MORE THAN 100 VENUES ACROSS THE SOUTH AND WEST
Updated Tuesday 20 January, 6.01pm
Sunday 1 February
BATH, Komedia, Shaparak Khorsandi, Scatterbrain, comedy, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bill Frisell Trio, jazz, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Bridget Christie, Jacket Potato Pizza, comedy, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Hamnet, film, to Tues, various times.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Mid Somerset Orchestra, cond Hitoshi Suzuki, Melvyn Wai, piano, A Winter Matinee: Rossini, Mozart and Beethoven, 3pm.
WELLS, Cathedral, Epiphany Procession, 3pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The UpBeat Beatles.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.
Monday 2 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Shawshank Redemption, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30: Ustinov Studio, Off-Piste Theatre in Rank, with Frome-base writer and actor Dan Gaisford, and Tues, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Suede.
Wardrobe Theatre, Milk Poetry with Maureen Onwunali, 7.30.
FROME, Tree House, James Bruner, country rock.
HAWKCHURCH, Village Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, bio pic, 11am.
WELLS, Cathedral, Festal Eucharist and Candlemas Procession, 5.15.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Avatar: Fire and Ash, film, noon and 7pm: Sentimental Value, film, 4 and Tues 7pm.
Tuesday 3 February
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Manchester Collective, Sky with the Four Suns, 7pm.
St George’s, Manchester Collective, Sky with the Four Suns, music by Adams, Morris, Part, Britten and Purcell, 7pm.
Alma Tavern, Bell Street in Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions: A Self-Help Comedy Cabaret, and Wed, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Fifth Step, NT Screening, 7pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Hooray for Hollywood with Lisa Pulman and Joe Stilgoe, work in progress, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Frome College students in Back to the Eighties, to Friday, 7pm.
Tree House, Voodoo Room, The Music of Hendrix, Clapton and Cream.
KINGSBURY EPISCOPI, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Lewis Kingsley Peart, piano, Schubert, Sibelius, Montague and Grunfeld, 1pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, The Colour Room, film, 2pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Dylan Moran and guests, comedy, 8pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Monocle from Rendez-Vous Dance, 7.30.
YETMINSTER, Jubilee Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
Wednesday 4 February
BATH, Forum, Bath Phil, cond Michael Seal, Peter Moore, trombone, Sibelius, Howard, Wallen and Borodin, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Amiri Harewood, piano, Rachmaninov, Ades, Granados, 1pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Bridport Pantomime Players in Jack and the Beanstalk, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 1.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon and other venues, Slapstick Festival, films, talks, etc, to Sun.
Beacon, Lucinda Williams, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Hooray for Hollywood, Lisa Pulman and Joe Stilgoe, work in progress, 7.30.
CHURCHINFORD, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
CODFORD ST PETER, Woolstore Theatre, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, I Swear, film, 11am and 7.30pm.
EXETER, Corn Exchange, Comedy Festival fundraiser.
Phoenix, Dennis Ellsworth, Canadian singer songwriter.
PAIGNTON, Palace Theatre, The Irish House Party, traditional songs, music and dance from Dublin.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Anna Rakitina, Daniel Muller-Schott, cello, Grieg and Tchaikovsky, 7.30: Mike Wozniak, The Bench, comedy, 8pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Picasso: A Rebel in Paris, film, 7pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Trio Paradis, Cafe Concert, Roots, ancient music and composers of African origin, 11am.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Garth Marenghi, This Busted Earth, horror stories, 7.30.
WELLS, Cathedral, U2 by Candlelight, tribute, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan, Lions and Tigers and Bears, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Justin Hawkins Rides Again …. Again, lead singer with The Darkness, 8pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Ukranian National Opera in Carmen, 7.30.
Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, No Other Land, 7.30.
Thursday 5 February
BATH, Forum, Batman, 1989 film with The Gotham Philharmonic live accompaniment.
Chapel Arts, Keith James, The Songs of Nick Drake.
Rondo, Darren Walsh, Do You Like Puns? comedy, 7.30.
Komedia, Garth Marenghi, This Bursted Earth, horror stories, 7.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, Jason Derulo, The Last Dance.
Pavilion, Al Murray, All You Need is Guv, comedy.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Young Mothers, film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, The Magic of Motown.
St George’s, Duo StriAgo, guitars, Gismonti, Pereira, Chopin, Piazzola, etc, 1pm.
Alma Tavern, Nate Kitch in Something Different !!!, comedy, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Mark Nelson, Liquid Gold, comedy.
Wardrobe Theatre, Scarlett Smith, Any Objections? comedy, to Sat, 7.30.
BRUTON, At the Chapel, Wild Moon Rising, Jenny Knight talks about her new book, 7pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Ben Thompson, The Ultimate Elvis Tribute.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Golden Spurtle, film, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Exeter University Theatre Co in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Phoenix, Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent comedy Sherlock Jr, with soundtrack by REM, film, to Sat.
HONITON, Beehive, Mr Blake at Your Service, film, 2pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Legends, with Ben Waters and The Outlaw Orchestra and Chris Payn and the Parade, 7.30: Glenn Moore, Please Sir Glenn I Have Some More, comedy, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, The Unravelling Wilburys, 7.30.
City Hall, Chuckles Comedy Club, 8pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Judi Love, All About the Love, comedy.
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.
WELLS, Cathedral, Bruce Springsteen by Candlelight, tribute, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, Two Giants of Hollywood: The Best of Williams and Zimmer, 7.30.
College, Bay Theatre, Off Piste Theatre in Rank, Dan Gaisford play, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Simon and Garfunkel Through the Years, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Beautiful Crazy – the Luke Combs Collection, 7.30.
Friday 6 February
BATH, Forum, Joe Wicks.
Mission Theatre, Wax Wings Theatre in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), and Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
Chapel Arts, Rea-Loaded, tribute to Chris Rea.
Rondo, Rock the Tots, Family, 11am: Glenn Moore in Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some More, comedy, 7.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, The Bowie Experience.
Pavilion Dance, Rendez-Vous Dance in The Monocle, reimagining 1930s Parisian lesbian nightclub, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Rum Ragged, folk quartet from Newfoundland, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Slapstick Festival Silent Comedy Gala with Ric Wakeman and guest host Stephen Mangan, 7.30: Lantern, Yann Tiersen, post rock and pop.
Alma Tavern, Lucy Pearman in Lunartic, comedy, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Lucy Porter, Let Yourself Go, comedy.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Beautiful Crazy, Luke Combs tribute.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Robin Morgan, Let’s Overshare, comedy, 7.30.
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, The Comedy Store, 7.45.
FROME, Tree House, The Allergies, DJ set.
HIGHCLIFFE, Community Centre, I Swear. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, The Candlelight Theatre Co in A Murder Mystery: Circus of Murder, with dinner, from 6.30.
LANGTON MATRAVERS, Village Hall, VRi, Welsh folk trio, 7.30. AR
POOLE, Lighthouse, Seckou Keita Homeland Band, 7.30: Lucid Cabaret, drag, circus, clowns and more, 8pm: Cinema, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, David Halls and Daphne Moody, The Romantic Violin by Candlelight, 8pm.
Arts Centre, Limehouse Lizzie, greatest hits of Thin Lizzie, 8pm.
City Hall, David Olusoga, History’s Missing Chapters, 7.30.
SHERBORNE, Gransden Hall, girls school, Martin James Bartlett and Mariam Batsashvili, pianos, Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Debussy, Ravel, Lutoslawski, etc, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Anda Union, Mongolian traditional music, 8pm.
MAST, Shear Brass: Celebrating Sir George Shearing.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Four Mothers. MOVIOLA
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Marty Supreme, film, and Sat, and Mon-Thurs, 7.30, Mon mat 2.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Elvis Story – The Story of the King, 7.30: Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club, 7.45.
THEALE, Village Hall, Mr Punch’s Folk Club, open session, 8pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Jim Davidson, Last Man Standing, comedy, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Showaddywaddy.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Uptown Girl, the Billy Joel Collection, 7.30.
Saturday 7 February
BARNSTAPLE, Queen’s Theatre, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, Two Giants of Hollywood: The Best of Williams and Zimmer, 7.30.
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, China Plate in Please Do Not Touch, 7.30: The Egg, Peut-Etre Theatre in The Sleep Show, and Sun, 11.30am and 3pm.
Forum, Laura Newman, ‘Ark At She, comedy.
Chapel Arts, Derick Clapton and the Dynamos, Eric Clapton tribute.
Rondo, Iain Lee, Imposter Syndrome, comedy, 8pm.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Rob Beckett, Giraffe, comedy.
Pavilion Dance, ceilidh with Bristol Ceilidh Quartet and caller Hannah Moore, 7pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Matilda Lloyd, trumpet, and the Goldmund Quartet, Bach, Hayden, Haydn, Viardot, Gershwin, Schubert, etc, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Jane Austen Fan Club, comedy, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Josh Widdicombe, Not My Cup of Tea, comedy, Sun, 7.30: Lantern, Slaptsick Festival, Big Brass Comedy Film Show, 2pm: Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, 4.30: Lee Mack celebrating 20 Years of Not Going Out, 6.30: One Cut of the Dead, 2017 comedy-horror hybrid movie, 9pm.
St George’s, Bristol Classical Players, Simon Callaghan, piano, Beethoven, Power, Mozart, Brahms Symphony No 4, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Instant Wit, improvised comedy, 8pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Legend of Barry White, Let the Music Play with William Hicks.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Amy Mason, Behold!, comedy, 7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral, The Illuminated Orchestra, A Tribute to Hans Zimmer and film favourites.
University Great Hall, Rhod Gilbert and the Giant Graperfuit, comedy, 8pm.
Corn Exchange, Showaddywaddy.
Phoenix, This is Ska.
FAWLEY, Jubilee Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
FROME, Merlin, John Hegley, New and Selected Potatoes, comedy, 7.30.
Cheese and Grain, Barrioke, Shaun Williamson’s Feelgood Farewell Karaoke Party, 7pm.
Tree House, A Day to Remember UK, tribute.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Alice Armstrong, singer songwriter, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Third Class – A Titanic Story, with writer Russell Lucas, 8pm: Cinema, Where the Wild Things Are (2009) 11.30am.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Will Adamsdale AI, AI, Oh …. (or How I Wrote a Hit Sitcom with ChatGPT, but we’re not talking now), comedy, 7.30.
City Hall, Hamza Yassim, My Life Behind the Lens, 2pm and 6pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, The Production Garden in The Parody of the Rings, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Chinese New Year (Year of the Horse) celebration gala, 4.30pm.
MAST, Queenz Drag Me to the Disco.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Ben Poole Band, 8pm.
STURMINSTER MARSHALL, Memorial Hall, VRi, Welsh folk trio, 7.30. AR
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, A Night of Blues and Boogie, 7.30: Tarren, new folk, 7.45.
WELLS, Cathedral, Cathedral Choristers, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, 1pm.
Cathedral School Cedars Hall, Nurry Lee, piano, 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Let’s Dance Performing Arts School, Inspirations, showcase, 7pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, P*ssed Up Panto in Cinderella, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Al Murray – All You Need is Guv, comedy, 3.30 and 7.30.
Sunday 8 February
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Varna International Ballet, Swan Lake, 2 and 5.30: Ballroom, Mike Osman’s Jethro, tribute to Cornish comedian.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Anda Union, Mongolian folk singers and musicians, 7.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Adam Hills, Rediscovering Laurel and Hardy, noon: Seriously Silly, A Celebration of Terry Jones, with historian Robert Ross, 1.30: The Thick of It: Politics, Power and Profanity, with Armando Iannucci, Chris Addison and more, 3pm: Armando Iannucci, Speaking Truth to Power, 5.30: Adam Hills and Mike McCartney, Show and Tell, spontaneous comedy, 7pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Amy Annette, Busy Body, comedy,7pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Jelli Fest, local bands raising money for brain tumour support.
BURTON BRADSTOCK, Village Hall, VRi, Welsh folk trio, 3pm. AR
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Amageddon, 1998 film, 7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral, Tim Mirfin, The Opera Singer Phenomenon.
Northcott, Moonstone Theatre in Murder Mystery Dining: Tragedy at the Afternoon Tea Party, 3pm.
FROME, Merlin,The Animal Guyz with Amazing Animals, 11am and 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Spiers and Boden, folk, 3pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, ET: The Extra Terrestrial, 1982 film, 11am: Tribute to The Carpenters, with Sally Creedon, 7.30.
WOOKEY HOLE, Village Hall, The Life of Chuck. MOVIOLA
YEOVIL, Westlands, Hamza Yassin – My Life Behind the Lens, 2 and 6pm.
Monday 9 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Lisa Rose in Two Small to Tell, memories of working for Harvey Weinstein, and Tues, 7.30.
BEAMINSTER, Public Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Wolf Works, screened from the Royal Ballet, 7pm.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Paula Varjack and Co in Nine Sixteenths, and Tues.
Beacon, Lantern, Anda Union, Mongolian folk.
CHILTHORNE DOMER, Village Hall, Four Mothers. MOVIOLA
Phoenix, Rum Jungle,
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Woolf Works, screened from the Royal Ballet, 7.15pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rock the Tots, Family, 11am.
HONITON, Beehive, Woolf Works, screened from the Royal Ballet, 7.15pm.
ODCOMBE, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, 2:22 A Ghost Story, to Sat.
SHREWTON, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
STREET, Strode Theatre, Woolf Works, live from the Royal Ballet, 7.15.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Wake Up Dead Man, film, 11am.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, 28 Years Later – The Bone Temple, film, 1 and 7pm, Tues 4pm, Thurs 7pm: H Is For Hawk, 4pm and Thurs 12.30pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Nuremburg, film, and Tues/Thurs 7.30, Thurs mat 2.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Nuremberg, film, 11am, 2.30 and 7pm, and Tues 11am, and Wed 3 and 7pm.
