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Denise Van Outen stars in Some Girl I Used to Know

11:35am Thursday 5th December 2013

SOME Girl I Used To Know, starring Denise Van Outen shows at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon from Monday to Wednesday, February 24-26.

Grid painting of Indian market for sale

11:29am Thursday 5th December 2013

ART@Aldsworth, based at Aldsworth Village Hall, recently held their seventh annual exhibition and one of the show’s highlights was the giant painting of an Indian Market.

Boys' Chamber Choir to sing at Down Ampney and Cirencester

11:23am Thursday 5th December 2013

THE Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys’ Chamber Choir will be undertaking a local mini tour this month presenting three concerts of English music.

Rave reviews for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

11:19am Thursday 5th December 2013

SEVEN Brides for Seven Brothers, the classic American musical set in 1850s Oregon, has been given an award-winning makeover with stunning new choreography by acclaimed Broadway director/choreogapher, Patti Colombo, and is earning rave reviews across the UK.

Anton Du Beke announces Ballroom to Broadway spectacular

9:31am Thursday 28th November 2013

ANTON Du Beke announces a spectacular new production, ‘Ballroom To Broadway’, embarking on a major UK tour for 2014.

Emerging star Ben Maggs to play at Christmas Concert

9:26am Thursday 28th November 2013

GLOUCESTERSHIRE based Singer/Songwriter Ben Maggs has been selected to play at this year’s BBC Radio Gloucestershire Christmas Celebration. Ben, who performed some of his songs live on the station earlier this year was approached by ‘Event Producer’ Richard Atkins after enthusiastic reports from presenters and staff. He will play 1 or 2 of his own songs in amongst an evening of Christmas Carols and festive music.

The Art of Zhen, International exhibition showing power of human spirit

9:24am Thursday 28th November 2013

CIRENCESTER Town Hall is the venue for an international art exhibition which opens on Saturday and runs until December 21.

A celebration of Stow-on-the-Wold, on Saturday, December 7

9:18am Thursday 28th November 2013

FOLLOWING the success of the inaugural Spirit of Stow event last year, Saturday, December 7, promises to be another wonderful celebration of Stow-on-the-Wold and everything this Cotswold town has to offer.

Cinderella at Bristol Hippodrome from December 6

9:12am Thursday 28th November 2013

THE Bristol Hippodrome announce that singer and actress Suzanne Shaw will take the title role of Cinderella, in this year’s festive spectacular. She will join TV personality Louie Spence as Dandini and comedian Andy Ford as Buttons along with David Roper as Baron Hardup and Liz Robertson as Fairy Godmother.

Artist John Bailey's fundraising annual exhibition and sale in aid of Cancer Research

10:15am Thursday 21st November 2013

JOHN Bailey, well known for his watercolour paintings and pottery, will be holding his annual exhibition at his studio at Winsley Cottage, Oakridge Lynch, near Stroud, from Saturday, November 23 to Sunday, December 1.

Fund-raising concert to raise money for Oxfam's work in Syria

10:09am Thursday 21st November 2013

A FUNDRAISING concert to raise money for Oxfam’s work in Syria will take place at the Ashcroft Centre in Ashcroft Road, Cirencester, on the evening of Saturday, December 7 and will feature music performed by the singing group The Blue Notes.

Tundra, new solo exhibition by Kerry Phippen

10:04am Thursday 21st November 2013

TUNDRA is a new solo exhibition by acclaimed local artist Kerry Phippen at the Celia Lendis Galleries, High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, on now until December 12.

The Woman in Black, the perfect season treat

9:57am Thursday 21st November 2013

A GHOST story at Christmas time is the perfect seasonal treat and this is the most chilling of them all. Stephen Mallatratt’s stage adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel The Woman in Black combines the power and intensity of live theatre with a cinematic quality inspired by the world of film noir.

Brewery Blues full light show with original film projection

9:51am Thursday 21st November 2013

A FIRST for Brewery Blues on November 30 – an inspired musical production/tour de force that imaginatively fuses visual, performance and musical creative elements to produce a thoroughly individual entertainment experience.

Jack and the Beanstalk at Swindon's Wyvern

9:43am Thursday 21st November 2013

KEITH Chegwin is to headline, for the third year running, in the Wyvern’s favourite pantomime production Jack and the Beanstalk.

