Tuesday 1 October
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, BLOC in Me and My Girl, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
St George’s, Neneh Cherry, A Thousand Threads, talking about her new memoir, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Love Lies Bleeding, film, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist, documentary film, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Stones in His Pockets, to 19 Oct, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.15.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Frank Skinner, 30 Years of Dirt, comedy, 7.30.
Turner Sims, The Declare Sextet, The Myanmar Jazz Club Project, 8pm.
YETMINSTER, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA

Wednesday 2 October
BATH, Forum, Come What May, Moulin Rouge tribute show.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, northern folk, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Reverberation by Matthew Lopez, with Eleanor Tomlinson and Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, to 2 Nov, Mon-Sat 7.30, some mats 2.30.
Tobacco Factory, Opera Project in The Marriage of Figaro,  to 12 Oct, 7.30.
St George’s, Cara Dillon, Coming Home, folk and new book, 7.30.
Thekla, Pond.
CHURCHINFORD, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Bob Marley: One Love, film, 11am and 7.30pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, The Planets, BSO, cond Karl-Heinz Steffens, Paul Lewis piano, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Holst.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Rush Theatre in The King of Reggae, 7.45.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Trio Paradis, Debussy, Poulenc, Piaf, Satie, 11am.
WEYMOUTH, College Bay Theatre, JV2 (Jasmin Vardimon Young Dance Company) triple bill, 7.30.

Thursday 3 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, The Noise Next Door, comedy, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, The Planets, BSO, cond Karl-Heinz Steffens, Paul Lewis piano, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Holst.
St George’s, Manu Brazo, saxophone, Bryan Evans, piano, Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams, Mozart, etc, 1pm: Three Cabe Whale, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Craig Mitchell, Jukebox Mashup, 7.30
DEVON, Two Moors Festival, to Sun and 10-13 Oct.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, CarmenCo Pocket Opera, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Jack Dee, work in progress, comedy, 8pm.
HONITON, Beehive, Made in Tennessee, country music, 7.30.
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, Steve Hackett, Genesis Greats.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Solve-Along-a-Murder-She-Wrote, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Northern Ballet in Romeo and Juliet, with Prokofiev music, to Sat, 7.30, Fri/Sat mats 2pm.
MAST, Stitches Comedy Club with Angela Barnes, Geoff Norcott and James Alderson etc, 8pm.
Turner Sims, Claire Martin and the Martin Sjostedt Trio, jazz, 8pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Rory Ingham’s Trombone Assembly.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Brittain, 7.30.

Friday 4 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, When Vincent Met John, what might have happened if van Gogh had met Lennon, and Sat, 7.30. Sat mat 2.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, The Doric String Quartet, Haydn and Beethoven Late Quartets, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Hilary Cronin, soprano, and Asako Ogawa, piano, Handel, Schumann, Wolf and Liszt, 11.30am.
Electric Palace, Revive Theatre in One Man, Two Guvnors, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Huw Warren, piano, and Iain Ballamy, saxophone, jazz, 1pm: The Mystery Ensemble, The Music of Harry Potter, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Pierre Novellie, Why Are You Laughing?  comedy, 7.30.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Herman’s Hermits, 60th anniversary tour.
Cheese and Grain, Jo Whiley’s 90s Anthems, 7.30.
HIGHTCLIFFE, Community Centre, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, This Flight Tonight – the Songs of Joni Mitchell, with Zerbas and Pepper, 7.30.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, Hilary Cronin, soprano, and Asako Ogawa, piano, Handel, Schumann, Wolf and Liszt, 7.30.
NORTH PETHERTON, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, The Planets, BSO, cond Karl-Heinz Steffens, Paul Lewis piano, Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Holst.
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, RWB Academy, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Out in the Streets, dance and street music, 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Queenz Drag Me to the Disco, and Sat, 7.45, Sat mat 2.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Get it On, The Glam Rock Show, 7.30.

Saturday 5 October
BATH, Forum, Carrie Hope Fletcher, Love Letters, musical theatre star.
BRIDPORT,Arts Centre, Hello Bookstore, film, 7.30.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Beethoven Concerto-Thon, The Five Piano Concerti, Bristol Concert Orchestra, Bristol Classical Players, You-Chuing Lin, Rupert Eggerton-Smith, 1pm: Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra, Bristol Classical Players, Henry Lewis and Simon Callaghan, 3.30pm: Bristol Symphony Orchestra, 7pm. Raising funds for St George’s stage extension.
Beacon, Steve Hackett, Genesis Greats.
Wardrobe Theatre, Roustabout Theatre in Little Red Riding Could, family show, and Sun.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Richard Durrant, The Number 26 Bus to Paraguay, South American music, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, The Dance House, Concerts in the West, Hilary Cronin, soprano, and Asako Ogawa, piano, Handel, Schumann, Wolf and Liszt, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Indigo Moon in The Jungle Book, shadow puppetry with music and projections, 2pm.
FAWLEY, Jubilee Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
FROME, Tree House, Brave Rival.
HONITON, Beehive, Harold and the Purple Crayon, film, 4pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, SK Shlomo, Breathe, beatboxing, 8pm.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Kast Off Kinks, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Stories in the Dust, storytelling, puppetry and live music, 11.30am and 3pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Noble Jacks, Americana, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Phil Beer, folk, 7.30: Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffman, live from the Metropolitan Opera, 6pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, That’ll Be the Day, 7.30.

Sunday 6 October
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Students of Yehudi Menuhin School, showcase, 3pm.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, The Magic of Motown, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Plough Youth Theatre in The Best Life, debut play by 15-year-old Ukranian Kateryna Rudiakova, 6pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Most Haunted – The Stage Show, 7.30.

Monday 7 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, The Long Run, to Wed, 7.30: The Egg, Play Back, 7pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Hambledon Productions in Hancock’s Half Hour– the Lost TV Episodes, 7.30pm.
BRISTOL, St George’s, Benedict Allen, explorer, Lost in Papua New Guinea, 7pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rock the Tots, Spooky Fun, 11am.
HAWKCHURCH, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA

Tuesday 8 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, Blackeyed Theatre in Dracula, to Sat, and Wed 7.30, Thurs-Sat 9pm, Wed/Sat mats 3pm.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, An Inspector Calls, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
St George’s, Jay Rayner, talks about his new book Nights Out at Home and his career, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Taste of Things, film, 7.30.
MEMBURY (Devon), Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
NORTON sub HAMDON, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, War Horse, Mon-Sat to 19 Oct, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Sh*t Faced Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
WINSFORD, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA

Wednesday 9 October
BATH, Forum, Bath Phil, cond Jason Thornton, Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet, Handel, Haydn, Ewazen and Sibelius, 7.30.
BRANSGORE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
BRISTOL, St George’s, The Drifters, 7.30.
CHARLTON MARSHALL, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Riyad Nicolas, Syrian-British pianist, 1pm.
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, The Eight Mountains,  8pm.
Cheese and Grain, The Undercover Hippie.
KILMINGTON (Devon), Community Centre, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
NEW MILTON, Forest Arts, The Pantaloons in The Merry Wives of Windsor, 7.30pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Firebird, BSO, cond Elena Schwarz, Martin James Bartlett, piano, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Stravinsky.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, with Ray Strasser-King as Martin Luther King, to Sat, 7.45, Sat mat 2.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Piano Nights with Kris Emmett, FREE, from 7pm.
 Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Anatomy of a Fall.

