ARTS / And what's more . . .

Duncan C Weldon, the producer of four current West End hits, has been appointed Theatre Director of the Chichester Festival Theatre from 1995. Sir Derek Jacobi joins him as Artistic Director . . . Salford Museum and the National Robotics Centre are to transform paintings by L S Lowry into virtual reality computer games . . . Thought to be impossible to sell to the USA owing to excessive on-screen smoking and drinking, Absolutely Fabulous has been sold to the American cable channel Comedy Central . . .