What's On: Further afield

- Bonnie Greer, last seen keeping her cool on Question Time beside the BNP's Nick Griffin, brings her play with songs Marilyn And Ella to the West End for five shows only.

The work looks at the little-known friendship between the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe (Suzie Kennedy) and the singer Ella Fitzgerald (Hope Augustus). In her own way, Marilyn made her own stand against racism, championing Ella at a time when black music and black singers were not welcome in the mainstream.

Bonnie Greer said: "It was an incredibly poignant friendship. Marilyn was taking a massive personal risk in seeking out this friendship. She could have been sacked by her film company and never worked again."

The play plays on November 15, 22, and 29 at the Apollo. Go to marilynandella.com.

- When a newsreader is found by paparazzi in a compromising position so begins a fierce - and comic - battle of wits between the man himself and his publicist. That is the basis of Sam Peter Jackson's dark comedy which brings together a trio of familiar faces in Public Property.

Geoffrey the newsreader is played by Robert Daws, familiar from such sitcoms as Outside Edge. Publicist Larry (Nigel Harman, of EastEnders fame) must help his client out of his corner with blend of imagination and spin. They are dogged by the question - is all publicity good publicity?

The third member of the cast is Steven Webb as Jamie whose claim to fame will perhaps forever be that he was knocked off stage and broke a rib in the whole Jackson/Cocker imbroglio of 1996.

Public Property is in preview at Trafalgar Studio 2. Go to trafalgar-studios.co.uk.