Thursday 10 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Indestructable, 7.,30.
Forum, The Story of Soul.
DONHEAD ST MARY, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Sherlock Holmes – The Last Act, solo show with Nigel Miles-Thomas, 7.30pm.
NETHER WALLOP, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
PORTSMOUTH, Groundlings Theatre, The Pantaloons in The Merry Wives of Windsor, 7.30pm.
SHEPTON MONTAGUE, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, jazz, 8pm.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, Exchange, SNADS in Double Glazed, Blood Sport and Barney, three new plays written and directed by Craig White, 7.30, and Fri. ADULTS ONLY
TRENT, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Born to Swing with singer Andrew Bourn.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, NT Live,  Present Laughter with Andrew Scott.
St John the Baptist Church, Yeovil Literary Festival curtain raiser, Sir Ian Rankin talks about his new Rebus novel Midnight and Blue, 7pm.
Westlands, National Production Company in Macbeth, 7.30.

Friday 11 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Second Hand Dance in The Sticky Dance, to Sun 2pm,  Sat and Sun 10am morning mats.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, The Marian Consort, The Story of Renaissance Art through Music, 7,30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Jah Wobble and the Invaders of the Heart, 8pm.
CHARD, Guildhall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Garrett Millerick Needs More Space, comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Amy Mayes Band, singer songwriter, 7.30.
FROGHAM, Village Hall, Swede Caroline.MOVIOLA
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Afro Celt Sound System.
HONITON, Beehive, Sherburn.Bartly.Sanders, folk trio, with Phil Beer, 7.30.
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, Pretenders.
SALISBURY, Studio Theatre Ashley Road, Night Must Fall,  and Sat and 14-19 Oct, 7.30, Sat 12 Oct mat 2.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The British Carpenters.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Mania, The ABBA Tribute, 7.30.

Saturday 12 October
BASINGSTOKE, The Anvil, Firebird, BSO, cond Elena Schwarz, Martin James Bartlett, piano, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Stravinsky.
BATH, Forum, Nish Kumar, Nish, Don’t Kill My Vibe, comedy, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Maya Youssef Trio, qanan, jazz, folk and contemporary, 7.30.
St Margaret’s Hall, All Floyd, The Division Bell touor, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Pretenders.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Ed Patrick, Catch Your Breath, The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist, comedy, 7.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Steve Ignorant Band performing Crass Songs.
HONITON, Beehive, A Head Full of Coldplay, tribute, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, The Book of Genesis Tribute Show, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Drystones, electro-folk, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Typically Tina with Karin Bello, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, O What a Night, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons tribute.
YEOVIL, Westlands, YAOS in Some Enchanted Evening, songs from the shows, 7.30 and Sun 2.30.

Sunday 13 October
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Tatty McLeod, Fugue.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Toot!, family concert for 7 to 11 year olds, 2pm.
WOOKEY HOLE,  Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA

Monday 14 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, Jason Donovan in The Rocky Horror Show, to Sat, Mon-Thurs 8pm, Fri/Sat 5pm and 8.30pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Short Story Slam, 7pm.
CHILTHORNE DOMER, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
ODCOMBE, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
SHREWTON, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA

Tuesday 15 October
Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary, and Wed, Artsreach dates.
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Our Little Hour, musical drama based on life of Walter Tull, to Sat, 7.30.
Forum, Joe Jackson, The Rounds of Racket  tour, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, Nathan Queeley-Dennis in his debut play Bullring, Techno, Makeout Jamz, to Sat 8pm, Sat mat 3pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, COPA 71, documentary film, 7.30.
HYTHE, Parish Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Ensemble Moliere, Telemann and His Friends in Paris, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Christopher Whealdon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from the Royal Ballet, live, 7.15.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The National Production Co in Macbeth, 1pm and 7.30.

Wednesday 16 October
BATH, Forum, Fern Brady, I Gave You Milk to Drink, comedy, 8pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Leveret, traditional folk, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Slave – A Question of Freedom, to Sat.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Back to Black, Amy Winehouse film, 11am and 7.30pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Jac van Steen, Edgar Moreau cello, Liadov, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Grace Campbell is On Heat, comedy, 8pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, PP Arnold, Soul Survivor.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Billy Billingham, former paratrooper, Always a Little Further, 7.30.

Thursday 17 October
BATH, Forum, Legends of the Dance Floor, inc Brendan Cole, Pasha Kovalev and Vincent Simone, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Colin Hoult, comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Peter Oakes, piano, and Sally Flann, cello, Francoeur, Chopin, Franck, 11.30am:  Mike Denham’s Speakeasy with Pete Allen, saxophone,  7.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Seth Lakeman.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Carl Froch, boxing legend, 7.45.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Wishbone Ash.

Friday 18 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Birdboy, 10am and 1pm, Sat-Sun  11.30am and 3pm.
Forum, Into the Groove, Madonna tribute, 7.30.
BISHOP SUTTON, Village Hall, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford Roots Session, local acoustic bands, 7pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace,Tankus the Henge, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, folk, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, FilmCrew, American Fiction.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me), solo show with Ben Duke, 7.30.
EDINGTON (Somerset), Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
FROME, Cheese and Grain, New Model Army.
HONITON, Beehive, Christopher Whealdon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland filmed at the Royal Ballet, 7pm.
SIXPENNY HANDLEY, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Lemn Sissay, Let The Light Pour In, poetry, 7.45.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Coda – Led Zeppelin tribute.
WINTERSLOW, Village Hall, The Fall Guy.MOVIOLA
YEOVIL, Westlands, Library and Westlands, Yeovil Literary Festival various dates to 28th Oct, inc Martin Clunes, Kaleb Cooper, Simon Armitage, Kate Humble, Her Hon Wendy Joseph KC, Carol Klein, etc.
Westlands, Steeleye Span, 7.30.

Saturday 19 October
BATH, Forum, Dick and Angel’s Forever Home tour, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Jay Rayner Sextet, jazz, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Grounded, new opera by Jeanine Tesori, live from the Metropolitan Opera, 6pm.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Spielman Studio, Brave Bold Drama in The  Midnight Mission.
Filwood Community Centre, BSO on Your Doorstep, Curious Creatures and Adventurous Animals, cond Patrick Bailey, Rimsky Korsakov, Bjork, de Falla, Mancini, Williams, Vaughan Williams and Miranda.
CATTISTOCK, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary, comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Noise Next Door in Freewheeling, improv comedy, 7.30.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Frome Musical Theatre Company, A Night at the Musicals.
Cheese and Grain, Coldplace and The Fillers, tributes.
HONITON, Beehive, The Gigspanner Big Band, 7.30.
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Maisie Adam, Appraisal, comedy, 8pm.
Turner Sims, Angeline Morrison, folk, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Lady Maisery, folk trio, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Grounded, from the Metropolitan Opera, live, 6pm.
TAUNTON, Brewhouse, Roustabout Theatre in Little Red Riding Could, family show.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Petty Criminals – Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks tribute show.
YEOVIL, Westlands, An Evening of Burlesque, 7.30.

