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Updated Thursday 26 March, 6.43pm.
Friday 27 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Choir of Man, juke box musical, 4 and 8pm, and Sat 2.30 and 7.30.
Rondo, Rondo Theatre in Underdog: The Other Other Bronte, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Forum, Fairport Convention.
Chapel Arts, The Haar, folk.
BISHOPSTONE, nr Salisbury, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Daniel O’Reilly, Let’s Have It, comedy.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Eric Bibb, One Mississippi, blues, folk and Americana, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Iconic 80s, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Jess Upton Soul Band, One More Time, 7.30.
Arts Centre, In The Nguyen Kitchen, French film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Macbeth, and Sat.
Hippodrome, The Greatest Showman, to 10 May.
Old Vic, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and Sat, various times.
Redgrave Theatre, BAOS in Rock of Ages, The Musical, 7.30, and Sat 1.30 and 6.30pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Fish in a Dress in The City for Incurable Women, true story of medical misogyny, 7.30.
Beacon, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, John Williams Blockbusters, The Greatest Film Music of All Time, 7pm: Lantern, Misty in Roots, 50th anniversary show.
St George’s, Aynur Dogan, Kurdish singer, 8pm.
Victoria Rooms, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, The Brit-Pop Show, with Marc Burrows, comedy.
Alma Tavern, Holly Spillar, Tall Child, comedy, 7.30.
Strange Brew, Joan Shelley, folk.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Highcliffe Charity Players in Aladdin, An Easter Pantomime, daily to 2 April, various times.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Ottilie, new play about Ottilie Patterson, the godmother of British blues, to 19 April.
COLLINGBOURNE DUCIS, Village Hall, Louise Jordan, Behind Enemy Lines, the Women of SOE in words and music, 7pm. RAW
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Corrine Harragin, Troubled Waters, comedy and storytelling about rivers, 7.30.
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
EDINGTON, Village Hall, Somerset Opera in The Pirates of Penzance, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Whose Line Is It Anyway Live, improv comedy, 7.30.
Barnfield Theatre, Mark Simmons, Jest to Impress, comedy, 7.45.
Corn Exchange, Comedy Club.
Cygnet Theatre, Select Society Theatre in Divorced, Beheaded, Died: An Audience with King Henry VIII.
FERNDOWN, Barrington Centre, P and P Players in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and Sat, 7pm.
FROME, Merlin, Selwood Academy students in Oliver! Jr, and Sat, various times.
Tree House, The Emperials, Bristol ska band.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, LR Comedy Club, Esther Manito, Aisha Amanduri, Vlad Ilich and Tom Glover, 8pm.
MINEHEAD, Regal Theatre, Barnstormers in Noel Coward’s Easy Virtue, and Sat, 7.30.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, The Otis Jay Blues Band.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Here and Now, the STEPS Musical, to Sun: Drum Studio, Rabble Theatre in Glitch, The True Story of the Post Office scandal, and Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30: Rock N Roll Man, play, and Sat, 7.45, Sat mat 2.30: Studio Jazz with the Jeremy Stacey Quartet, 7.45pm: Cinema, Hoppers, animated film, and Sat and 1/2/8/9 April, various day times: The Good Boy, and Wed/Thurs: Midwinter Break, and Sat and 1/2/7/8/9/18 and 21 April.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.15.
Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Outside Edge, and Sat.
Arts Centre, Barnstormers Comedy Club, 8pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Satu – Year of the Rabbit, film, 7.30pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and Sat.
Mayflower Studio, John Kearns, Tilting at Windmills, comedy.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, folk, 8.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Wuthering Heights!, 2026 film, and Wed 7.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Klezmer Foygl, 7.30. AR
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Diana and Lionel, Endless Love, tribute to Ross and Richie, 7.30.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre,The All Seasons Life, tribute to Frankie Valli etc, 7.30.
WELLS, Cathedral, Armonico Consort, dir Christopher Monks, Bach St Matthew Passion, Nathan Vale, evangelist, Alex Jones Christus, 7pm.
WESTBURY SUB MENDIP, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Strong Enough, ultimate tribute to Cher, 7.30: Ocean Room, That’s So 90s – 90s nostalgia show, 8pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, A Night to Remember, Motown, 7.30.
Saturday 28 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Box Clever in Macbeth, and Sun, 11.30am and 3pm.
Forum, Paul Merton and Sukie Webster’s Improv Show.
Chapel Arts, Young Martyrs, Americana.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BEAULIEU, Abbey, Choralia Milford, Rutter etc, with Hetti Russell-Hayward, 7pm.
BISHOP’S LYDEARD, Village Hall, Somerset Opera in The Pirates of Penzance, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Mark Kavuma, trumpet, jazz, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, John Power, singer songwriter, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Tristan and Isolde from the Metropolitan Opera, 4pm.
Lyric Theatre, Ivor Cutler and the Shinytribe, a tribute by Tim Dalling, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Bristol Choral Society, Bach St John Passion, 7.30: Lantern, Eric Bibb, One Mississippi, Americana and blues.