Tuesday 1o February
BATH, Theatre Royal, Stoppard’s Indian Ink, with Felicity Kendal, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30: The Egg, New International Encounter in Hamlet: Shakespeare in a Suitcase, and Wed, 10am and 1pm.
Forum, West Wilts Dance Festival, to Thurs.
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club Jameson Road, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, to Sat.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Batman (1989 film) in concert, 7.30: Lantern, The Ayoub Sister, Scottish-Egyptian musicians and composers, 8pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Luke Wright, Later Life Letter, performance poetry, to Thurs, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Act V Theatre, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and Wed, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Love + War, documentary film, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Motionhouse in Hidden, contemporary dance, and Wed, 7.30.
Phoenix, Ash.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Will Adamsdale AI, AI, Oh …. (or How I Wrote a Hit Sitcom with ChatGPT, but we’re not talking now), comedy, 7.45.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Cinema, Woolf Works from the Royal Ballet, 7pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, White Bird: A Wonder Story, film, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Theatre Voliere in Shed.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, The Pent Up House Trio, jazz, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Choose George – celebrating George Michael, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Saipan, football film, 1 and 7pm.
WINSFORD, Village Hall, Ocean. MOVIOLA
YEOVIL, Westlands, Hamlet, NT Screening, 2.30 and 7pm.
Wednesday 11 February
BATH, Chapel Arts, Svavar Knutur, Icelanding troubadour and storyteller.
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, James Arthur, The Pisces World Tour.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Woolf Works from the Royal Ballet, screening, 7.15
BRANSGORE, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
BRISTOL, Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Improv triple bill.
CHARLTON MARSHALL, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
CHILD OKEFORD, Village Hall, BSO Teatime Trio, cake concert, 11am. AR
EXETER, Corn Exchange, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme, and Thurs, blue programme.
Barnfield Theatre, Neil Brand, celebrating 100 years of Laurel and Hardy, film, music, etc, 7.45.
FROME, Merlin, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, documentary, Frome Film Club, 8pm.
KILMINGTON, Devon, Community Cinema, The Roses. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Karabits, Alim Beisembayev, piano, Shostakovich, 7.30: Glorious with Wendy Peters as Florence Foster Jenkins, to Sat, 7.45, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Garth Marenghi in This Bursted Earth Book Tour, horror fiction, and Thurs.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, SNADS in Mother Goose, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Comedy Club with John Meagher, Sally-Anne Hayward and Bobby Mair, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Woolf Works from the Royal Ballet, 7.15
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Shakespeare by the Sea, local schools performing Shakespeare, from 6.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Irish House Party, traditional songs, music and dance from Dublin.
WOOKEY, nr Wells, Pheasant Inn, Mr Punch’s folk, 8pm.
Thursday 12 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Life Before You, to Sat, 7.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Thank You for the Music, ABBA tribute.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Buster Keaton’s 1924 Sherlock Jr. with soundtrack by REM, 7.30.
Arts Centre, In The Mood for Love, film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Laughter Lines with Jeff Innocent, Scott Bennett, Jack Campbell and Dani Johns, AGE UK fundraiser, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Sam Crockatt Quartet, jazz.
The Station, Silver Street, BOVTS in Twelfth Night and Macbeth, and Fri, 7pm, Sat 2 and 7pm.
Redgrave Theatre,The Last Baguette in Playtime!, The Enchanted Forest, 10am and 11.30am.
Alma Tavern, Gearoid Farrelly in Gearoid Rage, comedy, 7.30.
BRUTON, At the Chapel, My Nights in the Museum, illustrated talk by film maker Ali Ray, 7pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Frozen Light in The Ancient Oak of Baldor, multi sensory theatre for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities and their companions, and Fri, 11am and 1.30pm.
DONHEAD ST MARY, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
EXETER, University Great Hall, BSO, cond Karabits, Alim Beisembayev, piano, Shostakovich, 7.30.
Northcott, Peter Bleksley, The Undercover Detective, The Makings of a Murderer, 7.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Doors – An Evening in Laurel Canyon.
HONITON, Beehive, OperaGlass, La Traviata, film, 2 and 7pm.
NETHER WALLOP, Village Hall, Four Mothers. MOVIOLA
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Deliso Chaponda, Topical Storm, comedy, 7.30.
PEWSEY, Bouverie Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, PCK Dance in Into the Light, and Fri.
POOLE,Lighthouse, Emmanuel Sonubi, Life After Near Death, comedy, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Limehouse Lizzie – The Greatest Hits of Thin Lizzie, 8pm.
WELLS, Cathedral School Cedars Hall, Imogen Cooper, piano, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, 7pm.
WOOTTON FITZPAINE, Village Hall, Spitz & Co in The Spy Who Loved Me Tender, 7.30. AR
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, The Fifth Step, NT Screening, 7pm.
Westlands, Clash of the Titans, snooker greats Ken Doherty, Shaun Murphy and Dennis Taylor, 7.30.
Friday 13 February
BATH, Mission Theatre, Bristol Ensemble, Paris by Night, candlelit music, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, Mississippi MacDonald Band, blues.
Rondo, Sally-Anne Hayward in Older, Bolder, comedy, 8pm.
Komedia, The Beat featuring Ranking Junior.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Cirque Enchantment.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Andy Zaltzman, The Zaltgeist 2026 – A Second Thwack, comedy, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Daniel Lebhardt, piano, 11.30: Ed Tripp, comedy, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Redgrave Theatre, Jack Rhodes in Part Time Wizard, Full Time Moron, comedy and magic, 7.30.
Wardrobe Theatre, The Shade Pullers and Lash Stackers Social Club, drag, and Sat, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Russell Hicks, This Time It’s Personal, comedy.
Alma Tavern, Patrick Monahan, The Good, The Pat, and the Ugly, comedy, 7.30.
CHARD, Guildhall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
CHETNOLE, Village Hall, Luke Wright, Later Life Letter, performance poetry, 7.30. AR
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Red Sky July, alt folk and Americana, 8pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Alex McAleer, mind reader and comedian, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Lost in Music, One Night at the Disco, 8pm.
Cygnet Theatre, Rowan Stuart, singer songwriter from South Africa.
FROME, Merlin, AI, AI, OH … (or how I wrote a hit sitcom with ChatGPT but we’re not talking now), comedy, 7.30.
HONITON, Beehive, Fackham Hall, film, 2 and 7.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Daniel Lebhardt, piano, 7.30.
MARNHULL, Village Hall, Spitz & Co in The Spy Who Loved Me Tender, 7.30. AR
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Filkin’s Drift, contemporary folk, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Studio Jazz with Gary Crosby and Denys Baptiste, A Love Supreme, tribute to John Coltrane, 7.45.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Glenn Moore, Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some More, comedy, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Artistic Temperements Keyboard Festivial, concerts and a chance to play historic keyboard instruments, to Sun: UOS music students, Beethoven at Home, FREE 1pm: Jacqueline Ross, violin, and Artem Belogurov, piano, Beethoven and Schubert, 7.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Jazz in the Showbar, Julie Lewis and Ian Ellis, jazz, 7.30: Labyrinth, 40th anniversary of David Bowie film, to Thurs, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Hundred Watt Club – burlesque and cabaret, 7.30: Edy Hurst’s Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself, comedy, 8pm.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, The Dhol Foundation, world music.
TINCLETON, Gallery, Amber Emson, violin, and Milda Daunoraite, piano, Clara Schumann, Elgar, de Falla, Richard Strauss and Lily Boulenger, and Sat, 8pm.
WATCHET, Community Cinema, I Swear. MOVIOLA
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Bon Jovi Forever, tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Luther UK- The Ultimate Luther Vandross Experience.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, with Peter Andre, 8pm.
Saturday 14 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Little Angel in We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, to Wed, various day times.
Forum, Mumford and Sons.
Rondo, Quentin Crisp: Naked Pope, written and performed by Mark Farrelly, 8pm.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion Dance, Ceyda Tanc Dance in Evim (My Home), 11am, 1.30 and 3.30pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Music in the Round: The Storm Whale, by Paul Rissmann, BoA children’s composer in residence, 2pm: Music in the Round, Chris Addison’s Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music, comedy and music, 7.30.
BRIANTSPUDDLE, Village Hall, Spitz & Co in The Spy Who Loved Me Tender, 7.30. AR
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Oh What A Night, Frankie Vallo and the Four Seasons tribute, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, One Day Festival of Music on Film : The Last Waltz, 11am: Stop Making Sense, 2pm: Summer of Soul, 5pm: Monterey Pop, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, The Czech Janacek Philharmonic, cond Daniel Raiskin, Jennifer Pike, violin, Janacek, Bruch, Dvorak, 7pm: Lantern, Sally-Anne Hayward, Older! Bolder!, comedy, 8.30.
St George’s, Bristol Ensemble, Queen’s Valentine’s Night special, celebration of the band, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Wonders of our Universe with astrophysicist Ian Hall, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Ania Magliano, Peach Fuzz, comedy, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Daniel Lebhardt, piano, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Schoolhouse in The Compete Works of Jane Austen Abridged, 7.30.
EXETER, Phoenix, Spork! poetry and comedy.
Cygnet Theatre, La Vie en Rose, gypsy favourites.
Northcott, The Band of His Majesty’s Royal Marines Commando Training Centre, 7.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, A Band Called Malice and The Specialsed.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Patti Boulaye, Here I Am, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Enyi Okpara, Thomas Luke, piano, Smooth Valentine Classics, inc Moricone, Ravel, Wagner, Williams, Mozart etc, 7pm: Coastal Comedy with Jonny Awsom, Fiona Allen, Johnny Wardlow and Adrienne Coles, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, Johns’ Boys, Welsh male voice choir, tenth anniversary concert, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, The Glamorgan Duo, Tabitha Selley, cello and Cheryl Tan, piano, Overlooked Female Composers, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Joshua Burnell, singer songwriter, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, The Spongebob Movie – Search for Squarepants, film, to Thurs, 2.30pm: Luke Wright, Later Life Letter, performance poetry, 7.30. AR
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Tall Stories in The Gruffalo’s Child, 1.30 and 4pm, and Sun, 11am and 2pm.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Ultimate Coldplay, tribute, 8pm.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, pop up participatory circus extravaganza, 11.30am and 1.30pm.
WELLS, Cathedral, Collabro, Harmonies, 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Stitch Head, animated film, to Wed, various day times.
WIMBORNE,Tivoli, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Radio Ga Ga, Queen tribute, 7.30.
Sunday 15 February
BATH, Komedia, Joshua Burnell, singer songwriter, 2pm: Beth Orton, singer songwriter, 7.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society, The Kyan String Quartet, Debussey, Berg, Beethoven, 3pm.
BIC, Nashville, The Encore Tour, with Jonathan Jackson, Sam Palladio, Charles Esten and Clare Bowen.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Brighouse and Rastrick Band, 3pm.
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, Filkin’s Drift, new folk, 7.30.
McMillan Theatre, Hamlet, NT Screening, 2pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Wolf Works, screened live from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.
BRISTOL, Redgrave Theatre,comedy and reggae evening with The Marley Experience, etc, 7pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Eryn McDonald, poetry, new book Friezewood, 7pm.
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, Front Room WSM in Yara in the Wild Wood, 2pm. AR
EXETER, Phoenix, Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball, founding members of Gomez.
FROME, Merlin, Wolf Works, screened live from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.
IBBERTON, Village Hall, Luke Wright, Later Life Letter, performance poetry, 7.30. AR
POOLE, Lighthouse, Zildjian, Young Drummer of the Year, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, UOS music students, Dickens Songs and Musical Portraits, noon: Come and Sing The Village Coquettes, Charles Dickens’s only opera, 4pm.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, Comedy Club with Hal Cruttenden, Paul McCaffrey, Eshaan Akbar and Rich Wilson, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Sweet and Sour, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo tribute, 6pm.
Monday 16 February
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, 13 Again: Live, comedy, 7pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Exciting Science, 11am and 2pm: James Phelan, The Man Who Was Magic, to Wed, 7.30.
Wardrobe Theatre, Tiny Planet, puppetry, folk music, 1 and 4pm, and Tues 11am and 2pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Saaniya Abbas, Hellarious, comedy.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Savages, animated film, 11am: Exhibition on Screen, Caravaggio, 7pm.
EXETER, Phoenix, Gaby Gulliver’s Travels, shadow puppetry, 11.30am and 2pm.
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Outlying Islands, to Sat.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Hannah Williams and the Affirmations, soul and jazz, 1pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Hamnet, film, 11am and 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Escapes: Waste Man (a bold new vision of life inside) film, free, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Fackham Hall, film, and Tues, 7.30, Wed mat 2.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Zootropolis 2, film, and Tues, 11am and 2.30pm: Hamnet, film, and Tues, 7pm, and 23/24 Feb 11am, 2.230 and 7pm.
Tuesday 17 February
BATH, Forum, Suede.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, Cardboard Adventures in Boxville, puppetry and storytelling, to Sat, day times.
Redgrave Theatre, The Three Billygoats Gruff, and Wed, 11.30am, Tues mat 2pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, film, 11am and 7.30pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Richard Welsh, The WOW Bubble Show, 11am.
EXETER, Northcott, Little Seeds Music in Cinderella, Ice Cream Seller, new musical, and Wed, 11am and 2pm.
Barnfield Theatre, LiveWire in Our Little Hour, new musical about Walter Tull, and Wed, 7.45.
HINTON MARTEL, Village Hall, Front Room WSM in Yara in the Wild Wood, 11am. AR
HONITON, Beehive, Honiton Community Theatre in Treasure Island, to Sat, 7, Sat mat 2pm.
LEIGH, nr Sherborne, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Miss Saigon, to 28 Feb.
POOLE, Lighthouse, New to Makin’ Projects in Out of the Box, non verbal family friendly circus comedy, and Wed, 11am and 2pm: The Woman in Black, to Sat, 7.45, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, film, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Dance Consortium, in MAM, Irish myth, magic and music, and Wed.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Irish House Party, traditional songs, music and dance from Dublin.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Tap Factory, dance, percussion and acrobatics, 7.30.
