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What's on: 17 May 2008

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Aberystwyth ↑

Arts Centre: Rui Horta - Scope

Barking ↑

Broadway: Jive Talkin’ - The Bee Gees Story (reviewed)

Barnsley ↑

Ardsley Oaks Club: Stipe - Imitation of R.E.M

Barnstaple ↑

Queen’s: Danny the Champion of the World

Basingstoke ↑

Anvil: Crazy for You

Haymarket: Spies (reviewed)

Bath ↑

Rondo: I’ll be Bert

Theatre Royal: The 39 Steps - tour (reviewed)

Theatre Royal, Egg: Aesop’s Fables

Belfast ↑

Grand Opera House: Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision 2008

Billingham ↑

Forum: All You Need is Love

Birmingham ↑

Alexandra: Thriller Live

DanceXchange at the Patrick Centre: Action

Hippodrome: Doctor Dolittle (reviewed)

Repertory: How to Tell the Monsters from the Misfits; We Must Eat Our Lollipops With the Wrappers On

Blackpool ↑

Grand: It’s a Knockout

Pleasure Beach Arena: Hot Ice 2008 (reviewed)

Blackwood ↑

Miner’s Institute: Independent Ballet Wales - Romeo and Juliet

Blaunau Gwent ↑

EBBW Vale Leisure Centre: Black Watch

Bolton ↑

Octagon: Meet the Mukherjees (reviewed)

Bracknell ↑

South Hill Park Arts Centre: Jo Brand

Bradford ↑

St George’s Concert Hall: Brainiac Live!

Brentford ↑

Watermans Arts Centre: A Portrait of Shazia; Patiala Junction (Punjabi language)

Bristol ↑

Arnolfini: Tim Crouch - England

Hippodrome: Sinatra - 2008

Bromley ↑

Churchill: And Then There Were None

Bury St Edmunds ↑

Athenaeum: Shakespeare - As You Like Him

Corn Exchange: Ian Billings - Talking Pants! (reviewed)

Theatre Royal: Ballet Ireland - Wilde Extravaganza

Buxton ↑

Opera House: Daisy Pulls It Off

Caistor ↑

Town Hall: The Farm (reviewed)

Canterbury ↑

Greyfriars Chapel Gardens: The Taming of the Shrew

Cardiff ↑

Jongleurs: Mike Wilkinson/Smug Roberts/Curtis Walker

Sherman: The Man Who Planted Trees

Cardigan ↑

Theatr Mwldan: New English Contemporary Ballet - Mixed Bill (reviewed)

Cheltenham ↑

Everyman: War and Peace (reviewed)

Chesterfield ↑

Pomegranate: Strangers on a Train

Chichester ↑

Minerva: Funny Girl (reviewed)

Clacton-On-Sea ↑

West Cliff: Down Town Dancing

Coleraine ↑

Riverside: And the Band Plays On - A Celebration of Free

Coventry ↑

Warwick Arts Centre: English Touring Opera - Don Giovanni (reviewed); Paul Merton’s Impro Chums

Croydon ↑

Ashcroft: Copacabana

Warehouse: Clocked (reviewed)

Darlington ↑

Civic: South Pacific (reviewed)

Dartford ↑

Miskin: The Insect Play

Dundee ↑

Repertory: Buddy Holly and The Cricketers - Buddy Holly’s Official 50th Anniversary Tour 2008; Red Riding Hood’s Magic Purse

East kilbride ↑

Village Theatre: I’ll Get My Man

Eastbourne ↑

Congress: The Wedding Singer (reviewed)

Edinburgh ↑

Festival: Scottish Ballet - Romeo and Juliet

Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar: Jay Sodagar/ Chris Forbes/ Jane Walker/ David Connor/ Jeff O’Boyle/ Kirsty Moss/ Bunstan McFunkstan/ Rick Molland/ Jojo Sutherland

Royal Lyceum: Trumpets and Raspberries (reviewed)

Exeter ↑

Northcott: Phoenix Dance Theatre

Glasgow ↑

Ramshorn: This Is Our Youth

Theatre Royal: Scottish Opera - Falstaff

Tron: The Drawer Boy

Guildford ↑

Yvonne Arnaud: The English Game (reviewed)

Yvonne Arnaud, Mill Studio: Fiddlesticks; Stan Laurel: Please Stand Up (reviewed)

