2026

Thursday 1 January
POOLE, Lighthouse, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, cond Wigglesworth, Elizabeth Watts, soprano, New Year’s Viennese Gala, 3pm.

Friday 2 January
GUSSAGE ALL SAINTS, Village Hall, Bumblefly and Forest Forge in Pinocchio, 6.30pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, cond Wigglesworth, Elizabeth Watts, soprano, New Year’s Viennese Gala, 7pm.

Saturday 3 January
AWBRIDGE, Village Hall, Bumblefly and Forest Forge in Pinocchio, 6.30pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, cond Wigglesworth, Elizabeth Watts, soprano, New Year’s Viennese Gala, 7.30pm.
CROWCOMBE, Halsway Manor, GreenMatthews’ Gaudete.

Sunday 4 January
TOTTON, Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Village Hall, Bumblefly and Forest Forge in Pinocchio,3pm.

Thursday 8 January
FAWLEY, Jubilee Hall, Bumblefly and Forest Forge in Pinocchio, 7pm.
FROME, Merlin, The Fifth Step, NT screening, 7pm.

Friday 9 January
DOWNTON, Memorial Hall, Bumblefly and Forest Forge in Pinocchio, 6.30pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, cond Wigglesworth, Elizabeth Watts, soprano, New Year’s Viennese Gala, 7.30.

Sunday 11 January
RINGWOOD, Waldorf School,  Bumblefly and Forest Forge in Pinocchio, 2pm.

Wednesday 7 January
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, I’m Still Here, 7.30.

Thursday 8 January
TAUNTON, Wyndham Hall, Wyndham Picture House, Pandaemonium, film about Coleridge and Wordsworth made in West Somerset, 7.30.

Saturday 10 January
FAREHAM, Fareham Live, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, cond Wigglesworth, Elizabeth Watts, soprano, New Year’s Viennese Gala, 7.30pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, I Puritani, from the Metropolitan Opera, 6pm.

Tuesday 13 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story, to Sat.

Wednesday 14 January
FROME, Merlin, Holy Cow, film, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, La Traviata from the Royal Opera, 6.45.

Sunday 18 January
FROME, Merlin, La Traviata from the Royal Opera. screening, 2pm.

Monday 19 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, 2:22 – A Ghost Story, to Sat.

Tuesday 20 January
SHAFTESBURY, various venues, Festival of Baroque, recitals, talks, films, dance etc, to Sun.|
Arts Centre, Festival of Baroque, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, 50th anniversary screening, 2pm.

Wednesday 21 January
SHAFTESBURY, St James’s Church, Festival of Baroque,  Salisbury Baroque, Composers Behaving Badly, 4pm.

Thursday 22 January
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Living Spit in Beauty and the Beast, to Sat.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Festival of Baroque,Devils and Angels, with Emma-Marie Kabanova, violin, Biber and Tartini, 11am.
Arts Centre, Festival of Baroque, Sweeter than Roses, English and Italian baroque music, Angela Hicks and Kristiina Watt, lute, 2pm: Battle of the Playwrights – Aphra Behn, Ben Johnson, Thomas Otway and Susanne Centrelivre, 4pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Hamlet, live from the National Theatre, 7pm.

Friday 23 January
FROME, Merlin, Hamlet, NT screening, 7pm.
SHAFTESBURY, St Peter’s Church, Festival of Baroque, Eden Baroque, All the World’s a Stage, music inspired by Shakespeare and others, 2pm.
Arts Centre, Festival of Baroque, Troubled Times – Shaftesbury in the Civil War, talk by re-enactor Peter Wood, 4pm.

Saturday 24 January
SHAFTESBURY, Grosvenor Arms Assembly Room, Festival of Baroque, Salisbury Chamber Ensemble, baroque music from the courts of Europe, 11am: Early Bird, From the Pleasure Garden, baroque and early folk music with birdsong, 2pm.
Town Hall, Festival of Baroque, Dance the Baroque Way with Penny-Jane Swift and Steps in Time, dance demonstration, 4pm.

Sunday 25 January
SHAFTESBURY, Grosvenor Arms Assembly Room, Festival of Baroque, Good Againe, with Sarah Small, viola da gamba, 11.30am.
St Peter’s Church, Festival of Baroque, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, cond David Gostick,  3pm.

Tuesday 27 January
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Adam Kammerling in Seder, spoken world and physical theatre, and Wed.

Friday 30 January
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Tracey Collins in Audrey Heartburn: Bingo at Tiffany’s, music and comedy, and Sat.

Saturday 31 January
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.

Sunday 1 February
STREET, Strode Theatre, Mid Somerset Orchestra, cond Hitoshi Suzuki, Melvyn Wai, piano, A Winter Matinee: Rossini, Mozart and Beethoven, 3pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.

