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Updated Friday 25th September, 7.25pm
Saturday 26 September
BATH, various venus, Bath Children’s Literature Festival, to 4 Oct.
Theatre Royal, London City Ballet in Firebird, 2.30 and 7.30.
Rondo, Amelie, play based on film, 2.30 and 7.30..
Chapel Arts, Catlea and band, indie pop and alt rock.
Komedia, Comedy Club.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Michael Ball, Glow.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Le Vent du Nord, Canadian folk.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, 21st Century Productions in Ghost – The Musical, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, COSM and Rat Trap, local bands, 7.45.
Electric Palace, Simon Spillett, saxophone, and the Ronnie Jones Trio, jazz, 2pm: & Sons, film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Lost Dog in Juliet and Romeo, dance theatre, 2.30 and 7.30.
Tobacco Factory, Opera Project in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, to 3 Oct, various dates and times.
St George’s, Bristol Classical Players, Brahms, Mahler and Dvorak, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Don’t Dilly Dally, music hall favourites, 2.30pm: The Comedy Store, 8pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Christchurch G and S Society in Iolanthe, 2.30 and 7.30.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Yes, Prime Minister, Mon-Sat to 3 Oct.
COLYTON, Farway Village Hall, Pipeline Theatre in George and the Drag Queen, 7.30.ViA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Danny Lee Grew, 24K Magic, comedy, 7.30.
DAWLISH, Shaftesbury Theatre, Our Star Theatre in The Three Musketeers, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Mi Flamenco, Umbra, 7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral, The Cathedral Players in The Merry Wives of Windsor, 7.30.
Barnfield Theatre, Scott Bennett, Stuff, comedy, 7.45.
FROME, Memorial Hall, Kerry Ellis, Rock Anthems.
Cheese and Grain, Magnum.
HONITON, Beehive, Hudson & Hudson, Married at First Sleight, comedy and magic, 7.30.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Rob Newman, 21st Century Survival Guide, comedy, 8pm.
MARTOCK, Parish Hall, Rose of Nevada. MOVIOLA
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, Tuner. MOVIOLA
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Connor Selby, blues and soul.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Our Space in The Body Measures Time, re-imagining of The Odyssey.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Rabbit and Rey and the Lost Things, 2pm: The London African Gospel Choir, Paul Simon’s Graceland Re-imagined, 12.30: Le Navet Bete in Oh Zeus!, 7.45: Carl Hutchinson, Fine Whine, comedy, 8pm: Cinema, NT Screening, The Misanthrope, with Sandra Oh, and Tues and 2 Oct, various times: Bad Apples, and Tues-Thurs.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, The Haunting of Hill House, to 3 Oct.
Studio 1, 52a Fisherton Street, Milly Moon, Walking Songs from New Zealand, 8pm.
Arts Centre, Romantics, Mystics and Revolutionaries, live performance lecture on Wordsworth and Coleridge by poet and comedian Pete Bearder, 7.30.
SHERBORNE, Abbey, Sherborne Chamber Choir, cond Paul Ellis, David Bednall, organ, Choral Classics, Haydn, Handel, Schubert, etc, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Moulin Rouge! – The Musical, to 24 Oct.
Mayflower Studio, Max Fulham, More Ham, comedy.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Emily Portman and Friends, folk.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, The Sound of Springsteen, 7.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Swing Easy Too, music from the Great American Songbook, 2pm: Bournemouth Concert Brass, Last Night of the Proms, 2.30: Pressure, film, and Sat and Mon-Thurs, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Women in Rock, 7.30.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Andy Ford, Awright my Luvver? comedy, 7.30.
TEIGNMOUTH, Bishopsteignton Village Hall, Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes in Women on the Edge, irreverant cabaret, 7pm. ViA
TRURO, Hall for Cornwall, Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance – 30 Years of Standing Ovations.
WELLS, Little Theatre, Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind, 7. 30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Flushed Away, animated film, 11am: The Bon Jovi Experience, tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Methodist Church, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, cond David Gostick, Come and Sing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, 2pm.
