Arts and Entertainment

SEAN Doyle was crowned winner of this year’s You Must Be Joking comedy competition at the Corn Exchange last Tuesday evening. The judges for the final…

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…

The Amazing Spider-Man (12A)Review rating ***Does anyone still care about Spider-Man? It’s the question that first came to my mind when I saw the trailer…

Arlington Arts brings an international flavour to Newbury Comedy Festival tomorrow (Tuesday) as it hosts a double bill featuring two comics due to become…

SCHOOL is almost out for the summer and Ace Space in Newbury wants you to go along to their end of term party. The evening will celebrate the end of another…

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (15)Review rating ***You have to admit, it’s a good title. Sadly though, we’ve been here before as far as genre “mash-ups”…

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…

Red Lights (15)Review rating***Red Lights is a smart, engaging thriller that starts promisingly, but rapidly runs out of steam. Its director, Rodrigo…

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…

Film review: Snow White and the HuntsmanRating: **There have been two big-budget adaptations of the perennial ‘Snow White’ fairytale just lately.The first,…

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…

Film review: Prometheus Rating: ***Some 30 years after directing the first Alien film, Ridley Scott returns to the franchise to give it a shiny new paintjob.…

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…