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Updated Friday 26th June, 10.37pm
Saturday 27 June
ALRESFORD, The Grange Festival, BSO cond Richard Farnes, Grange Opera Festival, La Boheme, and 1, 5 and 11 July.
BATH, Theatre Royal, Tamzin Outhwaite in Abigail’s Party, 2.30 and 7.30.
Rondo, Holmes and Watson: The Curious Case of the Masked Magician, with Peter Clifford and The Great Baldini, 2.30 and 7.30.
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, Hippodrome, Matilda, the Musical, 2.30 and 7.30.
Old Vic, Rifco Arts in Frankie Goes to Bollywood, and Sun, 7.30, Sat/Sun mats 2.30: Weston Studio, Prentice in I’m Not Being Funny, by Piers Black, 3 and 8pm.
Beacon, Jamaica Love, reggae, dance etc.
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)], 2.30 and 7.30.
CHARLTON MACKRELL, Charlton House, Nell! – The Musical, 7pm.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, to 22 Aug.
EXETER, Northcott Theatre, Tall Stories in The Gruffalo, and Sun, 11am and 2pm.
PAINSWICK, Rococo Gardens, The Handlebards in As You Like It, 7pm.
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.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Annie, with LaVoix as Miss Hannigan.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Cinema, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, NT Screening, 3pm, 2 July 7.30, 3 July 5pm: Disclosure Day, and Tues-Thurs various times.
PUDDLETOWN, Athelhampton House, Immersion Theatre in The Jungle Book, 6pm.
SALISBURY, Festival, Cathedral Rack Close, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, Othello, 2 and 7pm.
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.
SIDMOUTH, Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth Summer Play Festival, Murder Weapon, by Brian Clemens, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Sheelanagig, folk, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Disclosure Day, film, 7.45.
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.
TETBURY, Westonbirt Arboretum, Forest Live with Deacon Blue, UB40, Rick Astley etc, and Sun.
TINCLETON, Gallery, Mike Denham, Ida Pelliccioli, piano, Rameau, Albeniz and Debussy, 8pm.
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.WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Wimborne Musical Theatre Society in Shrek – The Musical, 7.30.
Sunday 28 June
ALRESFORD, The Grange, BSO cond Lidiya Yankovskaya, Eugene Onegin, Grange Opera, and 30 June, and 4/10 and 12 July.
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.
SHEPTON MALLET, Victoria Inn, James Rowland in Team Viking, 7.45. TA
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: Cinema, Mid Winter Break, 11am: Glastonbury – the Movie, 7.30.
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.