Saturday, 06 September 2025
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A YOUNG performer from Caversham has starred in a West End musical in London.
Samantha Henney, 15, took part in Wicked the Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London.
The actor, singer and dancer was one of three performers from Gillotts School in Henley to take part in the performance.
A NEW production at the Watermill looks at the extraordinary life of the 20th century chanteuse best known for singing the stirring anthem Non, je ne regrette rien. Piaf explores how Édith Piaf was born into poverty in Paris in December 1915, yet...
Lyricist Sir Tim Rice has written the words of some of the best-known musical hits of the last few decades. The 80-year-old Hambleden resident and long-time musical partner to Andrew Lloyd Webber will be talking about some of these tunes and regaling the audience with behind-the-scenes stories when his bestselling show, “Tim Rice – My Life In Musicals: I Know Him So Well” goes on tour, starting next Friday at the Hexagon in Reading.
Sinodun Players’ latest production is Entertaining Angels, Richard Everett’s bittersweet comedy about vicarage life, skilfully directed by Julie Utley.
The bright and breezy set design by Vicky Squires takes us to a garden – pretty to look at but becoming a virtual battleground for family disputes.
Seeing two Alan Ayckbourn plays within two weeks – Absent Friends in Henley, then Just Between Ourselves in Windsor – brought on major theatrical indigestion. It also hardened the impression that, while Ayckbourn was the toast of the theatrical world in the Seventies, his writing and topics rarely translate well to the 21st century. Been there, heard all that is one’s first reaction.
SO what is it that makes a good play? The script? The cast? The direction? The set? The current production of Absent Friends, by the ...
ORGANISERS of this year’s Henley Youth Festival say it was a joy to see children grow in confidence and self-belief. Thousands of ...
HATS off to Caroline Hopkins for an acting tour-de-force as that national treasure, Hyacinth Bucket, at Henley Amateur Operatic and ...
THIS year is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen and, judging by this touring production of Pride & Prejudice* (*sort ...
FOR anyone who found Thomas Hardy heavy-going in their schooldays, Theatre Royal Windsor’s latest production of one of Hardy's ...
Fans of Wolf Hall, whether on page or screen, will remember that Hilary Mantel’s portrait of Thomas Cromwell is a deeply sympathetic ...
Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger South Hill Park, Bracknell Thursday, October 27 Infused with magic and sparkle, we were immersed in this ...
The story of Dick Whittington is a fascinating amalgam of real life, folktale and, of course, a pantomime plotline. Alan P Frayn’s ...
HENLEY Children’s Theatre is off on a hair-raising adventure for its latest pantomime. In Rapunzel – A Tangled Tale, the traditional ...
THE manager of the Kenton Theatre in Henley says she is having to make “difficult” decisions to improve its viability. Lottie Pheasant ...
COMEDIAN Dara O'Briain is set to return to the Kenton Theatre in Henley for a warm-up show. The Irish comic, who performed twice at ...
TO say Mike Hurst feels at home on stage at the Kenton Theatre is clearly an understatement. “To me it’s like singing in my living ...
More News:
A HYDROLOGICAL survey of a village pond which started losing water at the beginning of the year will take place after deliveries of water failed to stabilise water levels. Sonning ... [more]
APPLICATIONS for Eco Soco’s annual tree give-away will open in September. Each year, the environmental group teams up with Community Action Groups Oxfordshire to give away free ... [more]
A MEETING of the Peppard WI on Wednesday, September 10, at the hall in Gallowstree Road at 2pm, will hear a talk by Hannah Bignall, on flower arranging. Details at: Stephanie.... [more]
PLANS to build nine new homes in Sonning Common have been approved. Reading-based developer Elegant Homes will build the mix of detached and semi-detached homes on 0.88ha of ... [more]
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