Wednesday 18 February
BATH, Komedia, Maddie Grace Jepson, comedy, 8pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Kyan Quartet, Dutilleux and Mendelssohn, 12.30pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Hoglets Theatre in The Tale of the Loneliest Whale, performance and puppet workshop, 1pm.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Wild Words, myths and legends from the beginning of time, with storyteller Michael Loader and multi-instrumentalist Martin Solomon, 3.15pm: Amber Run, rock, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Lizzie Bean, Phuckets and Rainbows, comedy, 8pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, White Noise Theatre in Squidge, new play by Tibby Bayley, 7.30.
Strange Brew, NoSo, Korean-American singer songwriter.
CERNE ABBAS, St Mary’s Church, Front Room WSM in Yara in the Wild Wood, 2pm. AR
CHILD OKEFORD, Village Hall, Coppice Theatre in How to Catch a Book Witch, 11am. Book Witch puppet workshops, noon. AR
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Daniel Hart, pianist from Cuba, 1pm: Julian Carosi, 38 Famous People of Corsham, fund raiser for Pound Arts Trust, 7pm.
EXETER, Phoenix, Omar Perry, Tribute to his father reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry.
ILMINSTER, Warehouse, IES in Three One-Act Plays – An Actor’s Nightmare, The Promise and Knockin’ On Dave’s Door, to Sat, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Classic Rock Show, 7.30: Cinema, Future TX, 11.30am.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, The WOW Bubble Show, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Peppa Pig’s Big Family Show, to Sat.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Totally Tina, with Justine Riddoch, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, The Marching Band, 7.30.
Thursday 19 February
BATH, various venues, Bach Fest, to Sun.
Forum, Disney in Concert: The Sound of Magic, music, animation and memories.
Chapel Arts, Ian Prouse and The Fiddle of Fire, guitarist and singer songwriter.
Komedia, Tom Lucy, Golden Boy, comedy.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Swish of the Curtain, We Will Rock You – the Musical, to Sat, 2 and 7.30pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Spongebob Movie: Search for Squarepants, 11am: Hamnet, film, 7.30, and 25 Feb 2 and 7.30.
Arts Centre, Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Macbeth, to 28 March.
The Station, Silver Street, BOVTS in Othello and The Tempest, to Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
Beacon, Lantern, Funky Family Gig, 10.30am and noon.
St George’s, Charlotte Spruit, violin, Angus Webster, piano, Brahms, Debussy, Ades, 1pm.
Exchange, Omar Perry and ERM, reggae, 7.30
Folk House, The Poor Box Brothers, blues, 7pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Desiree Burch, The Golden Wrath, storytelling and comedy, 7.30
Redgrave Theatre, Frozen (film) singalong, 10am and 1pm.
Alma Tavern, Robert Lloyd Parry in Not Truly Dead: Three Ghost Stories by MR James, and Fri, 8pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, My Girl The River and Serious Child, Americana and folk: Joe Bradford Quintet, jazz.
BRUTON, At the Chapel, Breaking Waves, wild swimmer Emma Simpson talks about her memoir, 7pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Last Baguette in Enchanted Forest, adventures for 2 to 6 year olds, 10am and 11.30am.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Charlie Connelly, Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast, 7.30.
EXETER, University Great Hall, Mogwai, Scottish quartet.
Northcott, The Fifth Step, NT Screening, 7pm.
FAREHAM, Fareham Live, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, Two Giants of Hollywood: The Best of Williams and Zimmer, 7.30.
HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
HORTON, nr Ilminster, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
ILMINSTER, Warehouse Theatre, Knockin’ on Heavens Door, to Sat.
LITTON CHENEY, Village Hall, Coppice Theatre in How to Catch a Book Witch, 10.30am. Book Witch puppet workshops, 11.30am. AR
NORTH CURRY, Parish Church, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30. TA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Toby Thompson in The Little Prince, to Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Multi Story in Last Dance Saloon, 2 and 8pm: Cinema, Casablanca, 1942, dementia friendly screening, 2pm.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Practically Perfect Pictures in Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure, 2 and 4pm, and Fri 11am and 2pm.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, Out of the Box, comedy and circus show, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Jasmine Myra, saxphone flute and composition, jazz, 8pm.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, Exchange, Angel Heart and Rattlebox in The Misadventures of Thor, 10.30am. AR: The Roses, film, 7pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Dazzling Diamonds, drag show, 7.30.
WESTON SUPER MARE, Playhouse, The Irish House Party, traditional songs, music and dance from Dublin.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Dino Tales – Jurassic Rescue, 2.30: It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, documentary film, 7pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Wimborne Drama in Von Ribbentrop’s Watch, black comedy by Laurence Marks and Morris Gran, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Friday 20 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, What the Dickens?, talk about Dickens and David Copperfield, noon: David Copperfield: A Life, new community play, to Sun, 7pm, Sat/Sun mats 2pm.
Chapel Arts, Around About Dusk, New Orleans jazz and blues, European folk roots, etc.
Rondo, Mr Split, comedy cabaret with Jonathan Orchard, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Somerstage Musical Theatre showcase, and Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Unravelling Wilburys, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Westerman, Indian folk, 7.30.
St George’s, Lisa O’Neill, Irish folk, 8pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Robin Morgan, Let’s Overshare, comedy.
Wardrobe Theatre, Send in the Clowns in Unpopular! celebrating the magic and madness of musical theatre, and Sat 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, The Dazzling Diamonds, comedy drag, 7.30.
BROADWINDSOR, Village Hall, Angel Heart and Rattlebox in The Misadventures of Thor, 2pm. AR
CHEDDON AND WEST MONKTON, Village Hall, The Ballad of Wallis Island. MOVIOLA
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, West End Tenors, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Jane Austen Fan Club with Victoria Briggs and Lucy Mellors, comedy, dancing etc, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, Film Crew, Late Shift.
DITCHEAT, Jubilee Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, A Head Full of Coldplay.
EDINGTON, Somerset, Village Hall, The Ballad of Wallis Island. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Northcott, Vittorio Angelone, You Can’t Say Nothing Any More, comedy, 7.30.
Cygnet Theatre, Across the Square, 7.30.
Phoenix, Crowbar, heavy rock from New Orleans swamps.
FROGHAM, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Coldplace, tribute.
NORTON SUB HAMDON, Village Hall, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30. TA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Youth Makes Music, with Salvation Army Territorial Youth Band and Choir, 7pm: Coastal Comedy Club with Roger Monkhouse, Matt Richardson, Biswas and Adrienne Coles, 8pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Bluey’s Big Play, and Sat.
Turner Sims, Spring Festival, UOS postgrad students, various works including Chinese art songs, 1pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
SWANAGE, Mowlem, H is for Hawk, film, and Sat/Mon, 7.30.
WAREHAM, Pine Martin Grange, BSO Teatime Trio, cake concert, 11am. AR
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Barry Steele’s Roy Orbison Story – The Platinum Years, 7.30.
WINTERSLOW, Village Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
YEOVIL, Westlands, Emilio Santoro as Elvis, 7.30.
Saturday 21 February
BATH, Forum, Sweet and Sour, tribute to Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo.
Chapel Arts, Phoenix River Band, country rock, soft rock, blues, etc.
Rondo, The Magnificent AKs, comedy choir, 7.30.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Adrian Cox Trio, New Orleans jazz, 7.30.
Trinity Hall, All Floyd, tribute, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Bridget Christie, Jacket Potato Pizza, comedy, 7.30.
Arts Centre, Laurence Jones, guitar, On My Own, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Of Monsters and Men, indie rock: Lantern, Ali Woods, Basher, comedy, 8pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Watershed in Julia Donaldson’s The Singing Mermaid, 2 and 4pm, and Sun 10.30am and 12.30pm: Comedy Store, 8pm.
Alma Tavern, Ian Smith in Foot Spa Half Empty, 4 and 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Little Seeds Music in Tales from the Lighthouse, traditional music, songs and puppetry, 11am and 2pm: Jessie Reid, indie folk, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Noise Next Door, improv, 7.30.
EAST QUANTOXHEAD, Village Hall, Moscow Drug Club, 8pm. TA
EXETER, Cathedral, Exeter Recorder Orchestra, lunchtime concert.
Cygnet Theatre, The Louis and Ella Music Show.
The Mint, Exeter History Book Festival.
Phoenix, Fabio and Grooverider, drum n bass.
Barnfield Theatre, Life Before You, new play by Eva Hudson, 7.45.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Dave Pearce, dance anthems.
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, The Laurel Canyon Experience, with The DiElle Trio.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Celtic Illusion, Irish dance and illusion show, 7.30: Scarlett Smith in Any Objections, harp and comedy, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, The Jane Austen Fan Club, 7.30.
SIXPENNY HANDLEY, Village Hall, Angel Heart and Rattlebox in The Misadventures of Thor, 11am. AR
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, SU Jazz Band 10th anniversary concert, 6.30pm
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, SykesMartin, Miranda and Hannah, folk duo, 8pm.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, The Bootleg Shadows, 7.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Jazz in the Showbar, J Fashole-Luke Trio, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show, 2.30pm.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, Masqueraders in Shirley Valentine, 2.30 and 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Queen’s Greatest Hits with The Bohemians, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, BSO On Your Doorstep – Curious Creatures and the Natural World, inc music by Elgar, Bjork, Vaughan-Williams, Mancini etc, 2pm.
Sunday 22 February
ANSFORD, Caryford Hall, Village Hall, Moscow Drug Club, 4pm. TA
BATH, Komedia, Jimeoin, Pandemonium, comedy.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Mogwai, indie rock: Lantern, Five Way Split, jazz, 8pm.
St George’s, MiniBeats, Wonderful Woodwind with presenter Laura Tanner, music and storytelling, 10.30am and 12.30pm.
Folk House, Baz Warne, (ex The Stranglers), music and storytelling.
Wardrobe Theatre, Lily Phillips, Crying, comedy, 7pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of The Shipping Forecast with Charlie Connelly, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, The Simon and Garfunkel Story.
Turner Sims, Fretwork, Celebrating John Dowland at 400, 7.30.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, Exchange, The Ridgeway Singers and Band, Tea with William Barnes, 3pm. AR
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, The Unicorn Live, pop and musical theatre songs, 1 and 4pm.
Monday 23 February
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Amy Mason, Behold!, comedy, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Jalan Kita, a Malaysian-Singaporean night production, songs, stories and dance, and Tues, 7.15.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Peter Case and Sid Griffin, American songwriters.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, HiJinx Theatre in Meet Fred, and Tues.
SALISBURY, City Hall, The Classic Rock Show, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Marty Supreme, film, 11am: Vincent Simone, Tango Passions, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Hamnet, film, 7.30, Tues mat 2.30.
Tuesday 24 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, to Sat. SOLD OUT: Ustinov Studio, Crick Crack Club in Orpheus Dismembered, and Wed, 7.30.
Forum, Michael Portillo, A Life of Two Halves.
Komedia, John Kearns, Tilting at Windmills, comedy.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Romeo and Juliet, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Andy Zaltzman, The Zaltgeist – A Second Thwack, comedy, 7.30: Weston Studio, The Last Picture, to Sat, various times.
Beacon, Ocean (Attenborough film) with Welsh National Opera orchestra cond Robert Ziegler, 7.30.
St George’s, Max Balegde and George Clark, The Useless Hotline, hit podcast on tour, 8pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Creepy Boys in Slugs, techno-punk clowns, to Thurs, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Stand by Me, film, Steven King season.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, local poet Joel Conrad, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Across the Square, play about Lady Ottoline Morrell and the Suffragettes, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Jimeoin, Pandemonium, comedy, 7.30.
FROME, Tree House, Chloe Foy, singer songwriter.
POOLE,Lighthouse, Lisa O’Neill, folk, 7.45.
SHAFTESBURY, Arts Centre, The Boat that Rocked, film, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Legally Blonde, the Musical, with Amber Davies, to Sat.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Simon Evans, Staring at the Sun, comedy, 7.30.
Wednesday 25 February
ANSFORD, Caryford Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
BATH, Forum, The Undercover Detective, The Makings of a Murderer.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Film Club, Set the Piano Stool on Fire, documentary about Alfred Brendel, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, John Kearns, Tiltling at Windmills, comedy, 7.30.
Beacon, Talking Sopranos with Steve Schirripa, Michael Imperioli and Joey Kola, comedy, 7.30: Lantern, Eydis Evensen, Icelandic pianist and composer, 7.30.
St George’s, An Evening with Alex O’Connor, host of Within Reason podcast, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Leo Houlding, Exposed, mountaineering memories and film, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Tales from the Wasteland, post-apocalyptic improvised comedy.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Bugonia, film, 7.30.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
EXETER, University Great Hall, Mo Gilligan, The Mo You Know, comedy, 8pm.
Northcott, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club: The Soho Songbook, 7.30.
Phoenix, Mapdance, contemporary dance showcase.
MILBORNE ST ANDREW, Village Hall, BSO Teatime Trio, cake concert, 11am. AR
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Clara-Jumi Kang, violin, Beethoven and Elgar, 7.30: Jimeoiwn, Pandemonium, comedy, 7.45.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Swanage School tenth anniversary production, to Sat, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Wonder of Stevie, tribute, 7.30.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, The Ballad of Wallis Island, film, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Coleen Nolan, This is Me, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Marty Supreme, film, 3 and 7pm, and Thurs 11am, 2.30 and 7pm.
Thursday 26 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Daryl & Co in A Square World, and Fri, 10am and 1pm, Sat/Sun 11.30am and 3pm.
Forum, Russell Howard, Don’t Tell the Algorithm, comedy.
Mission Theatre, Bath University Student Theatre in Blue Stockings, by Jessica Swale, to Sat, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, SykesMartin, (Miranda and Hannah), folk duo.
Komedia, Mark Watson, Before It Overtakes Us, comedy.
