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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Nov 2018 | 23 Feb | The Mill at Sonning Reviews | Guys and Dolls |
| 15 Jan | Theatre at the cinema | The Tragedy of King Richard the Second | |
| 15 Jan | 19 Jan | Oxford Playhouse | The Comedy About a Bank Robbery |
| 15 Jan | 26 Jan | New Theatre | * Doctor Dolittle the Musical |
| 18 Jan | 19 Jan | Didcot Phoenix Drama Group | * Rumpelstiltskin |
| 18 Jan | 19 Jan | The Lights | * Jack the Lad - The Untold Tale of the Prodigal Son |
| 18 Jan | 19 Jan | Mortimer Dramatic Society | Stiffed at the Speakeasy |
| 18 Jan | 20 Jan | Shinfield Players | * Puss in Boots |
| 18 Jan | 2 Feb | Sinodun Players | * Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves |
| 19 Jan | Old Fire Station | Eat Your Heart Out | |
| 21 Jan | 26 Jan | Oxford Playhouse | Sister Act - The Musical |
| 22 Jan | 26 Jan | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | The Only Way is Suffrage |
| 24 Jan | 25 Jan | Old Fire Station | The Isle of Brimsker |
| 24 Jan | 26 Jan | Corn Exchange | Grease |
| 24 Jan | 26 Jan | Triangle Players | * Sinbad and the Golden Goddess |
| 25 Jan | 26 Jan | Mortimer Dramatic Society | Stiffed at the Speakeasy |
| 25 Jan | 26 Jan | Silchester Players | * Treasure Island |
| 25 Jan | 27 Jan | Shinfield Players | * Puss in Boots |
| 26 Jan | Didcot Phoenix Drama Group | * Rumpelstiltskin | |
| 26 Jan | 27 Jan | Faringdon Dramatic Society | * Wishing on a Star |
| 29 Jan | 2 Feb | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | The Pitchfork Disney |
| 29 Jan | 2 Feb | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Gods are Fallen and All Safety Gone |
| 30 Jan | Corn Exchange | Dirty Dusting | |
| 30 Jan | 2 Feb | Oxford Playhouse | Enron |
| 30 Jan | 23 Feb | Watermill Theatre | Murder For Two |
| 31 Jan | Theatre at the cinema | I'm Not Running | |
| 31 Jan | 1 Feb | The Haymarket | Holes |
| 1 Feb | Old Fire Station | Greywing House | |
| 1 Feb | 2 Feb | Faringdon Dramatic Society | * Wishing on a Star |
| 1 Feb | 2 Feb | Russell Players | * Snow White and the Magnificent Seven |
| 1 Feb | 2 Feb | Silchester Players | * Treasure Island |
| 1 Feb | 2 Feb | Triangle Players | * Sinbad and the Golden Goddess |
| 4 Feb | 9 Feb | Oxford Playhouse | Art |
| 5 Feb | The Anvil | * Barnaby Bear's Adventures at Sea | |
| 5 Feb | Old Fire Station | Human Story Theatre Scenes From… | |
| 5 Feb | 9 Feb | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Pirandello’s Henry IV |
| 5 Feb | 9 Feb | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Waiting for Gary |
| 6 Feb | Old Fire Station | Hickory Dickory Murder | |
| 6 Feb | 9 Feb | Central Studio | Legally Blonde - The Musical |
| 7 Feb | 9 Feb | Old Fire Station | After Miss Julie |
| 7 Feb | 10 Feb | The Haymarket | * Room on the Broom |
| 7 Feb | 16 Feb | Progress Theatre | Jerusalem |
| 8 Feb | 9 Feb | Russell Players | * Snow White and the Magnificent Seven |
| 12 Feb | The Anvil | The Wherwell Cockatrice | |
| 12 Feb | 13 Feb | Corn Exchange | Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four |
| 12 Feb | 13 Feb | Corn Exchange | * Horrible Histories: Brand New Barmy Britain |
| 12 Feb | 14 Feb | The Haymarket | The Nightmare Room |
| 12 Feb | 16 Feb | Woodley Theatre | Snake in the Grass |
| 12 Feb | 16 Feb | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Skin a Cat |
| 13 Feb | 16 Feb | Oxford Playhouse | Made in Dagenham |
| 13 Feb | 16Feb | New Theatre | Fame the Musical |
| 15 Feb | Old Fire Station | Beowulf | |
| 15 Feb | 16 Feb | The Kenton Theatre | * The Amazing Adventures of Pinocchio |
| 18 Feb | 23 Feb | New Theatre | Kinky Boots |
| 19 Feb | 20 Feb | The Anvil | * Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom |
| 19 Feb | 23 Feb | Oxford Playhouse | * The Cat in the Hat |
| 20 Feb | 23 Feb | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Confessions of a Coconut |
| 20 Feb | 23 Feb | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | A Leap Of |
| 21 Feb | The Lights | * Be Happy, Harry Hippo! | |
| 21 Feb | 23 Feb | KATS | Spamalot |
| 22 Feb | Old Fire Station | Trump The Musical | |
| 26 Feb | 1 Mar | Oxford Playhouse | The Unreturning |
| 26 Feb | 2 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Bandages |
| 26 Feb | 2 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Redacted Arachnid |
| 27 Feb | The Haymarket | Strangers on a Train Set | |
| 28 Feb | Old Fire Station | Hymns for Robots | |
| 28 Feb | 30 Mar | Watermill Theatre | Macbeth |
| 28 Feb | 13 Apr | The Mill at Sonning | Gaslight |