Sunday 20 October
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge House, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society 80th anniversary concert,  Jiaxin and Julian Lloyd Webbert, Bach, Malcolm Arnold, 3pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Jennifer Pike, violin, Martin Roscoe, piano, Lili Boulenger, Beethoven, Debussy, Jeremy Pike and Grieg, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Christopher Whealdon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on screen, 2pm.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Daliso Chaponda, Feed This Black Man Again, comedy.
Old Vic, Sarah Keyworth, My Eyes are Up Here, comedy, 7.30.
CHEW VALLEY, Valley Arts Centre, Roustabout Theatre in Little Red Riding Could, family show.
FROME, Merlin, Christopher Whealdon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on screen, 2pm.
Cheese and Grain, Lindisfarne.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Sarah Millican, Late Bloomer, comedy, and 10 Nov.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Gigspanner Big Band, 7pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Royal Marine Association Concert Band and Yeovilton Military Wives Choir, 3pm.

Monday 21 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Shon Dale Jones in Cracking, comedic storytelling, and Tues, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Wondergigs, Animals, 10am and 11.30am.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Bootleg Blondie: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, new Tim Burton film, and Tues, 7, Wed mat 2pm.

Tuesday 22 October
BATH, Forum, Billy Porter, The Black Mona Lisa tour.
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club, Jameson Road, Gaslight, to Sat.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Moments, and Wed.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, film, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Play On!, a new jazz musical based on Twelfth Night, to 2 Nov.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, 101 Dalmatians – the Musical, to 26 Oct.
MAST, Floella Benjamin’s Coming to England, to Sat, 7pm, various mats.
YEOVIL, Westlands, John Nichol, The Unknown Warrior, 7.30.

Wednesday 23 October
BATH, Forum, The Horne Section, comedy, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Small World of Clive Crudwick, Bridport original show with music and film, raising funds for local charities, and Thurs, 7.30.
CALNE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, American Fiction, film, 7.30 and Thurs 11am.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Walter Trout.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Holst 150, BSO, cond David Hill, Jesper Svedberg, Anna Devin and Andrew Foster-Williams, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Elgar.
WEYMOUTH, College Bay Theatre, Frankenstein (on a budget), solo show, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Codebreakers – the Story of Enigma, with Dr Mark Baldwin, 7.30.
Swan Theatre, Cinematheque,  The Zone of Interest.

Thursday 24 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, Nathaniel Parker and Sian Phillips in Terence Rattigan’s Summer 1954 – Table Number Seven and The Browning version, to  2 November, Mon-Sat 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
Forum, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, 50th anniversary, live in concert, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Henning Wehn, Acid Wehn, comedy, and Fri, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Tatty McLeod, Fugue  (extra date)
CHICHESTER, Cathedral, Holst 150, BSO, cond David Hill, Jesper Svedberg, Anna Devin and Andrew Foster-Williams, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Elgar.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Martha Tilston, folk.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Undertones.
Tree House, The New Roses.
HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline.MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Carry On Screaming, 1966 film, dementia frienly, 2pm: Grounded, new opera by Jeanine Tesori, live from the Metropolitan Opera, 6.30pm.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, The Unravelling Wilburys, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Seckou Keita, kora, and his band from Senegal, 8pm.
WESTON SUPER MARE, Blakehay Theatre, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary, to Sat.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Wimborne Drama in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, to Sat, 7.30.

Friday 25 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Jonathan Guy Lewis in I Found My Horn, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Forum, From the Jam.
BISHOPSTONE, nr Salisbury, Village Hall, Swede Caroline.MOVIOLA
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Seckou Keita Band, Senegalese musicians and kora, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Luke Wright, Joy, performance poetry, 7.30.
CHEDDON and WEST MONKTON, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rodriguez King-Dorset in The Windrush Secret, new play, 7.30.
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
FROME, Merlin, Shakespeare Live in The Prince and the Knave (from the Henry IV plays) 8pm.
Memorial Theatre, The Manfreds.
Cheese and Grain, Martin Fry of ABC.
Tree House, Whitesnake UK.
HONITON, Beehive, Cellar Theatre in Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, 6.30pm.
ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT, RWB Academy, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Barnstormers Comedy, 8pm.
WESTBURY sub MENDIP, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA

Saturday 26 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Will Pickvance in Do Not Play This Piano, and Sun, 11.30am and 3pm.
BEAULIEU, Abbey Church, Music at Beaulieu, Virtuoso Violin, with Rose Gosney and Nova Foresta Classical Players, Sibelius, Beethoven, etc. 7pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Urban Folk Quartet, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Pavilion Dance SW in Plastic Paradiso, 3pm.
Electric Palace, Wolf Witch Giant Fairy,  family folk opera from Covent Garden, 11am.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Amazing Bubble Man, 11.30am and 2pm: Megson, folk, 7.30.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, The Unravelling Wilburys.
Cheese and Grain, Scouting for Girls.
Tree House, Captain Accident and the Disasters.
MARTOCK, Parish Hall,  Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA
RINGWOOD, Greyfriars,  Wilding, 2.30 and 7pm. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Adam Brown, classical guitar, Celtic and Hispanic music, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Christian Garrick and the Budapest Cafe Orchestra, jazz, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Buddy Holly and the Cricketers, 7.30.
WESTON SUPER MARE, The Front Room, Roustabout Theatre in Little Red Riding Could, family show

Sunday 27 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Sian Phillips talks to Richard Digby Day, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Christopher Whealdon ballet from the Royal Ballet, recorded, 2pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Alifie Moore, A Face for Radio, comedy, 8pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Larry Dean, Dodger, comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Papatango in The Watch House, ghost story, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Squeeze with Badly Drawn Boy.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Mike Osman’s Jethro, comedy tribute, 7.30.

Monday 28 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, It’s The Economy, Stupid!,  from the Fringe with Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells,  and Tues, 7.30: The Egg, Smoking Apples in Kinder, puppetry and shadowplay, 3pm, and Tues 11.30am and 3pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, HurlyBurly Theatre in You Are the Sun, folk opera for babies and grownups, 11am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Hallowe’en Spooktacular, 2pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Wayne Sleep, talk, Just Different, 2pm.

Tuesday 29 October
BATH, Forum, 10cc.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Boy and the Heron, animated film, 11am and 7.30p.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Drifters.
STREET, Strode Theatre, The Little Mermaid, the Fintastic Family Panto, 12.30 and 4.30pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Fairport Convention.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, 7.30.

Wednesday 30 October
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Box Tale Soup in Casting the Runes, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Trio Chagall, Haydn, Filidei, Robert Schumann, 1pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Fairport Convention, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, Squeeze with Badly Drawn Boy.
Old Vic, Weston Studio, Aakash Odedra Company in Little Murmur, dance theatre, to Sat, various day times.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Martin Simpson, guitar.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Warmduscher, jazz, funk, punk, disco, pogo.
HONITON, Beehive, Candlelight Theatre in The Silverdrake Academy for Witches and Wizards, 2pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Beethoven’s Emperor, BSO, cond Kevin John Edusi, Nelson Goerner, piano, Beethoven, Prokofiev.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Man of the World, the music of Peter Green.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Sh*tfaced Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 7.30.
 Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Godland.

Thursday 31 October
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Fidget Theatre in Football Freddie, 11.30am and 3pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Mark Bruce’s Frankenstein, with Jonathan Goddard, dance, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Haunt, Pray, Love, to Sat.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Practially Perfect Pictures in The Museum of Marvellous Things, storytelling, puppetry and songs, 11am and 2pm.
EXETER, University Great Hall, Beethoven’s Emperor, BSO, cond Kevin John Edusi, Nelson Goerner, piano, Beethoven, Prokofiev.
FROME, Merlin, Kairos Theatre in Blackadder II, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2pm.
HONITON, Beehive, Honiton Community Theatre in Alice in Wonderland, to Sat, 7pm, Sat mat 2.30.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, James Wilton Dance, The Four Seasons, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Colin Sutton, The Makings of a Murderer, 7.45.
Turner Sims, Sultan Stevenson, jazz piano, and his trio, 8pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Rock for Heroes.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Lost in Music – the original disco show, 7.30.

