Arts and Entertainment

Many audience members were overheard in the signing queue afterwards talking about how they could have stayed all night listening to her stories.

New Era Players perform songs, stories, poems and anecdotes about this historic day.

Excitement builds as Open Studios West Berks & North Hants rapidly approaches.

Up-and-coming Newbury band Minor Inconvenience will be battling it out for a headline prize and are drumming up support.

A Newbury school brought Roald Dahl’s beloved story to life in its production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Meet the very worst Baddies in the world on stage at the Corn Exchange.

But the evening belongs to Audrey Brisson, a tour de force as the charismatic ‘Little Sparrow’.

Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie's well-loved story, adapted for stage, comes to Arlington Arts.

A heavenly performance of Sister Act the Musical, presented by Kingsclere Performing Arts College in partnership with Newbury College

Newbury Chamber Choir, who usually perform in St John’s Church, made a bold decision to try the very different acoustic of Douai Abbey.

Oxford Literary Festival: Former editor of The Times and National Trust chairman Simon Jenkins analysed the facade of his own house in South London.

‘Le Carré’s spy thrillers set the standard for all subsequent novels in the genre’.

One of the highlights of the festival was the talk by the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah about Theft, his first novel.

Listen to the first single of his fifth solo album here and support his kickstarter.

Here are some events happening up until Sunday.

A sequel to the much-acclaimed War Horse, this delightful theatre show combines drama, storytelling, and original music.

A murder, a big sing song, a Piaf musical and lexicographer Susie Dent all in the mix.

Greenham gallery first stop on UK tour for show of lithographs by one of the 20th century’s most important artists Joan Miró.

The ‘affordable’ festival will take place at several venues across Thatcham, Newbury and Hungerford.

The Festival is back in May, bringing world-class folk artists, morris dancing, interactive workshops and strong community spirit to North Hampshire.