Halifax ↑

Square Chapel: Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers 2008

Havant ↑

Arts Centre: The Terrible Infants - Extended Version

High Wycombe ↑

Swan: Single Spies

Hove ↑

Sanctuary: Bite-Size - lunch hour; Open Wide

Huddersfield ↑

Lawrence Batley: Silly Billy (reviewed)

Hull ↑

Hull Truck: Hull Truck Theatre Company - Two

New: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Kilmarnock ↑

Palace: The Wasp Factory (reviewed)

Kingston-Upon-Thames ↑

Laughing Horse: Charlie Baker/ Anthony Miller/ Matthew Bayliss/ Ben Hayman/ Laurence Tuck/ Peter Teckman/ Roanna Dalziel/ Jane Hill

Lancaster ↑

Dukes: Vapours, Viaducts and Velocity

Grand: Jenny Eclair - Because I Forgot to Get a Pension

Leeds ↑

Carriageworks: Memoirs of a Sofa Bed; Plastic Parenting

Grand Theatre and Opera House: Opera North - Romeo et Juliet

West Yorkshire Playhouse: Fast Labour (reviewed); Hapgood (reviewed)

Lichfield ↑

Garrick: Shirley Valentine; Tom and the Waterbabies

Lincoln ↑

Theatre Royal: Big Bad Mouse

Liverpool ↑

Everyman: Story of a Rabbit (reviewed)

Playhouse: Tartuffe (reviewed)

Prohibition Bar: Rawhide Comedy

Royal Court: On the Ledge (reviewed)

Llandudno ↑

Venue Cymru: Angelina’s Star Performance (reviewed)

Llanelli ↑

Theatr Elli: The Lazy Ant

London ↑

Adelphi: Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (reviewed)

Albany: Fewer Emergencies

Aldwych: Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage (reviewed)

Apollo: The Vortex (reviewed)

Apollo, Hammersmith: Dara O’Briain - 2008

Apollo, Victoria: Wicked (reviewed)

Arcola: The Lady From the Sea (reviewed); The Only Girl in the World - A Play of Jack the Ripper (reviewed)

Arts: Laugh Off; Tell Me…Lies (reviewed)

BAC: Internal; Just To(o) Long; Rosie Dennis - Hitting a Brick Wall/Love Song Dedication; The 14 stations inthe Life and History of Adrian Howells

Barbican: Boris Godunov

Barbican, Pit: In Spitting Distance

Baron’s Court: Pride and Prejudice

Blue Elephant: Hide and Seek

Broadway: Revenge of a Black Woman

Bush: Tinderbox (reviewed)

Cambridge: Chicago 2008

Canal Cafe: NewsRevue; The Shawl (reviewed)

Central Park: Zippos Circus - Viva Espana (reviewed)

Cinema on the Haymarket: Brief Encounter (reviewed)

Cock Tavern: John Lenahan/ Steve Weiner/ Vikki Stone/ Chris Neill/ Roland Muldoon

Corner Store: Al Pitcher/Marian Pashley/Matt Blaize/Craig Murray

Courtyard: Spring Awakening; Spring Awakening; Trojan Whores (reviewed); Two

Criterion: The 39 Steps

Dominion: We Will Rock You (reviewed)

Donmar Warehouse: Small Change (reviewed)

Duchess: Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story (reviewed)

Duke of York’s: That Face (reviewed)

Etcetera: The Collector; White Liars

Finborough: F***king Men

Garrick: Derren Brown - Mind Reader (reviewed)

Gielgud: God of Carnage (reviewed)

Greenwich Playhouse: Casanova (reviewed)

Greenwich Theatre: At the Drop of a Hippopotamus - An Evening of Flanders and Swann

Hackney Empire: Beau Jest (reviewed)

Hackney Empire Studio: Strangers (reviewed)

Half Moon Young People’s Theatre: Icicle Bicycle (reviewed)

Hampstead: Stockholm

Hen and Chickens: Breathing Corpses; Harbingers

Her Majesty’s: The Phantom of the Opera (reviewed)

Hob: Mandy Muden/Paddy Lennox/Tony Law

Intermission: Prison Wings

Jermyn Street: Antic Disposition - Romeo and Juliet (reviewed); The Sideshow

King’s Head: Betwixt! (reviewed)

