... National scoops Plays & Players awards IT HAS BEEN a good year for the National Theatre with yet more accolades coming its way in the annual Plays and Players 1982 Awards Predictably, the awards for best director and designer goes to Richard Eyre and John Gunter for Guys and Dolls, but the best musical, in the view of London theatre critics, was Andy Capp. The full awards list is as ...

... ALDERSHOT Prince* Hall BJB Productions Ltd prMent THE SLEEPING BEAUTY with Brry Johns. Michael Lomax, Don Crann, Lisa Crann, Julia Burnett, Valerie Hermanm, Debbw Redcliffe, Lyvinia Ritchie Haydn, Angelo Abela, Lesley Brown, Jill Fletcher. David Harper, P. A. Courtney (December 20 to January 8). AYR Gaiety Bernard Cotton for Kyle and Carrtcfc District Council presents THE SLEEPING BEAUTY with ...

... CLKO LAINE/JOHN WILLIAMS Wereld Successen Import Music Servicc JOHN LENNON T he John Ixnnon Collection EMI MELACHRINO STRINGS AND ORCHESTRA Stardust Pressil JACK PAYNE -r Radio Nights Saville ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Plays the Queen Collection EMI ANDY SUMMERS AND ROBERT FRIPP I Advanced Masked A&M SUPERTRAMP Famous Last Words A&M SCREAMING LORD SUTCH Alive and Well Import Music Service ...

... A LITTLE OF WHAT YOU FANCY, song* and sketches by Jim Andrew. Alan Ayckbourn. Ken Blakeson, Alan Bleasdale. Ken Campbell. Chris Curry. Bob Eaton, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Chris Monks. Alan Plater. Eileen Pollock. Willy Russell. Oave Sheasby. Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. Coliseum. Oldham Cast Includes: Russell Dixon. Cliff Howells. Chris Monks. Maggie Mc Carthy. Peter John. Eithne ...

... THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 LE GRAND MACABRE by Ligeti Coliseum. Management: English National Opera. Cast: Marilyn Hill Smith, Penelope Mackay. Jean Rigby, Kevin Smith. Ann Howard. Roderic Keating. Geoffrey Chard, Dennis Wicks Conductor: Elgar Howarth. Producer: Elijah Moshinsky. Designer: Timothy O'Brien. Press: Nicola Goold. 836 0111. THE TEMPEST, choreography by Rudolf Nureyev; KONSER VATORIET, ...

... New disc releases by artists on the entertainment scene. Albums THOMAS DOLBY The Golden Age of Wireless EMI DURAN DURAN Rio EMI ENO Ambient On Land Editions E.G. GANG OF FOUR Songs of the Free EMI STEPHANF. GRAPPELU AND MARTIN TAYLOR We've Got the World on a String EMI BRIAN HAZELBY Still Travellin' Grosvenor KILLING JOKE Revelations Malicious Damage MOVING HEARTS WEA Ph.D. WEA PROCOL HARUM ...

... HABEAS CORPUS by Alan Ban nett. Palace Theatre Centra, Westclrff to August 7. Cast: Brian Tully, Harriet Reynolds. Richard Clews. Ann Curthoys. Norma Dun- bar. Stephen Hoye. Lynda Craig. Amanda Richardson, Simeon An drews. Christopher Lillicrap. Eric Jamas. Director: Christopher Dunham. Designer: Zofja Billewicz. Costumes: Glynis Banyard. Lighting: Michael Niven. HOME AT SEVEN by R.C. Sher- ...

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... PRODUCTION NEWS THE MOUSETRAP reaches Its 30th birthday on November 26 Its 12.483rd performance. A new cast John A matt Gordon Whiting, Garry Irvin, Jan Linden. David Griffin. Una Brandon-Jones. Sharon BayHs and Rodney Cottam takes over at St Martin's on November 29 CLIVE DUNN heads the cast of David Wood's The Gingerbreed Man, which starts an eight-week season at the Westminister on ...

... THE AMERICAN comedy by Paul Zindel. And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, opened at the King's Head. Islington this week. With Michael Osborne directing, the cast includes Christina Greatorex. Ellen Sheean. Mark Farmer. Virginia Lester. Annie Irving. Christine Edmonds and Lou Hirsch THE BILL KENWRIGHT produc tion The Business of Murder, starring Richard Todd. Derren Nesbitt and Carol Mowlam ...

... PRODUCTION NEWS A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare. Playhouse. Leeds. May 13 to June 5 Cast: Gregory de Polnay. Carmen Rodriguez. Frank Elliot. Janet Ellis. Derek Hollis Gordon Dulieu. Victoria Hardcastle. Ewart James Walters. Cassie McFarlane. Leo Wringer, Jennie George. Stephen Hancock. John Branwell. Ivan Steward. David Fleeshman. Brian Parr. Philip Orchard. Director: John ...

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