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, The Kaiser Chiefs.
Pavilion, The Ultimate Boy Band Party Show.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Justin Moorhouse, The Greatest Performance of My Life, comedy, 7,.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Bad Manners 50th anniversary tour, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Clara-Jumi Kang, violin, Beethoven and Elgar, 7pm.
St George’s, Jonathan Rees, cello, and Helen Reid, piano, As Deep as the Sea, Nadia Boulenger: A Musical Portrait, 1pm: Polar Bear’s Seb Rochford, Finding Ways, with Adrian Utley, jazz, 8pm.
Old Vic, Mike Wozniak, The Bench, comedy, to Sat, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, The Audience, NT Screening of 2013 West End hit with Helen Mirren, 7pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Melanie Bracewell, A Little Treat, New Zealand comedy.
Alma Tavern, John Tothill, This Must Be Heaven, comedy, 7.30: Gideon Tazelaar, tenor sax and the Arnie Somogye Quintet, jazz.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Story of Swing, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Choral, film, 11am and 7.30pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Mike Denham Speakeasy with jazz violinist Emma Fisk, 7.30.
EXETER, University Great Hall, The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30.
Northcott, John Kearns, Tilting at Windmills, comedy, 7.30.
Barnfield Theatre, Leo Houlding, Exposed, mountaineering memories, 7.45.
FROME, Merlin, The Audience, NT Screening of 2013 West End hit with Helen Mirren, 7pm.
Cheese and Grain, Jason Manford, A Manford All Seasons, comedy, 6.30 and 8.30.
HONITON, Beehive, The Time Machine, 1960 film, 2pm: Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, recorded in 2013, 7pm.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Life Before You, new play by Eva Hudson, to Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Nick Harper, singer songwriter, 7pm: The Band of His Majesty’s Royal Marines, 7.30: Cinema, Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, 2013 West End, NT Screening, 7pm, and Sat.
PORTSMOUTH, New Theatre Royal, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Susannah Ruth sings the Greatest Lovesongs, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Martin and Eliza Carthy, folk, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Roving Crows, Irish folk rock.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Burlesque Cabaret, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Wonder of Stevie, tribute, 7.30.
Friday 27 February
AXBRIDGE, Town Hall, Just Some Theatre in Eyes Down, bingo comedy, 7.30. AR
BARNSTAPLE, Queens Theatre, The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30.
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Box Tale Soup in 1984, and Sat, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, Taff Rapids, bluegrass from Wales.
Rondo, Francis Dunnery, England’s Tales of the Council House Kid, storytelling, comedy, etc, 7.30.
BISHOPSTONE, nr Salisbury, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, The Rolling Stones Story.
Pavilion Dance, Divija Melally and Saili Katebi in One Foot in the Dark, dance double bill, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Matt Forde, Defying Calamity, comedy, 8pm.
Arts Centre, Encore in The 39 Steps, and Sat, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Mo Gilligan, The Mo You Know, comedy, 8pm: Lantern, Courtney Marie Andrews, Americana, 8pm.
St George’s, Pavel Haas Quartet, with Dana Zemtsov, viola, Suk, Beethoven, Dvorak, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Kettle of Fish, Bristol acappella group, 8pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Schalk Bezuidenhout, Hey, Hey, Divorce, comedy.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Leo Houlding, Exposed, mountaineering memories.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rob Auton, Can, comedy and storytelling, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Game of Crones, feminist comedy, 7.30.
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Cathedral, Music of Queen by Candlelight.
Northcott, The Wonder of Stevie, tribute, 8pm.
Cygnet Theatre, A Knight of Terror.
Corn Exchange, Comedy Club.
Phoenix, Kesia Gill.
FROME, Merlin, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
Memorial Theatre, The Mersey Beatles.
Cheese and Grain, Bootleg Blondie.
HONITON, Beehive, Cole Stacey, folk blues, Postcards from Lost Places, 7.30.
MERE, Lecture Hall, The Ballad of Wallis Island. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Tom Davis, Spud Gun, comedy, and Sat, 7.45: Studio Jazz, Sound of Bluenote, featuring guitarist Nigel Price, 7.45.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Jazz Social with The Terry Hill Ensemble, 2.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Tim Garland, saxophone, and Geoffrey Keyser, piano, jazz, 8pm.
TAUNTON, Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Pete Firman, Tricks and Giggles, magic and comedy, 7.30.
WATCHET, Community Cinema, Four Mothers. MOVIOLA
WESTBURY SUB MENDIP, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, From Gold to Rio, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran tribute.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Man in the Mirror, Michael Jackson tribute, 7.30.
Saturday 28 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Box Clever in Macbeth, and Sun 11.30am and 3pm, Mon 10am and 1pm.
Forum, Tom Gates’ Epic Stage Show, 12.30pm: The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, Year of the Dog, brass house soul.
Rondo, Pete Firman, Tricks and Giggles, comedy and magic, 7.30.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, Russell Howard, Don’t Tell the Algorithm, comedy.
Pavilion, Stagecoach Charity Gala, 6pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Gesualdo Six and Josephine Knight, cello, Nachtmusik, inc Dowland, Monteverdi, Brahms, etc, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Purple Zeppelin, The Ultimate Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin tribute, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Audience (2013), with Helen Mirren, NT Screening, 7pm, and 12 March, 2pm.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Exultate Singers and Bristol Ensemble Baroque, Bach St Matthew Passion, 7pm.
Beacon, Vittorio Angeloni, You Can’t Say Nothing Any More, comedy, 7.30: Lantern, Buster Shuffle, ska punk, 8pm.
The Station, Silver Street, BOVTS in Days of Significance – The War Is Out There, The War Is Here, play by Roy Williams, and Mon-Sat, 7pm, Sat 7th mat 2pm.
Folk House, Paul Jones and Dave Kelly, blues.
Wardrobe Theatre, Olaf Falafel’s Stupidist Super Stupid Show, comedy for ages 5+, 3pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Luisa Omielan, God is a Woman: The Musical, comedy, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Kastoff Kinks, tribute, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rachel Newton, Scottish harpist and singer, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Thomas Hardye School Theatre, Beatles Complete, tribute, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Hamlet, NT Screening, 7pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Everything, Everything.
The Tin Church at Brokerswood, Thieves.
HALSTOCK, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Feast of Fiddles, 7.30.
MARTOCK, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Rob Auton, Can, storyteller, poet etc, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Jazz Dynamos with Lucy Randell, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Ruby’s Worry, music, song, puppetry and physical theatre for 3 to 7 year olds, 11am and 2pm.
STALBRIDGE, Village Hall, Just Some Theatre in Eyes Down, 7.30. AR
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Coldplace, tribute, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Lemn Sissay, poet, reading from Let The Light Pour In, 7.30.
WELLS, Cathedral School Cedars Hall, The Event in the Halls, musical extravaganza with food, fundraiser for the Sierra Leone Project Charity, from 5pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Thank You for the Music, ABBA tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Brave Rival, Portsmouth-based Americana band, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Too Much Too Young, the music of 2-tone and beyond, 7.30.
Sunday 1 March
BATH, Komedia, Mike Wozniak, comedy, 3 and 8pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Sweet and Sour, tribute to Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo, 5pm.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Immersion Theatre in Rapunzel, new musical, noon and 4pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Funny Bones, comedy show with Harriet Dyer, Stuart Goldsmith, Toussaint Douglas, Dani Johns and Matt Richardson, in aid of Bristol and Weston Hospitals Charity, 7.30.
Beacon, Jimeoin, Pandemonium, comedy, 7.30: Lantern, Kezia Gill, rock and pop.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Paul Sinha, 2 Sinha Lifetime, comedy.
BUCKLAND NEWTON, Village Hall, Ceyda Tanc Dance in Kizlar, Turkish folk dance, 3.30pm. AR
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, (2013), 2pm and Mon 7.30.
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Exalt in Paint a New World, 2.30 and 7pm.
SIXPENNY HANDLEY, Village Hall, Just Some Theatre in Eyes Down, 7.30. AR
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Queen of the Night, tribute to Whitney Houston.
Turner Sims, Dvorakathon, all nine symphonies in four concerts, in aid of Centre for Cancer Immunology, 11am, 1pm, 4pm and 7.30pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Simeon Walker, pianist and composer, 7.45.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Boyband in the Buff with Gareth Gates, 7.30.
Monday 2 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, Operation Mincemeat – the Musical, to 14 March, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
Forum, Diversity, dance, and Tues.
HAWKCHURCH, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Song Sung Blue, film, and Tues, 7.30, Tues mat 2.30.
Tuesday 3 March
BATH, Komedia, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme, and Wed blue programme, 7.30.
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Giselle, screened from the Royal Ballet, 7.15.
BRISTOL, Wardrobe Theatre, George Attwill, Tales for an Unruly Audience, Myth, Mirth and Magic, and Wed, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, The Rowan Leslie Trio, Irish folk.
Strange Brew, The Wave Pictures, indie rock.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Giselle from the Royal Ballet, 7.15, and Sun 2pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Irvine Welsh, Reality is Not Enough, autobiographical documentary film, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Farnham Maltingss in All For Your Delight, play about entertainers and variety, 7.30.
EXETER, Phoenix, I’m Muslamic, Don’t Panic, with Bobak, comedy: Sarah Yeo, The Music of Joan Baez.
HONITON, Beehive, Giselle from the Royal Ballet, 7.15.
KINGSBURY EPISCOPI, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Dance Consortium in Mam, Irish myth, magic and music, and Wed.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Cinema, Giselle, live from the Royal Ballet, and Sat, 7.15.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Fawlty Towers, the Play, to Sat.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Giselle, live from the Royal Ballet, 7.15.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Showbar, The Pent Up House Trio, jazz, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, recorded in 2013, 2.30 and 7pm.
YETMINSTER, Jubilee Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
Wednesday 4 March
BATH, Rondo, Baby Doomer with Edinburgh comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti, 8pm.
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Othello, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, NT Screening, 7pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Othello, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, NT Screening, 7pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to 21 March, various times.
Redgrave Theatre, Clifton High School in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, to Fri, 7pm.
Alma Tavern, Paul Hilleard, Has It Got Legs?, comedy, 8pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Othello, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, NT Screening, 7.30 and 15 March 2pm.
CHURCHINFORD, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
CODFORD ST PETER, Woolstore Theatre, F1: The Movie. MOVIOLA.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Ad Hoc Theatre in Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound: a comic masterpiece, and Thurs, 7.30.
EXETER, Phoenix, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
Barnfield Theatre, Maynard School in Les Miserables school edition, to Fri, 7pm. Fri mat 1pm.
FROME, Merlin, Othello, NT Screening, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, and 12 March, 7pm.
Cheese and Grain, Prof Alice Roberts, Domination – The Fall and Rise of an Empire, 7pm.
HALSTOCK, Village Hall, Gavin Robertson and Dyad Theatre in General Medical Emergency Ward 10, comedy, 7.30. AR
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Louise Jordan, Behind Enemy Lines, music and storytelling about the women of SOE, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Ed Viney Company in Stolen Ram, and Thurs, 8pm: Cinema, Othello NT Screening, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, 7.15pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Othello, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, NT Screening, and 2nd April, 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Othello, with David Harewood and Toby Jones, NT Screening, 7pm.
WIMBORNE,Tivoli, Saipan, football film, and Thurs, 7.30, Thurs mat 2.30.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Evil Does Not Exist, 7.30.
Thursday 5 March
BATH, Forum, Chris Ramsey, comedy.
Chapel Arts, Steve Knightley, Sanctuary.
Rondo, Katie Norris, Go West, Old Maid, comedy, 8pm.
Komedia, Chesney Hawkes.
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, 2013, screening, 7pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Queenz Drag Me to the Disco.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo, 7.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, James Morely, Australian cellist, Sciarrino, Colombi, Ligeti, Sheldon, Hall, Biber, 1pm: Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, 8pm.
Beacon, Sleaford Mods.
Wardrobe Theatre, Sam Nicoresti, Baby Doomer, comedy, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Title Goes Here, improv comedy, 8pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Bon Jovi Experience, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Sally Flann, cello, Peter Oakes, piano, Ethel Smyth and Frank Bridge cello sonatas, 11.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Andy Fairweather Low and the Low Riders.
HONITON, Beehive, Kitchen Brigade, French film, 2 and 7.30.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Small Town Boy, play about drag artist by Brenda Callis, and Fri.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Mersey Beatles, 7.30: Spiers and Boden, folk, 7.45.
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, BSO, cond Tom Fetherstonhaugh, Plinio Fernandes, guitar, Classic FM Hall of Fame, inc Rossini, Rodrigo, Chabrier, Mussorgsky, Borodin, 7pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Henning Wehn, Acid Wehn, comedy, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Opera Up Close in Gianni Schicchi, or Where There’s a Will, new English version, to Sat.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, BSO Teatime Trio, cake concert, 11am. AR
SYDLING ST NICHOLAS, Village Hall, Gavin Robertson and Dyad Theatre in General Medical Emergency Ward 10, comedy, 7.30. AR
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, 8pm.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, recorded in 2013, 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Forever Clapton, tribute, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Paul Merton and Sukie Webster’s Improv Show, 8pm.
Friday 6 March
BATH, Mission Theatre, Stagecoach Bath in Chicago (teen edition), and Sat, 7.30.
Chapel Arts, The Lost Trades, West Country folk Americana trio.
Rondo, Amy Mason, Behold!, comedy, 7.30.
Komedia, Ultimate R n B.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion Dance, Mapdance in mixed bill, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Josienne Clarke sings Sandy Denny, Across the Evening Sky, 7.30.
BRENTOR, Village Hall, Just Some Theatre in Eyes Down, bingo and murder comedy thriller, 7.30. ViA
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, Fleetwood Mac Songbook, tributes, 7.30.
McMillan Theatre, Made in Tennessee, country music, 7.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Lucy Rose, folk, 7pm.
