The story of Rapunzel, the beautiful woman with golden hair who is locked in a tower is best known as one of the Brothers Grimm’s 1812 fairy...

Since William Shakespeare’s Othello was first performed in 1604 it has built up a reputation from the theatrical greats who have played the ...

As theatres around the country wait to hear whether the Arts Council will include them as a National Portfolio Organisation in support of th...

The Watermill in Newbury has developed its own style of production that now seems to dominate each season’s programming. On the one hand, th...

It has been a very long time since I have read a Graeme Greene novel having studied the Power and the Glory at school but the title Our Man ...

Spike Milligan was a comic genius who inspired a generation of new innovative comedy sketch shows with his manic zany brand of comedy. He fo...

In April 2018 I saw Emma Rice’s stage adaption of the classic 1945 film Brief Encounter on its return to the Haymarket London and a year la...

Part of the joy of visiting the wonderful intimate Watermill Theatre near Newbury is to discover the cleverly designed innovative staging th...

Live Theatre is back and the Watermill Newbury which has quietly worked away to keep its venue open whenever it could throughout the pandemi...

The Watermill Theatre has risen to the unique challenges of programming a theatre and operating it safely in 2020 with an exceptional year m...

The Watermill continues its indoor reopening season with a revival of its 2001 play about the life and death of the amazing Amy Johnson, the...

After a very successful outdoor summer season with a fun "Hound of the Baskerville "and an excellent "Camelot", Paul Har...

The Watermill has led the way with its short season of outdoor theatre in its delightful grounds. Following its tongue in cheek version of T...

It was, as always, a delight to travel down the M4 to the wonderful Watermill Theatre near Newbury to see Abigail Pickard Price's post-C...

A Midsummers Night Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's best known and most accessible play and the famous lines pop up throughout any pr...

Craig Taylor first published these short stories in The Guardian and then in a book in 2009 as 95 short plays. The Watermill took a sel...

The Watermill Young Company's latest production is a charming and fun version of the story of the French poet and swordsman, Cyrano,...

Stephen Sondheim’s breadth of catalogue is astonishingly good from West side story and Gypsy in the fifties, Company, Follies and Sween...

Kiss Me Kate is a musical that I have admired ever since seeing the 1987 Old Vic production directed by Adrian Noble and starring Nichola...

Amelie UK premiere is at the intimate Watermill Newbury until the 18thMay before embarking on a long tour of venues in England, Sc...