... THE DUBLINERS continue their world tour during May at Nottingham (Royal Concert Hall, May 1), London (Barbican Hall), Hemel Hempstead, Reading, Newport, Malvern, Birmingham (Town Hall), Darlington, Manchester (Irish World Heritage Centre), Newark, Rhyl, Hanley (Victoria Hall), Aberystwyth, Macclesfield (Bollington Carnival) and Blackpool (Grand, May 15). The tour is managed by Central Music ...

... MICHAEL BOGDANOV is direct ing a new production of Brendan Behan's The Hostage to mark the 30th anniversary of the play wright's death. It will open at the Barbican on September 14, pre sented by the Royal Shakespeare Company. THE THIRD production of the sea son in the main Festival Theatre, Chichester is Pinero's The Schoolmistress, starring Patricia Routledge, Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray ...

... PRODUCTION has started on Bad Boyz, a new 75 minute film by Biyi Bandele-Thomas starring Clive Owen and Maynard Eziashi. Pro duced by Gub Neal and directed by Andy Wilson, it will be shown in the 1995 season of Screen Two. SCOTTISH Television is to move the production of its Saturday morning children's show What's Up Doc? to the company's Cowcaddens head quarters in Glasgow. The first two ...

... THURSDAY, MAR 7 OTHER PLACES by Harold Pinter. Duch ess. Management: Duncan-C. Weldon with Paul Gregg and Lionel Becker for Triumph Apollo Production Ltd and Peter Clay and John Wilbraham for Court Productions Ltd. Cast: Colin Blakely. Dorothy Tutin, Roger Davidson, Rosie Kerslake, Susan Engel. Director: Kenneth Ives. Designer: Eileen Diss. Costumes: Sheelagh Killeen. Lighting: Mick Hughes. ...

... Conti for Two Into One TOM CONTI is to take over from Michael Williams in Two Into One at the Shaftesbury for a special six-week season from March 18. Eric Sykes, Donald Hewlett and Angela Browne will also be joining the cast for this period. On April 29 Michael Wil liams returns to his role for the summer season, when he will be joined by Anton Rodgers, Moray Watson, Wanda Ventham and Kathy ...

... What was 'Who's Who' Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Vol.1 (Gale Research Co., Detroit, $85) This book, priced so as to put it beyond the range of the average enthu siast, is our old friend Who's Who in the Theatre, appearing in a guise for the eighties and understandably so, because these days there is no such thing as a theatre actor. Performers flit between the media and, in ...

... OUT OF TOWN ABERDEEN His Maiesty 5 Snow White and the Seven e Hi Lion The Witch and The A I. :?..:.._ H ;-seshoe T C BATH ThMtre Royal Dandy Dick Compass T.C BELFAST Art* Downtown Radio Presentation/Tickle t.,, i Lyric s Hippodr Wells Royal Ballet Rep 5i Rep Studio j BLACKPOOL Grand P'.kwck 3 6 ...

... OLASUOW Tramway has announced the win ners of its billboard design competition. They are: Neil Chapman of St Andrews, Jill Henderson, David Shrigley from Leicester and the Big Panda Collective in Glasgow. An overall win ner will then receive prize money of £500 and go on to design a London billboard. IF YOU are unemployed, musi cal and aged 18 to 25 you could have a chance to join a creative ...

... ?ALAN HOWARD, who is cur rently appearing in Pygmalion at the Royal National Theatre, is to play Macbeth in Richard Eyre's production of Macbeth, opening at the Olivier on April 1. Anastasia Hille, who has toured the States in the National's pro duction ot Richard III, plays Lady Macbeth, with Robin Bailey, James Laurenson, Paul Moriarty, Nicola Redmond and Harry Towb in other roles. ?JOSE ...

... THURS, JAN 7 GARDENER'S DIARY Granada horticultural programme, regional only (2.45 pm) Production company: Heart of England. Presenter: John Ravenscroft. Producer: Sarah Merril. Executive producer: John Francis. ANGI.IA TONIGHT Anglia cur rent affairs programme, regional only (10.40 pm) Presenter: Shahnaz Pakravan. SHADOWING Scottish Television series, regional only (6.30 7.00 pm) Presenters: ...

... PETER Gill, Kenneth Griffith, George Guest, Dame Gwynedth Jones, William Mathias, Brian McMaster, Dennis O' Neill and Victor Spinetti will be presented with Welsh College of Music and Drama Fellowships on March 10. ACTION Words theatre company is no longer based at The Rose Theatre in Chelsea. The group's ad ministrative headquarters are now situated at 117 Balvernie Grove, London SW18 5RQ ...

... Tour News SUZY BOGGUSS, one of the fastest rising young stars in country music, does a five-date tour next month under the man agement of Asgard, with Robert Earl Keen as guest. Dates are at Dub lin Gaiety (19), Glasgow (Mitchell), Manchester (Royal Northern College of Music) and London (Queen Elizabeth Hall) on September 22, finish ing off on September 25 at Morecambe. CURRENTLY Ireland's top ...