Arts and Entertainment

IF there were an award for a show where the audience has most fun joining in, Richard O’Brien’s 1973 Rocky Horror Show probably wins the gong.

Renowned for his awesome technique and versatility, he is as at home leading bands on TV as in a local jazz club, catch him at Pangbourne Jazz Club.

Minor Inconvenience is through to the final stage of a Battle of the Bands competition, after qualifying from their heat as the crowd favourite.

Two-hour-10-minutes high energy, high power, high volume Live/Wire gig took no prisoners.

Bootleg Blondie’s claim to be the number one Blondie cover band in the world is no idle boast…

Community theatre company’s Half-light will be broadcast at 7pm on Friday, May 2.

Visitors can enjoy produce from locally based and sustainably minded businesses in the beautiful surroundings of the Bagnor theatre’s grounds

Award-winning Daniel Bye’s latest solo satire Imaginary Friends includes caricatures of influencers, celebrities and politicians.

The long-running fundraiser is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a special evening in a stunning riverside setting in Moulsford.

Expect comedy, songs, enthusiastic dancing and a lot of mucking about.

Making their debut in Oxford, Anglo-Scottish folk band The Magpie Arc entertained an Easter weekend audience with their Americana-infused set.

An enchanting picture of rural England told through three generations, thoroughly enjoyed by the youngsters and 'not so young' in the audience.

Exciting new tour brings new audiences into the seldom-seen perspective of a British Indian, Muslim teenage boy.

This week’s community events listings.

Professional artists and amateur group will exhibit in Ridgeway village next month.

More than 130 entries include photographs, sculpture, paintings, ceramics and poetry by artists from Oxfordshire, Wilts, Berks and Buckinghamshire.

Last time Debbie Harris was here in 2023 she bowled the capacity audience over with well over two hours of non-stop, high energy music.

Born in Sumy, near the Russian border, Natalia Siukhina’s work distracts her from the horrors of the war and gives her ‘strength and hope to live on’.

Pick of what to see in the coming week.

A present day local circus impresario wants us to celebrate the birth, in 1825, in Newbury of England’s greatest showman of the Victorian age.