SLEEPING BEAUTY to Open at Corn Exchange Newbury
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 22, 2026
Corn Exchange Newbury will present its annual pantomime with a playful twist on the classic fairy tale, directed by Clare Plested and featuring live music and festive surprises for all ages.
Cast Set For SLEEPING BEAUTY Panto at Corn Exchange Newbury
by Stephi Wild - Oct 2, 2026
Corn Exchange Newbury announced the cast for its annual pantomime SLEEPING BEAUTY, running from November 27 through January 2. The production features Graham Mackay-Bruce, Jenny Perry, and Harry Sweetman alongside writers Plested Brown and Wilsher.
Review: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Arches Lane Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Sep 21, 2026
250 years after her birth, with another new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice about to land on Netflix and a new film of Sense and Sensibility being released this week, the appetite for Jane Austen seems as ravenous as ever. Theatre company Thick as Thieves specialise in small company adaptations of popular classics and has brought their version of Sense and Sensibility to the tiny Arches Lane Theatre in Battersea.
Review: ANCIENT GREASE, The Vaults
by Franco Milazzo - Mar 16, 2026
At The Vaults, Ancient Grease arrives with impeccable comic timing. The leather-jacketed mythology of Grease has rarely been far from London’s cultural bloodstream. Indeed, the city has been particularly well supplied with it of late thanks to Secret Cinema, which mounted Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical in Battersea Park last year.
Open Bar Theatre Performs Three Classics
by Stephi Wild - May 25, 2023
Continuing their partnership with Fuller's pubs, 2023 will see Open Bar Theatre tour Sense and Sensibility followed by two Shakespeare plays to pub gardens up and down the UK, bringing classics back to the people. Updating the satire in the plays to suit modern day, and performing with a physical, high energy style and a dash of audience participation, Open Bar Theatre perform for today's groundlings, those who want to sit back with a big glass of something cold and be entertained.
BWW Review: MULAN ROUGE, The Vaults
by Franco Milazzo - May 4, 2022
Anyway you look at it, the concept of The Vaults' Mulan Rouge – a dinner/cabaret mashup of Disney’s Mulan and musical Moulin Rouge – is both exciting and bonkers. But definitely bonkers.