... Snaps ABINGDON'S acclaim- cd ballet seminar will be held on June 1-4 this year with more than 100 young dancers expected to attend. The annual awards and scholarships will be presented by Dame Alicia Markova. Further information can be obtained by calling 086S 872723. THESPIANS from all over Britain are backing a new £350,000 building appeal in aid of The Actors' Centre. The centre will take ...

... Snaps DONALD SWANN is to be remembered with a memorial appeal. It has been set up by the Leaveners to promote all forms of musical creativ ity amongst Quakers. Information can be obtained by contacting the Leaveners Arts Base, 8 Lennox Road, Finsbury Park, London N4 3NW. WOMEN In Music are to team up with the London Sinfonietta in staging a competition to pro mote new female composers. ...

... THURS, APRIL 28 SLEEPING IT OFF by Georges Feydeau, adapted by Guy Slater. Playhouse. Epsom, then tour. Management: Channel Theatre Company. Cast: David Griffin, Sabina Franklyn, Graham Seed. Guy Nicholls, Michaela Moore. Adam Christopher. Director: Philip Dart. Designer: Emma Donovan. Lighting: Bob Bustance. DREAMS OF ANNE FRANK by Bernard Kops. Polka, The Broadway, SW19 to May 28. Director: ...

... Snaps BIRMINGHAM Inter national Jazz Festival will be celebrating its tenth anniversary this July with almost 200 free events. Top jazz performers will be appearing in streets, parks, bars and depart ment stores during the festival, which runs from July 1 10. SIR John Mills will be at Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre on April 22 for his one man show. Entitled An Evening with John Mills, it ...

... THURS, APRIL 7 THE SECRET LIFE OF TOYS BBC1 children's series (3.55 4.05 pm) Production company: Jim Henson Productions. THE HOUSE OF GRISTLE BBC1 comedy sketch show (4.35 5.00 pm) STANLEY'S DRAGON Central Television children's drama series for ITV network (4.40 pm) Production company: Central Television in association with Gatetam Productions. Cast includes: Judd Trichter, Milton Johns, Ken ...

... THE NATIONAL TOP THIRTIES For week ending March 20 CHANNEL Average weekly viewing Share of Total Per Head (Hours/Minutes) viewing ALL/ANY TV 25:52 100.0 BBC1 (INCLUDING BREAKFAST TIME) 8:35 33.2 BBC2 2:12 8.5 TOTAL/ANY BBC 10:47 41.7 ITV (INCLUDING TV-AM) 10:20 39.9 CHANNEL 4/S4C 2:53 11.2 TOTAL/ANY ITV 13:13 51.1 OTHERS 1 :53 7.3 Individuals viewing BBC1 (Millions) 1 EASTENDERS (THU/SUN) 19 ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN Hit Majesty'* Tommy Steele What A Show! BAGNOR Watermill What Every Woman Knows BANGOR Theatr Gwynadd Hud Ar Ddyfed BARROW Forum 28 The Magic Finger (15-16) BASILDON Towngate Tom Jones BASINGSTOKE Haymarket Murder Once Done BATH Theatre Royal A Handful Of Dust BELFAST Lyric Player* Pictures Of Tomorrow BIRMINGHAM Hippodrome Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ...

... LONDON 1 1 Adelphi Sunset Boulevard Albery A Month In The Country Aldwych An Inspector Calls Ambassadors April In Paris Apollo Rough Justice Apollo. Hammersmith Billy Connolly Apollo Victoria The New Starlight Express Barbican Love's Labour's Lost; The Merchant Of Venice Cambridge Sinderella Comedy September Tide Dominion Grease Drury Lane Theatre Royal Miss Saigon Duchess Don't Dress For ...

... FRINGE BAC Touched; Crime and Punishment; Bloody Hero Birds Nast The Private Ear, The Public Eye Bush Darwin's Flood Cafe Bar Ricardo One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Cafa Theatre Miss Julie; Intimacy Camden Studio Theatre Christie In Love Canal Cafe After Dinner Chelsea Centre The Assassin Cockpit The Big One Drill Hall The Fabulous Lypsinka Show Duke Of Cambridge Oedipus The King Duke's Head, ...

... i 100 years ago; A PROVINCIAL critic, who may not thank us for giving his name, draws our attention to the amount of leisure from their work that members of the profession have on tour. In this fact he of course makes no new discov ery. The point of his letter, however, lies in the con tention that a great deal of desultory day-spending goes on in consequence and goes on needlessly. It is but ...

... Snaps THELMA HOLT is the winner of the 1994 Award for Excellence in Inter national Theatre. The accolade, handed out by the International Theatre Institute, recognises her work in encouraging and creating theatre of the highest quality in Britain and overseas. PATRICIA MacNaughton, the theatrical agent and producer, is the new chair of the Tricycle Theatre board. She succeeds Stephen ...

... EQUITY has been urged to join BECTU's cam paign to ensure that the BBC retains fully opera tional production bases outside London, follow ing a vote in favour of the motion at the AGM. BROTHERS Gillies and Billy Mackinnon are to write Easter- house. BBC Scotland's first fea ture film. Gillies, who will direct the project, directed the acclaimed Screen Two drama The Grass Arena, while Billy ...