... ACTRESS -turned- singer Rebecca Pidgeon will be appearing at Midlands Arts Centre on Friday August 31 in Ruby Blue, her acclaimed new band which has been tipped for the top. Pidgeon was seen in films including The Dawning, with Anthony Hopkins, She's Been Away with Peggy Ashcroft and the BBC's Uncle Vanya. She writes lyrics for the band, which has shared the stage with the likes of Van Morr ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN His Majesty's- Happy Returns AYR Gaiety Spread A Little Happiness BAGNOR Watermill- The Lost Domain BASILDON Towngate- A Chorus Of Disapproval (28/6- 30/6) BATH Theatre Royal Kean BILLINGHAM Alexandra My Dearest Ivor Hippodrome- Victoria Wood BRACKNELL Wilde The Fall Of The House Of Usher (28-30) BRADFORD Alhambra 42nd Street BRENTFORD Watermans- Taboo (25-28) BRIGHTON ...

... Snaps TIM Barrett the comedy actor died suddenly this week at the age of 61. He starred in several well known stage and television productions including Terry and June, Life Begins at 40 and Rings On Their Fingers and ap peared in his own series The Best Of Enemies as weU as many sitcoms. He leaves his mother, Rosie, and two sisters. STAFF at BETA'S London headquarters this week held their ...

... Snaps LERONA Gelb, a seven- year-old ballet fan paralysed below the waist in a car crash, will be sharing the limelight with The Princess of Wales at a Celebrity Spectacular in aid of the Spinal Research Trust on October 14 at the London Palladium. GREAT tidings from Man chester. Magical society, The Order of the Magi, is alive and well and about to enter a new and exciting era by offering its ...

... THURS, AUG 23 AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE THE ATRE. King's, Edinburgh to August 25. SOLAR DREAM, performance by Stomu Yamash'ta. St Bride's Centre, Edinburgh to August 25. TOSCA by Puccini. Coliseum. Management: English National Opera. Cast: Jane Eaglen (Janice Cairns), David Rendall (Edmund Barham), Neil Howlett, John Tranter, Arwel Huw Morgan, Terry Jenkins, John Kitchiner, Christopher Ross. ...

... FRINGE LISTINGS ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE, Chambers Street THE BOY WHO WANTED PEACE by George Friel. Management: Fair Friday. Director: John Heraghty (August 12 to September 1) SYNE LANG SYNE. Management: Theatre Seanachaidh (August 17 to 24) BEDLAM THEATRE, Forrest Road EQUUS by Peter Shaffer. Management: Lowbrow Theatre Company (August 27 to Sept 1) GRE YFRIARS KIRK HOUSE, Candlemaker Row SUNDAY ...

... NEW SERIES SUN, AUG 19 JOHN BROWN'S BODY Channel three-part drama series (8.00 9.00 pm) Production company: Freeway Films. Writer/director: John McGrath. Producer: Steve Clark-Hall. Commissioning editor: Waldemar Januszczak. TUES, AUG 21 BOULEZ AND THE TWENTI ETH CENTURY Channel 4 six- part music series (11.50 pm 12.50 am) Production company: FR3/La Sept/Cameras Continentales. Presenter: ...

... LONDON Adelphi Me And My Girl Albery- Blood Brothers Akfwych Run For Your Wife Ambassadors Les Liaisons Dangereuses Apollo Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell Apollo Victoria Starlight Express Arts A Slice Of Saturday Night Barbican- All's Well That Ends Well (1 1-12); As You Like It (13-14); Coriolanus (15-16) Cambridge Return to the Forbidden Planet Comedy Noel And Gertie Cottesloe After The Fall 1 5 ...

... FLYING MUSIC is present ing Gerry's Christmas Cracker, featuring Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Foxes, Brothers Demented and Classique, starting at The Dome, Doncaster on December 2 and continuing to Hanley, Tunbridge Wells, Croydon, Dartford, East bourne, Oxford, Wcymouth, Cardiff, Swansea, Hemel Hempstead, Folkestone, Ips wich, Lincoln, Bradford, Peterborough, Hull, Birmingham (Town Hall), ...

... THU, NOV 29 DOWNSIDE UP by Frank McField. The Base, Carnberwell to December 15. Management: ACT Theatre Company. Cast: David Carr, Isilda Corbett, Jennyfer McLean, Michael Palmer, Fari. Director: Geoffrey Cresswell. Press: Maureen Cresswell, 081 671 2909. ARMS AND THE MAN by Bernard Shaw. Chelsea Centre, World's End Place, SW10 to December 1. Management: Kensington Drama Company. Director: ...

... THE NATIONAL TOP THIRTIES For week ending January 7 Individuals viewing BBC1 (Millions) 1 EASTENDERS(THU/SUN) 20.80 2 NEIGHBOURS (TUE 13.32/17.37) 20.64 3 NEIGHBOURS (WED 13.31/17.36) 20.14 4 NEIGHBOURS (FR1 13.30/17.36) 19.97 5 NEIGHBOURS (THU 13.31/17.36) 19.90 6 EASTENDERS(TUE/SUN) 19.31 7 NEIGHBOURS (MON 13.31/17.21) 17.89 8 QUESTION OF SPORT 12.47 9 PORRIDGE 1154 10 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 11 ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN Aberdeen Arts Centre The Boyfriend (31-3) Hi* Majesty's The Diary of Anne Frank (29/1-S/2) ABERYSTWYTH Thtr Y Werin Rifloletto (1.3) BARNET Old Bull Arts Centre T restle Theatre BASINGSTOKE Haymarkat Hidden Agenda 1 /2-1 7/2) BATH Theatre Royal A Murder is Announced BELFAST Grand Opera House Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Lyric Players The Iceman Cometh (24.1 ...