THEATRE

THE HAYMARKET, BASINGSTOKE (Box Office 01256 844844) The Ghost Train. January 28-31.

PROTEUS CREATION SPACE, BASINGSTOKE (Box Office 01256 321621) Folio Theatre presents Unearthed, 7.30pm. January 30.

CENTRAL STUDIO, BASINGSTOKE (Box Office 01256 418318) Bonkers Balloon Science Show, 11am, Saturday.

SOUTH HILL PARK, BRACKNELL (Box Office 01344 484123) Teechers. Until Friday.

Blind Man’s Song, 7.45pm. Wednesday.

THE LIGHTS, ANDOVER (Box Office 01264 368368) Michael Portillo – Life: A Game of 2 Halves, 7.30pm. Friday.

YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE, GUILDFORD. (Box Office 01483 44 00 00) A Girl With a Book. Friday & Saturday.

Roundelay. Until January 31.

SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE, SALISBURY (Box Office 01722 320 333) Three Men in a Boat. January 27-31.

NUFFIELD THEATRE, SOUTHAMPTON (Box Office 023 8067 1771) Absurd Person Singular. Until Saturday.

Wuthering Heights. January 27-31.

THE MILL AT SONNING, SONNING EYE, READING (Box Office 0118 969 8000) Educating Rita. Until March 21.

THE MAYFLOWER, SOUTHAMPTON (Box Office 023 8071 1811) The Sound of Music. Until January 31.

NEW VICTORIA THEATRE, WOKING (Box Office 0844 871 7615) Barnum. Until Saturday.

Saturday Night Fever. January 27-31.

 

MUSIC

Old Skool Club Classics – Plush Lounge Bar, Wote Street, Basingstoke. Friday.

La Vent du Nord – 7.30pm, The Haymarket, Basingstoke. Friday.

Live music featuring The Red Carpet + Go.Fly.Win + Tapestry + Dead Kansas. Entry £4 on the door – Sanctuary, London Street, Basingstoke. Saturday.

January Blues with Tammi-Jo Williams & Rob Hayes – from 8.30pm, The Tea Bar, London Street, Basingstoke. Saturday.

Saturday Sessions – Plush Lounge Bar, Wote Street, Basingstoke. Saturday.

Cara Dillon – 7.30pm, The Haymarket, Basingstoke. Saturday.

Live music with Up River + Nathan Detroit + Scared of Everything + Trials of Early Man  - Sanctuary, London Street, Basingstoke. Entry £3 on the door. January 29.

Dire Straits played by Money For Nothing – The Brook, Southampton. Friday.

FunkLab band with DJ – Jazz Café, Madejski Stadium, Reading. Friday.

Atomic Blondie – The Brook, Southampton. Saturday.

T-Rextasy – 8pm, The Lights, Andover. Saturday.

Elizabeth Watts, Soprano and Roger Vignoles, Piano – 7.30pm, Concert Hall, Reading. Sunday.

Roots Open Mic Night – The Railway, Winchester. Monday.

The Johnny Cash Roadshow – 7.30pm, The Hexagon, Reading. Wednesday.

 

COMEDY

Dara O’Briain (pictured) – 8pm, The Anvil, Basingstoke. Tuesday & Wednesday. (sold out).

Lee Nelson: Suited and Booted – 7.30pm, New Greenham Arts, Newbury. Friday.

Mark Watson – Flaws – 7.45pm, Corn Exchange, Newbury. January 29.

Lloyd Langford: Old Fashioned – 8pm, South Street, Reading. January 29.

 

EXHIBITIONS

Made in China: An imperial Ming – discover how and why this iconic blue and white porcelain Ming vase represents a crucial period in China’s history – The Willis Museum, Basingstoke. Until April 4.

Basingstoke College of Technology Group Exhibition – Proteus Creation Space, Council Road, Basingstoke. Until January 30.

Dementia Friendly Hampshire Exhibition – Dementia Friendly Hampshire: The Story So Far features works from Hampshire artists and writers, as well as people with dementia and their carers, from across the county – free event, from 10am-4pm, across several pop up units in The Malls, Basingstoke. Until Wednesday.

 

OUT & ABOUT

Lambing Days – also pony rides, farm-based puzzles and quiz, craft activities, tractor and trailer rides and more – 9.30am-3.30pm, Sparsholt College, near Winchester. Saturday and Sunday.

Sands Charity Family Fun Day – in aid of the Stillborn and Neonatal Deaths Society. Includes a disco, singer, children’s music, games, penalty shoot-out, fire tenders, paying bar, food and much more – 2pm-11pm, Basingstoke Town Football Club, The Soccer AM Stadium, Western Way, Basingstoke. Sunday.

 

OTHER EVENTS

Beginners’ Camera Workshop – 10am-4pm, Basingstoke Discovery Centre, Festival Place. Costs £35. Saturday.

Wedding Fair – 11am-3.30pm, The Hampshire Court Hotel, Centre Drive, Binfields Road, Chineham. Sunday.

Basingstoke Discovery Centre events: Friday, 9.30am-11.30am, Child Health Clinic, 10am-1pm, Craft Club; Monday, 10am-noon, Knit & Knatter; Tuesday, 9.30am-11.30am, Child Health Clinic, 11am-1pm, Volunteers Drop-in; Wednesday, 10.30am-11am, Rhymetime for under-fives.

Free Microchipping from Dogs Trust – who will be at the Ridgeway Centre, Blackdown Close, Buckskin, Basingstoke, from 11am-3pm. Tuesday.

 

LONDON TOP 10

The Scottsboro Boys, Garrick Theatre. Until February 21. First UK production of the Kander and Ebb musical about the true story of the nine young African-American men who were wrongfully accused, in 1931, of raping two white women.

Elvis at The 02. Until August 31. Largest-ever exhibition in Europe, featuring more than 300 artefacts direct from the Presley family’s treasured Graceland Archives, some of which have never been exhibited outside of Memphis.

Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War, Imperial War Museum. Until March 8. Largest exhibition of British First World War art for almost 100 years. Free.

Conflict, Time, Photography – Tate Modern. Until April 14. Moving exhibition focusing on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and poignant journey through more than 150 years of conflict around the world.

The Ruling Class – Trafalgar Studios. Until April 11. James McAvoy stars in the first revival of Peter Barnes’ play about Jack, a possible paranoid schizophrenic with a Messiah complex.

Sunny Afternoon, Harold Pinter Theatre. Until May 23. Musical based on the songs of The Kinks.

The Institute of Sexology, the Wellcome Collection, Euston Road. Until September 20. Acclaimed collection of more than 200 pieces of art, photography and ethnography highlighting the work of the subject’s great pioneers.

Sherlock Holmes, Museum of London. Until April 12. Exhibition exploring who Holmes is and why Arthur Conan Doyle’s late-Victorian creation survives to this day.

Churchill’s Scientists, Science Museum. Until March 1. Exhibition celebrating the inventions and scientific endeavour which came to Britain’s aid during the Second World War.

Rubens and His Legacy, Royal Academy. Until April 10. A collection of the masterpieces produced during Rubens’ lifetime, as well as major works by great artists who were influenced by him in the generations that followed.