Tuesday 3 February
FROME, Merlin, Frome College students in Back to the Eighties, to Friday, 7pm.

Wednesday 4 February
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, No Other Land, 7.30.

Thursday 5 February
STREET, Strode Theatre, Crispin School students in Frozen Jnr, and Fri 7.30, Sat 6pm.
TAUNTON, Wyndham Hall, Wyndham Picture House, Woman at War, 7.30.

Saturday 7 February
FROME, Merlin, John Hegley, New and Selected Potatoes, comedy, 7.30.

Sunday 8 February
FROME, Merlin,The Animal Guyz with Amazing Animals, 11am and 2pm.

Monday 9 February
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Paula Varjack and Co in Nine Sixteenths, and Tues.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Woolf Works, live from the Royal Ballet, 7.15.

Tuesday 1o February
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club Jameson Road, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, to Sat.

Wednesday 11 February
FROME, Merlin, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, film, 8pm.

Friday 13 February
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Daniel Lebhardt, piano, 11.30.
FROME, Merlin, AI, AI, OH … (or how I wrote a hit sitcom with ChatGPT but we’re not talking now), comedy, 7.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Daniel Lebhardt, piano, 7.30.

Saturday 14 February
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Daniel Lebhardt, piano, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, Johns’ Boys, Welsh male voice choir, tenth anniversary concert, 7.30.

Sunday 15 February
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society, The Kyan String Quartet, Debussey, Berg, Beethoven,  3pm.`
FROME, Merlin, Wolf Works, screened live from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.

Monday 16 February
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Outlying Islands, to Sat.

Wednesday 18 February
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, The Marching Band, 7.30.

Thursday 19 February
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Macbeth, to 28 March.
ILMINSTER, Warehouse Theatre, Knockin’ on Heavens Door, to Sat.

Thursday 26 February
PORTSMOUTH, New Theatre Royal, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.

Friday 27 February
FROME, Merlin, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.

Saturday 1 March
STREET, Strode Theatre, Simeon Walker, pianist and composer, 7.45.

Tuesday 3 March
STREET, Strode Theatre, Giselle, live from the Royal Ballet, 7.15.

Wednesday 4 March
EXETER, Phoenix, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Evil Does Not Exist, 7.30.

Thursday 5 March
TAUNTON, Wyndham Hall, Wyndham Picture House, Visconti’s Death in Venice, with Dirk Bogarde, 7.30.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.

Friday 6 March
PLYMOUTH, Quad Theatre, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.

Saturday 7 March
BRISTOL, 1532, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.

Sunday 8 March
FROME, Merlin, Giselle, screened live from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre,The Explosive Light Orchestra, tribute, 7pm.

Tuesday 10 March
WELLS, Little Theatre, The 39 Steps, to Sat, 7.30.

Wednesday 11 March
FROME, Merlin, Santosh, film, 8pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.

Friday 13 March
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Geirbrudur Anna Gudmundsdottir, cello, Antoine Preat, piano, 11.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Geirbrudur Anna Gudmundsdottir, cello, Antoine Preat, piano 7.30.

Saturday 14 March
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Geirbrudur Anna Gudmundsdottir, cello, Antoine Preat, piano, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Frome Writers’ Collective in Balancing Acts, script-in-hand performances by local actors, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, Bournemouth Bach Choir, The Sixteen, Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus and QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble, 7.30.

Tuesday 17 March
YEOVIL, Westlands, YAOS on Fiddler on the Roof, to Sat.

Wednesday  18 March
STREET, Strode Theatre, Street Theatre in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, to Sat, 7.30.

Thursday 19 March
BOURNEMOUTH, Palace Court Theatre, AUB students in Jeckyll and Hyde, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.

Saturday 21 March
FROME, Merlin, Marcus Brigstocke, Vitruvian Mano, comedy, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Studio,  Tristan and Isolde, live from the Metropolitan Opera, 4pm.

Sunday 22 March
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society, James Atkinson, baritone, Simon Lepper, piano, The Clock of the Years, songs about lost love and time inc Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Finzi’s Earth and Air and Rain, 3pm.

Monday 23 March
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Outside Edge, to Sat.

Wednesday 25 March
FROME, Merlin, Selwood Academy students in Oliver! Jr, to Sat, various times.

Sunday 29 March
MILTON ABBAS, Milton Abbey Church, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, with Wessex Baroque Collective, cond David Gostick, Bach St John Passsion, 3pm.

Tuesday 31 March
PORTSMOUTH, Wedgwood Rooms, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Wagner’s Siegfried, live from the Royal Opera, 5.15pm.

Wednesday 1 April
WINCHESTER, Theatre Royal, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.

Sunday 5 April
FROME, Merlin, Siegfried, screened live from the Royal Opera House, 2pm.

Tuesday 7 April
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing, to Thurs.