Friday 1 November
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Alyssa Kyria in Funny Mummy, and Sat, 7.30.
Forum, The Marvin Gaye Songbook with Nate Simpson.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Stephen Hough, piano, Chopin, Schumann, Hough, Liszt, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Lyme Bay Moonrakers, The Pull of the Tide, shanties, songs of the sea and new film, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Hugh Pascall Quintet, jazz, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, The Tannahill Weavers, Scottish traditional music, 7.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Blues Others, tribute.
Tree House, Omega Nebula.
HIGHCLIFFE, Community Centre,  Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Practically Perfect Pictures in The Museum of Marvellous Things, puppets, magic, storytelling etc, 1 and 3.30pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Rude Science Live, 1.30 and Sat 10.30am and 2.30pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Tom Waters, Electric People on Tour.
YEOVIL, Westlands, A Country Night in Nashville.

Saturday 2 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Polar Bear and Penguin, and Sun 11.30am and 3pm, Mon-Tues 10am and 1pm.
Forum, Simon Brodkin, Screwed Up, comedy, 8pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Claire Martin and Ray Gelato, jazz and swing, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Cente, Roustabout Theatre in Little Red Riding Could, family show, 2pm.
Electric Palace, Princess Live, 1pm and 4pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Robot Dreams, animated film, 10am: Andy Zaltzman, The Zaltgiest, comedy, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Thomas Hardye School Theatre,  Focus, with Thijs van Leer, 7.30.
FAWLEY, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
FROME, Tree House, Treacherous Cretins, Celebrate Zappa.
HALSTOCK, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, local band night from 7pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Noche Flamenca, 8pm.

Sunday 3 November
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bach to Baby, musical fireworks, 2pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Resonate: Bank of Dreams and Nightmares Lit Fest,  spoken word, 7pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Ivo Graham, Grand Design, comedy, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands, dance, at Cardiff Millennium Centre, and Mon, 2 and 7pm.
PLYMOUTH, Pavilions, Squeeze with Badly Drawn Boy.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, BSO, cond Pete Harrison, Symphonic Pink Floyd, 5pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, The Tannahill Weavers, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Lipstick on Your Collar, the 50s and 60s Show, 7.30.

Monday 4 November
BATH, Forum, The Vaccines.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Mary Poppins, to 30 Nov.
Wardrobe Theatre, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary, to Sat.
HAWKCHURCH, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, The Kala Chethena Kathakali Company, South Indian classical dance, 7.45.

Tuesday 5 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, Here You Come Again, new Dolly Parton musical, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2.30
Forum, Enya’s Watermark album with the Fulltone Orchestra.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Never Let Me Go, based on Ishiguro novel, to 23 Nov, 7.30, various mats 2.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Io Capitano, film, 7.30.
KINGSBURY EPISCOPI,  Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, Tilted Wig in Frankenstein, to Sat, 7.45, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, ex paratrooper Billy Billingham, Always a Little Further, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, & Juliet, the musical, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2pm.
MAST, Wonderboy, to Sat, 7pm, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Su Pollard, Still Fully Charged, comedy, 7.30.
YETMINSTER, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA

Wednesday 6 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Playing ON in Flock, and Thurs, 7pm.
Forum, Stuart Broad, cricketer, Reminiscing.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Dr John Cooper Clarke, 50 Years in Showbiz, performance poet, 7.30.
CHURCHINFORD, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
CODFORD ST PETER, Woolstore Theatre, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
FAREHAM, Fareham Live, BSO, cond  Chloe van Soeterstede, Alim Beisembayev piano, Rossini, Rachmaninov, Mascagni, Mendelssohn.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Legend, The Music of Bob Marley, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Trio Paradis, Money Money Money, 11am.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Street Theatre in Wyrd Sisters, to Sat,7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Kerry Ellis, Queen of the West End.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Beatnik Theatre in Elf – the Musical, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Monster.

Thursday 7 November
BATH, Forum, Ed Gamble, Hot Diggity Dog, comedy, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Ad Hoc Theatre in Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, and Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Peter Hook and The Light.
HONITON, Beehive, Budapest Cafe Orchestra, 7.30pm.
PLYMOUTH, Pavilions, The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Alexandra Shulman, former editor of Vogue, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, The BBC Singers, inc Joby Talbot’s Half of Miracles, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Lost Lady Society in The Saviour, comedy musical set in Yeovil fish and chip shop, 7.30.

Friday 8 November
BATH, Forum, Jimmy Carr, Laughs Funny, 7 and 9.30p.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Calan, Welsh folk, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Rheingans Sisters, folk, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Dorchester Arts 40th anniversary Ruby Gala, dinner dancing music, from 7pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Freddy and Queen Experience.
HANGING LANGFORD, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Soul Traders, soul and funk, 7.45.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Some Guys Have All the Luck – the Rod Stewart Story, 7.30.
Arts Centre, The Great Baldini’s Magic Cabaret, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Elio Pace in My Songbook, My Life.

Saturday 9 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, T4Garoupas and Carre Blanc Cie in Chiffonade, and Sun, 11.30 and 3pm.
Forum, An Afternoon with Guenther Steiner, former F1 Team Principal, 2pm: journalist and film maker Jon Ronson’s Psychopath Night, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, The Bristol Ensemble, Interstellar and The Planets, music by Hans Zimmer and Holst, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, BOVTS in Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin, to 16 Nov, 8pm, Thurs/Sat mats 3pm.
FROME, Merlin, Rob Beckett, work in progress, comedy, 8pm.
Cheese and Grain, The Smyths.
HONITON, Beehive, Wolf Witch Giant Fairy,  family folk opera from Covent Garden, 4pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, Symphonic BeeGees.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Blazin’ Fiddles, 7.30.
Arts Centre, Live/Wire, the AC/DC show, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Sherlock Jnr and the Navigator, two 1924 Buster Keaton silent films with live music from Meg Morley, piano, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, 3 Daft Monkeys, folk and global music, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Exhibition on Screen, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Nick Heyward and band.

Sunday 10 November
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Cantamus Chamber Choir, 25th anniversary with MD Michael Daniels, Purcell and Handel, 7pm.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace,The Phantom of the Opera, recorded at Royal Albert Hall, 2pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Shaun Ryder.
STREET, Strode Theatre, ABBA Sensation, tribute, 7pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Queenz Drag Me to the Disco, 7.30.

Monday 11 November
BEAMINSTER, Public Rooms, Vindication Swim.MOVIOLA
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Exhibition on Screen, Van Gogh : Poets and Lovers, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
CHILTHORNE DOMER, Village Hall, Swede Caroline.MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rock the Tots, Magic, 11am and 2pm: Mishra, global folk band, 7.30.
ODCOMBE, Village Hall, Wilding.MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, The Overtones, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Armonico Consort, They Shall Not Grow Old, 7.30.