Folk House, Dana Robinson, guitar and old time fiddle from Vermont.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Lamphouse in War of the Worlds (on a budget), comedy, 7.30.
DRIMPTON, Village Hall, Klezmer Foygl, 7.30. AR
EXETER, Northcott, TRextasy, tribute, 7.30.
Cygnet Theatre, Cilla and the Swinging 60s.
FROME, Tree House, Sabbotage, Black Sabbath tribute.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Mama’s Gun, soul funk.
MARTOCK, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Laurence Jones, blues and rock, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus and the Salomon Orchestra, cond Gavin Carr, with Sian Dicker, soprano, and Felix Kemp, baritone, Vaughan Williams, Elgar and The Black Lake, new work by Richard Blackford, 7.30: Daoiri Farrell, Irish folk, 8pm: Cinema, James Acaster, Cinemagoers Welcome, film of live gigs, 7.30.
PORTSMOUTH, King’s Theatre, The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Groove Junction with DJ Emma, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Suzi Ruffell, The Juggle, comedy.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Kangaroo, film, 2.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Real Thing, 7.30.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Mark Simmons, Jest to Impress, comedy, 8pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, David Benson, My Life with Kenneth Williams, 2.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Baz Luhrmann film, to Tues, 2.30 and 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Country West Fest, country music, from noon.
Sunday 29 March
BATH, Komedia, Ferocious Dog.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, The Drifters.
Pavilion Dance, Spring Revue, celebration of Pavilion Dance weekly classes, 6pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Mark Simmons, Jest to Impress, comedy, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Poppy Ackroyd, pianist and composer, and friends.
Old Vic, Michelle de Swarte, The Afters, comedy, 7.30.
St George’s, Shashank Subramanyam, carnatic flautist, and Prattyush Banerjee, sarod, Indian classical music, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Little Angel in Julia Donaldson’s A Squash and A Squeeze, 3.30 and Mond 10.30am and 4.30pm.
Folk House, Roswell Road, Americana duo.
EXETER, Phoenix, The Billy Walton Band.
EXMOUTH, Pavilion, Starting Pointe Dance and Performing Arts in Lights, Camera, Dance, showcase.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Jazz by the Sea with the Andy Nowak Trio, 8pm.
MILTON ABBAS, Milton Abbey Church, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, with Wessex Baroque Collective, cond David Gostick, Bach St John Passsion, 3pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, The Sound of Springsteen, 7.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Hamlet, NT Screening, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, John Williams Blockbusters, The Greatest Film Music of All Time, 7pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Union Gap, 7pm.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, A Unicorn Called Sparkle, favourite songs, 1 and 3.30pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, That’ll Be the Day, 40th anniversary show and Trevor’s farewell tour, 7pm.
Monday 30 March
BATH, Forum, Harry Enfield, And No Chums, comedy, and 7 November.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Thundercat, r’n’b: Lantern, Mario Adrion, comedy.
Wardrobe Theatre, Jenny Foulds, Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human, poetry, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Last Baguette in A Woodland Wonder, storytelling, puppetry and theatre for 2 to 6 year olds, 10am, and 11.30am.
MINEHEAD, Regal Theatre, Somerset Opera in The Pirates of Penzance, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, H is for Hawk, film, and Tues, 11am, 2.30pm and 7pm.
Tuesday 31 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Childrens’ Theatre Partnership in The Boy at the Back of the Class, to Sat.
St George’s, Samin Nosrat, recipes and rituals, 7.30.
Wardrobe Theatre, Angeline Morrison, folk, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Alma Theatre Co in JB Priestley’s I Have Been Here Before, and Wed, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Buster Keaton classic The General (1926) with live piano score from Meg Morley, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Exeter Musical Society in Annie, The Musical, to Sat, 7pm, Fri/Sat mats 2pm.
Phoenix, The Jasmin Vardimon Company, contemporary dance triple bill.
HONITON, Beehive, Siegfried, from the Royal Opera, 5.15.
MARNHULL, St Gregory’s, Music at St Greg’s, The King of Kings, 1927 film with organ improvisation by David Briggs, 7pm.
MINEHEAD, Regal Theatre, Wagner’s Siegfried, live from the Royal Opera, 5.15pm.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Stuff and Nonsense in The Enormous Turnip, to 18 April, various day times.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Eras Experience, Taylor Swift tribute, by Xenna, 7pm.: Cinema, Chicken Run, 11.30am: Wagner’s Siegfried, live from the Royal Opera, 5.15pm.
PORTSMOUTH, Wedgwood Rooms, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Sounds of the 60s Live, with Tony Blackburn.
MAST, Little Angel Theatre in Julia Donaldson’s A Squash and a Squeeze, to Sat.
Turner Sims, Fairport Convention, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Wagner’s Siegfried, live from the Royal Opera, 5.15pm: The Secret Agent, film, 7pm, and Wed 7.45.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Brewhouse Youth Theatre in Alexandra Wood’s Britney’s Lock, part of NT Connections, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Hamlet, NT Screening, 7.30.