Laughing Horse, Upstairs at the Queen’s Head: Marc Lucero/ Snorri Hergill Kristjansson/ Maureen Younger/ Duncan Bolt/ Sajeela Kershi/ Aaron Rice/¬¨‚Ä† Sy Thomas/ Dizzy High

Lion and Unicorn: Chekhov’s Farces; Ward 6

Lyceum: The Lion King (reviewed)

Lyric Hammersmith: The Birthday Party (reviewed)

Monkey Business at Sir Richard Steele: Scott Capurro/Lee Nelson/Barry & Stuart - The Two Magicians

National Theatre, Lyttelton: Never So Good (reviewed); The Year of Magical Thinking (reviewed)

National Theatre, Olivier: Fram (reviewed)

New End: An Eligible Man (reviewed)

New London: Gone With the Wind (reviewed)

New Players: Celia

Noel Coward: Avenue Q (reviewed)

O2 Arena: Afrika! Afrika! (reviewed)

Old Red Lion: An Alchemy of Flesh

Old Vic: Pygmalion (reviewed)

Oval House: Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey

Pacific Playhouse: Dangerous Corner (reviewed)

Palace: Monty Python’s Spamalot (reviewed)

Peacock: London Children’s Ballet - Jane Eyre

Phoenix: Blood Brothers

Piccadilly: Grease (London) (reviewed)

Place: Green Apples

Place - Robin Howard Dance: Come to Mamma/Neon Dreams/Green Apples/The Three-Cornered World

Polka: Charlie and Lola’s Best Bestest Play! (reviewed)

Prince Edward: Jersey Boys (reviewed)

Prince of Wales: Mamma Mia! (reviewed)

Queen’s: Les Miserables (reviewed)

Round Chapel: Zephyrus Dreams

Roundhouse: Henry VI; Henry VI Part I; Henry VI Part II; Henry VI Part III

Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs: The City (reviewed)

Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs: Oxford Street (reviewed)

Royal Opera House: Dances at a Gathering/The Dream

Sadler’s Wells: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Myth

Scoob Books: Terry Saunders - Missed Connections

Shaftesbury: Hairspray (reviewed)

Shakespeare’s Globe: King Lear (reviewed)

Southwark Playhouse: Como Agua Para Chocolate - 2008

Tabard: New Boy (reviewed)

Tattershall Castle: Ivan Brackenbury/Stefano Paolini/Sarah Millican/Matt Reed

Theatre 503: Natural Selection (reviewed)

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: The Lord of the Rings (reviewed)

Theatre Royal, Stratford East: Familyman (reviewed)

Theatro Technis: Tower Theatre - Twelfth Night

Trafalgar Studios 2: Hello and Goodbye (reviewed)

Tricycle: Under Milk Wood

Unicorn, Clore: Egg and Spoon

Unicorn, Weston: The Flying Machine (reviewed)

Union: Water Scuptures/Zoo

Upstairs at the Gatehouse: Far from the Madding Crowd (reviewed)

Vaudeville: The Deep Blue Sea (reviewed)

Victoria Palace: Billy Elliot - the Musical (reviewed)

The Village Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde

White Bear: Rapunzel’s Last Midnight

Young Vic: The Good Soul of Szechuan (reviewed)

Lostock ↑

Reebok Stadium: Cirque Surreal - Voyagers 2008

Malvern ↑

Festival: Equus - Tour

Forum: Jim Davidson - The Devil Rides Out

Manchester ↑

Contact: Diabolic Kyogen

Green Room: Ivo Dimchev/Marisa Carnesky - Lili Handel/Magic War

King’s Arms: Alternative Medicine

Library: Tough time, nice time (reviewed)

Palace: Northern Ballet Theatre - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (reviewed)

Royal Exchange: The Glass Menagerie (reviewed)

Middlesborough ↑

Town Hall: Jimmy Carr - Repeat Offender

Milton Keynes ↑

Milton Keynes Theatre: The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas - Tour

Stables: Barry Cryer - Still Alive; The Elves and the Shoemaker (reviewed)

Mold ↑

Clwyd Theatr Cymru: Macbeth (reviewed)

Newbury ↑

Watermill: London Assurance (reviewed)

Newcastle-under-Lyme ↑

New Vic: Great Expectations

Newcastle-upon-Tyne ↑

Dance City: San Ji Jai/Kim Eun Hee/Anh Ngoc Nguyen/Sinman Dance Company - Snow and Duet/Burying Together/2 by 2/Fire of Hope

