10 October 2012
Alternative comedy innovator and Red Dwarf star Norman Lovett marks, mocks and mirthfully observes the modern world with childlike enthusiasm (as performed…
05 October 2012
Revenge of Sherlock Holmes the Musical, at Arlington Arts from October 18 to 20, will be the last production under the name of Newbury Operatic Society,…
05 October 2012
The Double Act who dare to do the dirty head for New Greenham Arts on Saturday with one of the most talked about shows of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,…
04 October 2012
Film Review: Hope Springs (12A)Running time 100 minutes Rating:**Fresh from portraying a grim, acid-tongued harridan in The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep…
02 October 2012
"We've only gone and got one of the best classical guitarists in the world coming here!," says Arlington Arts director Tony Trigwell Jones. Celebrated…
30 September 2012
This time he’s all washed up in brand new soap drama where life imitates art… Some of TV’s best loved soap stars are heading for the Corn Exchange, this…
29 September 2012
The Selfish Crocodile, the funny tale of a brave little mouse and a very snappy crocodile comes to the Corn Exchange next Saturday (11am and 2pm). This…
27 September 2012
Film review: Anna Karenina (12A) Rating:***In the very early days of cinema, most film producers thought the easiest way of getting a successful stage…
20 September 2012
A play by one of this country’s celebrated young writers is coming to New Greenham Arts next Friday and Saturday. Following Laura Wade’s critically acclaimed…
20 September 2012
Lawless (18) Review rating ***Politicians have silly ideas sometimes and possibly the silliest was in 1920 when the US government decided that all alcoholic…
18 September 2012
Expect great things from Laura van der Heijden, the BBC Young Musician 2012.At the age of 15, her mesmerising performance of the rarely-played Walton…
18 September 2012
Comedian Imran Yusuf tours to The Haymarket, Basingstoke, with his new show Bring The Thunder!! on Friday (7.30pm). This second show follows the sell-out…
14 September 2012
Des Simmons and the Poachers play The Three Swans, High Street, Hungerford, on Sunday (2pm).Newbury's veteran singer/songwriter Des Simmons, pictured…
13 September 2012
The Watch (12A) film review Rating:*In Britain, Neighbourhood Watch risks being stereotyped as nosy old busybodies, making notes behind net curtains of…
10 September 2012
A contemporary interpretation of the original Queen's Beasts stone sculptures, which guarded the entrance to Westminster Abbey on the Queen's Coronation…
06 September 2012
Bev Allen, who lives in Newbury, fell in love with her first soldier outside Buckingham Palace. He was a Coldstream on guard and she was four.Later she…
06 September 2012
Film review: Total Recall (12A) Rating:**Paul Verhoeven isn’t the most cerebral of directors, but even he was astute enough to realise that Philip K Dick’s…
05 September 2012
Artist and Aldworth villager Robin Taylor has an exhibition of his work this weekend at Aldworth Village Hall, in conjunction with the Aldworth September…
30 August 2012
Derek Ansell stakes a claim to be one of the great jazz chroniclers of modern times with his biography of saxophone supremo Jackie McLean.In terms of…
29 August 2012
The Bourne Legacy (12A) Rating:**The latest movie in the ‘Bourne’ series serves up some slickly- executed action scenes, and a capable central performance…
