Newbury Theatre

Newbury theatre guide

Find out about theatre events coming up in and around Newbury and West Berkshire, reaching out to Oxford, Basingstoke and Reading. Follow us on . Email us at

Posters of forthcoming productions, audition notices and requests for help are below

In the spotlight

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Watermill Theatre (Tue 26 May to Sun 13 Sep).
Shear Madness: The Mill at Sonning (Thu 25 Jun to Sat 15 Aug).
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Theatre at the Cinema (Wed 22 Jul to Sat 15 Aug).
The Jungle Book: Shaw House (Mon 10 Aug).

See What's on for a list of everything.

Newbury Theatre and Penny Post

Newbury Theatre has joined up with Penny Post to give updated theatre information, and it will also appear here. Penny Post is a great source of local information - if you don't know it already, I can thoroughly recommend it.

Online theatre

The National Theatre are making their NT Live recordings available online. You can subscribe for £9.98 a month or rent individual plays for £7.99.

You can search for reviews of previous productions - there are more than 1000 pages of them in the Archive!

Latest news

Date	Item
26 Jul	New Era Players' next production from 10th to 19th September is Lords and Ladies.
26 Jul	Newbury Dramatic Society's next production from 1st to 4th September in and around Newbury is A Tale of Beatrix Potter.
20 Jul	There's an outdoor showing of The Jungle Book at Shaw House on 10th August, age 4+.
3 Jul	Mikron Theatre Company return to our waterways with two productions, Top of the Wold and Wensleydale Whey at Caversham Court, Woolhampton, Wallingford and Goring between 13th and 25th July.

Now and coming soon

Newbury Dramatic Society - A Tale of Beatrix Potter Newbury Dramatic Society's next production from 1st to 4th September in and around Newbury is A Tale of Beatrix Potter. This is a short play for 4 charities, in which we are “playing for the community”, our yearly aim to help where we can. The play explores the interesting life of Beatrix Potter, and gives examples of her quirky animal stories. Suitable for adults and children, with costumes and sound effects, which we hope are amusing!

New Era Players' next production from 10th to 19th September is Lords and Ladies. The play, adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett, is vaguely A Midsummer Night’s Dream but with witches, young and not so young, a king and his bride to be, rude mechanicals, three wizards (two in human form and one who likes books, bananas and peanuts, not necessarily in that order) and a group of beings from another realm: glamorous but evil. Their appearance is one of the themes of the play, showing how people can be bamboozled by glitz and glamour and not see the evil beneath.

Auditions and requests for help

New Era - backstage help wanted New Era Players (Newbury) want backstage helpers.

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