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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Feb | 20 Mar | Watermill Theatre | Heroes Reviews |
| 24 Feb | 10 Apr | The Mill at Sonning | We'll Always Have Paris |
| 14 Mar | South Street | * Claytime | |
| 16 Mar | 17 Mar | South Street | Top of the World |
| 16 Mar | 17 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Burton |
| 16 Mar | 18 Mar | Arlington Arts Centre | The Frogs |
| 16 Mar | 20 Mar | The Haymarket | Absent Friends |
| 16 Mar | 20 Mar | OFS Studio | Henry IV |
| 16 Mar | 20 Mar | The Kenton Theatre | The Country Wife |
| 16 Mar | 20 Mar | New Era Theatre Club | Humble Boy |
| 19 Mar | 20 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | * This is a That |
| 20 Mar | The Community of Hungerford Theatre Company | * Grimm Tales | |
| 22 Mar | 27 Mar | Progress Theatre | The Importance of Being Earnest and Travesties |
| 23 Mar | 24 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Meeting Joe Strummer |
| 23 Mar | 27 Mar | Oxford Playhouse | Antigone |
| 24 Mar | New Road Baptist Church | Jubilate! | |
| 24 Mar | 25 Mar | The Haymarket | Victory |
| 24 Mar | 26 Mar | Domino Players | Round and Round the Garden |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | Sinodun Players | Improbable Fiction |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | Box Theatre Company | Sganarelle |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | Newbury Dramatic Society | Confusions |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | Goring Gap Players | Map of the Heart |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | Abingdon Drama Club | Thérèse Raquin |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | New Road Baptist Church, Oxford | The Big Bite-Size Soirée |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | New Road Baptist Church, Oxford | Jubilate! |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | New Road Baptist Church | Never Tell Them |
| 24 Mar | 27 Mar | OFS Studio | Tatchell |
| 25 Mar | 26 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Reflections in a Distorting Mirror |
| 25 Mar | 26 Mar | The North Wall Arts Centre | Cling to Me Like Ivy |
| 25 Mar | 27 Mar | The Rookery, Old Headington, Oxford | To and Fro |
| 29 Mar | 31 Mar | Watermill Theatre | Raising Voices |
| 29 Mar | 31 Mar | The Corn Exchange | Cider with Rosie |
| 29 Mar | 3 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | Hedda Gabler |
| 30 Mar | 1 Apr | South Street | Nothing to Declare |
| 30 Mar | 3 Apr | OFS Studio | Lost and Found |
| 30 Mar | 3 Apr | OFS Studio | Zemblanity |
| 31 Mar | 1 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Morgan and West Time Travelling Magicians |
| 31 Mar | 3 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Between Me and You |
| 31 Mar | 3 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Lady in Bed |
| 1 Apr | The North Wall Arts Centre | Loving April | |
| 1 Apr | 2 Apr | The Cherwell School Drama Studio | Borges and I |
| 2 Apr | 3 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Grimms |
| 3 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | * Billy Goats Gruff | |
| 6 Apr | 10 Apr | The Haymarket | The Black Veil |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | Newbury Operatic Society | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | Watermill Theatre | The Three Musketeers |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | Sweet Charity |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | Abingdon Drama Club | Peer Gynt |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | LOL |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | First Class |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | University Church St Mary, Oxford | All Hail Ye Mighty Lords of Nowhere |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | University Church St Mary, Oxford | Byron and Shelley: A Romantics Comedy |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | University Church St Mary, Oxford | Now is the Winter |
| 7 Apr | 10 Apr | Moser Theatre | A Prayer for Wings |
| 12 Apr | 13 Apr | SLY Theatre | Mountain Language |
| 12 Apr | 17 Apr | Abingdon Operatic Society | Anything Goes |
| 13 Apr | 14 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | What Would Helen Mirren Do? |
| 13 Apr | 17 Apr | The Haymarket | * Alice in Wonderland |
| 14 Apr | 24 Apr | Progress Theatre | Intimate Exchanges |
