... Production company: Limelight Hlms. Cast includes: Burt Young, Laime Kazan, Brad Dourif, Al Rus- cio, Brenda Bakke. Sy Richardson, Timothy Leary Director and writer: Paul Madden. Executive producer: S. Djody. Producers: Simon Fields, Reid Shane. THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS film, on location in Southern Cali fornia and Seattle. Production com pany: Gladden Entertainment. Cast includes: Jeff Bridges ...

... 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 ...

... FRINGE Albany Empire Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist (8-10) Almeida More Bigger Snacks Now (5-10) Battersea Arts Centre Irish Night (13.1 1 18.12) Boulevard Laughing Wild (10.11-17.12); Europe (21.11-8.12i; Wicked Lips (18.11-17.12) Bush Heart-Throb Cafe Theatre Miss Julie Canal Cafe Hamlet Improvised; Rookie Pit (1.11-7.12) Donmar Warehouse The Tempest (5-10) Drill Hall Arts Centre ...

... THURSDAY, DEC 29 THE PHANTOM VIOLIN. Almeida to January 7. Manage ment: Theatre de Complicite. Cast: Annabel Arden, Jos Houben, Rick Kemp, Eric Mallet t, Linda Rus sell, Adrian Thompson. Director: Jos Houben. Music and libretto: Gerard McBurncy. Designer: Jan Pienkowski. Press: Emma Chap man, 226 4001. TUESDAY, JAN 3 LOVE MATTERS 2, words by Cass Allen and Mona Bruce, music by Peter Durrent ...

... For week ending November 27 individuals THE NATIONAL TOP TFN9 Viewing me INMIIUINML IUr ltl\5 CHANNEL4 (Millions) Individual* 1 BROOKSIDE (MON/SAT) 7.10 viewing 2 BROOKSIDE (WED/SAT) 6 65 BBC1 (Millions) 3 THE GOLDEN GIRLS 4.40 4 LOSTIN SPACE 4 15 1 EASTENDERS(THU/SUN) 2110 5 FIFTEEN-TO ONE(FRI) 4 10 2 EASTENDERSITUE/SUN) 20.85 6 HILL STREET BLUES 4 05 3 BREAD 19.25 6= FIFTEEN TO ONE (TUE) 4 ...

... DECLAN DONNELLAN's first production for the National Theatre will be Adrian Mitchell's adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna, by Lope de Vega, opening at the Cottesloe on January 10. The cast includes Jim Barclay, David Beames, Tarn Dean Burn, Patrick Drury, George Harris, James Laurenson, Katharine Schle- singer and Ellen Thomas. SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS re turns to the Royal Opera House to conduct ...

... THURSDAY, DEC 8 RIGOLETTO by Verdi. Royal Opera House. Management: Royal Opera. Cast: Neil Shicoff, John Dobson, Roderick Earle, Anthony Michaels- Moore, Donald Mclntyre, John Tomlinson, June Anderson, Eli zabeth Bainbridge, Linda Kitchen, Claire Powell. Conductor: Michael Boder. Producer: Nuria Espert. De signer: Ezio Frigerio. Costumes: Franca Squarciapino. Lighting: Ezio Frigerio. Press: ...

... |OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN Haddo Home Mother Goose (5-17) His Majesty's Goldilocks and the Three Beers (9.12-711 ABERYSTWYTH Theatr Y Werin Beauty and the Beast 1 3-22) AYR Gaiety Dick Whittington and his Cat (1.12- 21 1) BASILOON Towngate Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates (14.12-7.1) BASINGSTOKE Haymarket Fantastic Mr Fox 11-17) BATH Theatre Royal La Belle Helene (12-17) BELFAST Grand Opera ...

... DAVID MAMET'S most recent play, Speed-the-Plow, opens at the Lyttelton on January 25, with Greg ory Mosher, responsible for the current Broadway production, directing, and the New York design team of Michael Merritt (sets and costumes) and Kevin Riadon Want ing) Alfred Molina, Rebecca Pidgeon and Colin Stinton are in the cast. TOMMY STEELE is in a revival of the London Palladium production ...

... THURSDAY, DEC 15 FIGGY PUDDING. Lyric, Hammers mith to January 7. Management: Kit and the Widow and Kenneth Earle Ltd in association with the Lyric, Hammersmith. Cast: Kit and the Widow, Steve Coogan. Press: Peter Thompson Associates, 436 5991. BEYOND THERAPY by Christopher Durang. Showboat, Gloucester Road, Bristol to December 31. Man agement: Show of Strength. Cast: Alan Coveney, Richard ...

... THE BIGGEST AND JfD BEST GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS SHOWS AROUND THE COUNTRY ABERDEEN Arts Centre SINBAD THE SAILOR with Laura Pike, Susan Rhind, Fiona Meldrum, Ian Pirie, Brian MacDonald, Clare Murray. Cat riona Phillips, Gavin Davidson, Frank Campbell, Barrie Harper. Directed by Anthea Robertson. Designed by Alan Rennie. Choreography by Wilma Gillan- ders. Musical director, Michael Urquhart ...

... BED, a new play by Jim Cartwright, opens at the Cot- tesloe for 1 5 performances only on March 8, directed by Julia Bardsley and designed by Peter Davison. Described as a sleep saga, it features a bed and eight actors. JULIA McKENZIE is directing the American success Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling, opening at the Lyric on March 7 under the management of David Pugh Ltd with Archie ...