Tuesday 12 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, Felicity Kendal in Filumena, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thur/Sat mats 2.30.
Forum, Midge Ure, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Censure and Confines, double bill of films directed by local film-maker Richard Bazley, 7.30pm.
MEMBURY, (Devon), Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
NORTON sub HAMDON, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Catfish Keith.
WINSFORD, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA

Wednesday 13 November
BATH, Forum, Squeeze, 50th anniversary tour, with Badly Drawn Boy, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Voices for Life, with local primary school children and the Voices for Life Children’s Choir, dir Kate Courage, and Fri, 6.30.
BRANSGORE, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Richard Leigh Harris, piano, Baroque to Gershwin and Grainger, 1pm: Joachim Cooder, world music,  7.30.
EXETER, Cathedral,  War Horse, concert and reading with Michael Morpurgo and Ben Murray, keyboards and accordian, 7pm.
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, Linoleum,  8pm.
Cheese and Grain, Cara Dillon, Coming Home, talking about her book and singing, 7pm.
LYME REGIS, Marine Theatre, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Enyi Okpara, Julian Bliss clarinet, Rossini, Mozart, Mascagni, Mendelssohn.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Welsh National Opera in Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, Puccini one-act operas, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, INKlings, open mic and scratch performances, poetry, storytelling, rap, hip hop, 7.45.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Colosseum with Chris Farlowe.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Piano Nights, local pianists, FREE, 7pm.

Thursday 14 November
BATH, Forum, Seasick Steve, A Trip, A Stumble, A Fall Down on your Knees, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary, comedy, 7.30.
Electric Palace, Fleetwood Bac, tribute, 8.30.
FROME, Tree House, Sack, Dublin band.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Cara Dillon, with Sam Lakeman and band, Coming Home, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Welsh National Opera in Verdi’s Rigoletto, 7.30, and Sat 3pm.
Turner Sims, N’Famady  Kouyate, balafon West African xylophone, African jazz, funk fusion, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Candlelit Macbeth, for students, 7.30.
TRENT, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Hambledon Productions in Hancock’s Half Hour – the Lost TV Episodes.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Puppini Sisters, 20th anniversary tour, 7.30: Lounge Bar, The Saviour, a chip-shop play with songs, FREE, 7.30.

Friday 15 November
BATH, Forum, Whitney, Queen of the Night.
BOURNEMOUTH, BIC, The Australian Pink Floyd Show.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, The Berkeley Ensemble, Mussorgsky, Schubert and Ferguson, 11.30am: Swing from Paris, jazz, 8pm.
Electric Palace, Comedy Store, 7.30.
CHEDDON and WEST MONKTON, Village Hall, Wilding.MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Wondergigs, Space, 10am and 11.30am: Harriet Kemsley, Everything Always Works Out for Me, comedy, 8pm.
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, FilmCrew, The Teachers’ Lounge.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary, comedy, 7.30.
FROGHAM, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Walk Right Back – The Everly Brothers Story.
Cheese and Grain, One Night in Nashville.
ILMINSTER, Arts Centre, Concerts in the West, The Berkeley Ensemble, Mussorgsky, Schubert and Ferguson, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Ivo Graham, Grand Design, comedy, 7.30.
Arts Centre, Pierre Novellie, Why Are You Laughing? comedy, 7.30.
SIXPENNY HANDLEY, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Welsh National Opera in Opera Favourites at the Movies, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Katie Spencer, Yorkshire folk singer songwriter, 8pm.
WAREHAM, Lady St Mary Church, BSO Strings, cond Enyi Okpara, Karl Jenkins, Carl Neilsen, Jessie Montgomery, Gershwin, Dame Ethel Smyth, Myroslav Skyork and Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Tennessee Country Christmas.
YEOVIL, Westlands, The Amy Winehouse Band, 7.30.

Saturday 16 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Ascension Dance in Early Waves, and Sun 11.30am and 3pm.
Forum, Randall Munroe, former NASA robot expert, in What If?, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Trowbridge Symphony Orchestra with Mathew Penrose, cello, Brahms and Dvorak, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Bridport Big Band, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, BOVTS in Little Wren and the Autumn Moon, 10.30am.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Eleanor McEvoy, Irish folk, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, The Dance House, Concerts in the West, The Berkeley Ensemble, Mussorgsky, Schubert and Ferguson, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, This Flight Tonight, Joni Mitchell tribute with Zervas and Pepper, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Rock the Tots – Magic, 2pm.
Memorial Theatre, Showwaddywaddy.
Cheese and Grain, Craig Charles’ Funk and Soul House Party.
Tree House, Motorheadache.
HONITON, Beehive, Honiton Comedy Club, first event, with Joe Thomas, 7.30.
PILL, Memorial Club, Living Spit in There’s Something About Typhoid Mary.
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Hermoine Norris talks to Matthew Stadlen, 7.30.
Arts Centre, Kathleen Ferrier: Whattalife!, with Lucy Stevens, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Tord Gustavsen Trio, jazz, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Beach Boyz, tribute, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Upbeat Beatles.

Sunday 17 November
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bath Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Calver, cello, Elgar, Hindemith, 3pm.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Shaparak Khorsandi, Scattered, comedy, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Adventures in Science, 11.30am: From the Roof of the World, Tashi Lhunpo Monks, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Lucy Stevens, actress and contralto,  in Whattalife!, the story of Kathleen Ferrier, 2pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Think Floyd.
Tree House, Naima Bock, singer songwriter.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra with Imelda May, blues guitarist Toby Lee, Ruby Turner and drummer Gilson Lavis, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Mid Somerset Orchestra, cond Hitoshi Suzuki, with Neil Howianz, narrator, Saint Saens, Rimsky Korsakov, Grieg and Elgar Enigma Variations, with Elgar’s friends, 3pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Jack Dee, Small World, comedy.

Monday 18 November
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Mark Smith, antiques expert, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, The Haunting of Hill House, to Sat.

Tuesday 19 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ghost the Musical, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thur/Sat mats 2.30.
Forum, Bath Phil, cond Jason Thornton, Jess Gillam, saxophone, Vaughan Williams, Balakirev, Glazunov and young British composers Sarah Lianne Lewis and Aaron Buckley-Mantell, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Four Daughters, film, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Chicago, to Sat, 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2pm.

Wednesday 20 November
BATH, Forum, The Libertines.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bach Brandenberg Concertos, 2,6,3 and 4, 7.pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, That They May Face the Rising Sun, Irish film, 7.30, and Thurs 11am.
MOTCOMBE, Village Hall, The Fall Guy.MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Nicholas McCarthy piano, Wagner, Ravel, Walton.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, SJP Theatre in The Hound of the Baskervilles, to Sat, 7.15: Fern Brady in I Gave You Milk to Drink, comedy, 8pm.
Turner Sims,  TS at 50 – A World of Music Shared, with Federico Colli, piano, Zoe Rachman, jazz piano, The Piatti Quartet and Tunde Jegede, kora, with The Voyages of the Heart Ensemble, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Josienne Clarke, folk singer songwriter, 7.45.
WEYMOUTH, College Bay Theatre, Dorset Born in Fort, new play, 7.30.
WHITCHURCH, Village Hall, Swede Caroline.MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Ed Byrne, Tragedy plus Time, comedy, 7.30.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Dancing in the Streets, Motown’s Greatest Hits, 7.30.

Thursday 21 November
BATH, Forum, Bellowhead.
BRISTOL, Beacon, BSO, cond Mark Wigglesworth, Nicholas McCarthy piano, Wagner, Ravel, Walton.
O2 Academy, Lightning Seeds.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Paul Foot, Disolve, comedy, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Frome Drama in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, to Sat, 7.30.
HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, Christine Collister, folk, songs from Children of the Sea project, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Sounds of the 60s with The Zoots, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, T-Rextasy.

