Entertainment

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...

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...

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...

Kerry Godliman is a woman who gets things done, as anybody who saw her win  Taskmaster knows. The comic’s new show, BOSH, is inspired by that experience. She explains: “Greg...

AS IDEAS go, it was not a particularly good one. A hundred years ago, the United States got cold feet about alcohol, leading to the rise of a speakeasy and...

CHARITY WADE is planning a music night to help raise funds. It will be welcoming The Filf, a party band, for the event on Saturday, January 25. Tickets cost £13...

CHRISTMAS DAY might have been and gone, but the Christmas season in the liturgical calendar is continuing. Tamesis Chamber Choir is to hold an epiphany concert – close to the...