... Danny Brown, star of the Channel 4 show Dishes, tours during February with his standup show, starting at the Komedia. Brighton, on February 8. Supported by Gavin Webster, tour dates are: Coventry Warwick Arts Centre (10). Hemel Hempstead Old Town Hall (11). Liverpool Neptune (12). Leicester Venue 27 (14), Bath Fez Club (15). London Cosmic Comedy Club (17). Leeds City Varieties (18). Derby ...

... American Buffalo, by David Mamet. Donmar Warehouse. Earlham Street WC2 to February 26. Management: Atlantic Theatre Company. Cast: Philip Baker Hall. William H Macy. Mark Webber. Director: Neil Pepe. Designer: Kevin Rigdon. Costumes: Laura Bauer. Lighting: Howard Werner. Press: Joy Sapieka. 020 7586 3100. The Fell of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe. adapted by Stephen Berkoff. Oval ...

... SNAPS iimmmmmmm.. The House of Lords defeat of the Government's plans to reverse Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which bans the promotion of homosexuality in schools, will continue problems faced by theatre in education companies. Former director of the National Campaign for the Arts Jennifer Edwards said Section 28 made it difficult for TTEs to put on work by gay writers and explore ...

... ABERDARE Coliseum Tower (15-16) ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre Diversions Dance Company (18-19) BAGNOR Watermill Travels with My Aunt BATH Rondo Into the Darkness Laughing Theatre Royal Carl Rosa Opera Theatre Royal, Ustinov Studio Gobbledygook BELFAST Grand Opera House Gumooots OM Museum Arts Centra Evolution: Mind BIRMINGHAM Midlands Arts Centre The Lost Child Trilogy, Part Three: The Red Thread ...

... The Barbican Centre has finalised its Pit Theatre BITE:0O season, which will include: the European premiere of Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer by Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay, translated by Martin Bowman and Bill Bndlay and directed by Philip Howard, presented in a co-production with Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre (May 17- June 3); the London premiere of Bulgarian Theatre Company ...

... SNAPS Hearts and Bones, the BBC drama starring Dervla Kirwan, Amanda Holden and Hugo Speer, has been recommissioned amid rum ours that BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey was reluctant to bring back the programme which was originally approved by her predecessor Peter Salmon. LWT has secured the services of Latin singer Ricky Martin for the latest of its Audience With specials for ITV. It ...

... Personals, book and lyrics by David Crane. Maria Kauffman and Seth Friedman, also music with William Dreskin, Joel Phillip Friedman. Alan Menken. Stephen Schwartz and Michael Skloff. Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue Wl. Management: CME Network and Paddy Wilson. Cast: Cameron Blakely. Martin Callaghan, Marcus Allen Cooper, Carmen Cusack, Christina Fry, Vicki Simon. Director: Dion McHugh. ...

... SNAPS Anne Diamond, the former Good Morning presenter, is making a TV comeback in a revamped series of Granada's daytime chat show. Loose Women. Relaunched under the name Live Talk. Diamond will replace Sun columnist Jane Moore. Martin Kemp, David Jason. John Thaw and Michael Barrymore are among the contenders battling it out to win prizes at the populist National TV Awards, organisers have ...

... 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 ...

... the visual directory of light entertainment Who's Where SUNDAY, JAN 1 6 SATURDAY, JAN 11 The following artists, listed in 2000, the visual directory of light entertainment, can be seen working at the following venues on the dates shown. For more information on these artists, consult your copy of 2000. Showcall artists can also be found on the Internet at: www.showcall.co.uk/diary WARD ALLEN ...

... ABERDEEN His Majesty's Last of the Red Hot Lovers BASINGSTOKE Anvil Roy Chubby1 Brown (20-22) Haymarfcet Dangerous Comer BATH Rondo Cinderella Theatre Royal Dick Whittington BELFAST Grand Opera House The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged) Lyric Hansel and Gretel Waterfront Hall Once Upon a Time the Millennium Pantomime BILLINGHAM Forum A Tribute to the Blues Brothers BIRMINGHAM ...

... The Beautiful Game, a new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber with book and lyrics by Ben Elton, will workshop in London during February. The original story, set against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, is inspired by a real 1969 football team whose potential was never realised, but has entirely fictional characters. Directed by Robert Carsen and choreographed by Meryl Tankard, the ...