23 August 2012
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…
23 August 2012
Brave (PG)Review rating:***Pixar Studios dust off some well-worn Scottish stereotypes in this good-natured but oddly bland family animation. Set at some…
17 August 2012
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…
15 August 2012
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…
11 August 2012
NEWBURY’S Arlington Arts Centre continues to cement its reputation as one of West Berkshire’s best venues for live music as it launches its autumn season…
09 August 2012
POOR old Dr Seuss hasn’t had an easy time when it comes to film adaptations of his stories. Jim Carrey’s The Grinch and Mike Myers’ The Cat in the Hat…
07 August 2012
IN 2010, Katherine Gibbons, aged 31, an actor and playwright, originally from Bucklebury, took on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her first-ever scripted…
04 August 2012
SHOULD you see a bearded chap standing in Chipping Norton square with his head turned towards the heavens, don’t imagine that he is a lost soul looking…
02 August 2012
CHRISTOPER Nolan’s imposing Batman trilogy reaches its conclusion with The Dark Knight Rises, a masculine and rather grim-faced action movie of a type…
31 July 2012
YOUNG, upcoming five-piece Mawkin will be performing an evening of new music while maintaining the mystique of ancient folk music from around the world.…
28 July 2012
THE critically-acclaimed award winning Newbury Youth Theatre perform their new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories at the Corn Exchange, Newbury,…
26 July 2012
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…
26 July 2012
Magic Mike (15)Review rating **Channing Tatum stars as Magic Mike, a thirty-something builder and odd-job man who works at a male strip club on the side.Mike…
19 July 2012
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…
19 July 2012
Friends with Kids (15)Review rating **Actress Jennifer Westfeldt makes her directorial debut with this agonisingly unfunny romantic-comedy. Despite employing…
16 July 2012
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,…
15 July 2012
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…
15 July 2012
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…
14 July 2012
Bill Hall reports from Marlborough Jazz FestivalGiven the lousy weather and the generally gloomy outlook, the arrival of Marlborough's annual Jazz Fest…
13 July 2012
There are sketches, songs and general silliness, all based around audience suggestions, at New Greenham Arts tomorrow night (Saturday, 8pm). Be it a song…
