Wednesday, 25 May 2022
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AN opera festival that last year had to be cut back to a single weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic is returning with seven open-air productions staged over 10 days this summer. Running from August 12 to 21, the Waterperry Opera Festival will...
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EVEN after almost three decades in showbiz, comic Omid Djalili still doesn’t like to watch himself perform. The man whose first comedy ...
DO you miss the nasal, whiny, camp-cockney inflections and smirking innuendo of Kenneth Williams, comedy actor, raconteur and diarist? ...
THE coronavirus pandemic has provided few reasons to laugh but Flo and Joan are about to change all that. The comedy music act ...
COULD there be anything more contemporary than a comedy show with masks which looks to bring people together? That’s what Nina Conti ...
THE star of the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical lighting up the New Theatre Oxford this Christmas is promising to show audiences a ...
AFTER a long and at times frustrating year, veteran folk singer and comedian Richard Digance is looking forward to spending Christmas ...
Cinderella | Kenton Theatre, Henley | Sunday, December 12 IF you are looking for a cheerful, colourful show to brighten a winter’s day,...
CINDERELLA is “very clever” and “has got a bit of grit to her”, the actress playing the title role in this year’s Kenton Theatre ...
Shrek The Musical | Kenton Theatre, Henley | Tuesday, November 23 HAODS has brought a family favourite to the Kenton stage. Shrek The ...
Shrek The Musical | Kenton Theatre, Henley | Tuesday, November 23 HAODS has brought a family favourite to the Kenton stage. The ...
THE Mayor of Henley is inviting people to spice up their lives by attending a Christmas knees-up at the town hall. Councillor Sarah ...
A COMEDIAN who has twice featured in the Dave TV channel’s funniest jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe will top the bill at the Maltsters ...
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All events free at ninth alternative gardening festival
CHELSEA Fringe Henley, a celebration of alternative gardens and gardening, begins tomorrow (Saturday). It is the ninth year that the town has participated in the festival, which ... [more]
We found 6in fossil in river from 95 million years ago
A FAMILY from Sonning Common found a 6in fossil on the banks of the River Thames. Matt and Kat Young and their children Lucas, four, and nine-year-old Lily-May, were walking their ... [more]
Plaque to honour woman who saved village library
A PLAQUE has been unveiled in memory of a woman who saved Sonning Common library. Cecily Hunt, who died in 2020, started the Friends of Sonning Common Library in 1998 when it was ... [more]
Archaeologists open window on past as they return to Blounts Court dig
PARTS of a Roman wall and another wall from the 1400s were found by archaeologists during a dig in Sonning Common. Members of the Berkshire Archaeological Society were at the ... [more]
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