| 14 Apr | 22 May | The Mill at Sonning | Love From a Stranger |
| 15 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | * To Have and to Honk | |
| 15 Apr | 18 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | * The Enchanted Pig |
| 15 Apr | 22 May | Watermill Theatre | Bronte |
| 16 Apr | Arlington Arts Centre | * Arabian Nights | |
| 16 Apr | 17 Apr | Central Studio | The Memory of Water |
| 16 Apr | 18 Apr | H.A.O.D.S | The Boyfriend |
| 17 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | * How the Koala Learnt to Hug | |
| 20 Apr | 24 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | The Glass Menagerie |
| 20 Apr | 24 Apr | The Haymarket | Hi-de-Hi! |
| 20 Apr | 24 Apr | Woodley Theatre | Ladies Day |
| 21 Apr | 24 Apr | Compton Players | What the Butler Saw |
| 22 Apr | 24 Apr | H.A.O.D.S | The Boyfriend |
| 22 Apr | 24 Apr | Newbury Nomads | Showtime Cafe |
| 22 Apr | 24 Apr | Kingston Bagpuize Drama Group | The Female of the Species |
| 22 Apr | 24 Apr | Hook Players | Round and Round the Garden |
| 23 Apr | 24 Apr | Shinfield Players | Gypsy |
| 24 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Propaganda | |
| 24 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Bob, the Man on the Moon! | |
| 25 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | The Bug and the Butterfly | |
| 25 Apr | South Street | * Telling Tales | |
| 26 Apr | 1 May | Oxford Playhouse | Wife After Death |
| 29 Apr | 1 May | Shinfield Players | Gypsy |
| 30 Apr | 1 May | Purley Players | Dish of the Day |
| 4 May | 8 May | The Haymarket | The Graduate |
| 4 May | 8 May | The Kenton Theatre | 39th Kenton Drama Festival |
| 5 May | Arlington Arts Centre | Loving April | |
| 5 May | 8 May | Central Studio | The Admirable Crichton |
| 11 May | 15 May | Overton Dramatic Society | The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery: "Murder at Checkmate Manor" |
| 18 May | 21 May | OFS Studio | Fun Run |
| 18 May | 22 May | Starmaker | Honk! |
| 18 May | 22 May | Oxford Playhouse | Oh What a Lovely War! |
| 19 May | 22 May | New Theatre | The Producers |
| 19 May | 22 May | Studio Theatre Club | The Hypochondriac |
| 19 May | 22 May | Sinodun Players | Confusions |
| 20 May | 22 May | A Class Act | Scurrilous |
| 20 May | 29 May | Progress Theatre | The Pillowman |
| 25 May | 29 May | Watermill Theatre | Gulliver’s Travels |
| 25 May | 29 May | www.cornerstone-arts.org | Didcot Drama Festival of One Act Plays |
| 25 May | 29 May | OFS Studio | Much Ado About Nothing |
| 26 May | 29 May | The Sainsbury Singers | * Disney's Beauty and the Beast |
| 26 May | 5 Jun | The Haymarket | Up on the Roof |
| 26 May | 10 Jul | The Mill at Sonning | If I Were You |
| 27 May | Central Studio | Is That a Bolt in Your Neck? | |
| 3 Jun | Arlington Arts Centre | * Elmer The Elephant | |
| 3 Jun | 5 Jun | KATS | Sherlock Holmes - The Final Adventure |
| 3 Jun | 10 Jul | Watermill Theatre | Daisy Pulls It Off |
| 9 Jun | 12 Jun | Shinfield Players | Bedside Manners |
| 11 Jun | 12 Jun | The Haymarket | * The Gruffalo |
| 13 Jun | 18 Jun | Corn Exchange Wallingford | The 2010 Corn Exchange Drama Festival |
| 14 Jun | 19 Jun | Progress Theatre | Progress Youth Theatre |
| 14 Jun | 19 Jun | New Theatre | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| 15 Jun | 19 Jun | The Haymarket | The Late Edwina Black |
| 15 Jun | 19 Jun | Woodley Theatre | Strictly Murder |
| 15 Jun | 19 Jun | WLOS | Guys and Dolls |
| 23 Jun | 26 Jun | Central Studio | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 24 Jun | 26 Jun | Kennet Opera | The Elixir of Love |
| 24 Jun | 26 Jun | Faringdon Dramatic Society | Cold Comfort Farm |
| 29 Jun | 3 Jul | The Haymarket | Wife Begins at Forty |
| 29 Jun | 3 Jul | New Theatre | * Horrible Science |
| 8 Jul | 9 Jul | Central Studio | * James and the Giant Peach |
| 9 Jul | 10 Jul | Shinfield Players | Senior Youth Group Show - 3 Short Plays |
| 13 Jul | 17 Jul | Sinodun Players | Cold Comfort Farm |
| 14 Jul | 17 Jul | Abingdon Drama Club | An Experiment with an Air Pump |
| 16 Jul | 17 Jul | Shinfield Players | Junior/Middle Youth Group Show - Wind in the Willows |
| 27 Jul | 28 Jul | SLY Theatre | Blood Wedding |
| 28 Sep | 2 Oct | Woodley Theatre | Losing Louis |
| 12 Oct | 16 Oct | Sinodun Players | Our Country's Good |
| 27 Oct | 30 Oct | KATS | My Fair Lady |
| 23 Nov | 27 Nov | Woodley Theatre | Playhouse Creatures |
| 3 Dec | 16 Jan | Oxford Playhouse | Cinderalla |