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Updated Sunday 28th June, 6.26pm
Monday 29 June
BATH, Theatre Royal, Maureen Lipman in Allegra, new comedy by Peter Quilter, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
BEAMINSTER, St Mary’s Church and other venues, Festival, to 5 July.
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.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, to 22 Aug.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Opperation Mincemeat – the Musical, to Sat.
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Noel Coward double bill, Hands Across the Sea and Still Life, to Sat, 7.30.
SHERBORNE, The Sherborne, Illyria in Pinocchio, 6pm.
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
ALRESFORD, The Grange, BSO cond Lidiya Yankovskaya, Eugene Onegin, Grange Opera, and 4/10/12 July.
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.
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Shake on the Exe in Romeo and Juliet, to 5 July, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
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: Cinema, Mid Winter Break, 11am: Glastonbury – the Movie, 7.30: Disclosure Day, to Thurs various times.
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.