Beacon, Randy Feltface, Gimmick, comedy: Lantern, John Bramwell, indie rock.
Alma Tavern, Andrew Frost, The Greatest Card Magician in the World, comedy and magic, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Ian Stone is Looking for the Wow, comedy.
Wardrobe Theatre, Pam Anderson Party with Barb Wire, 7pm.
BROADMAYNE, Village Hall, The Mark Harrison Band, blues, roots and folk, 7.30. AR
CHETNOLE, Village Hall, Sarah Hagen, piano, Wonderwomen, female composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, 7.30. AR
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Comedy Store Players, improv, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Hudson and Hudson, Married At First Sleight, magic and comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Ed Viney Company in Stolen Ram, and Sat, 7.30.
EXETER, Corn Exchange, Paul Merton and Sukie Webster’s Improv Show.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Denise van Outen, Songs, Stories and All That Jazz.
HIGHCLIFFE, Community Centre, The Ballad of Wallis Island. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, The Alter Eagles, 7.30.
HULLAVINGTON, Village Hall, Pagoda Project with Karen Wimhurst, clarinets, Hannah Cumming, fiddle and voice, Paul Hutchinson, accordion, new folk and improvisation, 7.30. RAW
LAMYATT, Village Hall, Good Habits, folk duo, 7.30. TA
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Brave Rival and Revenant, blues, 7.30.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, The Carpenters Story.
Quad Theatre, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Best of Tubular Bells I, II and III, with Robin Smith and band, 7.30: Cloudbusting, the music of Kate Bush, 7.45.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, Buxtehude, Membra Jesu Nostri, choral music by candlelight, 8pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
TAUNTON, Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Spring Forward, multi-genre dance showcase by Somerset schools, youth groups, dance schools etc, and Fri 20th 7pm.
TRURO, Hall for Cornwall, BSO, cond Tom Fetherstonhaugh, Plinio Fernandes, guitar, Classic FM Hall of Fame, inc Rossini, Rodrigo, Chabrier, Mussorgsky, Borodin, 7.30pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Big Yellow Tambourine Man Band.
WINTERBORNE STICKLAND, Pamela Hambro Hall, Gavin Robertson and Dyad Theatre in General Medical Emergency Ward 10, comedy, 7.30. AR
YEOVIL, Westlands, Somerset Choirs in A Festival of Song, 7pm.
Saturday 7 March
BALTONSBOROUGH, Village Hall, Good Habits, folk duo, 7.30. TA
BATH, Forum, Bath Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Nights.
Rondo, The Blackheart Orchestra, multi instrumental duo, 7.30.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, The Gypsy Kings.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, IG4, jazz quartet inc Claire Martin and Nikki Iles, jazz classics and the American Songbook, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Daniel O’Reilly, Let’s Have It, comedy, 8pm.
Arts Centre, Sound of the Sirens, female folk duo from Exeter, 8pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Everyman Theatre in Nick Wilkes’ play When Vincent Met John, 7.30.
Electric Palace, Bridport Youth Dance, Revelations and Dance Snippets, 25th anniversary showcase, 2 and 7.30pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Franz Ferdinand: Lantern, Couch, funk and r’n’b.
St George’s, Clive Deamer, drummer, and JOW, electronica, etc, 5.30.
1532, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
Alma Tavern, Grace Mulvey, Did You Hear We’re All Going to Die?, comedy, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Lance Corporal Richard Jones, The Sound of Magic, military illusionist, 7.30.
Wardrobe Theatre, Daliso Chaponda, Topical Storm, comedy, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Waterloo, ABBA tribute, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Rheingans Sisters, folk, 7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral Choir by Candlelight.
Northcott, Forever Young, jukebox musical, to 15 March, various times.
Barnfield Theatre, Smalltown Boy, play about grief, community and drag, 7.45.
Cygnet Theatre, Jude Coram is the Greatest Magician (in his immediate family).
Phoenix, Bella Hardy, folk.
FAWLEY, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Huey Morgan, The Fun Lovin’ Criminal.
Cheese and Grain, The London African Gospel Choir, celebrating 40th anniversary of Paul Simon’s Graceland.
HONITON, Beehive, Father and Son, Ben Waters, piano, Tom Waters, saxophone, boogie, blues and soul, 7.30.
LITTON CHENEY, Village Hall, Sarah Hagen, piano, Wonderwomen, female composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, 7.30. AR
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Mark Steel, The Leopard in My House, comedy, 8pm.
MARNHULL, St Gregory’s, Music at St Greg’s, The Phantom of the Opera , 1925 film, with organ improvisation by Devaid Bednall, 7pm.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, That’ll Be the Day.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Tom Fetherstonhaugh, Plinio Fernandes, guitar, Classic FM Hall of Fame, inc Rossini, Rodrigo, Chabrier, Mussorgsky, Borodin, 7.30pm: Holmes and Watson, the Curious Case of the Masked Magician, with Peter Clifford and The Great Baldini, 11am and 2.30pm: Tap Factory, 7.45.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Salisbury Dance Studios, Our World, showcase, 6.30 and Sun 2pm.
SHILLINGSTONE, Portman Hall, The Mark Harrison Band, blues, roots and folk, 7.30. AR
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Lady Nade sings Nina Simone, 8pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The Ciderhouse Rebellion, folk 7.45.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, All Floyd, tribute, 7.30.
WILTON, St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Salisbury Chamber Chorus, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonnelle, 6pm.
WIMBORNE,Tivoli, The Sooty Show, 11am.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Jason Donovan, Doin’ Fine Encore, 7.30.
Sunday 8 March
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Ute Lemper sings Marlene Dietrich, music and storytelling, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Giselle, screened live from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.
BRISTOL, Redgrave Theatre, Buddy Holly and the Cricketers, 7.30.
Wardrobe Theatre, Sam Lake, You’re Joking? Not Another One!, comedy, 7pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, St Elmo’s Fire, 1985 film, 7.30.
CORFE CASTLE, Village Hall, The Mark Harrison Band, blues, roots and folk, 7.30. AR
DORCHESTER, Thomas Hardye School Theatre, Susie Dent, Word Perfect, 3.30pm.
FROME, Merlin, Giselle, screened live from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.
LITTON, Village Hall, Good Habits, folk duo, 7.30. TA
STREET, Strode Theatre,The Explosive Light Orchestra, tribute, 7pm.
WINFRITH NEWBURGH, Church, Sarah Hagen, piano, Wonderwomen, female composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, 3pm. AR
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Wonder of Stevie, tribute, 7.30.
Monday 9 March
BEAMINSTER, Public Rooms, The Choral. MOVIOLA
BRISTOL, Redgrave Theatre, Kyla Cobbler, Gone Rogue, comedy, 8pm.
CHILTHORNE DOMER, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rock the Tots, Space, 11am.
ODCOMBE, Village Hall, The Salt Path. MOVIOLA
SHERBORNE, Studio Theatre, Pack of Lies, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.3o.
SHREWTON, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
Tuesday 10 March
BATH, Forum, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, I, II and III, 7.30pm.
Mission Theatre, Baroque ‘n’ Roll, Bristol Ensemble, Bach, Vivaldi, Queen, Metallica, etc, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Peter’s Field, folk, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, All the Happy Things, play by Naomi Denny, to Sat, various times.
Redgrave Theatre, LiveWire Theatre in Our Little Hour, new musical about Walter Tull, 7pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Late Shift Theatre in In Hysterics, new play exploring womens’ experiences of medical misogyny, and Wed, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Exhibition on Screen, Turner and Constable, from Tate Britain, 7.30pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Exhibition on Screen, Turner and Constable, from Tate Britain, 7pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Exhibition on Screen, Turner and Constable, from Tate Britain, 7pm.
EXETER,Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Little Theatre Co in A Streetcar Named Desire, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Seven Drunken Nights – the Story of the Dubliners.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, to Sat: Drum Studio, Richard Chappell Dance in Bloom.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Miro Treharne, mezzo, and Curtis Vetter, piano, Debussy, Schumann, Mahler, 1pm: Tunde, the Voice of Lighthouse Family, 7.45: Cinema, Exhibition on Screen, Turner and Constable, from Tate Britain, 7.45pm and 17 March noon.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, to Sat.
MAST, Rose Theatre in The Boy at the Back of the Class, to Sat.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Giselle, from the Royal Ballet, 7.15.
Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Taunton Thespians in Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
WELLS, Little Theatre, The 39 Steps, to Sat, 7.30.
WINSFORD, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
Wednesday 11 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Ed Viney Co in Stolen Ram, to Sat, 7.30.
Mission Theatre, Mid Somerset Festival, drama, music, dance and creative writing competitions, to Fri.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Ellen Kent’s farewell opera tour, Opera International Kyiv in Carmen, 7.30.
BRANSGORE, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, The Young Musical Theatre Company in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Andrew Wasylyk, electronica.
St George’s, Hysterical!, with Harriet Dyer, Evan Bindeman, Jasmine Darling and Dani Johns, comedy, in aid of One25, Bristol charity supporting women, 7.30.
CHARLTON MARSHALL, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, One Battle After Another, film, 11am and 7.30pm.
FROME, Merlin, Santosh, film, Frome Film Club, 8pm.
KILMINGTON, Devon, Community Cinema, The Choral. MOVIOLA
LYMPSTONE, Village Hall, Farnham Maltings in All For Your Delight, celebrating variety and live entertainment, 7.30. ViA
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Alexandre Tharaud, piano, Bridge, Ravel, Rachmaninov, 7.30: LiveWire in Our Little Hour, new musical about Walter Tull, 8pm: Cinema, Banff Mountain Film Festival, blue programme, 7.30.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Nigel Kennedy, Virtuoso, with Alec Dankworth, double bass and Peter Adams, cello, classical, jazz and contemporary, 7.30.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, Exchange, BSO Teatime Trio, cake concert, 11am. AR
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy, 8pm.
WOOKEY, nr Wells, Pheasant Inn, Mr Punch’s folk, 8pm.
Thursday 12 March
BATH, Rondo, Luna Theatrics in The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Komedia, Ardal O’Hanlon, Not Himself, comedy.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Ellen Kent’s farewell opera tour, Opera International Kyiv in Madama Butterfly, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Exhibition on Screen, Turner and Constable, 250th anniverary of their births Tate Britain exhibition, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Alexandre Tharaud, piano, Bridge, Ravel, Rachmaninov, 7pm.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Ray O’Leary, Laughter? I Hardly Know Her, comedy.
Redgrave Theatre, Neil Brand, Celebrating 100 years of Laurel and Hardy, 7.30.
Wardrobe Theatre, Andrew Doherty in Sad Gay Aids Play, horror pastiche, 7.30.
St George’s, Chloe Piano Trio, Haydn, Esmail and Ravel, 1pm: Harry Baker in Tender, poetry slam, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Urchin, film, 7.30.
DONHEAD ST MARY, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, LiveWire in Our Little Hour, new musical about Walter Tull, 7.30.
EXETER, Phoenix, Ferocious Dog, farewell tour.
HONITON, Beehive, Exhibition on Screen, Turner and Constable, from TATE Britain, 2 and 7pm.
HUISH EPISCOPI, Rose and Crown (Eli’s) Scarlett Smith in Any Objections, harpist and comedian, 8pm. TA
IBBERTON, Village Hall, Three Cane Whale, Hibernacula, multi instrumental acoustic chamber folk trio, 7.30. AR
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, The Shanty Sessions with The Chantry Buoys, FREE, 7.30.
NETHER WALLOP, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Ross Noble, Cranium of Curiosities, comedy, 7.45: Stevie Martin, Clout, comedy, 8pm.
PORTLAND, Royal Manor Theatre, Shon Dale-Jones in The Duke, storytelling, 8pm. AR
TRENT, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Michael, starring Ben, Jackson tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, 50 Years of Fender – The Stratocaster Story.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Last Man Standing with Sir Geoff Hurst, 7.30.
Friday 13 March
BATH, Forum, The Glam Rock Show.
Chapel Arts, Bella Hardy Trio, folk.
Komedia, The Style Councillors, tribute.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Nigel Kennedy, classical, jazz and contemporary music, 7.30.
Pavilion Dance, Screams by the Sea Festival, international horror film festival, and Sat.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Geirbrudur Anna Gudmundsdottir, cello, Antoine Preat, piano, 11.30: Django Chutney, gypsy jazz, 7.30.
Electric Palace, Is This Thing On? film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Echo and the Bunnymen: Lantern, Svaneborg Kardyb, hypnotic jazz folk.
St George’s, Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick duo, freestyle jazz, 1pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Scott Bennett in Stuff, comedy, 8pm.
Alma Tavern, Joz Norris, You Wait. Time Passes. comedy, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Zoltan Kaszas, Hungarian comedian: Rachel Harrington, Goth Americana from Oregon.
CHARD, Guildhall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Sugar Pie Honey Bunch, celebration of the Four Tops, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cello, metal and Middle Eastern music, 7.30.
CURRY MALLET AND BEER CROCOMBE, Village Hall, Scarlett Smith in Any Objections, harpist and comedian, 7.30pm. TA
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Blackheart Orchestra, multi instrumental duo, 7.30.
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Three Hands Theatre in Talisman.
Corn Exchange, Sara Pascoe, I Am A Strange Gloop, and Sun, comedy.
Phoenix, Cut Capers, acid jazz.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Los Pacaminos and Paul Young.
Tree House, Forever Oasis.
HONITON,Beehive, Alex McAleer, mind reader and comedian, 7.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Geirbrudur Anna Gudmundsdottir, cello, Antoine Preat, piano 7.30.
LUSTLEIGH, Village Hall, Farnham Maltings in All For Your Delight, celebrating variety and live entertainment, 7.30. ViA
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Dave Rowntree, from Blur, talking about his book No One You Know, 8pm.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Rainey’s Revue, the music of Ma Rainey, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Beyond the Barricade, songs from the musicals, 7.30: Studio Jazz, The Breath, 8pm.
