Arts

Stars (out of 5) = 3 One-sentence review = Gogglebox for the theatre, with added surrealism. Good for people who = like meta-textual plays about the practice of watching plays....

How do you make people laugh in such unstable, unpredictable times?”, the comedian Stewart Lee asks.  Well, he should know! Last year, after three decades in the business, The Times...

IT’S PANTO time again thanks to a Wokingham church. Alice in Pantoland is the title for this year’s production from Corpus Christi Parish Panto Group. The show follows Alice as...

WOKINGHAM Art Society is to hold its next meeting on Tuesday, January 21. The group’s will welcome Keith Hornblower whose subject will be Townscapes in watercolour. It will be held...

While actors like Judi Dench and Steven Berkoff take to the airwaves to decry the death of arts funding, The Studio Theatre Company (based at South Hill Park Arts Centre)...

IT’S THOUGHT to be the first pantomime to be based on real-life events and organisers of the show are hoping you won’t give it the cold shoulder when it’s performed...

FIFTY years ago, the big box office sensations included Airport, MASH and The Aristocats. In Wokingham, Mia Farrow was seen around the town hall and railway station filming the horror...

ACTOR Louise Jameson has a stunning CV with some landmark roles, but she is also a champion of the stage. Now she’s going behind the scenes to direct a new...

MILLIONS watched her die at the hands of Coronation Street’s murderer, Richard Hillman. But has Tracy Shaw turned killer herself?  The actor is one of the many star names appearing...

THE FIRST production from Wokingham Theatre for 2020 will be a double-header. Audience, by Michael Frayn, will be paired with Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound when the amateur group...