| 1 Mar | 3 Mar | The Haymarket | * Elmer the Patchwork Elephant |
| 4 Mar | 9 Mar | New Theatre | Annie |
| 5 Mar | Theatre at the cinema | I'm Not Running | |
| 5 Mar | 9 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | What Comes After |
| 5 Mar | 9 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | You Are Frogs |
| 6 Mar | Corn Exchange | A Super Happy Story about Feeling Super Sad | |
| 11 Mar | 16 Mar | Progress Theatre | A Doll's House |
| 12 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Our Carnal Hearts | |
| 12 Mar | 16 Mar | Oxford Playhouse | Chariots of Fire |
| 13 Mar | 14 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Lucrezia the Sinner, Lucrezia the Saint |
| 13 Mar | 16 Mar | Abingdon Drama Club | Black Comedy |
| 14 Mar | 15 Mar | The Haymarket | Macbeth |
| 14 Mar | 16 Mar | Corn Exchange | Bouncers |
| 15 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Bottom | |
| 19 Mar | 23 Mar | BAOS | Made In Dagenham |
| 20 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | An Indian Abroad | |
| 21 Mar | The Lights | The Odyssey | |
| 21 Mar | 22 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Status |
| 22 Mar | 23 Mar | Oxford Playhouse | Princess and The Hustler |
| 23 Mar | Corn Exchange | * The Sooty Show | |
| 23 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | * The Goose That Flew | |
| 25 Mar | 30 Mar | Oxford Playhouse | The Mousetrap |
| 25 Mar | 30 Mar | New Theatre | The Rocky Horror Show |
| 27 Mar | 28 Mar | Corn Exchange | A Brave Face |
| 28 Mar | 29 Mar | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Bull |
| 28 Mar | 31 Mar | The Haymarket | * We're Going on a Bear Hunt |
| 29 Mar | Corn Exchange | No Kids | |
| 1 Apr | 6 Apr | Progress Theatre | One Million Tiny Plays About Reading |
| 2 Apr | 6 Apr | The Haymarket | Turn of the Screw |
| 3 Apr | 6 Apr | Watermill Theatre | Moonfleet |
| 4 Apr | 6 Apr | Jigsaw Stage Productions | The King and I |
| 5 Apr | 6 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | Nell Gwynn |
| 7 Apr | 9 Apr | The Haymarket | * The Gruffalo, The Witch and The Warthog with Julia Donaldson |
| 9 Apr | The Anvil | * Peter Pan | |
| 9 Apr | 10 Apr | Corn Exchange | * Room on the Broom |
| 9 Apr | 10 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | In the Willows |
| 9 Apr | 13 Apr | Woodley Theatre | Boeing Boeing |
| 9 Apr | 13 Apr | Abingdon Operatic Society | My Fair Lady |
| 10 Apr | The Haymarket | The Long Walk Back | |
| 10 Apr | 13 Apr | AmEgos | The 39 Steps |
| 10 Apr | 13 Apr | Compton Players | The Ladykillers |
| 11 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Everything Wrong With You is Beautiful | |
| 11 Apr | 13 Apr | Jigsaw Stage Productions | The King and I |
| 11 Apr | 18 May | Watermill Theatre | Amélie |
| 12 Apr | 13 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | * Dinosaur World Live |
| 16 Apr | 20 Apr | Oxford Playhouse | The Remains of the Day |
| 16 Apr | 20 Apr | New Theatre | Calendar Girls - The Musical |
| 17 Apr | Theatre at the cinema | As You Like It | |
| 17 Apr | The Lights | * Bird's Nest Billy | |
| 17 Apr | 18 Apr | The Haymarket | The Trials of Oscar Wilde |
| 17 Apr | 20 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | * Muckers |
| 19 Apr | 21 Apr | Corn Exchange | * The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| 24 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | Brawn | |
| 27 Apr | Watermill Theatre | * Goldilocks | |
| 27 Apr | The Haymarket | * ANiMALCOLM | |
| 27 Apr | BT Studio (Burton Taylor) | * A Noisy Holiday | |
| 1 May | 4 May | Progress Theatre | Progress Premieres 2019 |
| 2 May | 4 May | The Haymarket | Crimes on the Nile |
| 14 May | 18 May | Oxford Playhouse | Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) |
| 20 May | 22 May | The Haymarket | Mindgame |
| 23 May | 29 Jun | Watermill Theatre | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 29 May | 30 May | The Haymarket | * Zog |
| 5 Jun | Theatre at the cinema | The Taming of the Shrew | |
| 12 Jun | 14 Jun | Corn Exchange | The Three Musketeers: a Comedy Adventure |
| 17 Jun | 22 Jun | New Theatre | Amélie |
| 24 Jun | 29 Jun | New Theatre | Hair |
| 25 Jun | 29 Jun | Woodley Theatre | Emma |
| 10 Jul | 13 Jul | Newbury Dramatic Society | Arsenic and Old Lace |
| 16 Jul | 20 Jul | Watermill Theatre | Our Church |
| 17 Jul | 20 Jul | Blewbury Players | The Crucible |
| 31 Jul | Theatre at the cinema | Measure for Measure | |
| 22 Aug | 7 Sep | New Theatre | War Horse |
| 24 Sep | 28 Sep | Woodley Theatre | The Herd |
| 26 Nov | 30 Nov | Woodley Theatre | The Thrill of Love |