POWERSTOCK, Hut, Three Cane Whale, Hibernacula, multi instrumental acoustic chamber folk trio, 7.30. AR
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, BSO After Dark, mixtape of light, sound and discovery, 7.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Veronique Joly and Rob Palmer, Jazz in the Showbar, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Neil Brand, Centenary celebration of Laurel and Hardy, 7.30pm.
TINCLETON, Gallery, Mike Denham, jazz piano, Tom “Spats” Langham, guitar, voice and banjo, and Sat, 8pm.
WATCHET, Community Cinema, The Choral. MOVIOLA
WEST STAFFORD, Village Hall, Shon Dale-Jones in The Duke, storytelling, 7.30. AR
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, What’s Love Got to Do With It, Tina Turner tribute with Holly Bannis, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, A Sky Full of Stars, Coldplay tribute, 7.30.
Saturday 14 March
BATH, Forum, Boyzlife.
Chapel Arts, The Bootleg Shadows.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Punk Off: The Sound of Punk and New Wave.
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, People and Places – Sounds of Sedgemoor, album launch, 1.30pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, African Head Charge Sound System, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Gene.
The Station, Silver Street, BOVTS in Paradise – An Ancient Hero, A Modern Hell, reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy Philoctetes by Kae Tempest, and Mon- Sat, 7pm, Sat 21st mat 2pm.
St George’s, Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra, cond Douglas Boyd, with James Way, tenor, Lauren Reeve-Rawlings, French horn, Ravel, Britten, Mozart, 7.45.
Redgrave Theatre, Alfie Moore, Acopalypse Now, comedy, 7.30.
Alma Tavern, Corinne Harragin, Troubled Waters, tales from the waterways, 8pm.
BURTON BRADSTOCK, Village Hall, Shon Dale-Jones in The Duke, storytelling, 7.30. AR
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, ELO Again, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Geirbrudur Anna Gudmundsdottir, cello, Antoine Preat, piano, 7.30.
EXETER, Corn Exchange, Hometown Glory, candlelight concert, Adele tribute with Natalie Black.
Cygnet Theatre, Stratford Theatre Co in Magic Mayhem.
FROME, Merlin, Frome Writers’ Collective in Balancing Acts, script-in-hand performances by local actors, 7.30.
Cheese and Grain, the Phogues, St Patrick’s Day celebration.
LANGPORT, All Saints Hall, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cello, 7.30. TA
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Fleetwood Mac Songbook, tribute.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Dyad and Company Gavin Robertson in General Emergency Medical Ward 10, 7.30.
PENSELWOOD, Village Hall, Scarlett Smith in Any Objections, harpist and comedian, 7.30pm.TA
POOLE, Lighthouse, The 80s Show, 7.30: Ardal O’Hanlon, Not Himself, comedy, 7.45: Coastal Comedy, with Tom Ward, Prakash Jirjadhun and Peter Brush, with Adrienne Coles, 8pm: Cinema, Savages, animated film, 11.30.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, Bournemouth Bach Choir, The Sixteen, Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus and QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble, 7.30.
St Martin’s Church, Salisbury Chamber Chorus, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonnelle, 7.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Nigel Price and Neil Burns, jazz guitarists, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, The History of Rock, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Dazzling Diamonds drag show, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Beautiful Crazy – the Luke Combs Collection, 7.30.
WOODLANDS, Village Hall, Three Cane Whale, Hibernacula, multi instrumental acoustic chamber folk trio, 7.30. AR
YEOVIL, Westlands, Sara Pascoe, I Am a Strange Gloop, comedy, 7.30.
Sunday 15 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, 3pm and 7.30pm.
Komedia, Scott Bennett, Stuff, comedy.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Katrin Finch, harp, Notes to Self, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Taylor Mania, featuring Katy Ellis, 6pm.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, The Greatest Showman, to 10 May.
Beacon, The Renewal Choir, Handel’s Messiah soulful celebration, 5.30pm: Lantern, Greg Osby, saxophone, with Florian Arbenz Quartet, jazz.
Old Vic, Jessica Fostecue, Iconic Breath, comedy, 7.30.
Folk House, Hannah James and Toby Kuhn.
Wardrobe Theatre, Katie Norris, Go West, Old Maid, comedy, 7pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Lieven Scheire, Belgian comedian, Artificial Intelligence, comedy, 7.30.
BRUTON, At the Chapel, Holly McNish, performance poet, on her new book Virgin, 7pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Holmes and Watson: The Curious Case of the Masked Magician, Peter Clifford and the Great Baldini, 2.30pm.
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Riona O’Connor and Olga Thompson, This Is All Too Much, Irish-Greek comedy duo, 6pm.
FROME, Tree House, The Emerald Dawn, prog rock and folk.
SHEPTON MALLET, The Art Bank, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cello, 7.15. TA
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, The Billy Joel Songbook, with Elio Pace.
Turner Sims, SU Chamber Choir and Sinfonietta, cond Ben Qureshi, Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, 3pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, An Afternoon of Laurel and Hardy, centenary celebration with Neil Brand, 2.30pm.
Monday 16 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, Murder at Midnight, comedy thriller, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30: Ustinov Studio, Panos Kandvnias in I Bought a Flip Phone, comedy, to Wed, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Redgrave Theatre, Flabbergast in Macbeth, 7pm.
Folk House, The Woolverstones, alt folk duo.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Snuts, Scottish guitar band.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Talented Mr Ripley, to Sat, 7.45, Thur/Sat mats 2.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, to Sat.
Turner Sims, Nina Guo and Joseph Houston, songs by Matthew Shlomowitz, Charles Ives and Jennifer Walshe, 1pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Exhibition on Screen, Turner and Constable, celebrating their 250th anniversary, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Pressure, by David Haigh, to Sat, 7.45.
Tuesday 17 March
BATH, Forum, photographer Don McCullin in conversation with Mariella Frostrup, complementing McCullin exhibition at the Hoburne Museum, 7pm.
BRADNINCH, nr Exeter, Folk Club, Pagoda Project with Karen Wimhurst, clarinets, Hannah Cumming, fiddle and voice, Paul Hutchinson, accordion, new folk and improvisation, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lily Allen.
Old Vic, Weston Studio, Hijinx in Meet Fred, puppetry and comedy, to Sat, various times.
Wardrobe Theatre, Wardrobe Co in Itch, A Scratch Showcase, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Tale of Silyan, documentary film, 7.30.
EXETER, Corn Exchange, Holly McNish, performance poet.
MARNHULL, St Gregory’s, Music at St Greg’s, Music for Lent, organ recital by Stephen Binnington, noon.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Sarah Agha in A Grain of Sand, solo play based in Palestine, and Wed.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Paul Lewis, piano, Mozart sonatas, and Poulenc, Debussy, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Flabbergast in Macbeth, puppetry, physical theatre and live music, and Wed, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, College, Bay Theatre, The Ed Viney Company in Stolen Ram, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, YAOS on Fiddler on the Roof, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Wednesday 18 March
BATH, Forum, Zandra Rhodes, a Life in Print, in conversation with Rosmary Harden, complementing exhibition at the Hoburne Museum, 7pm.
Komedia, Hollie McNish, performance poet, 7pm.
BRISTOL, St George’s, The Craig Crofton Quartet, Tribute to John Coltrane, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, Emmanuel Sonubi, Life After Near Death, comedy.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Simone Alessandro Tavoni, piano, 1pm: Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, 2013, NT Screening, 7pm.
EXETER, Phoenix, Beans on Toast.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Birmingham Royal Ballet in Don Quixote, to Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Karl-Heinz Steffens, Julian Steckel, cello, Haydn, Mahler, 7pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Prof Brian Cox, Emergence Preview, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, SU Symphony Orchestra, informal family concert, 7pm.
MAST, Zoielogic Dance Theatre in Man Made, and Thurs.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Street Theatre in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, to Sat, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Go Now! The Music of the Moody Blues.
WOODLANDS, Village Hall, BSO Teatime Trio, cake concert, 11am. AR
Thursday 19 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Zeb Soanes in Two Halves of Guiness, play about Sir Alec, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Forum, Thank You for the Music, ABBA tribute.
Mission Theatre, Theatre Revival in Were You Anyone Before Dad’s Army?, by Nicolas Ridley (son of Arnold Ridley), to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2pm.
Chapel Arts, The Grahams, New Jersey jazz duo.
Rondo, Talking The In-Betweeners, an evening with Joe Thomas, comedy, 7.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Palace Court Theatre, AUB students in Jeckyll and Hyde, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Pavilion, The Greatest Hits of Motown.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Bridgwater Comedy Club, acts tbc, 7.30
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Goodfellas, 1990 Scorcese film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, The Villiers Quartet, with soprano Lucy Cox, Haydn, Four works by Ailsa Dixon (1932 – 2017), 1pm.
Redgrave Theatre, Jarlath Regan, Gas Man, comedy, 8pm.
Wardrobe Theatre, Su Mi in Thismotherphucker, a dysfunctional anti-clown, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Carrie, 1976 film.
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Meet Mayor Max, solo comedy show about a Golden Retriever, 8pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Chop Suey and Slip-Not.
HORTON, nr Ilminster, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Every Brilliant Thing, play directed by Margie Barber, with Romla Walker, 7.30.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Lucy Porter, Let Yourself Go, comedy, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Notnow Collective in Pepper and Honey, 8pm: Cinema, The Lion King, dementia friendly screening, 2pm.
PORTESHAM, Village Hall, Swing from Paris, jazz string quartet, 7.30. AR
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, BSO, cond Karl-Heinz Steffens, Julian Steckel, cello, Haydn, Mahler, 7pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Rhod Gilbert and the Giant Grapefruit, comedy, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Sarathy Korwar, drummer, percussionist and composer, Indian folk, jazz and minimalism, 8pm.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Swanage Musical Theatre Co in Beauty and the Beast, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Ivo Graham, Orange Crush, comedy, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Taylor Fever, tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Jim Davidson, Last Man Standing, comedy, 7.30.
Friday 20 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Cardinal: The Secret Life of Cardinal Wolsey, with historian Alison Weir, 2pm.
Chapel Arts, James Kirby, folk, pop and blues singer songwriter.
Rondo, Earl Okin, Diamond Jubilee, jazz vocal cabaret, 7.30.
Komedia, Doreen Doreen.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Willard White, bass, The Brodsky Quartet, Copland, Gershwin, Barber, Britten and Hoffman, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, Sean Lakeman and Kathryn Roberts, folk, 7.30.
McMillan Theatre, Cally Beaton, Namaste Motherf*ckers, comedy, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Comedy Store, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Redgrave Theatre, The Everley Brothers by Candlelight, tribute, 7.30.
Hen and Chicken Bedminster, The Regz, soul, Motown and ska.
CHEDDON AND WEST MONKTON, Village Hall, The Choral.MOVIOLA
CHILD OKEFORD, Village Hall, Farnham Maltings in All For Your Delight, 7.30. AR
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Tease, burlesque and cabaret, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Ian Smith, Foot Spa Half Empty, comedy, 7.30.
CRANBORNE, Cecil Memorial Hall, Swing from Paris, jazz string quartet, 7.30. AR
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, Film Crew, Radical.
DITCHEAT, Jubilee Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Dorchester Youth Theatre senior company in Heavy Weather, by Lizzie Nunnery, and Sat, 7.30.
EDINGTON, Somerset, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, David Benson in My Life with Kenneth Williams, 7.45.
Northcott, Michelle de Swarte, The Afters, comedy, 8pm.
Cygnet Theatre, The Telling and Blue Fire Theatre in Practically Imperfect.
Phoenix, Hay Tor, local singer songwriter trio.
FROGHAM, Village Hall, The Choral.MOVIOLA
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Dub Pistols
Tree House, Plug-In Maybe, Muse tribute.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Fire and Dust, a Woody Guthrie story with Reg Meuross, 8pm.
MERE, Lecture Hall, F1: The Movie. MOVIOLA.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, Scaramouche Theatre in The Game’s Afoot, or Holmes for the Holidays, comedy whodunit, and Sat, 2.30 and 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, K-Pop Allstars, 7.30: Martin Harley, roots guitar, 8pm.
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, RWB Academy, I Swear. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, City Hall, Neil Brand, Celebrating 100 years of Laurel and Hardy, music, film etc, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Think Floyd.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Beyond the Barricade, 7.30: Mia Borthwick, I Don’t Have a Maths GCSE, comedy, 7.45.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Kossoff, The Band Plays On, tribute to Paul, 7.30.
WINTERSLOW, Village Hall, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. MOVIOLA
Saturday 21 March
BATH, Forum, Dead Ringers 25th anniversary tour.
Chapel Arts, St Catherine’s Child, indie, folk, Americana.
Rondo, A&E Comedy in Game of Crones, 7.30.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, The Very Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with Peter Andre.
Pavilion, Jamie Lee Dance Academy Live, Imagination, dance and songs from musicals, 6.30 and Sun 1.30pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Trowbridge Symphony Orchestra, cond Phil Draisey, Vincent Ling, piano, Rautavaara, Prokofiev, Brahms Piano Concerto No 2, 7.30.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Dreamcoat Stars, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Neil Maya Quartet, 1959 – The Golden Year of Jazz, 3pm.
Arts Centre, Cally Beaton, Namaste Motherf*ckers, comedy, 8pm.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Bristol Bach Choir, cond David Bednall, Daisy Walford, soprano, Angharad Rowlands, alto, Kieran White, tenor, and Edmund Danon, bass, Bach Mass in D Minor, 7.30.
Redgrave Theatre, Flat and the Curves, cabaret girl band, Now That’s What I Call Feral, 8pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Miles Hunt of The Wonderstuff, songs and stories from 40 years in music.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Ottilie, new play about Ottilie Patterson, the godmother of British blues, to 19 April.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Sam Lewis, country, 7.30.
EXETER, Northcott, Natural History Museum, Dinosaurs Live, 12.30 and 3.30: Moonstone Theatre Murder Mystery Dining in The Moonstone, 7.30.
