Facing the past
	4:53pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	David Harrower's raw, controversial, award-winning play Blackbird continues the Rose's impressive slate of launch projects as the Kingston theatre premieres this production ahead of its nationwide tour.

	Tango siempre! (For one night only)
	10:33am Fri 14 Mar 08
	"Poor old Dot. Well, East-Enders returns tomorrow at 8pm," says the BBC announcer but you are not really listening. Instead, you're ogling the sinewy tango dancers on the screen, looking immaculate in scarlet, "and now, it is time for Celebrity Badger Baiting and will Sally Gunnell survive another week in the sett?"

	Bowing places - Epsom Symphony Orchestra welcomes back young violinist
	10:29am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Precocious young talent makes first public appearance aged six, gets first whiff of alcohol at eight, is honking on a crack pipe at 10 and in rehab by 12, primed for an adolescence of redemption and a my wild years are behind me' autobiography. Then they spawn and away we go again.

	Human Rights Watch film festival starts for 12th year
	10:04am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Clapham Picturehouse has teamed up with cinemas across the capital and Time Out magazine for the 12th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. In all, 25 films and documentaries will be screened from 19 countries, and seven of them will be featured at the refurbished Picturehouse.

	Toff at the top - Miles Jupp debuts at Comedy Carnival
	9:59am Fri 14 Mar 08
	A versatile chap is Miles Jupp. Best known for his onstage persona as an upper-crust snob - an act which has earned him a Perrier nomination in 2003 for best newcomer - he also spent last Edinburgh juggling two brilliant shows: his stand-up act and his play Johnson and Boswell Late and Live (Jupp plays Boswell, Simon Munnery is Johnson).

	King of the Sinhas
	10:37am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Doctor, Doctor' jokes have probably been a staple of comedy since it was invented but there are few stand-ups for whom they would hold any relevance.

	Antony sings the Blues
	10:27am Fri 14 Mar 08
	As a member of one of the biggest boy bands of the early Naughties, Antony Costa was known throughout the world. He helped Blue clock up more than seven million record sales, three chart-topping albums, three UK number one singles, and two Brit Awards. The band even dueted with Stevie Wonder and Elton John.

	Truly madly, Deeply moving
	10:13am Fri 14 Mar 08
	"I still believe that the best plays are about people," said Terrence Rattigan, "not about things." The reason, perhaps, why Rattigan work was for so long out of fashion, overshadowed first by the kitchen tap of the 60s and more recently by the faceless threat of post-9-11 terrorism.

	Battersea art fair teams up with zoo
	10:08am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Art and nature: polar opposites, yet in many ways joined at the hip. And, in a beautiful consummation, Battersea Park Children's Zoo has joined with the Affordable Art Fair for a special offer this weekend.

	Is this art?
	10:03am Fri 14 Mar 08
	At first glance, it is hard to know whether to eat them or sit on them. Two succulent red cherries on a waxy green stalk, they form the centrepiece of the latest group show at Twickenham's Karen Taylor Gallery, entitled Larger Than Life.

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