Friday 22 November
BATH, Forum, The Magic of Motown.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Big Jazz Weekend, to Sun, various times.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Girl from the North Country, the Broadway performance, 7pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Amy Gledhill, Make Me Look Fit in the Poster, comedy, 8pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Roni Size.
HONITON, Beehive, The Upbeat Beatles, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, DeNada Dance Theatre in Mariposa, Caribbean reworking of Madam Butterfly, and Sat, 7.45.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, UK Pink Floyd Experiece.
WINTERSLOW, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
YEOVIL, Westlands, Simon Brodkin, Screwed Up, comedy, 7.30.

Saturday 23 November
BATH, Forum, Get it On, the Glam Rock Show.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Solo Yo, Salud Botella, flamenco dance and theatre, 7.30pm.
Electric Palace, Andy Zaltzman in The Zaltgeist, comedy, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Christine Collister, folk, 7.30.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Trextasy – the Greatest Hits.
Cheese and Grain, Frome 80s Festival, with Martin Kemp, from 3pm.
Tree House, Sham 69.
HONITON, Beehive, Tosca with Lise Davidsen,  Freddie de Tommaso and Quinn Kelsey, from the Metropolitan Opera, 6pm.
RINGWOOD, Greyfriars,  Vindication Swim, 2.30 and 7.30pm. MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Russell Hicks, Happy to Be Here, comedy, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, The Rheingans Sisters, folk, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Phil Beer Trio, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Lise Davidsen as Tosca live from the Metropolitan Opera, 5pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Good Evening, Mr Bouble, tribute.

Sunday 24 November
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge House, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society 80th anniversary year,Piatti String Quartet, Moeran, Fanny Mendelssohn, Schubert, 3pm.
02 Academy, The Wailers, 40th anniversary of Legend.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Karen Wimhurst with Jump, live music and field recordings and film of insects and amphibians, 2pm.

Monday 25 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, Birdsong, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
BRISTOL, Tobacco Factory, Living Spit’s A Christmas Carol, to 7 Dec, and from 9 Dec to 5 Jan 2025, various times.
CIRENCESTER, Barn Theatre, The Three Musketeers, to 4 Jan.

Tuesday 26 November
BATH, Forum, Monty Don, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Wicked Little Letters, film, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Paul Jones and Dave Kelly, blues.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Crown Ballet in The Nutcracker, 7.30.

Wednesday 27 November
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Manran, Scottish folk, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre,Vita Nova Theatre in Heath, dance theatre inspired by King Lear, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Mark Thomas, Gaffa Tapes, comedy, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Chloe van Soeterstede, Alena Baeva violin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Searchers Experience, with Spencer James.

Thursday 28 November
BATH, Forum, Don’t Stop Believin’ – The End of the Night Anthems show.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre,  Comedy Night with Ben Treloar, Roger Monkhouse and Suzy Bennett, 8pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Wilding, documentary film, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Carbon Theatre in Bright Places, three woman show about multiple sclerosis, 7.30.
EXETER, University Great Hall, BSO, cond Chloe van Soeterstede, Alena Baeva violin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms.
|HONITON, Beehive, Ladies in Lavender, 2004 film, dementia friendly screening, 2pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, English National Ballet in The Nutcracker, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2pm.
Turner Sims, Erland Cooper, electronic and classical fusions, 8pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Moving Pictures, a tribute to Rush.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Talon – The Best of the Eagles, 7.30.

Friday 29 November
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Robin Hood, to 11 Jan: Snow Mouse, for 6 months to 4 years, to 5 Jan.
Forum, The Magic of the BeeGees.
BISHOPSTONE, nr Salisbury, Village Hall, Vindication Swim.MOVIOLA
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Mark Thomas, Gaffa Tapes, comedy, 8pm.
EAST STOUR, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
FROME, Merlin, Open Story Tellers in Through the Front Door, 7pm.
Memorial Theatre, Born to Swing – the Christmas Spectacular, with Andrew Bourn.
Cheese and Grain, Dreadzone.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Barnstormers Comedy, 8pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Instant Wit, comedy improv, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Hometown Glory, candlelit concert tribute to Adele by Natalie Black, 7.30.
WESTBURY sub MENDIP, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Talon, the Best of the Eagles.

Saturday 30 November
BATH, Forum, Cirque, The Greatest Show, 3 and 7pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, The Sounds of Simon, with Ben Bowden and Adam Ellis, video clips, stories and memories of Simon and Garfunkel, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Tosca with Lise Davidsen,  Freddie de Tommaso and Quinn Kelsey, from the Metropolitan Opera, 6pm.
Electric Palace, The Wurzels Christmas Show, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Mark Simmons, Quip of the Mark, comedy, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, Kris Nock Big Band in Video Games in Concert, 7.30.
Memorial Theatre, One Night of Queen.
Cheese and Grain, The Brand New Heavies.
Tree House, Amy – A Tribute.
HONITON, Beehive, The Alta Eagles, 7.30.
MARTOCK, Parish Hall, The Holdovers. MOVIOLA
NETHERBURY, Village Hall, Vindication Swim.MOVIOLA
SALISBURY, Playhouse, Sleeping Beauty, to 12 Jan, various times.
Arts Centre, Women in Rock, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, Fort, ghost story set on North Dorset hillfort, 7pm.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Moscow Drug Club, 8pm.

Sunday 1 December
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg,  Guy Masterson in A Christmas Carol, solo show, and 16th and 20th December, 2.30 and 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival, documentary film, 7.30.
Electric Palace,Wessex Military Band Winter concert, 3pm.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, GreenMatthews in Midwinter Revels, folk songs and storytelling, 2pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Damn Truth.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Fairytale of New York, Irish-inspired Christmas concert, 7pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Castaway Theatre, A Christmas Spectacular, 7pm.

Monday 2 December
BATH, Theatre Royal, Sasha Regan’s all male The Pirates of Penzance, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mat 2.30.
Forum, Down for the Count Orchestra Swing into Christmas, 7.30.
BEAMINSTER, Public Rooms, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
HAWKCHURCH, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.

Tuesday 3 December
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Made in England, Martin Scorcese documentary about Powell and Pressburger, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Evil Does Not Exist, film, 7.30.
KINGSBURY EPISCOPI, Village Hall, Swede Caroline.MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, ELF – the Musical, to Sat, 7pm, Thurs/Sat mats 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Colin Baker and Peter Purves in A Christmas Carol, a radio play live on stage, 7.30.

Wednesday 4 December
BATH, Forum, Rat Pack – A Swingin’ Christmas, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Antoine Preat, piano, Faure, Rameau, Debussy, Haydn, Prokofiev, 1pm.
CHURCHINFORD, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Nobody Has to Know, film, 7.30, and Thurs 11am.
HONITON, Beehive, The Lympstone Military Wives Choir at Christmas, 7pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse,  Nutcracker Magic, BSO, cond Wigglesworth, Boris Gilburg piano, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Christmas Show, Tues to Sun, to 14 Dec, various day times.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Trio Paradis, Seasonal Music, 11am.
STREET, Strode Theatre, West Side Story with Wells Cathedral School students, to Sat, 7pm, Fri mat 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Marty Wilde and the Wildcats.

