... Othello, by William Shakespeare. Barbican Theatre, Silk Street EC2. Management: Royal Shakespeare Company. Cast includes: Ray Fearon. Zoe Waites. Richard McCabe, Richard Cordery. Henry Ian Cuslck, Rachel Joyce. Catherine Kanter, Aidan McArdle. Geoffrey Whitehead. Director: Michael Attenborough. Designer: Robert Jones. Lighting: Peter Mumford. Music: George Fenton. Press: Cllona Roberts. 020 ...

... SNAPS Shooting will begin this May on United Productions' new series. Close and Innocent, in which Robson Green plays a successful lawyer who returns to his native Newcastle to take over a run-down legal practice. The series will be transmitted on ITV in autumn 2000. Rates of pay for writers on BBC radio dramas have increased by 2.6 per cent following a new agreement between the Corporation ...

... Editor of The Stage Brian Attwood chooses ten historical landmarks which, for better or worse, transformed the performing arts and entertainment in Britain during the last millennium ?I Corpus Christi In the final year of his reign Pope Urban IV (pictured) declares a new Church feast day. The centrepiece of the event is the re-enactment of the Bible story in 20 short acts, from the o 1 ...

... TUES, JAN 4 Fame School Meridian series on the Performers College, Corringham, regional only (10.30pm) Production company: Touch Productions. Producer and director: Malcolm Brinkworth. THURS. JAN 6 The Mark Thomas Product Channel 4 six-part comedy series (11.05 -11.35pm) Production company: Vera Productions. Producer: Geoff Atkinson. Commissioning editor: Sue Murphy. Radio 2's Classic Albums ...

... SNAPS Four senior staff at Leisure Services Agency, the company overseeing bookings for Rank's UK Holiday Division, have been appointed to new jobs. Peter Allen, formerly Peter Duffy's deputy at Haven, has been made executive account holder for Butlins and Haven's southern region. Duffy remains as executive account holder for Haven in the north. Berys Said replaces top booker Martin Kay at ...

... ACTORS Alan Bates Consistently tops the list of people's favourite actors. Steven Berkoff Berkoff is still willing to risk all in pursuit of good theatre, particularly his own money. Nigel Hawthorne His King Lear at the Barbican showed his range and what esteem the public holds him in. His services were rewarded by a knighthood last year. Ian Holm Needs no explanation really. One of our finest ...

... ABERDEEN His Majesty's Last of the Red Hot Lovers AYR Gaiety Sleeping Beauty BAGNOR Watermill Sinbad BARNET Bull The Jungle Book BARNSTAPLE Queen's Cinderella BASINGSTOKE Haymarket A Christmas Carol BATH Theatre Royal Dick Whittington BELFAST Grand Opera House The Adventures of Peter Pan Lyric Hansel and Gretel BIRMINGHAM Hippodrome Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Midlands Arts Centre The ...

... Kathleen Turner makes her West End debut starring as Mrs Robinson in the world stage premiere of The Graduate, opening at the Gielgud Theatre on April 5. Adapted by Terry Johnson, who also directs, from the novel by Charles Webb and the motion picture screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, confirmed casting includes Matthew Rhys playing Benjamin and Kelly Reilly as Elaine Robinson. ...

... THURS, JAN 13 Beast BBC1 comedy series (10 -10.30pm) Production company: Little Pond Television. Cast includes: Alexander Armstrong, Doon MacKichan, Lucy Akhurst, Sylvestra Le Touzel. Writer: Simon Nye. SAT, JAN 15 Star lor a Night BBC1 talent show (6.55 7.45pm) This week's artists: Julian John, Jessica Garlick, Julie Lunn, Eve Sharratt, Mark Adams. SUN, JAN 16 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries BBC1 ...

... ^?^?^?^^^^^?nwgliH^^^^^^^^H^ffl^H Actor Bill Maynard, better known as the bearded villain Greengrass in ITV's Heartbeat, recently rang these offices in person to take this very column to task. Hello Bill. What narked the old boy was the lack, over the years, of enough carefully-worded hagiography in praise of the Yorkshire drama's ratings performances. Only problem was the timing of his call. ...

... Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Westminster Theatre, Palace Street SW1 to February 5. Management: Showscope Productions and United Spirits Theatre. Cast: Ruth D'Silva, Mujahid Kamal Khan. Andrew Marston, Takuya Matsumoto. Noriko Sakura, Dee Tails, Alexander Arkell. Bashir Bentama, Rayna Campbell, Gerry Cookson. Catherine Dulin. Teo Ghil, James Harwood, Christopher Panayi, Lynn ...

... SNAPS The Voice of the Listener and Viewer has scored a double coup by attracting culture secretary Chris Smith and BBC director-general designate Greg Dyke to speak at two of its forthcom ing events in March and April respectively. Peter Salmon. BBC Is controller, is understood to be interested in commission ing a third series of the Nick Berry vehicle Harbour Lights prior to transmission of ...