PHILOMENA (12A)

1:25pm Thursday 14th November 2013

PHILOMENA (12A) The last time the issue of young, unmarried Irish mothers being forced to give up their babies and working in virtual slave labour conditions, was shown on screen came for the harrowing Magdalene Sisters.On paper it would come as some surprise that Steve Coogan, better known for his more comic incarnations such as Alan Partridge, is a major force behind a new film dealing with this subject. He has co-written the screenplay and plays the journalist Martin Sixsmith in the story of an elderly lady trying to track down the son she gave up 50 years previously in Ireland.

Exhibition of lithographs and drawings by the late Paul Hogarth

1:21pm Thursday 14th November 2013

WETPAINT Gallery is delighted to be showing an exclusive collection of lithographs and drawings by the late Paul Hogarth, one of the most distinguished illustrators and graphic artists of the 20th Century.

CRITICALLY-acclaimed acoustic trio Whalebone at Kempsford

1:18pm Thursday 14th November 2013

CRITICALLY-acclaimed acoustic trio Whalebone are returning to Kempsford Village Hall with their 2013 show and music from their brand new album on Friday, November 15.

Sea songs and shanties with Kimber’s Men

1:13pm Thursday 14th November 2013

PROBABLY the finest purveyors of sea songs and shanties in the world. West Yorkshire based Kimber’s Men will be appearing at two village halls in Gloucestershire in November; Daglingworth Village Hall on Friday, November 29 and Dumbleton Village Hall on Saturday, November 30. Both concerts start at 7.30pm.

Felicity Kendal and Simon Callow, star in the bittersweet classic comedy Chin-Chin

1:10pm Thursday 14th November 2013

TWO of Britain’s best-loved actors, Felicity Kendal and Simon Callow, star in the bittersweet classic comedy Chin-Chin, playing two very different people who have one thing in common – the affair that exists between their spouses. Set in burgeoning 1950s Paris, Chin-Chin tells of the often hilarious and ultimately disastrous effect of the affair, as the jilted couple rendezvous in a Paris apartment to set the world to rights, where they declare their independence in life, and in love. But out of these undesirable circumstances, special connections are forged, and the unlikely pair soon realise that they will leave the ‘city of love’ with more than they had bargained for. Felicity Kendal is a national treasure whose endearing performances have made her a staple of British theatre and television. Simon Callow is one of the nation’s best loved actors.  He played Mozart in the original production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus and the title role in Goethe’s Faust, all seven hours of it. He has appeared extensively with the RSC, National Theatre and the Royal Court and in the West End.  François Billetdoux’s 1959 play was a huge hit on Broadway and in the West End, where the original production starred Celia Johnson and Anthony Quayle. In 1979 Billetdoux was accorded ‘classic’ status when two of his plays entered into the repertory of the Comédie Française.  He was also the winner of a Molière, France’s top theatre award. The Everyman is making the opening night an extra special event with themed cocktails and a sultry French atmosphere. Staff will be dressing up for the occasion and there will be live music in the bar from acclaimed clarinet/sax player Philip Mercer accompanied by Mr Choc on the piano from 7pm and during the interval. Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, November  18-23  www.everymantheatre.org.uk

Aladdin at Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre

1:02pm Thursday 14th November 2013

ALADDIN - The Everyman’s traditional pantomime is back.

THOR: THE DARK WORLD 12A

1:17pm Friday 8th November 2013

THOR: THE DARK WORLD 12A When Marvel Studios announced its plans for adapting a range of its comics for the big screen, at the time one of the hardest adaptations to imagine was Thor. While a lot of the superheroes were based on Earth – Thor’s universe was on another realm. There was some scepticism about how successful it would turn out, but in the hands of Kenneth Branagh the resulting first film was a big hit and enabled the titular character to be part of the Avengers ensemble. The film also gave Marvel one of its most popular villains, Loki, and made a star out of English actor, Tom Hiddlestone. Both Thor and his brother Loki return in Thor: The Dark World.

Stratton Drama Group's Oh Clarence!

1:09pm Friday 8th November 2013

STRATTON Drama Group- Cirencester present their latest production next week. Oh Clarence! is a hilarious comedy written by John Chapman and based on one of PG Wodehouse’s characters, Lord Clarence Emsworth, the dreamy peer of Blandings Castle.

