THEATRE: COMING ATTRACTIONS

Pity poor Bill Kenwright. He's stumped up more than pounds 1m backing the Peter Hall Company in a succession of productions of fairly mixed quality. Hall's biggest recent successes have been rethinks of earlier productions, such as An Ideal Husband and Waiting for Godot. Now he's reviving Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, about the rivalry between Mozart (right) and Salieri. It's Hall's biggest box-office hope in years, but it's not produced by Kenwright. Audiences, however, won't care about their arguments. They'll be too busy feasting on Michael Sheen and David Suchet.

Amadeus, The Old Vic, (0171-928 7616)

David Benedict