Phoenix, Fish in a Dress in The City for Incurable Women, 7pm.
FROME, Merlin, Marcus Brigstocke, Vitruvian Mango, comedy, 7.30.
HALSTOCK, Village Hall, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Tristan and Isolde from the Metropolitan Opera, 4pm.
KILVE, Village Hall, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cello, 7.30. TA
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Li Ban, Irish folk for St Patrick’s Day.
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Opera Up Close in Gianni Schicchi, or Where There’s a Will, new English version of Puccini classic.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, John Williams Blockbusters, The Greatest Film Music of All Time, 7.30: Live and Unheard, local bands, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, Salisbury Musical Society, Durufle Requiem, 7.30.
City Hall, Jason Manford, A Manford All Seasons, comedy, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Michelle de Swarte in The Afters, comedy.
Turner Sims, City of Southampton Orchestra spring concert, Nielsen and Beethoven, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Studio, Tristan and Isolde, live from the Metropolitan Opera, 4pm.
STURMINSTER MARSHALL, Memorial Hall, Farnham Maltings in All For Your Delight, 7.30. AR
TAUNTON, St James’s Church, Taunton Choral Society, cond Edward Goater, Longing and Belonging, Standford, Gardiner, Mendelssohn etc, 7.30.
WARMINSTER, Athenaeum, Warminster Comedy Club, acts TBC, 7.30.
WELLS, Cathedral, Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society, Durufle Requiem and Haydn Nelson Mass, 7pm.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Dorchester Ballet and Dance, Once Upon a Dance, a magical journey through fairytales, 2 and 6pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Eric Bibb, One Mississippi, blues etc, 7.30.
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.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Max Richter’s Sleep, film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Ross Noble, Cranium, comedy.
Exchange, Buck Meek, indie rock.
Old Vic, Ania Magliano, Peach Fuzz, comedy, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, The Rossers, a tribute to Sting and The Police, 7.30.
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, Swing from Paris, jazz string quartet, 7.30. AR
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Cally Beaton, Namaste Motherf*ckers, comedy, 7.45.
Phoenix, Chesney Hawkes: Jennifer Owens, singer, songwriter and storyteller.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Marcus Brigstocke, Vitruvian Mango, comedy, 8pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Dubliners Encore, 7.30.
RODEWATER, Village Hall, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, cello, 3pm. TA
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Uncanny: Fear of the Dark, with Danny Robins.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Dorset Drum Fest, workshops, performances etc 10am to 5pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Jason Fox, Embrace the Chaos, ex-SAS adventurer, 7.30.
YETMINSTER, Jubilee Hall, Farnham Maltings in All For Your Delight, 7.30. AR
Monday 23 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Liza Pulman and Joe Stilgoe in Hooray for Hollywood, to Wed, 7.30, Wed mat 2.30.
Komedia, James Phelan, The Man Who Was Magic.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Alfa Mist, Roulette, hip hop and jazz, and Tues.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Rock N Roll Man, play, to Sat, 7.45, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Outside Edge, to Sat.
Tuesday 24 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Choir of Man, juke box musical, to Thurs and Sat, 7.30, Fri 8pm, Wed/Sat mats 2.30, Friday 4pm.
Komedia, Mariella Frostrup, Cracking the Menopause, 7.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Emma Kenny’s Killer Couples.
BRISTOL, Beacon, 10cc, And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour.
Old Vic, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), to Sat, various times.
Redgrave Theatre, BAOS in Rock of Ages, The Musical, to Fri, 7.30, Sat 1.30 and 6.30pm.
EXETER, University Great Hall, David Walliams, 6.30.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Here and Now, the STEPS Musical, to Sun.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird, to Sat.
MAST, Ivo Graham in Orange Crush, comedy.
WEYMOUTH, Pavilion, Ukranian National Opera in Madama Butterfly, 7.30.
Wednesday 25 March
ANSFORD, Caryford Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
BATH, Rondo, Rondo Theatre in Underdog: The Other Other Bronte, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Komedia, Mark Simmons, Jest To Impress, comedy.
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, 10cc, And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour.
Pavilion Dance, New Waves, scratch night, professional artists showing works in progress, 6.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, The Halle, cond Kahchun Wong, Viktoria Mullova, violin, Wagner, Brahms, Bartok.
St George’s, Cara Dillon with Sam Lakeman and band, Coming Home, folk, 8pm: Elly Hopkins and the Adam Stokes Trio, Tribute to Hoagy Carmichael, jazz, 7.30.
Wardrobe Theatre, Fish in a Dress in The City for Incurable Women, true story of medical misogyny, to Fri, 7.30.
Victoria Rooms, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme, and Fri.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Mastermind, film, 11am and 7.30pm.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Northcott, Lieven Scheire, Artificial Intelligence, science and comedy, 7.30.
Phoenix, Game of Crones, feminist comedy.
FROME, Merlin, Selwood Academy students in Oliver! Jr, to Sat, various times.
Cheese and Grain, John Power, Cast, The LAs and me.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Boris Giltburg, piano, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Sibelius, 7.30: Cerys Hafana, composer and multi instrumentalist, 8pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Ben Fogle, Wild, explorer and broadcaster, 7.30.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Comedy Club, 7.30.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Marcus Trescothick, cricketer, 8pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Toyah, Songs and Stories, 7.30.
Thursday 26 March
BOURNEMOUTH, Pavilion, Man in the Mirror, Michael Jackson tribute.
BRIDGWATER, McMillan Theatre, Toyah, Songs and Stories, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Phil Beer Trio, blues and beyond, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, The Brand New Heavies, acid jazz.
St George’s, Delphine Trio, Brahms, Sieber, Pepin, Schnyder, 1pm.
Alma Tavern, Bennett Arron, I Regret This Already, comedy, 7.30.
Victoria Rooms, Banff Mountain Film Festival, blue programme.
EXETER, University Great Hall, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Boris Giltburg, piano, Beethoven, Prokofiev, Sibelius, 7.30.
Corn Exchange, Fairport Convention.
Phoenix, Hollie Cook, reggae.
HONITON,Beehive, Brigadoon, 1954 film, 2pm.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Mama’s Gun, soul and funk.
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Drum Studio, Rabble Theatre in Glitch, The True Story of the Post Office scandal, to Sat.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Connor Burns, Gallus, Scottish comedy, 8pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Choose George, celebrating George Michael, with Steve Mitchell, 7.30.
SANDFORD ORCAS, Village Hall, Klezmer Foygl, 7.30. AR
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Stitches Comedy Club with James Alderson, Harriet Dyer, Milton Jones and Josh Pugh.
SWANAGE, Mowlem, Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, recorded in 2013, 7pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Hamlet, NT Screening, 7.30.
WEYMOUTH, College, Bay Theatre, Coastland College students’ Easter music show, 7pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Mark Simmons, Jest to Impress, comedy, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30.
Friday 27 March
BATH, 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, 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.
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.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Corrine Harragin, Troubled Waters, comedy and storytelling about rivers, 7.30.
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
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.
FROME, Tree House, The Emperials, Bristol ska band.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, LR Comedy Club, Esther Manito, Aisha Amanduri, Vlad Ilich and Tom Glover, 8pm.
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, The Otis Jay Blues Band.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30: Studio Jazz with the Jeremy Stacey Quartet, 7.45pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, John Kearns, Tilting at Windmills, comedy.
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, Forum, Paul Merton and Sukie Webster’s Improv Show.
Chapel Arts, Young Martyrs, Americana.
Komedia, Krater Comedy Club.
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.
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.
PORTSMOUTH, King’s Theatre, The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins, comedy, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Suzi Ruffell, The Juggle, comedy.
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.
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.
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.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, John Williams Blockbusters, The Greatest Film Music of All Time, 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.
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.
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.
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.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Brewhouse Youth Theatre in Alexandra Wood’s Britney’s Lock, part of NT Connections, 7.30.
Wednesday 1 April
BRISTOL, St George’s, Kevin Figes’ Wallpaper Music, jazz, 7.30.
CHURCHINFORD, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
CODFORD ST PETER, Woolstore Theatre, The Choral. MOVIOLA
WINCHESTER, Theatre Royal, Geoff Norcott, Basic Bloke 2, comedy.
Thursday 2 April
BRISTOL, St George’s, Antoine Preat, Franco-Belgian pianist, Haydn, Schumann, Prokofiev, 1pm: Manu Delago, hand pan, and Maxz ZT, hammered dulcimer, global collaboration by new duo, 8pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Nigel Havers, Talking B*ll*cks, comedy and memories, 7.30.
Friday 3 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Happy Mondays: Lantern, Gigspanner Big Band.
EXETER, University Great Hall, Chris McCausland, Yonks, comedy, 8pm.
Phoenix, Mad Dog Mcrea and Skinny Lister, and Sat.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Fabio and Groove Rider, jungle and drum’n’bass.
Saturday 4 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Martin and Eliza Carthy.
FAWLEY, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Wurzels.
Tree House, The Beatles Dub Club.
Sunday 5 April
FROME, Merlin, Siegfried, screened live from the Royal Opera House, 2pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Cafe Mambo Ibiza, Easter Sunday Classics, 6pm.
Monday 6 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Symphonic Ibiza, electronica.
Tuesday 7 April
BATH, Theatre Royal, BODA in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Wagner’s Siegfried, from the Royal Opera, 5.15.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Tall Stories in The Gruffalo, to 18 April, various day times.
Beacon, Diversity, Soul 2026, and Wed.
EXETER, Barnfield Theatre, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing, to Thurs.
KINGSBURY EPISCOPI, Village Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
Wednesday 8 April
BRANSGORE, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
CHARLTON MARSHALL, Village Hall, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Phoenix, The Undercover Hippie.
FROME, Merlin, Plan 75, Frome Film Club, 8pm.
SWINDON, Arts Centre, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
WOOKEY, nr Wells, Pheasant Inn, Mr Punch’s folk, 8pm.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, All We Imagine as Light, 7.30.
Thursday 9 April
BATH, Bird Hotel, Death Comes to Elsinore, a Moonstone Murder Mystery, noon.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Fisherman’s Friends.
St George’s, Samrat Majumder, Indian classical guitar, A Musical Journey Through Spain, 1pm: Andy Sheppard Trio, jazz, 8pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, K-Pop Superstars, tribute.
NETHER WALLOP, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
PEWSEY, Bouverie Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, City Hall, Chuckles Comedy Club, 8pm.
Arts Centre, Alasdair Beckett-King, The King of Crumbs, comedy.
TAUNTON, Wyndham Hall, Wyndham Picture House, Bread and Tulips, 7.30.
TRENT, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
Friday 10 April
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Ensemble Augelletti, recorders, violin, cello, lutes, keyboard, 11.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Spanish Galicia Symphony Orchestra, cond Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas, Thibaut Garcia, guitar, inc de Falla, Rodrigo, Ravel, Turina, 7pm.
CHARD, Guildhall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
DARTMOUTH, The Flavel, Ha Um Ah Theatre in Making a Killing.
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Temple of Shibboleth perform Days of the Week, prog jazz pop improv.
Phoenix, Creeper, goth rock.
FROME, Merlin, The Ultimate Bubble Show, noon.
Cheese and Grain, Lindisfarne.
HIGHCLIFFE, Community Centre, The Choral. MOVIOLA
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Ensemble Augelletti, recorders, violin, cello, lutes, keyboard, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
WATCHET, Community Cinema, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
Saturday 11 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Tori Amos, In Times of Dragons: Lantern, Jane Weaver, alt folk.
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Ensemble Augelletti, recorders, violin, cello, lutes, keyboard, 7.30.
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Temple of Shibboleth perform In the Shadow, prog jazz pop improv.
Phoenix, Ist Ist, post-punk: Leisure Society, band.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Wham! Duran, tribute.
Sunday 12 April
SALISBURY, City Hall, The Wonder of Stevie, tribute, 7.30.
Monday 13 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Akala, State of the Nation, hip hop: Lantern, Evgeny Grinko, pianist and composer.
CHILTHORNE DOMER, Village Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Phoenix, Arthur Brown, fundraiser for community radio station Phonic FM.
HAWKCHURCH, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
ODCOMBE, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
SHREWTON, Village Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
Tuesday 14 April
BATH, Theatre Royal, SIX, to 25 April, Tues to Thurs 8pm, Fri 17th 6 and 8.30, Sats 4 and 8, Sun 19th 2pm, Wed 22nd and Fri 24th 6 and 8.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club Jameson Road,Ayckbourn’s Neighbourhood Watch, to Sat.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Imelda May, 7pm.
EXETER, Phoenix, The Mexico Mission, comedy inspired by Frida Kahlo, 1.30.
Corn Exchange, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Taylor Mania, with Katy Ellis, 7.30.
WINSFORD, Village Hall, The Return. MOVIOLA.
Wednesday 15 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Colin Stetson, indie rock.
EXETER, Phoenix, Joshua Idehen, spoken word and poetry.
Thursday 16 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Judi Love, All About the Love, comedy: Lantern, Yin Yin, electronic and funk.
St George’s, Bristol University Singers, Music inspired by Creation, 1pm.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Hurn Court Opera, La Traviata, 7pm.
FROME, Merlin, Frome Drama in Jack Absolute Flies Again, to Sat, 7.30.
HORTON, nr Ilminster, Village Hall, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, City Hall, The ELO Experience.
Friday 17 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Laura Ramoso, The Calm Down Tour, comedy,
St George’s, Brodsky Quartet with William Barton, didgeridoo, inc Purcell, Janacek, Stravinsky, tradtional Irish music and Barton, 7.30.
CHEDDON AND WEST MONKTON, Village Hall, The Roses. MOVIOLA
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, Film Crew, Sing Sing.
DITCHEAT, Jubilee Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
EDINGTON, Somerset, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
EXETER, Phoenix, Salam and Holohan in Team Viking, storytelling, 7pm: Bear Jams, soul funk and jazz.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, This Flight Tonight, The Songs of Joni Mitchell.
