... THURSDAY, DEC 22 SEMELE by Handel. Royal Opera House. Management: Royal Opera. Cast: Yvonne Kenny, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Christopher Robson, Kathleen Kuhlmann, Gwynne Howell, Judith Howarth, Peter Rose, Robin Leggate. Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras. Director: John Copley. Designer: Henry Bar- don. Costumes: David Walker. Choreography: Eleanor Fazan. Lighting: Robert Bryan. Press: Katharine ...

... THE ACT by Richard lan- gridge. Belgrade Studio, Coven try to May 14. Cast: Steve Tin- dall, Crispin Letts, Terence Lodge, Seymour Green. Direc tor: Miriam Segal. Designer: Trudy Marklew. Lighting: Ruth Halley. Sound: Mark Rainbow. THE LOVES OF CASS McGUIRE by Brian Friel. Lyric Players, Belfast to May 28. Direc tor: Kevin McHugh. Designer: Houston Marshall. NIGHT MUST FALL by Emlyn Williams. ...

... THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE Company and the Almeida are com bining to present a nine-week season of contemporary plays at the Islington theatre from August 2 to October 1. They are Athol Fugard's Hello and Goodbye, directed by Janice Honey- man, of the Market, Johannesburg; Keeping Tom Nice, by Lucy Gannon, directed by Bill Buffery; and Ted Hughes' adaptation of Seneca's Oedi pus, directed by Donald ...

... I [OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN Aberdeen Arts Centre Andy Cbpp ASHTON UNDER LYNE Tameside Tameside Summer Festival 1 2-26) AYR Gaiety -The Alexander Brothers, Valerie Dunbar BAGNOR Watermill- My Wife Whatserneme (21. 6-23.7) BANGOR Theatr Gwynedd- Gigi 120-25) BARNET Old Bull Arts Centre Jan Week BASILDON Towngate- Second Stride (22-23) BATH Theatre Royal Renaissance Theatre Company BIRMINGHAM ...

... THURSDAY,OCT20 BARTHOLOMEW Fair by Ben Jonson. Olivier. Management: National Theatre. Cast: Mark Addy, David Bamber, Jim Barclay, Nicho las Blane, Michael Bryant, David Burke, Tarn Dean Burn, Judith Coke, Jonathan Cullen, Peter-Hugo Daly, Patrick Drury, Geraldine Fitz gerald, Guy Henry, Dan Hildebrand, Jennifer Hill, Dean Hollingsworth, Ged McKenna, Fintan McKeown, Marian McLoughlin, Paul J. ...

... GREAT EXPECTATIONS Six-hour film, on location in London and Kent and at Pinewood Studios. Production company: Primetime in association with the Disney Channel for HTV Cast includes: Jean Simmons, Anthony Hopkins, Ray McAnally, John Rhys-Davies, Kim Thompson, Anthony Calf. Producer: Greg Smith. Director: Kevin Connor. Screenplay: John Goldsmith. MIAMI BLUES film, on location in Greater Miami ...

... THURS, OCTOBER 6 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO by Pierre Beaumarchais, new transla tion by William Gaskill. Crucible, Sheffield to October 29. Cast: Myriam Cyr, Jim Findley, Alison Fiske, Paul Whitworth, Ian Fitzgib- bon, Mary McCusker, Patrick Dug- gan, Andrew Wickes, Jacqueline de Peza, Michael O'Connor. Director: William Gaskill. Designer: Liz da Costa. Choreography: Stephen Long. Music arranger: ...

... THURS, JANUARY 21 SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell. Vaudeville. Management: Bob Swash, (jst: Pauline Collins. Director: Simon Callow. Designer: Bruno Santi- ni. Lighting: Nick Chelton. Press: Lvnne Kirwin Associates. 240 8415. SING OUT SISTER. Riverside Stu dios, Hammersmith to January 23. Ost: Hazel O'Connor, Martin Braith- waite. Ginnv Brown, Bob (Uillev, Sebastian Hausmann. Clare Hirst, ...

... ANGLIA MENACE UNSEEN three-pan mini series for transmission May 3 to 5. On location in Norfolk and London tc February 5. Cast: Ian Ogilvy, Judy Bowker, John Sessions, Cyril Cusack, Clarke Peters, Paul Rogers, Brenda Bruce, Jennie Linden, Andrew Ray, Mark Burns, Charles Kay, John Moffatt, Victor Winding, Michael Burrell, Melissa Simmonds, Matthew Jones, Collette Barker, Ian Marshall, Gcnevieve ...

... SATURDAY, OCT 29 HEARTS OF GOLD BBC1 family show (7.45-8.25 pm). Presenter: Esther Rantzen. Reporter: Michael Groth. SUNDAY, OCT 30 FIRST BORN BBC1 three-part dra ma series (9.05-10.00 pm). Cast in cludes: Charles Dance, Julie Peasgood, Philip Madoc, Peter Tilbury, Rosemary McHale. Writer: Ted Whitehead, from the novel by Maureen Duffy. Producer: Sally Head. Director: Philip Saville. VISIONS ...

... NEW SERIES otuin, AriuL ii THE ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN HTV West ten-part natural history series i 10.35pm) Presenter: Clive Gunnel!. Producer and director: Terrv Miller. WED. APRIL 13 BUSTING THE BLOCK OR THE ART OF PLEASING PEOPLE Channel 4 six-part series 1 8.00pm) Production company: HTV West. Writer and presenter: Christopher Fravling. Producer and Director: Jef frey Milland. SAT. APRIL 16 ...

... IN PRODUCTION THE BIG KNIFE two-hour TV version on video, taping in Bristol. Production company: HTV, in association with PBS American Playhouse. Cast includes: Peter Gallagher, Betsy Brantley, Irene Worth, Nehemiah Persoff, Stubby Kaye. Producer and director: John Jacobs. Screenplay: Kenneth Jupp from the stage play by Clif ford Odets. DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE A JOURNEY INTO FEAR film, on ...