Your guide to theatre, musicals and dance in Oxfordshire from Friday, April 21, to Thursday, April 27. Updated every Friday.

APOLLO OXFORD (0870 6063500)

Fri 7.30pm, Magic Tribute to Queen, Sun 8pm, The Moody Blues. Apr 25-29, 7.30pm, mats Wed and Sat 2.30pm, Carousel starring Darren Day. May 1-6, Offical Tribute to the Blues Brothers.

OXFORD PLAYHOUSE (01865 798600)

Fri 8pm, Sat 2.30, 7.30pm, Druid Theatre Company and The Royal Court Theatre presents The Beauty Queen of Leenane tale of a plain 40-year-old spinster Maureen Folan, played by Kate Burton, and Mag, played by Anna Manahan. Apr 26-29, 7.30pm, Sat mat 2.30, Musical Youth Company of Oxford presents Mack and Mabel; book by Michael Stewart, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman; directed by Ann Robson; musical director is David Hill. May 2-6, English Touring Theatre presents Chekov's The Cherry Orchard with Prunella Scales and Frank Middlemass.

OLD FIRE STATION (01865 794490)

Fri and Sat 7.30pm, StageGraft presents Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, 40 years after it was first staged.

JONGLEURS COMEDY CLUB (0845 6081818)

Ben & Jerry's Give it Some Stick fundraising event for Childline - pop in with your favourite one-liner gag and make a donation (1) to the charity, for a chance to win a year's supply of ice cream and free tickets to Jongleurs, continues until April 29. Shows: 7.45pm, Apr 27, Man with the Beard, Paul Zerdin, Tony Gerrard, Paul Thorne; Apr 28 and 29, Man with the Beard, Phil Butler, Andy Parsons, Paul Thorne.

PEGASUS THEATRE, MAGDALEN ROAD, OXFORD (01865 722851)

May 5 at 8pm, Biserk Dance Company presents Tabla Rasa/Rope. Two new pieces, Tabla Rasa from Norway, choreographed by Sarah Druce and Ropy by Nickely Burke in collaboration with techno-trance band The Secret. May 6, Sat 8pm, Oxford Contemporary Dance, sixth anniversary year performance, co-ordinated by Nickely Burke.

THE THEATRE, CHIPPING NORTON (01608 642350)

Closed April 21-24. Films Apr 25-30. Next show - May 4 at 8pm, Brute Fasrce presents Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo.

THE MILL, BANBURY (01295 279002)

Wed Apr 26, 2pm, Professor Popup's Puppet Theatre presents ... and the Rains Came, children's show.

CHILTON VILLAGE:

The Contract - four mystery plays to celebrate 2000 years of Christianity at Chilton Village Hall Fri 3pm, Chilton Village Hall and Sunday in All Saints' Church, Chilton, 7.30pm. 01235 834271.

HENDRED HOUSE GARDEN, EAST HENDRED

Fri and Sat 8pm, Downland Community Passion Play for the Millennium, The Greatest Gift, by Dave Hawkins, admission free. Also at The Dean Meadow, Hampstead Norreys, near Newbury, on Apr 28 and 29 at 8pm.

MILL THEATRE AND RESTAURANT, SONNING (0118 969 8000)

Eves 8.15pm (dinner from 6.30pm), Sat mats 2.15pm (lunch from 12.30pm): Until May 13, Ten Times Table. May 16-June 24, Kiss of Death.

WATERMILL, BAGNOR, NEAR NEWBURY (01635 46044)

Until May 6, by Charles Dickens' Hard Times.

MILTON KEYNES THEATRE (01908 606090; group bookings 01908 547609)

Fri and Sat 7.30pm, Sat mat 4pm, Spirit of the Dance. Apr 24-29, Mon-Thurs 7.30pm, Fri 5.30pm, 8.30pm, Sat 4, 7.30pm, Sheila Ferguson stars in Soul Train.

CORN EXCHANGE, NEWBURY (01635 522733)

Sat 7.45pm, Opera della Luna presents The Merry Widow. Apr 25-29, 7.30pm, Sat mat 2.15pm, Newbury Operatic Society in The Mikado.

WYCOMBE SWAN (01494 512000)

Fri 2, 5.30pm, Sat 11am, 2pm, Sun noon and 3pm, The Singing Kettle - The Home-made Band Show. Mon 8pm, Alexander O'Neal. Tues and Wed 8pm, Bjorn Again. Thurs 8pm, The Bootleg Beatles. Apr 28, 8pm, The Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs and the Vitcims of Death in Smithereens.

WYVERN THEATRE, SWINDON (01793 524481)

Sat 2pm, Clive Webb presents Circus Hilarious. Apr 29, Joe Pasquale.

CIVIC CENTRE, AYLESBURY (01296 486009)

Wed 1, 3.30pm, Yvonne Baker Associates presents Bodger and Badger in Mad Mash III.

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE, STRATFORD (01789 295623)

In repertory until October - As You Like It; Richard II, starring Alfred Burke; The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, cast includes Wendy Craig. All week from Sunday - The Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations, in the 436th anniversary year of the dramatist's birth - opening event in Henley Street on Sunday at 2pm. Week includes special screening of Shakespeare in Love and exhibition of the film's costumes (01789 415500).

EVERYMAN THEATRE, CHELTENHAM (01242 572573)

Sat, 7.45pm, Pam Ayres. Tues and Wed, 1 and 3.30pm, Sooty and Liana Bridges in The Sooteries.

THEATRE ROYAL, WINDSOR (01753 853888)

Until May 13, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, musical with Roy Hudd and Patsy Rowlands.