A YOUNG performer from Caversham has starred in a West End musical in London.
Samantha Henney, 15, took part in Wicked the Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London.
The actor, singer and dancer was one of three performers from Gillotts School in Henley to take part in the performance.
A NEW production at the Watermill looks at the extraordinary life of the 20th century chanteuse best known for singing the stirring anthem Non, je ne regrette rien. Piaf explores how Édith Piaf was born into poverty in Paris in December 1915, yet...
Lyricist Sir Tim Rice has written the words of some of the best-known musical hits of the last few decades. The 80-year-old Hambleden resident and long-time musical partner to Andrew Lloyd Webber will be talking about some of these tunes and regaling the audience with behind-the-scenes stories when his bestselling show, “Tim Rice – My Life In Musicals: I Know Him So Well” goes on tour, starting next Friday at the Hexagon in Reading.
For anyone who found Thomas Hardy heavy-going in their schooldays, Theatre Royal Windsor’s latest production of one of Hardy's perennial favourites, Far from the Madding Crowd, offers a second chance to fall under the spell of Hardy’s storytelling.
Fans of Wolf Hall, whether on page or screen, will remember that Hilary Mantel’s portrait of Thomas Cromwell is a deeply sympathetic one while she depicts Thomas More as a ruthless hunter of heretics. But go back more than 60 years to another Tudor blockbuster, Robert Bolt’s play A Man For All Seasons, and we see a mirror image.
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All train lines between London Paddington and Reading have closed while emergency services respond to an incident, National Rail has said.
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