... Sholom Alelchem Now You're Talking! New End Theatre, New End NW3 to September 3. Management: Pluto Productions. Cast: Saul Reichlin. Director: Robert Longden. Lighting/ sound: Stuart Burgess. Press: Rose Sawklns. 020 7472 5802. The Damnation of Faint, by Berlioz. Usher Hall. Edinburgh, tonight only, concert performance. Management: Edinburgh International Festival. Company includes: Jennifer ...

... West End news: Peter Ackroyds new play, The Mystery of Charles Dickens with Simon Callow, opens at the Comedy Theatre, September 6: Marie Jones' Stones in His Pockets, starring Conleth Hill and Sean Campion, transfers from the New Ambassadors Theatre (where its run has been extended) to the Duke of York's Theatre, opening August 21; David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. ends its limited season at the ...

... 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 t Blind Ambition, Yorkshire Television's two-hour drama about sightless athlete Richard Thomas, will begin filming in Australia at the end of this month. The programme, which stars Robson Green and Imogen Stubbs, will also be shot in Newcastle and Leeds. Its transmission on ITV is expected to tie in with the Sydney 2000 Olympics. BBC Drama has announced the cast for the film of the ...

... NEW SERIES THURS, FEB 17 High Performance HTV Wales arts and entertainment series, regional only (5.30 6pm) Presenter and producer: Nicola Heywood-Thomas. FRI, FEB 18 Just Up Your Street BBC1 Wales talent show, regional only (10.25pm) Presenter: Owen Money. Friday Night's All Wright London Weekend chat show for ITV network (10.30 and 11.30pm) Presenter: Ian Wright. Cfoma S4C Digital arts show ...

... National Theatre news includes: Alexander Hanson and Clive Rowe are cast as Macheath and Mr Big respectively in the final production of the current NT Ensemble season, The Villains' Opera, a new music theatre piece by Nick Dear and Stephen Warbeck after John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (Olivier Theatre. opens April 11). Continuing the National's commitment to showcasing the best of regional work ...

... SNAPS Barbaric Comedies, the Edinburgh International Festival flagship drama, may make a financial loss. A co-production between the EIF and Dublin's Abbey Theatre, its artistic director Ben Barnes confirmed the show costing £500,000 may not break even. Sources say that it is playing to 400 people a night during its 13-date run in the 1,300 King's Theatre. Kid's Week 2000 begins in the West ...

... Jim Davidson, currently touring with his adult stand-up show On the Edge, can be seen at: March Dartford Orchard (24). Northampton Demgate (25). Carlisle Sands Centre (26). Blackpool Opera House (27), Llandudno North Wales Theatre (29). Watford Colosseum (30) and Hereford Leisure Centre (31): April Plymouth Pavilions (1). Torquay Princess (2), Portsmouth Guildhall (3). Southend Cliffs Pavilion ...

... Helen Blakeman's new play Normal, a psychological drama, receives its world premiere at the Bush Theatre on April 28. directed by the West London venue's artistic director, Mike Bradwell. Blakeman. a former winner of the George Devine Award, won critical praise for her debut play Caravan, staged at the Bush in 1997. Nicholas Johnson, ex-principal dancer with both the Royal Ballet and the ...

... Magic Alexei Sayle stare In BBCl's Arabian Nights THURS, APRIL 27 Under Offer Meridian game show, regional only (7.30 8pm) Production company: Meridian Broadcasting and HTV West. Presenter: Yvette Fielding. Producer: Rodney Taylor. SUN, APRIL 30 Arabian Nights BBC1 two-part drama (6.40 8.10 pm) Production company: Hallmark Entertainment. Cast includes: Oougray Scott. Mili Avital, James Frain, ...

... ABERDEEN His Majesty's Fame: The Musica BAGNOR Watermill Up'nUnder BATH Rondo Wouldn't It Be Nice (15-16] Theatre Royal The Cherry Orchard Theatre Royal. Ustinov Studio Female Transport BELFAST Grand Opera House Royal Ballet Lyric Marching On BILLINGHAM Forum Out of Order BIRMINGHAM Alexandra Theatre Elvis: The Musical Repertory Saint Joan Repertory, Door Studio The Gift BLACKPOOL Grand Mack ...

... THURS, JULY 13 Playing the FMd BBCI drama series (9.30 10.20pm) Production company: Tiger Aspect. Cast includes: Lorraine Ashbourne, Melanie Hill, Jo Mclnnes, Claudie Blakely, James Thornton, Ricky Tomlinson, Brigit Forsyth, Nicholas Gleaves. Lee Ross, Tim Dantay, Elizabeth Spriggs. James Ellis, Chris Walker, Ralph Ineson, Gaynor Faye, Jason 0'Mara, Mark Womack. Writer: Sally Wainwright. ...