GO: THEATRE: STAGE WHISPERS.

CATCH the Playbox Theatre's new adaptation of Oedipus as part of the Warwick Festival 2003. Sophocles' Oedipus is a tragedy of destiny by Playbox Theatre's literary associate, Paul Wignall.

It will run from Wednesday to July 12, nightly at 7.30pm. Tickets are pounds 9, (pounds 6 concessions). Phone [phone].

A MIDSUMMER'S evening will be held at Hall's Croft, Old Town in Stratford, on Sunday at 7pm.

Organised by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and sponsored by The Amtico Co, the evening will feature music from ELJ, Easy Listening Jazz, and entertainment from Wilson Roberts and Friends.

Start the evening with a Singapore Sling cocktail in the garden, followed by dinner in a marquee with Malaysian cuisine from Stratford's Georgetown Restaurant.

Tickets are pounds 25. For details phone Ann Wilson on 01789 204016.

LADIES' Night tells of a group of unemployed men who decide there must be more to life than the weekly giro and daytime TV. They form an act called The Raging Rhinos, which can only be described as more comic than seductive.

Find out how they fare at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham from Monday until Saturday at 8pm. Tickets are pounds 10.50 to pounds 16 from 0870 607 7533.

THE THRILLER Sweet Revenge is at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday.

High-flying doctor Ross Marquand has a wife Fay who falls in love with celebrated conductor Julian Kane, starting a sinister chain of events.

Written by Francis Durbridge, Sweet Revenge is on nightly at 7.30pm, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2.30pm. For tickets phone [phone].

TRANSMISSIONS is a festival of young writers which runs at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from Wednesday until July 12.

On Wednesday, work from five writers, aged 17 to 24, will be featured, followed by another four writers, aged 14 to 22, on July 5.

Tickets are pounds 5 or pounds 3.50 concessions. For more information phone the box office on 0121 236 4455.