... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN Aberdeen Arts Centre- Festival Of One Act Plays- Scottish Community Drama (Association) (29/3-31/3) His Majesty's Prisoner Cell Block 'H' ABERYSTWYTH Theatr Y Werin Tartuffe (28/3-29/3); Cai (30-31) ALDERSHOT West End Centre- Forkbeard Fantasy (28, 30) BAGNOR Watermill Gaslight BANGOR Theatr Gwynedd Cai (27-28) BASILDON Mirren Studio Yerma (29-30) Towngate- Yeoman Of The ...

... Regional Productions BENEFACTORS by Michael Frayn. Theatre Royal, Windsor, April 29 to May 17. Cast: Morag Hood, Keith Drinkel, Ursula Mohan, Ralph Arliss. Director: Ian Watt-Smith. De signer: John Page. BLOOD BROTHERS by Willy Russell. Theatre Royal, York to May 10. Cast: John Hogg, Gillian Bevan, Lorraine Ashboume, Julian Forsyth, Con O'Neill, Anthony Taylor, Phil Hearne, Julia Sharon, ...

... THURS, JUNE 23 THE CHANGELING by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. Lyttel- ton. Management: National Theatre. Cast includes: Miranda Richardson, Paul Jesson, George Harris. Director: Richard Eyre. Designer: William Dud- Icy. Music: Dominic Muldowney. Lighting: Mark Henderson. Move ment: Christopher Bruce. Press: Nick Starr, 928 2033. GREGORY'S GIRL by Bill Forsyth. Crucible, Sheffield to ...

... FOUR PRODUCTIONS will be presented in the main Chichester Festival Theatre for the 28th season Victory (May 3), adapted by Patrick Garland from Thomas Har dy's The Dynasts and presented as a community project; The Heiress (May 17), starring Alec McCowen, Nichola McAuliffe, Phyllis Calvert and Ian Buchanan, directed by Vi vian Matalon; London Assurance (July 12); with Paul Eddington, Angela ...

... THURSDAY, FEB 23 THE ROYAL BACCARAT SCANDAL by Royce Ryton, based on a book by Michael Havers and Edward Grayson. Theatre Royal, Haymar- ket. Management: Duncan C. Wel- don and Jerome Minskoff for Triumph Theatre Productions Ltd. Cast: Keith Michell, Fiona Fullerton, Gerald Harper, Gary Bond, John McCallum, Philip Stone, Rowland Davies, Jeanette Sterke, Jackie Smith-Wood. Director: Val May. ...

... THURS, FEB 13 STREET SCENE by Kurt Weill, book by Elmer Rice, lyrics by Langston Hughes. Coliseum. Management: English National Opera. Cast includes: Janice Cairns, Mark Richardson, Lesley Garrett, Kevin Anderson, Christine Bunning, Meriel Dickinson, Shelagh Squires, Terry Jenkins, Harry Nicoll, Anthony Mee, Arwel Huw Morgan, Keel Watson, John Kitchiner. Conductor: James Holmes. Producer: ...

... JOHN MALKOVICH is to lead the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in a London production of Dusty Hughes' play A Slip of the Tongue, which is currently running in the company's base theatre in Chicago. Opening in mid-April, it also includes Clotilde Courau, Lizzy Mclnnerny, Kara Zediker and Ingeborga Dapkunaite in the cast. ?LIVE WIRE Theatre Productions are sending out a tour of Sue Townsend's Bazaar ...

... BBC ENTERPRISES, the Corporation's com mercial arm, has sold Elizabeth R, the profile of the Queen shown on BBC1 last week, to over 30 broadcasters around the world. The documen tary will also be shown in-flight by British Air- ays on its inter-continen tal routes. THE PRESTIGIOUS BAFTA production and performance awards for 1991 will be held in London on March 22, with its craft awards a week ...

... THURS, FEB 13 STUARTS £7 CHALLENGE Granada cookery series in Granada Tonight, regional only (6.30 pm) Presenter: Stuart Hall. LIES Granada three-part new play series, regional only (1 1.35 pm) Production company: Picture Players. Producer: Andrew Piddington. WOOLCRAFT Granada knitting series in This Morning (1 1 .45 am) Presenters: Una Stubbs, Janette Blackwood. FRI, FEB 14 SURGICAL SPIRIT ...

... ON YER Head, Son is a cry more often heard on the football terraces than in the theatre, but enter tainer Colin 'Fingers Henry hopes to change all that. He plans to mark the Mozart Bicentenary by performing the com poser's work as he attempts to break his own world record for playing the piano while standing on his head. Catch him in action on August 11 at the Overstone Solarium Lei sure Park ...

... GRAMPIAN Television, the ITV contractor for the North of Scotland, is to invest in a new feature film project to be shot in Edinburgh and Orkney. Blue Black Permanent will be produced by Viz Ltd and written and directed by independent film-maker Margaret Tait. UNITED Kingdon Indepen dent Broadcasting has submit ted three independent radio entries for the international annual broadcasting ...

... THE MASTER BLACKMAILER Granada two-hour film in Sherlock Holmes series. Cast includes: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Hardy, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. Writer: Jeremy Paul, from a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Director: Peter Hammond. Producer: June Wyndham Davies. Designer: Chris Truelove. Lighting cameraman: David Odd. Casting director: Carolyn Bart- lett. RED FOX London Weekend film, ...