Thursday 5 December
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, A Christmas Carol: The Radio Play with Colin Baker and Peter Purves, live show, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, The Little Mermaid, to 11 Jan, various times.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, GreenMatthews, Mid Winter Revels, festive folk music, 7.30,
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, Nutcracker Magic, BSO, cond Wigglesworth, Boris Gilburg piano, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Guy Masterson in A Christmas Carol, solo play, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, The Elias String Quartet with Robin Ireland, violin, Mozart and Sally Beamish, 7.30.
STURMINSTER NEWTON, The Exchange, Living Spit’s A Christmas Carol.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Platinum, the live ABBA tribute show.

Friday 6 December
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Jeeves Takes Charge, solo show with Sam Harrison playing 22 characters,  to 4 January, various evenings and matinees.
Forum, Fast Love, George Michael tribute, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, A Winter Union, folk with Hannah Sanders, Ben Savage, and members of The Willows and Gilmore and Roberts, seasonal folk, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Old Vic, Weston Studio, Little Red (and other Winter Tales), to 12 Jan, various day times.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Dyad Theatre in A Christmas Carol, solo show, 7.30.
FROME, Merlin, A Christmas Carol – The Musical, Broadway adaptation, to 14 Dec, various times.
Cheese and Grain, ABBA Reunion.
Tree House, Planet Janet, seasonal spectacular of Spectre Christmas favourites.
HIGHCLIFFE, Community Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, University of Southampton Voices, dir Harvey Brough, with local childrens’ choirs and musicians, The Bells of Paradise, carols and Christmas songs from around the world and through the ages, 7.30.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Showaddywaddy.

Saturday 7 December
BATH, Forum, Kate Rusby, the Winter Light tour, folk, 7pm.
BEAULIEU, Abbey Church, Music at Beaulieu, New Forest Children’s Choir and New Foreste Chamber Choir, festive favourites, 7pm.
BRISTOL, Hippodrome, Goldilocks and the Three Bears with Brian Conley, David Robbins and Lucy Conley, to 5 Jan.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Johnny Coppin, All on a Winters Night, 7.30.
FROME, Memorial Theatre, That’ll Be the Day – So This is Christmas.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Fleetwood Bac.
SOUTHAMPTON, Turner Sims, Southampton Concert Orchestra, Dvorak, Stravinsky, and world premiere of Judith Bailey’s Sea of Atlas, 7.30.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, James Kirby, folk, blues and rock, 8pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Andre Rieu Christmas concert, live on screen, Silver and Gold, 2.30 and Sun 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, The Counterfiet Stones.

Sunday 8 December
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Christmas with the Symphonic Brass of London, 3pm.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, The Last Baguette in A Winter’s Tail, playalong theatre adventures, 10am and 11am.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Forest Forge Travelling Players in A Christmas Carol, 2.30pm.
WOOKEY HOLE, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA

Monday 9 December
BATH, Forum, The Holiday, film, with live orchestra, 7.30.
CHILTHORNE DOMER, Village Hall, Vindication Swim. MOVIOLA
ODCOMBE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
SHREWTON, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA

Tuesday 10 December
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club, Jameson Road, Charley’s Aunt, to Sat, 7.30, Sat mat 2.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Kneecap, film, 7.30.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Street Theatre in A Vicar of Dibley Christmas – The Second Coming, to Fri, 7.30: Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, live from the Royal Ballet, 7.15 and Sun 2pm.
WINSFORD, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA

Wednesday 11 December
BATH, Forum, Disney’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, film with live orchestra, 7pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, from the Royal Ballet, 7.15pm.
BRANSGORE, Village Hall, The Fall Guy. MOVIOLA
BRISTOL, Cathedral, Christmas with Jethro Tull.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Phillip Leslie, piano, Suk, Chopin, Schumann, 1pm: The Holdovers, film, 7.30, and Thurs 11am.
EAST KNOYLE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Handel’s Messiah.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, The Holdovers.

Thursday 12 December
BATH, Theatre Royal,  Jon Monie and Nick Wilton in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to 12 Jan.
Forum, Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra with Marc Almond, blues guitarist Toby Lee, and Gilson Lavis, etc, 7.30.
BRISTOL, Beacon, The Damned.
DONHEAD ST MARY, Village Hall, Wicked Little Letters. MOVIOLA
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange,  Carbaret with Claus, with Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes, 7.30pm.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Milton Jones in Ha!Milton, comedy, 7pm.
HONITON, Beehive, Mad Dog Mcrea, 7.30.
SALISBURY, Cathedral, Christmas with Jethro Tull, 7.30.
Arts Centre, The Magic of Terry Pratchett with author and comedian Marc Burrowson, 7.30.
SHEPTON MONTAGUE, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
TRENT, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA

Friday 13 December
BATH, Forum, The Rocket Man, Elton John tribute, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, Ha!Milton Jones, comedy, 7.30.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Moscow Drug Club, 7.30.
CREWKERNE, Wadham School, FilmCrew, The Holdovers.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, UK Subs.
Tree House, The Beatles Dub Club.
HANGING LANGFORD, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
HONITON, Beehive, St Agnes Fountain, folk, 7.30.
NORTON ST PHILIP, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to 11 Jan.
SOUTHAMPTON, O2 Guildhall, The Damned.
WEST CAMEL, Davis Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA
YEOVIL, Westlands, Jack and the Beanstalk, to 5 Jan, various day and evening times.

Saturday 14 December
BATH, Forum, Bath Phil, cond Jason Thornton, The Snowman, film, and othe seasonal music, 3.30pm.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, The Bevan Family Consort, festive favourites, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre, Squashbox Theatre in Christmassy Christmas Show of Christmassy Christmasness, 2pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Filskit Theatre in Little Robin Red Vest, 11am: Caoilfhionn Rose, Irish folk, 7.30.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, Rhythm of the 90s.
HONITON, Beehive, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, BSO, cond Teresa Barlow, The Snowman, 3 and 7pm.
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Jack and the Beanstalk, with Ashley Banjo and Diversity, Kev Orkian, Matt Rixon and Lauren Hampton, to 5 Jan, various times.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, St Agnes Fountain, Christmas folk, 8pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to 5 Jan, various times.

Monday 16 December
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Rock the Tots, Christmas, 11am and 2pm.

Tuesday 17 December
BATH, Forum, Love Actually, film with live orchestra, 7.30
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Phoenix Brass, Christmas concert, 7.30.

Wednesday 18 December
BATH, Forum, The Rick Wakeman Yuletide Christmas Show, with Adam Wakeman and Molly Marriott, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, Waynne Kwon, cello, Bach, Crumb, 1pm: The Nutcracker, from the Royal Ballet, 7.15pm and Sun, 10am.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Wondergigs, Christmas, 10am and 11.30am.
FROME, Cheese and Grain, The Sweet.
WHITCHURCH, Village Hall, Wilding. MOVIOLA

Thursday 19 December
BATH, Forum, The Massed Bands of His Majesty’s Royal Marines Christmas Spectacular, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Arts Centre,  Opera Up Close in Opera Cocktail, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, etc, 3pm and 7.30pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, The Last Baguette in A Winter’s Tail, and Fri, 10 and 11.30am.
EXETER, University Great Hall, Last Night of the Christmas Proms, BSO with Joe Stilgoe.
HONITON, Beehive, A Christmas Story, 1983 film, dementia friendly screening, 2pm.
WIMBORNE, Tivoli, Cregan and Co.

