Arts

Shakespeare can be drier than unbuttered toast, all but impenetrable to younger audiences.  Dense text, packed with nigh-incomprehensible speech patterns from 400 years ago and an over reliance on cross-dressing...

The event — at Trunkwell House — will host a range of eco-friendly suppliers stocking dresses, wedding cakes, and stationery. There will also be demonstrations of cruelty-free hair and make-up...

"The idea is that we create a Hollywood-type film studio, in the field next to us," said Nick Smith, president of Blackhall UK at the announcement.

Blackhall Studios hope to bring major Hollywood film productions to the UK and create up to 3,000 new jobs in Wokingham and Reading, including around 1,500 employed at the studio.

“We shot the film in 24 days, which is a very short period of time to make a full feature-length film."

Paul McCaffrey can still remember the first successful comedy routine he wrote, even though it was over a decade ago. “It was about cash machines and how frustrating it was...

A HALF-TERM treat is coming to the Theatre Royal Windsor next week in the form of David Walliams’ best-selling story, Billionaire Boy.  The show tells the story of 12-year-old Joe...

TWO new headliners have been announced for this year’s Reading Festival, joining Liam Gallagher and a host of other bands and musicians for the August bank holiday event.  Tickets go...

A MEETING of the Wokingham Waterstones Feminist Book Club will take place in the Hope & Anchor pub in Station Road, Wokingham on Monday, February 10. The group meets to...

THEY JUST can’t stay away. And who can blame them when they’re having fun?  The wicked stepsisters from The Hexagon’s recent production of Cinderella are returning for the Reading-based theatre’s...