... CITY SNAPS Baker Tilly chartered accountants is offering a new service for young busi nesses in the arts and enter tainment media. It will give advice on VAT, preparing a business plan and help with basic accounting. Cotton Cowiiiuiitcatkw has announced an agreed offer for SelecTV Cable which operates a channel to 900.000 homes in the UK. The channel is currently available in 80 per cent of ...

... NEW SERIES THURS, FEB 1 Seasldera Channel 4 six part series on Haven Holidays (9 9.30pm) Production company: Yorkshire Television. Producer: Irene Cockroft. Commissioning editor: Peter Moore. Annie's Bar Channel 4 drama series (9.30 10.00pm) Production company: Ardent. Cast includes: Geoff McGivern, Jonathan Coy, Elizabeth Bennett, Eamon Boland, Gavin Richards, Tom Watson, Tim Wylton, Dominic ...

... ABERDEEN lungs Only the Lonely ABERYSTWYTH Art* Cantm A Tale of Two Cities (6-7) ASHTON UNDER LYNE TamasMs Hippodrome Arc Dance Company (6-7) BANGOR Thaab Qwynadd Welsh National Opera (6-7) BARNET OM Bun Arti Centra Joined at the Head (9-10) BARNSTAPLE Qomu's The Flying Dutchman (9-10) BASINGSTOKE Haymarfcat Private Lives BATH Thaatrs Royal Black Chiffon Rondo The Jane Ulley Singers (9-10) ...

... BID Kenwright's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two. starring Tom Conti and Sharon Gless, opens at the Gielgud on February 19, following its run at the Thorndike, Leatherhead. Matthew Hart's third work for the Royal Ballet, set to Benjamin Britten's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, opens at the Royal Opera House on February 7. Darcey Bussell, Jonathan Cope. Belinda Hatley and Adam Cooper ...

... Hinge and Bracket start their Champagne Tour at the Gordon Craig. Stevenage tonight (February 1). under the management of Johnny Mans Productions by arrangement with Phil Dale for AMG. Subsequent dates are at Stafford (Gatehouse). Lowestoft. Leamington Spa, Hunstanton, Fareham, Hemel Hempstead, Weston- super-Mare, Bury St Edmunds, Swansea. Rickmansworth. Homchurch. Croydon. Tunbridge Wells, ...

... SCENE CHANGE Christopher Millard will join Glyndeboume Festival Opera in April as head of press and public relations when Helen O'Neill retires from that position after 26 years. Dr Ian Brown has been appointed Professor of Drama at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh where he will head the depart ment. Brown spent nine years as drama director at the Arts Council before joining the college. ...

... SNAPS An Archaeology of the Voice conference will explore the history of vocal training for performance, Welsh traditions and the voice as healing. The event will include workshops, a symposium and a series of performances held between April 12 and 20. For more details telephone 01222 345174. National Lottery grants have sparked a major boom for technical equipment in the theatre industry. The ...

... SNAPS Shamed solicitor Charles Deacon, formerly the managing director of the Theatre Royal Hanley, has been sentenced to nine years in jail after his con viction for an international loans fraud. Deacon was also disqualified from act ing as a company director for ten years. Qraeme Cruickshank has been made a life mem ber of Equity in recognition of his work for the theatre industry, including ...

... SCENE CHANGE Zottan Solymosi has joined London City Ballet after his stormy departure from the Royal Ballet. He will perform as Prince Charming in the company's forthcoming tour of Cinderella. Suzie GiMIn has been promoted to head of sales at independent distributor, British Independent Television Enterprises. Debbie William* is the new manager and artistic director of the Dance and Arts ...

... Stanley, by Pam Gems. Cottesloe. Management: Royal National Theatre. Cast: Selina Cadell. Anna Chancellor. David Collings, Nicholas Deigman, Avril Elgar, Deborah Hndlay. Daniel Forster- i Smith, Richard Howard, Stephanie Jacob, Nicola King, Robbie Morton, Antony Sher. Robert Smythson, Pip Torrens. Director: John Caird. Designer: Tim Hatley. Lighting: Peter Mumford. Music: llona Sekacz. Press: ...

... The Stephen Sondhelm musical Company transfers from the Donmar Warehouse to the Albery on March 7. under the management of Bill Kenwright. As before, the cast is head ed by Sheila Gish. Adrian Lester and Sophie Thompson. Simon Williams' first stage play. Switchback, in which he stars with Gabrielle Drake, opens at the Churchill, Bromley on March 9, followed by a tour. Alan Strachan directs, ...

... SCENE CHANCE Jackie Fletcher has been appointed as a lecturer on drama on stage at Edinburgh's Queen Mar garet College. Also new in the department is John Clifford, taking over as sub ject leader in textual studies. Cherry Cole, currently head of presentation at Channel 4, will be taking over as director of broad casting with Granada Sky Broadcasting. Reporting to the chief executive, Stuart ...