Theatre Royal: LazyTown Live (reviewed)

Newport ↑

Riverfront: Shadow Play

Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight ↑

Quay Arts: Minor Spectacular

Northampton ↑

Derngate, Royal & Derngate: Chuckle Brothers - Indiana Chuckles and the Kingdom of the Mythical Sulk

Norwich ↑

Playhouse: Monster Hits

Theatre Royal: Treasure Island (reviewed)

Nottingham ↑

Lakeside Arts Centre: Smile

Playhouse: The Victorian Toy Theatre

Theatre Royal: CBeebies at the Theatre (reviewed)

Oldham ↑

Coliseum: Dick Barton - Special Agent

Omagh ↑

Strule Arts Centre: The Snail and the Whale

Oxford ↑

New: Touring Tales - Horrible Histories: The Terrible Tudors/The Vile Victorians (reviewed)

OFS Studio: Assassins

Playhouse: Educating Agnes (reviewed)

Peterborough ↑

Cresset: Memories Are Made of Hits

Key: Dad’s Army - The Lost Episodes (reviewed)

Pitlochry ↑

Festival: Wild Honey

Poole ↑

Lighthouse: Fungus the Bogeyman (reviewed)

Preston ↑

Charter: Hello Dolly (reviewed)

Reading ↑

Concert Hall: Gina Yashere - Skinny B*tch

Hexagon: Beauty and the Beast on Ice

Richmond-upon-Thames ↑

Orange Tree: De Monfort (reviewed)

Richmond Theatre: Russian State Opera of Siberia - Madam Butterfly

Sale ↑

Waterside Arts Centre: Tanyalee Davis/Wilson Dixon/Nick Fraser/Guy Thomas

Salford ↑

Lowry: Our House (reviewed); The Kirov Ballet - Don Quixote

Salisbury ↑

City Hall: Rick Wakeman’s Grumpy Old Picture Show

Playhouse: What the Butler Saw (reviewed)

Scarborough ↑

Stephen Joseph: No Fear! - 2008

Sheffield ↑

City Hall: Simon Amstell

Lyceum: Sleuth

Shrewsbury ↑

Music Hall: Duncan Norvelle/Frank Carson/Ian ‘Sludge’ Lees

Skipton ↑

Mart: Northern Broadsides - Romeo and Juliet (reviewed)

Snape ↑

Maltings Concert Hall: Akram Khan Company and National Ballet of China - Bahok (reviewed)

Sonning ↑

Mill: Murder Hunt (reviewed)

Southampton ↑

Mayflower: Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (reviewed)

Nuffield: A Streetcar Named Desire

Southend-on-Sea ↑

Cliffs Pavilion: Buddy - A Legend Reborn Oh Boy 2008

Palace: Jimmy Tarbuck

St Andrews ↑

Byre: Katzenjammer: Four Hands on One Piano

Stratford-upon-Avon ↑

Courtyard: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (reviewed); The Merchant of Venice (reviewed); The Taming of the Shrew (reviewed)

Sunderland ↑

Empire: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 2008

Taunton ↑

Wellspring Leisure Centre: Jethro - 2008 tour

Telford ↑

Oakengates, The Place: Dead Ringer From Hell

Torquay ↑

Princess: The Sleeping Beauty on Ice

Truro ↑

Hall for Cornwall: The Counterfeit Stones - It’s Phoney Rock ‘n’ Roll

Warrington ↑

Pyramid and Parr Hall: Dave Spikey - The Best Medicine

Watford ↑

Palace: Kafka’s Dick

Wellingborough ↑

Castle: Gotta Sing Gotta Dance

Westacre ↑

River Studios: Trojan Women

Whitehaven ↑

Rosehill: Heavy Load - Free and Bad Company

Wimborne ↑

Tivoli Theatre: Badgers Green

Winchester ↑

Theatre Royal: A Doll’s House

Windsor ↑

Theatre Royal: Quartermaine’s Terms

Woking ↑

New Victoria: Havana Rakatan (reviewed)

Wolverhampton ↑

Grand: Blood Brothers - Tour (reviewed)

York ↑

Theatre Royal, Studio: Fallen Angels; Patient No 1 (reviewed)

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