Wednesday 8 April
FROME, Merlin, Plan 75, film, 8pm.
SWINDON, Arts Centre, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, All We Imagine as Light, 7.30.

Thursday 9 April
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
TAUNTON, Wyndham Hall, Wyndham Picture House, Bread and Tulips, 7.30.

Friday 10 April
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Ensemble Augelletti, recorders, violin, cello, lutes, keyboard, 11.30.
DARTMOUTH, The Flavel, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing.
FROME, Merlin, The Ultimate Bubble Show, noon.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Ensemble Augelletti, recorders, violin, cello, lutes, keyboard,7.30.

Saturday 11 April
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West,Ensemble Augelletti, recorders, violin, cello, lutes, keyboard, 7.30.

Tuesday 14 April
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club Jameson Road,Ayckbourn’s Neighbourhood Watch, to Sat.

Thursday 16 April
FROME, Merlin, Frome Drama in Jack Absolute Flies Again, to Sat, 7.30.

Sunday 19 April
FROME, Merlin, Las Theatre in The Littlest Yak, 11am and 2pm.

Wednesday 22 April
STREET, Strode Theatre, Glastonbury and Street Musical Comedy Society in Calendar Girls – the Musical, to Sat.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Green Border, 7.30.

Friday 24 April
FROME, Merlin, New Old Friends in Pick and Mix, 7.30.

Saturday 25 April
FROME, Merlin, Mark Simmons, Jest to Impress, comedy, 7.30.

Sunday 26 April
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society, Sophie Rosa, violin, Ian Buckle, piano, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Clara Schumann and Grieg, 3pm.
FROME, Merlin, The Magic Flute, screened live from the Royal Opera House, 2pm.

Wednesday 6 May
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, A Yak in the Classroom, 7.30.

Thursday 7 May
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing,

Friday 8 May
PLYMOUTH, Barbican Theatre, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing.

Sunday 10 May
PENZANCE, Minack Theatre, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing, to Fri.

Monday 11 May
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief, to Sat.

Thursday 14 May
BOURNEMOUTH, Palace Court Theatre, AUB students in Moonfleet, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.

Friday 15 May
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Greenwich Piano Trio, 11.30.
DARTMOUTH, The Flavel, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Greenwich Piano Trio, 7.30.

Saturday 16 May
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Greenwich Piano Trio,, 7.30.

Sunday 17 May
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society, Ensemble Augelletti, BBC New Generation Baroque artists, The Library of a Prussian Princess, music from the personal collection of Anna Amalia, Princess of Prussia 1723-87, inc music by Handel, JS and CPE Bach, Anna Amalia, 3pm.

Saturday 23 May
WIMBORNE, Minster, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, cond David Gostick, Phibbs, Seven Songs of Nature for Choir and Brass Quintet, 7.30.

Thursday 28 May
BOURNEMOUTH, Palace Court Theatre, AUB students in Grimm Tales, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
FROME, Merlin Theatre, The Full Monty – the play, to Sat.

Tuesday 9 June
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club Jameson Road, Bracken Moor, a ghost story, to Sat.

Wednesday 10 June
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, On Falling, 7.30.

Wednesday 17 June
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Holy Cow,  and AGM, 7.30.

Friday 26 June
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Shiry Rashkovsky, viola, Lana Suran, piano, 11.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Shiry Rashkovsky, viola, Lana Suran, piano, 7.30.

Saturday 27 June
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Shiry Rashkovsky, viola, Lana Suran, piano, 7.30.

Monday 6 July
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road,  Noel Coward’s Hands Across the Sea and Still Life, to Sat.

Friday 10 July
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Ceruleo, period vocal and musical ensemble, 11.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Ceruleo, period vocal and musical ensemble, 7.30.

Saturday 11 July
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Ceruleo, period vocal and musical ensemble, 7.30.

 

Friday 18 September
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Sophie Rosa, violin, Ian Buckle, piano, 11.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Sophie Rosa, violin, Ian Buckle, piano, 7.30.

Saturday 19 September
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Sophie Rosa, violin, Ian Buckle, piano, 7.30.

 

Friday 16 October
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Oliver Wass, harp, Gabriela Opacka, violin, 11.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Oliver Wass, harp, Gabriela Opacka, violin, 7.30.

Saturday 17 October
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Oliver Wass, harp, Gabriela Opacka, violin, 7.30.

Friday 6 November
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Fenella Humphreys, violin, Gary Pomeroy, viola, Cara Berridge, cello, Sam Armstrong, piano, 11.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Fenella Humphreys, violin, Gary Pomeroy, viola, Cara Berridge, cello, Sam Armstrong, piano, 7.30.

Saturday 7 November
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Fenella Humphreys, violin, Gary Pomeroy, viola, Cara Berridge, cello, Sam Armstrong, piano, 7.30.