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, RWB Academy, The Choral. MOVIOLA
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Ocean. MOVIOLA
TINCLETON, Gallery, Joe Houston, piano, Debussy, Bartok, Beethoven, and Sat, 8pm
Saturday 18 April
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School Coade Hall, Hurn Court Opera, La Traviata, 4pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, James B Partridge, Primary School Bangers: Lantern, Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa, Paradise Gothic, comedy.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Andrew Bourns Crooner Revolution.
Cheese and Grain, The Dualers, Jamaican style RnB.
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, City Hall, Singalona The Greatest Showman, 7pm.
Sunday 19 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Blue, 25th anniversary tour: Lantern, Jasper Hoiby’s 3Elements, jazz.
EXETER, Phoenix, Shakatak, jazz funk.
FROME, Merlin, Las Theatre in The Littlest Yak, 11am and 2pm.
Monday 20 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, The Fureys farewell tour.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Tim Smit in conversation with Mary Colwell, 7.30.
WINCHESTER, Theatre Royal, Hurn Court Opera, La Traviata, 7pm.
Tuesday 21 April
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, The Magic Flute, screened from the Royal Opera, 6.45.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, The Woman in Black, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
Beacon, John Mulaney, Mister Whatever, comedy.
Wednesday 22 April
ANSFORD, Caryford Hall, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. MOVIOLA
BRISTOL, Beacon, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, cond Pappano, Emily D’Angelo, mezzo, David Butt Philip, tenor, William Thomas, bass, Elgar, Dream of Gerontius, 7pm.
St George’s, Katherine Priddy, folk, 7.30: Ben Waghorn, saxophone, and the Adam Stokes Trio, Tribute to Dexter Gordon, jazz, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Glastonbury and Street Musical Comedy Society in Calendar Girls – the Musical, to Sat.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Green Border, 7.30.
Thursday 23 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Chris Ramsey, Here Man, comedy: Lantern, Smerz, electronic indie.
St George’s, Maxim Calver, cello, Debussy, Schumann, Shostakovich, 1pm: Lindisfarne, folk, 7.30.
CHRISTCHURCH, Regent Centre, Banff Mountain Film Festival, blue programme.
Friday 24 April
AXBRIDGE, The Old Methodist Church, Pea Bien Theatre in Last Wednesday’s Work Shirt, comedy, 7.30. TA
BISHOPSTONE, nr Salisbury, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
BRISTOL, Beacon, Nurse John, The Short-Staffed Tour, comedy.
St George’s, Zoe Rachman, jazz piano, Rowland Sutherland, flute, jazz, 1pm.
EXETER, Cathedral, Radiohead Reimagined by Candlelight.
FROME, Merlin, New Old Friends in Pick and Mix, 7.30.
Memorial Theatre, That’ll Be the Day, 40th anniversary show.
Tree House, Whitesnake UK.
MERE, Lecture Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, City Hall, Damien Lewis, SAS: Who Dares Wins, 7.30.
WATCHET, Community Cinema, The Golden Spurtle. MOVIOLA
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
WINTERSLOW, Village Hall, The Choral.MOVIOLA
Saturday 25 April
BRIDGWATER, Arts Centre, A Head Full of Coldplay, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Ashling Bea, Older than Jesus, comedy.
EXETER, Phoenix, Showhawk duo, classical guitar and electronica.
FROME, Merlin, Mark Simmons, Jest to Impress, comedy, 7.30.
HALSTOCK, Village Hall, Nuremberg. MOVIOLA
MARTOCK, Village Hall, I Swear. MOVIOLA
Sunday 26 April
ANSFORD, Caryford Hall, Pea Bien Theatre in Last Wednesday’s Work Shirt, comedy, 7.30.TA
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society, Sophie Rosa, violin, Ian Buckle, piano, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Clara Schumann and Grieg, 3pm.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Out with the Buckleys, comedy.
EXETER, Phoenix, Ruth Notman, folk.
FROME, Merlin, The Magic Flute, screened live from the Royal Opera House, 2pm.
SALISBURY, City Hall, An Evening with Aggers, cricketing memories, 6.30.
Monday 27 April
BRISTOL, St George’s, An Evening with Aggers, cricketing memories, 7.30.
Tuesday 28 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, Lantern, Mammal Hands, electronic folk.
Old Vic, Weston Studio, Jade Franks, Eat the Rich (but maybe not me matesx), to Sat, various times.
EXETER, Phoenix, Party Cannon and Internal Bleeding, death metal.
HYTHE, Village Hall, The Choral. MOVIOLA
Wednesday 29 April
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Kiss of the Spider Woman, the musical, to 16 May, various times.
St George’s, Hejira, folk, A Celebration of Joni Mitchell, 8pm.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, Four Mothers. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, City Hall, The Mersey Beatles, 7.30.
Thursday 30 April
BRISTOL, Beacon, YES plays the whole album Fragile (1971).
St George’s, NOVO Quartet with Oleg Shebeta-Dragan, clarinet, Shaw and Brahms, 1pm: Paddington Trio, French Impressions, Lili Boulenger, Debussy, Ravel, 7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral, Music of Westlife by Candlelight.
Friday 1 May
BATH, Theatre Royal, Emma Rice Co in Malory Towers, to 9 May (not Sun), various times.
Tuesday 5 May
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Eugene Onegin, screened from the Metropolitan Opera, 6pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, Fag Packet in Dyke Systems Ltd, to Sat, 8, Sat mat 3pm.
Wednesday 6 May
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, A Yak in the Classroom, 7.30.
Thursday 7 May
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Frome Music Theatre Co, The Wizard of Oz, to Sat.
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
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Constant Wife, with Kara Tointon and Sara Crowe, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
FROME, Merlin, Memoire of a Snail, stop motion Australian, Frome Film Club, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief, to Sat.
Wednesday 13 May
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, In Bed With My Brother in Philosophy of the World, comedy, to Sat, 8pm, Sat mat 3pm.
WOOKEY, nr Wells, Pheasant Inn, Mr Punch’s folk, 8pm.
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.
TINCLETON, Gallery, Adrien Brandeis, jazz piano, music from his album Resurgence, and Sat, 8pm.
Saturday 16 May
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Greenwich Piano Trio, 7.30.
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Pilot’s Thumb in Touched.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Susie Dent, Word Perfect.
WOOTON COURTENAY, Village Hall, Pea Bien Theatre in Last Wednesday’s Work Shirt, comedy, 7.30. TA
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.
Monday 18 May
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Simon Reeve – To the Ends of the Earth.
Tuesday 19 May
BATH, Theatre Royal, Single White Female, thriller, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
Thursday 21 May
BRISTOL, Old Vic, The Wardrobe Ensemble in Party Season, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Friday 22 May
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, Film Crew, members choice film and AGM.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Walk Right Back – The Everly Brothers story.
Saturday 23 May
WIMBORNE, Minster, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, cond David Gostick, Phibbs, Seven Songs of Nature for Choir and Brass Quintet, 7.30.
Tuesday 26 May
BATH, Theatre Royal, Mischief Theatre in Thespians, Greece the Musical(but not that one), to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
Wednesday 27 May
WATCHET, East Key, Vanhulle Dance Theatre in Olive Branch, physical theatre and martial arts, 6pm. TA
Thursday 28 May
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, The Playboy of the Western World, NT Screening, 7pm.
BOURNEMOUTH, Palace Court Theatre, AUB students in Grimm Tales, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Brainiac, comedy and science, and Fri, noon and 2.30.
Hippodrome, James Acaster, comedy, to Sat.
FROME, Merlin Theatre, The Full Monty – the play, to Sat.
Tuesday 2 June
BATH, Theatre Royal, I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Matilda, the Musical, to 27 June.
Sunday 7 June
SWINDON, Wyvern Theatre, The Irish House Party, traditional songs, music and dance from Dublin.
Monday 8 June
SHERBORNE, Studio Theatre, Our Country’s Good, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.3o.
Tuesday 9 June
BATH, Theatre Royal, Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club Jameson Road, Bracken Moor, a ghost story, to Sat.
Wednesday 10 June
FROME, Merlin, Four Mothers, Ireland, Frome Film Club, 8pm.
WOOKEY, nr Wells, Pheasant Inn, Mr Punch’s folk, 8pm.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, On Falling, 7.30.
Friday 12 June
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, Corinne Harragin, Troubled Waters, legends and myths.
Saturday 13 June
SALISBURY, City Hall, The Irish House Party, traditional songs, music and dance from Dublin.
Tuesday 16 June
BATH, Theatre Royal, Noel Coward’s The Marquise, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
Wednesday 17 June
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Irish House Party, traditional songs, music and dance from Dublin.
Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Holy Cow, and AGM, 7.30.
Friday 19 June
EXETER, Cygnet Theatre, South Devon Players in Scarlet Pimpernel.
Saturday 20 June
MARNHULL, St Gregory’s, Music at St Greg’s, The Great Hymnathon, and Sunday, organists from St Gregory’s and guests will play all 829 hymns in the Ancient and Modern hymn book.
Wednesday 24 June
FROME, Merlin, The Playboy of the Western World, NT Screening, 7pm.
Thursday 25 June
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Lesley Manville and Aiden Turner, NT Screening, 7pm.
FROME, Merlin, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Lesley Manville and Aiden Turner, NT Screening, 7pm.
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.
TINCLETON, Gallery, Mike Denham, Ida Pelliccioli, piano, Rameau, Albeniz and Debussy, and Sat, 8pm.
Saturday 27 June
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Shiry Rashkovsky, viola, Lana Suran, piano, 7.30.
Tuesday 30 June
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Amber Davies in Legally Blonde, to Sat.
Thursday 2 July
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, The Secret Garden, to 26 July, various times.
Monday 6 July
BATH, Theatre Royal, Fawlty Towers, the play, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Jersey Boys, The Musical, to Sat.
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Noel Coward’s Hands Across the Sea and Still Life, to Sat.
Wednesday 8 July
FROME, Merlin, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, Thailand, Frome Film Club, 8pm.
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.
Monday 13 July
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, The Rocky Horror Show, with Jason Donovan, to Sat.
Tuesday 14 July
BATH, Theatre Royal, Peter Shaffer’s Equus, dir Lindsay Posner, to 25 July, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30 (not Sunday or Monday).
Tuesday 21 July
BLANDFORD, Bryanston School, Coade Hall, Dorset Opera Festival, to Sat.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Miss Saigon, to 1 Aug.
Tuesday 4 August
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Waitress – The Musical, 10th anniversary tour, to Sat.
Thursday 6 August
WINGFIELD, Church Farm, If Opera, Carmen, and 8/12/15 Aug.
Friday 7 August
WINGFIELD, Church Farm, If Opera, Vache Baroque Band, A Toast to the Tavern.
Tuesday 11 August
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, to 22 Aug, 7.30, (not Sun/Mon), Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, The Bodyguard, the musical, to Sat.
WINGFIELD, Church Farm, If Opera, Opera della Luna in Oscar Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier, and 13/14 Aug.
Sunday 16 August
WINGFIELD, Church Farm, If Opera, Picnic Prom.
Sundasy 23 August
MARNHULL, St Gregory’s, Music at St Greg’s, Flute and Piano concert with Su Dutch and Louise Cousins, and guests, 3pm.
Tuesday 18 August
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Annie – the Musical, to Sat.
Tuesday 25 August,|
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, BLOC in We Will Rock You, to Sat.
Wednesday 26 August
BATH, Theatre Royal, Noel Coward’s Present Laughter, with Tracy-Ann Oberman as Gerry Essendine, to 5 Sept.
Tuesday 1 September
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man, to Sat.
Friday 4 September
TINCLETON, Gallery, Phillip Clouts, piano, Ron Phelan, bass, Django Reinhardt, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Thelonius Monk, and Sat, 8pm.
Sunday 6 September
MARNHULL, St Gregory’s, Music at St Greg’s, Holst’s Planets Suite, transcribed and played by organist Sam Hanson, 3pm.
Tuesday 8 September
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Mean Girls, the Musical, to Sat.
Tuesday 15 September
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Kevin Bridges, Here If You Need Me, comedy, to Sat.
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.
Sunday 4 October
MARNHULL, St Gregory’s, Music at St Greg’s, Wonders of Wood and Wire, Jon Pickard, harp guitar, 3pm.
Thursday 8 October
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Back to the Future – the Musical, to 21 Nov.
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.
TINCLETON, Gallery, Alberto Dalgo, pianist from Milan, Northern Landscapes, Schumann, Liszt, Grieg and Chopin, and Sat, 8pm.
Saturday 17 October
CREWKERNE, Dance House, Concerts in the West, Oliver Wass, harp, Gabriela Opacka, violin, 7.30.
SALISBURY, City Hall, Banff Mountain Film Festival, red programme.
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.
Tuesday 10 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, David Suchet in Murder in the Cathedral, to 21 Nov.
Friday 20 November
TINCLETON, Gallery, John Law, jazz piano, 8pm.
Saturday 1 November
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, Honk!, to 3 Jan.
Friday 13 November
BATH, various venues, Mozartfest, to 21 Nov.
Wednesday 18 November
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Banff Mountain Film Festival, blue programme.
Saturday 21 November
TINCLETON, Gallery, John Law and Ant Law, jazz pianos, The Laws of (E)motion, 8pm.
Tuesday 24 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, CATS, to Sat.
Saturday 5 December
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Sleeping Beauty, to 3 Jan 2027.
Thursday 10 December
BATH, Theatre Royal, Beauty and the Beast, to 10 Jan 2027
Friday 11 December
TINCLETON, Gallery, Duncan Honeybourne, piano, Exploring British Musical History, and Sat, 8pm.
2027
Thursday 4 February 2027
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio, Blackbird, with John Simm, to 6 March, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
Thursday 14 October
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Alan Carr, Have I Said Too Much?, comedy, to Sat.