Bath’s Playing Up Theatre Company present The Dreadful Penny

1:06pm Friday 8th November 2013

ON SATURDAY, November 16 at Malmesbury Town Hall at 7.30pm, Bath’s Playing Up Theatre Company present The Dreadful Penny.

Bluegrass, Chicago style Blues and Americana at Brewery Blues

1:00pm Friday 8th November 2013

IF THE line-up at Brewery Blues on Friday,  November 15 has a down home Americian feel to it then it’s no accident as they bring you some of the area’s best exponents of authentic Bluegrass, Chicago style Blues and Americana. And to get the ball rolling is an award winning young Cirencester band who are making waves – and their Brewery debut.

Barking Mad Theatre Company at the Sundial

12:47pm Friday 8th November 2013

THE Barking Mad Theatre Company, based in Cirencester, was conceived in November 2006 when the founding members met up at a mutual friend’s birthday celebration.

Steeleye Span return to Cheltenham

12:41pm Friday 8th November 2013

FOLK rock pioneers Steeleye Span return to Cheltenham’s Everyman on Sunday, November 17 with a new live show as Maddy Prior - the voice of the band for 38 years - leads a line-up featuring faces old and new.

Dinosaur Zoo coming to Swindon

2:00pm Saturday 10th August 2013

DIRECT from Australia, Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo brings awesome pre-historic creatures to the Wyvern's Swindon stage from September 18-20.  Audiences will be invited to meet teeth-gnashing giants up close and personal. This brand-new show also stars the most recent addition to the Dinosaur Zoo, a carnivorous theropod known as the Australovenator, the most complete meat-eating dinosaur skeleton yet found in Australia. But watch out - not all of these Jurassic giants are as tame as they seem. Ahead of the performances, the Wyvern Theatre has paired up with Swindon Libraries to offer a tyrannosauric treat. Fossil Hunter Peter Davidson, author of the ‘Professor P’ series of books, will visit Swindon Libraries on Wednesday, July 31 to discuss all things dinosaur-some. Peter will be at Central Library at 10.30am and then North Swindon Library at 1.30pm – contact your nearest local library for further details as these free tickets are limited. wyverntheatre.org.uk

Fallen Angels coming to the Everyman

10:00am Saturday 10th August 2013

JENNY Seagrove and Sara Crowe star as best friends Julia and Jane, in a heavenly new production of Noël Coward’s divine comedy classic, Fallen Angels.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) - Review

2:00pm Friday 9th August 2013

You can understand when a film does really well, gets rave reviews and has a storyline that can be extended that the film makers would consider a sequel, which one hopes will be better than the first. What is of increasing frustration to a reviewer is seeing films which were pretty ropey in the first instance getting a sequel just because the box office numbers look good. There used to be a really good avenue for this kind of film – straight to video, but these days they get a big cinematic release which inevitably crowds out really great smaller films which don’t have a chance of breaking through if they are up against big budget 3D films, even if they are a bit rubbish.

Film Review: The Wolverine (12a)

2:40pm Thursday 1st August 2013

THE WOLVERINE (12a)

Outdoor Shakespeare performance at Hatherop Castle

3:00pm Tuesday 30th July 2013

A PROSPEROUS brothel-keeper, with her faithful pimp and hard-working whores; a foppish rake; a gullible nobleman; an unapologetic murderer; and a fanatical executioner, just a few of the colourful characters that populate Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, which will be performed by the Cotswold Arcadians at Hatherop Castle from Monday, July 29 to Saturday August 3.

West End hit to appear at Bristol

5:00pm Monday 29th July 2013

WEST End and Broadway's hit musical comedy Hairspray stops off at The Bristol Hippodrome for two weeks from August 6.

Mikron Theatre Company bring a unique outdoor performance to Cricklade

11:30am Saturday 20th July 2013

CSI meets Camberwick Green in a tale of sleuths and bees in Beyond the Veil, a crime-thriller with a buzz.

A Brief Encounter under the stars in Cirencester

11:46am Friday 19th July 2013

LOCAL theatre company seeks audience for evening of entertainment under the stars.

Cotswold gardens taking part in the National Gardens Scheme

5:00pm Friday 12th July 2013

Gardens open for the National Gardens Scheme

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