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Updated Saturday 28 March, 6.32pm
Sunday 29 March
BATH, various venues, Comedy Festival, to 19 April.
Theatre Royal, The Egg, Box Clever in Macbeth, 11.30am and 3pm.
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, Hippodrome, The Greatest Showman, to 10 May.
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.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Highcliffe Charity Players in Aladdin, An Easter Pantomime, daily to 2 April, various times.
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.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Here and Now, the STEPS Musical.
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.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Baz Luhrmann film, to Tues, 2.30 and 7.30.
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.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Ottilie, new play about Ottilie Patterson, the godmother of British blues, to 19 April.
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.