Plays and shows treading the boards this week.

Fame: The Musical completes a week-long run at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre on May 11. The show, touring the provinces following a successful West End run, is, of course, an adaptation of the Oscar-winning movie and TV series. It focuses on the students and staff at New York's School of Performing Arts.

Tel: 023 8071 1811.

Misconceptions - David Lewis's contemporary comedy about sex, phobias, infertility and fidelity - continues its run at the Salisbury Playhouse. It focuses on middle-class couple Matthew and Linda who, on the face of it, have everything - a nice home, good jobs, great relationship. But they desperately want a baby and so turn to their friend, city accountant Baz.

Tel: 01722 320333.

Salisbury Playhouse's Youth Theatre Stage 65 completes a three-night run of its latest production Up The Revolution at the theatre's Salberg Studio on May 11. The show has been written, performed, produced and directed entirely by the group's members.

Tel: 01722 320333

Wimborne Drama presents its latest production, a new version of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and The Man, at the town's Tivoli Theatre until May 11.

Tel: 01202 848014

Comic duo Leikin Luppo presents Today's Special, a show that has been described as an la carte menu of seduction, song and speciality flavours. A feast of song, dance and slapstick, it plays the Forest Arts Centre at New Milton on May 11.

Tel: 01425 612393.

Bournemouth's Jester Laugh Comedy Club is back in action at the Brunswick Hotel in Charminster on May 10 with a line-up featuring Darrell Martin, Mary Bourke, Tony Purple and Brian Damage

Tel: 01202 304972