theatre, Tall Stories in The Gruffalo, and Sat/Sun 2pm, Sat Sun morning mats 11am: Moonstone Theatre in Murder Mystery Dining – Out for a Duck, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin Theatre, Dirty Laundry : Summer Spectacular, cabaret, spoken word, music etc, 8pm.
HONITON, Beehive, The Devil Wears Prada 2, film, 2 and 7.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Shiry Rashkovsky, viola, Lana Suran, piano, 7.30.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, LR Comedy Club with Olga Koch, Gareth Cooper, Anna Soden and Tom Glover, 8pm.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Charlie Dore, singer songwriter, with multi-instrumentalist Julian Littman, 7.30.
NORTON ST PHILIP, Village Hall, Song Sung Blue. MOVIOLA
PAINSWICK, Rococo Gardens, The Handlebards in As You Like It, and Sat, 7pm.
PENZANCE, Penlee Park, Sun and Moon Theatre in Twelfth Night, 7.30.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Annie, with LaVoix as Miss Hannigan, and Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Coastal Comedy with Sean Collins, James Dowdeswell and Les Keen, 8pm: Cinema, Mid Winter Break, and 30 June, 11am: Glastonbury – the Movie, 5.30 and Tues 7.30: Disclosure Day, and Sat, Tues-Thurs various times.
SALISBURY, Festival, Playhouse, Alfie Moore: Acopalypse Now, the antidote to fake news, 7.30.
Festival, Cathedral Rack Close, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, Othello, and Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth Summer Play Festival, Murder Weapon, by Brian Clemens,and Sat, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Nouvelle Vague. MOVIOLA
STREET, Strode Theatre, Disclosure Day, film, 7.30, and Sat 7.45.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Masters of the Big Band with Moonlight Swing Band, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Totally GaGa, tribute with Georgia Crandon, 7.30.
TETBURY, Hookshouse Pottery Gardens, Pantaloons in The Hound of the Baskervilles, 7.30
Westonbirt Arboretum, Forest Live with Deacon Blue, UB40, Rick Astley etc, to Sun.
TINCLETON, Gallery, Mike Denham, Ida Pelliccioli, piano, Rameau, Albeniz and Debussy, and Sat, 8pm.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, Kairos Theatre in King of Fools, new musical, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Wimborne Musical Theatre Society in Shrek – The Musical, and Sat, 7.30.
Saturday 27 June
ALRESFORD, The Grange Festival, BSO cond Richard Farnes, Grange Opera Festival, La Boheme, and 1, 5 and 11 July.
BEAMINSTER, St Mary’s Church and other venues, Festival, to 5 July.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Trowbridge Symphony Orchestra, Maestra – Half the Sky, a celebration of 20th centry women composers, Lili Boulanger, Margaret Bond and Florence Price, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Dr Seuss – The Cat in the Hat, and Sun, 2pm, Sun 11am.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, EP 100 – The Big Birthday Bash, part of the Everywhere at Once Festival, with The Swingin’ Jukebox and The Hot House Combo, 7pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Jamaica Love, reggae, dance etc.
CREDITON, Lapford Mill, Sun and Moon Theatre in Twelfth Night, 7pm.
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Shiry Rashkovsky, viola, Lana Suran, piano, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Thomas Hardye School Theatre, Buddy Holly and the Cricketers, 7.30.
EXETER, Powderham Castle, Live at Powderham with Lewis Capaldi, and Sun.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Gary Davies, Summer 80s Day party, from 1pm.
HALSTOCK, Village Hall, Song Sung Blue. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Michael, biopic, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Cinema, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, NT Screening, 3pm, 2 July 7.30, 3 July 5pm.
PUDDLETOWN, Athelhampton House, Immersion Theatre in The Jungle Book, 6pm.
SALISBURY, Festival, Playhouse, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, 7.30: Salberg Studio, Graham Gooch, 2pm: P Burton Morgan, Running Commentary, poetry, 7.45.
City Hall, Katie Hopkins, Free Range, comedy, 7.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Treorchy Male Choir, 7pm.
Festival, SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Sheelanagig, folk, 8pm.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Legends of Motown, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Pride!, a Brewhouse Revue with Drag Queens, 7.30pm.
Tacchi Morris Arts Centre, Stagestruck Theatre School, showcase, 6.30pm.
WELLS, Cedars Hall, Wells Cathedral School jazz picnic, open air, 1 to 4pm: Cathedral School students, opera scenes, 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Razzamataz Theatre Schools, Razz through the Decades, showcase, 2 and 7.30, and Sun 11am and 6.30pm.
Sunday 28 June
BISHOP’S WALTHAM, Bishop’s Palace, Rain or Shine in The Pickwick Papers, 7pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent, South Coast Dance and Arts, Be Our Guest, songs from Beauty and the Beast, noon and 5.30.
FROME, Merlin Theatre, Starcast in Hadestown – teen edition, 2 and 7pm.
Cheese and Grain, Scouting for Girls.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Jazz by the Sea with the Eddie Gripper Trio, 8pm.
SHERBORNE, The Sherborne, Illyria in Pinocchio, 3pm and Mon 6pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Bath Opera in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, 2.30: Studio, Riverdance, 25th anniversary show, film, 2pm.
TIVERTON, Community Theatre, Festival Players in The Comedy of Errors, 6.30.
WINCHESTER, The Castle Great Hall, The Handlebards in Macbeth, 5.30.
Monday 29 June
BATH, Theatre Royal, Maureen Lipman in Allegra, new comedy by Peter Quilter, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Somerset Music and Singing Festival, and Tues.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Counting Crows.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent, David Attenborough – A Life on Our Planet, film, 10.30am: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, NT Screening, 7.30.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Opperation Mincemeat – the Musical, to Sat.
SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth Summer Play Festival, Alan Ayckbourn’s Neighbourhood Watch, to Sat, 8pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Glenrothan, film, 11am.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The Christophers, film, 1 and Tues 4pm: My Mother’s Wedding, film, 4pm, Tues 1pm, Thurs 7pm: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, NT Screening, 7pm.
Tuesday 30 June
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, The Illegal Eagles, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Fairy Queen: Three Wishes, Purcell opera reimagined by James Redwood and writer Hazel Gould, 6pm.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Amber Davies in Legally Blonde, to Sat.
Old Vic, Weston Studio, Jonny Woo in Suburbia, drag, performance art and storytelling, and Wed/Fri/Sat, 8pm, Sat mat 3pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent, Spielberg at 80, AI Artificial Intelligence, 2001 film, 7.30.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, John Lee Anderson talking about new book To Lose a War, Marine fundraiser, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Ballet Boyz at 25, Still Pointless, 7.45: LEAF studio school and sixth form, showcase 6.30:
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Hamnet, film, 2pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Madfabulous, film, 7pm, and Wed 1pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Jimmy Tarbuck, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, NT Screening, 2.30 and 7pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Lesley Manville and Aiden Turner, NT Screening, 7pm, and 5 July, 2pm.