Sunday 27 September
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BATH, Komedia, Big Big Train, prog rock.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Showtime Future Stars, showcase for dance schools, 12.30 and 7.15pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, David Gibb Big Band, 2pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Stevie Martin in Clout, comedy, 7.30.
Beacon, Raise the Bar: UK Poetry Allstars, inc Harry Baker, Hollie McNish, etc: Lantern, Intarsia: Coalesce, dance and RnB.
Redgrave Theatre, The History of Rock.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Misanthrope with Sandra Oh, NT Screening, 1pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Imaginary Landscapes – poetry and harp with Chris Tutton and Tara Minton, 2.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, NT Screening, The Misanthrope with Sandra Oh, 7pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, New Amen Corner.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Pam Ayres, Doggedly Onward – A Life in Poem, 3.30pm.
WEYMOUTH,Pavilion, The Magic of the BeeGees, tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Pete Allen Jazz Band.
Merley House, Hurn Court Opera, Singers of the Year recital, 4pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Drifters, 7.30.
Monday 28 September
BATH, Komedia, Jesca Hoop, Lail Arad and Richard Sears, The Songs of Joni Mitchell.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Freya Ridings, alt rock.
Tobacco Factory, Aftermirth, comedy for new parents, 11am.
Redgrave Theatre, James Phelan, The Man Who Was Magic, and Tues, 7.30.
TAUNTON,Brewhouse, The Summer Book, film, 11am.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Super Nature, documentary film, 1pm, and Wed 4pm: The Dog Stars, film, 4 and 7pm, and Tues 4pm, and Wed 1pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Misanthrope, NT Screening, 7.30.
Tuesday 29 September
BATH, Theatre Royal, BLOG in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 70th anniversary show, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
Forum, Emma Kenny, Killer Couples.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Imperial Classical Ballet in Swan Lake, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, The Big House in Blaze FM, political theatre with music, to Sat, various times.
St George’s, Sara Pascoe, Riot Act – The Birthday Show, madcap cabaret, 7.30.
Beacon, Joe Jackson, The Hope and Fury Tour.
CLEVEDON, Theatre Shop, Living Spit in The Tragedy of Omlet, Prince of Henmark, to 10 Oct.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, James Rowland, Team Viking, comedy and storytelling, and Wed.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Heathers – The Musical, to Sat, various times.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, The Friend, film, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower Studio, Sam Harrison in PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves Takes Charge, to Sat.
Turner Sims, Claire Fuller, novelist, and her son musician Henry Ayling talk about the novel and its relationship to music, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Bitter Christmas, film, 1 and 7pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Don’t Forget Me – Eddie Cochran official documentary film, 7.30.
Wednesday 30 September
BATH, Forum, Nish Kumar, Angry Humour from a Really Nice Guy.
Rondo, Watson’s House in Queer Eyes on Queer Lives, three original plays, 7.30.
Komedia, The Spirit of Comedy, with Tom Ward, showcase for rising stars.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Paddington Trio, Part, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, 1pm: Broken English, Marianne Faithfull film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Richard Marsh in Top Gunchained, celebrating 40th anniversary of Top Gun, to Sat, 7.30.
St George’s, Ensemble Augelletti in Jewels that Brightly Burn, music by Bach’s students, 7.30.
Beacon, Lantern, Adam Wakeman, Jazz Sabbath.
Redgrave Theatre, Banff Mountain Film Festival, blue programme.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, The Devil Wears Prada 2. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Jazz Emu in The Pleasure Is All Yours, comedy, 7.45.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Wigglesworth, Wagner, Beethoven, 7.30pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem Theatre, Philip Clouts and the SoundCellar 3, jazz, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Southern Sinfonia, Inside the Orchestra, 6pm.
WEYMOUTH,Pavilion, La La Land, film, 10th anniversary, 7pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Celebrating Celine : A New Day.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, It Was Just An Accident, 7.30.
Westlands, Paul Zerdin, Shut Your Mouth, comedy puppetry, 7.30.