Thursday August 3

Cinema: Chicken Run (U), Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry. Until August 6.

Cinema: Magnolia (18), Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry.

Drama: Hamlet, Festival Theatre, Grange Road, Malvern. Until August 12.

Drama: Boeing-Boeing, Grand Theatre, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton. Until August 5.

For children: Playdays, Alexandra Theatre, Suffolk Street Queensway, Birmingham. Until August 5.

Music: Songwriters Festival, Ronnie Scott's, Broad Street, Birmingham. Until August 6.

Music: Bryan Corbett (jazz), The Fiddle and Bone, Sheepcote Street, Birmingham, 8pm.

Avoncroft Arts Society, Redditch Road, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove. Folk dancing 8pm.

Friday August 4

Cinema: High Fidelity (15), Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. Until August 10.

Cinema: Not One Less (U), Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. Until August 10.

Music: Bluesie Susie (blues/jazz), The Fiddle and Bone, Birmingham, 8pm.

Music: SAAB (musical/vocal entertainers), Rubery and Rednal Royal British Legion, New Road, Rubery, 8.45pm.

Saturday August 5

Music: Steve Hill (blues), The Fiddle and Bone, Birmingham, 2pm.

Music: Band of Rack and Ruin (Celtic), The Fiddle and Bone, Birmingham, 8pm.

Avoncroft Arts Society. Junior pottery 9.30am.

Sunday August 6

Music: Indigo Jazz (jazz), The Fiddle and Bone, Birmingham, 2.30pm.

Music: Songwriters Session, The Fiddle and Bone, Birmingham, 7.30pm.

Monday August 7

Avoncroft Arts Society. Leisure painters 2pm, pottery workshop 2pm, pottery modelling 10am.

Tuesday August 8

Drama: Rent, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. Until August 12.

Drama: Peril at End House, Grand Theatre, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton. Until August 12.

Music: Step by Step and Boyz Only, Everyman Theatre, Regent Street, Cheltenham, 2pm and 6pm.

Avoncroft Arts Society. Bromsgrove Photographic Society 7.45pm, leisure painters 2pm.

Wednesday August 9

Avoncroft Arts Society. Painting class 2pm, drama 7.30pm.