This summer, National Trust properties like The Vyne in Hampshire are offering free entry to children, giving families a great incentive to get off the…
Ted (15)Review rating:****Fans of Seth MacFarlane have had a tough time just recently. In the heady days of 2001, MacFarlane’s animated show Family Guy…
Newbury Youth Theatre’s Just So Stories has landed a prestigious ‘Bobby’ at the Edinburgh Fringe at the weekend. NYT director Robin Strapp sent this message…
THAT very British institution the BBC Promenade Concert season is upon us and Newbury is well represented, by a bow maker, conductor and trumpeter.Philip…
THE Corn Exchange and New Greenham Arts have today launched their new season of theatre, dance, comedy, family events and live music and we can reveal…
Ten years or so ago a girl trying to break into the jazz singing game was performing in the open air to handfuls of diners outside a restaurant in Marlborough,…
Bill Hall on day 2 of Marlborough Jazz FestivalThe organisers of the 26th Marlborough Jazz Festival had every reason to be hugging themselves with sheer…
Bill Hall reports from Marlborough Jazz FestivalGiven the lousy weather and the generally gloomy outlook, the arrival of Marlborough's annual Jazz Fest…
There are sketches, songs and general silliness, all based around audience suggestions, at New Greenham Arts tomorrow night (Saturday, 8pm). Be it a song…
Arlington Arts brings an international flavour to Newbury Comedy Festival tomorrow (Tuesday) as it hosts a double bill featuring two comics due to become…
The man largely responsible for Bob Dylan’s interest in folk music is coming to Arlington Arts on Saturday, July 14. Spider John Koerner was a contemporary…
AFFORDABLE opera in the open air comes to Newbury this weekend when Opera Brava return to the Racecourse for the fourth year, to perform Rossini’s The…
Newbury has two Young Musicians of The Year as judges at Sunday's final were unable to split 19-year-olds Emmanuel Bach on violin and Drew Steanson on…
THE Berkshire Giant, John Ever Afraid, took his final footsteps in Newbury town centre on Saturday, the Corn Exchange’s first large-scale outdoor arts…
This outdoor spectacle suitable of all the family tells the story of John Ever Afraid, a gentle giant who had been hiding from the Devil in the walls…
Rumours of a giant on the loose in West Berkshire received a new twist last night as a number of sightings were reported at Snelsmore Common on the outskirts…
The "bad boys of abridgement" The Reduced Shakespeare Company come to Newbury on Thursday following a sell-out US tour of T he Complete World of Sports…
Head to Aldworth Giant Fair on Sunday for an afternoon of music, food, feasting and entertainment. Exotic acrobats, colourful flags, children's workshops…
New Era PLayers will be opening a new play, Sylvia by A.R. Gurney at their Wash Common Theatre tonight.For anyone who has ever owned a dog, loved a dog,…
They said it couldn’t be done;they said it would be an impossible feat,but they didn’t reckon on the dramatic bravery of Patrick Barlow and Sean Foley!BEN…