Friday 20 December
BATH, Forum, Comedy Live at Christmas, with Sara Pascoe, Tim Key, Jamali Maddix and Ivo Graham, 7.30.
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, A Swingin’ Christmas with Joe Pettitt and the LP Swing Orchestra, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace,  The Comedy Store, 7.30.
CHEDDON and WEST MONKTON, Village Hall, Swede Caroline.MOVIOLA
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Avalon Comedy Network Christmas show, 7.30.
DORCHESTER, Corn Exchange, Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir, dir. Jonathan Willcocks, Noel Noel, 7.30.
HONITON, Beehive, Theatrix Arts in The Snow Queen, puppetry, 11am and 2pm.
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, Last Night of the Christmas Proms, BSO with Joe Stilgoe.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Festive Barnstormers Comedy, 8pm.
SIXPENNY HANDLEY, Village Hall, Swede Caroline. MOVIOLA
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, Bare Jams, pop, rock and soul, 8pm.
YEOVIL, Westlands, Back to the 80s Big Christmas Party, 8pm.

Saturday 21 December
BATH, Forum, Step Into Christmas, seasonal musical favourites, 7.30.
BRIDPORT, Electric Palace, The Nutcracker, from the Royal Ballet, 2pm.
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Frozen, singalong film, 11m: Swan Lake from the Royal Ballet (2018), 7pm.
FROME, Merlin, Frome Town Band, Christmas Spectacular, 7pm.
POOLE, Lighthouse, Last Night of the Christmas Proms, BSO with Joe Stilgoe.
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, Boot-Led-Zeppelin, 7.30.

Sunday 22 December
BRADFORD ON AVON, Wiltshire Music Centre, The GBH Big Band with singer Emma Smith, 7.30.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAST, The Wind in the Willows, Toad’s Big Musical Adventure, set along banks of Test and in New Forest, with a cast of 50 young performers, to 31 Dec, various times.
Turner Sims, Down for the Count Orchestra, Swing Into Christmas, 2.30 and 7.30pm.
STREET, Strode Theatre, Peter Pan, to 31 Dec, various times: The Nutcracker, from the Royal Ballet, 5.15, and Mon 11am and Sun 29th at 2.30pm.

Monday 23 December
CORSHAM, Pound Arts, Father Christmas, storytelling, and 24th, 11am, 2 and 4pm: Gav Cross, The Monkey’s Paw and More, seasonal horror stories, 7.30.
POOLE, Lighthouse, B A Celebration of Christmas Carols, BSO, Bournemouth Symphony and Youth choruses, cond Gavin Carr.

Saturday 28 December
FROME, Memorial Theatre, Frome Musical Theatre Company in Sleeping Beauty, to 4 Jan, various day and evening times.

Tuesday 31 December
SALISBURY, Arts Centre, The Deloreans New Year Party, 8.30 onwards.
SOUTH PETHERTON, David Hall, New Year’s Eve ceilidh with Crooked Furrow, 8.30 onwards.

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2025

Wednesday 8 January
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, Perfect Days, Wim Wenders,  8pm.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.

Friday 10 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Egg, Midnight Mole, 6 months to 4 years, to 9 Feb.

Thursday 16 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, Martin Shaw in A Man for All Seasons, to 25 Jan, Mon-Sat 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.

Tuesday 28 January
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ghost Stories, to Sat, various times.

Wednesday 29 January
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, The Teachers’ Lounge.

Tuesday 4 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, BODS in Oklahoma!, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club, Jameson Road, The Killing of Sister George, to Sat.

Monday 10 February
BATH, Theatre Royal,Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.

Wednesday 12 February
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, Fallen Leaves, Finnish film, 8pm.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, The Taste of Things.

Sunday 16 February
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge House, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society 80th anniversary year, Zoe Tweed, horn, Julian Chan, piano, Piazzolla, Kirchner, Satie, Schumann, Koechlin, Damase, Plagge, Dukas, Bowen, Street/Tweed,  3pm.

Monday 17 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, Tall Stories in The Gruffalo, to Sun, various day times.

Tuesday 18 February
BATH, Theatre Royal,  Giovanna Fletcher in The Girl on the Train, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thurs/Sat mats 3pm: The Egg, Polka and Theatr Iolo in Tiday, to Dat, 11.30am and 3pm.

Sunday 23 February
PORTSMOUTH, Guildhall, Fish, Road to the Isles, the Farewell Tour.

Tuesday 25 February
BATH, Theatre Royal, Boys from the Blackstuff, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thur/Sat mats, 2.30.

Wednesday 26 February
BRISTOL, Beacon, Fish, Road to the Isles, the Farewell Tour.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Perfect Days.

Monday 3 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, The Shark is Broken, from Broadway, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.

Wednesday 5 March
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Close Your Eyes.

Tuesday 11 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, Murder on the Orient Express, to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Thur/Sat mats 2.30.

Wednesday 12 March
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Georgian film,  8pm.

Tuesday 18 March
SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower, Hamilton, to Saturday 26 April.

Saturday 22 March
BATH, Theatre Royal, world premiere of Alfred Hitchcock Presents – The Musical, to 12 April, Mon-Sat 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.

Sunday 23 March
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge House, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society 80th anniversary year, Ensemble Renard wind quartet, Mozart, Barber, Mendelssohn, Loeonad, Martin Butler, Judith Weir, Paul Taffanel, 3pm.

Wednesday 2 April
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Conversations with My Gardener.

Sunday 6 April
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge House, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society 80th anniversary year, Ashley Wass, piano, Liszt, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Satie, Faure, Mompou, Debussy, Franck, 3pm.

Tuesday 8 April
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club, Jameson Road, The Importance of Being Earnest, to Sat.

Wednesday 9 April
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, Robot Dreams, animated film,  8pm.

Monday 14 April
BATH, Theatre Royal, Pride and Prejudice* (sort of),   to Sat, 7.30, Wed/Sat mats 2.30.

Wednesday 16 April
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Showing Up.

Sunday 27 April
BOURNEMOUTH, University, Kimmeridge House, Bournemouth Chamber Music Society 80th anniversary year,Trio Shaham-Erez-Wallfisch, Mozart, Shostakovich, Ravel, 3pm.

Sunday 4 May
BRISTOL, Marble Factory, Kula Shaker, Natural Magic.

Monday 5 May
BOURNEMOUTH, O2 Academy, Kula Shaker, Natural Magic.

Wednesday 7 May
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Io Capitano.

Wednesday 14 May
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, The Settlers,  Chilean film, 8pm.

Tuesday 10 June
BOURNEMOUTH, Little Theatre Club, Jameson Road, Humble Boy, to Sat.

Wednesday 11 June
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, Banel and Adama, Senegalese film,  8pm.
YEOVIL, Swan Theatre, Cinematheque, Fallen Leaves.

Friday 27 June
BATH, Theatre Royal, Ralph Fiennes in Grace Pervades, to 19 July.

Wednesday 9 July
FROME, Merlin, Frome Film Club, Made in England, Martin Scorcese tribute to Powell and Pressburger,  8pm.

Friday 25 July
BATH, Theatre Royal Ustinov Studio, Lily Allen in Hedda, to 23 Aug, Mon-Sat 7.30, Thurs/Sat mats 2.30.

Tuesday 30 July 2025
PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal, Hamilton, to Saturday 6 September.

Friday 15 August
BATH, Theatre Royal, Harriet Walter and Gloria Obianyo in As You Like It, to 30 Aug.

 

Sunday 5 October 2025
CARDIFF, Utilita Arena, Simply Red, 40th anniversary tour.