What's on - the calendar of events
Here's the schedule for amateur and professional productions in Newbury and the surrounding areas. Items in red and with an asterisk in front are particularly suitable for children.
| From | To | Company | Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Apr | 10 May | The Mill at Sonning | That's Love |
| 9 Apr | 17 May | Watermill Theatre | London Assurance Review |
| 5 May | 6 May | Watermill Theatre at Sulhamstead Village Hall | Micky Salberg's Crystal Ballroom Dance Band Review |
| 6 May | 10 May | OFS Studio | The Audacity of Ideas |
| 6 May | 10 May | Burton Taylor Theatre | Dirty Linen |
| 6 May | 10 May | Oxford Playhouse | A Doll's House |
| 6 May | 10 May | The Kenton Theatre | 37th Kenton Drama Festival |
| 7 May | South Street | Mr Sole Abode | |
| 9 May | Arlington Arts Centre | Gin and Tonic and Passing Trains | |
| 9 May | 10 May | Silchester Players | The Hollow |
| 9 May | 11 May | Hexagon | * CBeebies at the Theatre |
| 10 May | Watermill Theatre at The Lambourn Centre | Micky Salberg's Crystal Ballroom Dance Band Review | |
| 11 May | South Street | * Hansel and Gretel | |
| 12 May | Corn Exchange | * Pirate Island | |
| 13 May | 17 May | New Theatre | * Horrible Histories - Terrible Tudors |
| 13 May | 17 May | OFS Studio | Assassins |
| 13 May | 17 May | The Anvil | Crazy For You |
| 13 May | 17 May | The Haymarket | Spies |
| 14 May | 17 May | Compton Players | Puppy Love |
| 14 May | 17 May | New Theatre | * Horrible Histories - Vile Victorians |
| 14 May | 17 May | Oxford Playhouse | Educating Agnes |
| 14 May | 21 Jun | The Mill at Sonning | Murder Hunt |
| 16 May | 17 May | Silchester Players | The Hollow |
| 19 May | 24 May | Progress Theatre | Women of Lockerbie |
| 20 May | 24 May | Woodley Theatre | Kafka's Dick |
| 20 May | 24 May | Oxford Operatic Society | The Pirates of Penzance - Broadway Version |
| 20 May | 24 May | Oxford Playhouse | London Assurance |
| 21 May | 24 May | Watermill Theatre | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| 21 May | 24 May | OFS Studio | Heartbreak House |
| 22 May | 24 May | Behind You Productions | First Assignment |
| 22 May | 31 May | The Haymarket | * Basingstoke Gang Show |
| 23 May | Central Studio | Hey Gringo! Through Peru | |
| 26 May | Arlington Arts Centre | * Giraffes Can’t Dance | |
| 26 May | 31 May | New Theatre | Hello Dolly |
| 28 May | 31 May | Oxford Playhouse | Spring Awakening |
| 28 May | 5 Jul | Watermill Theatre | Black Comedy |
| 30 May | The Kenton Theatre | * Little Howard and the Magic Pencil of Life and Death | |
| 30 May | The Kenton Theatre | The Little Howard Appeal | |
| 30 May | 31 May | Mortimer Dramatic Society | Hobson’s Choice |
| 30 May | 31 May | The Community of Hungerford Theatre Company | Love Begins at Fifty |
| 1 Jun | The Anvil | * Harry & His Bucketful Of Dinosaurs | |
| 1 Jun | 7 Jun | Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon | ODN Drama Festival |
| 2 Jun | 7 Jun | New Theatre | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| 3 Jun | 7 Jun | Masquerade Theatre Company | Titanic - the Musical |
| 3 Jun | 7 Jun | OFS Studio | The Last Five Years |
| 3 Jun | 7 Jun | Oxford Playhouse | The English Game |
| 4 Jun | 7 Jun | Shinfield Players | Haywire |
| 4 Jun | 7 Jun | Sinodun Players | Dangerous Corner |
| 4 Jun | 7 Jun | The Haymarket | Abigail's Party |
| 6 Jun | 7 Jun | Mortimer Dramatic Society | Hobson’s Choice |
| 10 Jun | 14 Jun | Oxford Playhouse | * Danny the Champion of the World |
| 10 Jun | 14 Jun | WLOS | Orpheus in the Underworld |
| 12 Jun | OFS Studio | How To Get Almost Anyone To Want To Sleep With You | |
| 16 Jun | Corn Exchange | Space 50 | |
| 17 Jun | Corn Exchange | Gertrude's Secret | |
| 17 Jun | 18 Jun | Oxford Playhouse | Como Agua Para Chocolate |
| 18 Jun | 21 Jun | OFS Studio | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| 20 Jun | 21 Jun | Burton Taylor Theatre | Travels with My Virginity |
| 23 Jun | 28 Jun | Progress Theatre | After Juliet |
| 23 Jun | 28 Jun | Corn Exchange Wallingford | Wallingford Corn Exchange Drama Festival 2008 |
| 23 Jun | 28 Jun | Oxford Playhouse | The 39 Steps |
| 24 Jun | 28 Jun | The Haymarket | Secrets |
| 25 Jun | Burton Taylor Theatre | * Valerie Bloom | |
| 25 Jun | 2 Aug | The Mill at Sonning | Love's a Luxury |
| 26 Jun | 28 Jun | New Greenham Arts | The Rep College |
| 26 Jun | 28 Jun | The Kenton Theatre | Lovers and Other Strangers |
| 26 Jun | 28 Jun | Stagelights | Improbable Fiction |
| 30 Jun | Oxford Playhouse | And Then There Were None | |
| 5 Jul | The Community of Hungerford Theatre Company | * Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs | |
| 7 Jul | 12 Jul | OFS Studio | Moby Dick The Musical |
| 8 Jul | 12 Jul | Woodley Theatre | Proof |
| 14 Jul | 15 Jul | Shining Lights | The Roses of Eyam |
| 14 Jul | 26 Jul | Progress Theatre | The Taming of the Shrew |
| 15 Jul | 19 Jul | The Haymarket | Strangers on a Train |
| 15 Jul | 19 Jul | Oxford Playhouse | Topless Mum |
| 23 Jul | 26 Jul | Sinodun Players | The Memory of Water |
| 26 Jul | Newbury Youth Theatre | The Wind Tamer | |
| 30 Jul | 3 Aug | Watermill Theatre | Boxford Masques Night and Day |
| 31 Jul | 2 Aug | KATS | Moving Pictures |
| 1 Aug | 2 Aug | Arlington Arts Centre | Tin Pan Ali |
| 6 Aug | 6 Sep | The Mill at Sonning | Plaza Suite |
| 12 Aug | 16 Aug | OFS Studio | * Wind in the Willows |
| 9 Sep | 13 Sep | OFS Studio | A Tender Mother |
| 14 Oct | 18 Oct | Woodley Theatre | Macbeth |
| 15 Oct | 18 Oct | Sinodun Players | The Way of the World |
| 29 Oct | 1 Nov | The Sainsbury Singers | The Witches of Eastwick |
| 5 Dec | 18 Jan | Oxford Playhouse | * Sleeping Beauty |