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The digital set of Beauty and the Beast, the Hexagon pantomime
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REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast has the wow factor!

Wow … just wow! Beauty and the Beast is a triumph from start to finish. The Hexagon's 2025 pantomime, staged by Imagine Theatre,...

Beverley Knight standing with her hands on her hips wearing a black dress, smiling
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Beverley Knight’s Born to Perform tour to stop at Reading’s Hexagon in 2026

The Queen of British Soul, Beverley Knight MBE, will bring her brand-new Born to Perform UK tour to Reading next year as she...

Victoria Melody & Mark Thomas present Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak
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Dig it! What Victoria Melody’s Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak can tell us about The Diggers and communities

https://youtu.be/uUXRoOcr1lE The English Civil War and a Brighton council estate might seem like unlikely bedfellows for a new comedy play coming to Reading’s...

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick holding a guitar on stage with his arm aloft
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Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick to rock at Reading’s Hexagon theatre in 2026

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick – Channel 4’s Supervet – will bring his brand new Music & Medicine tour to The Hexagon in Reading next...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein coming to Arlington Arts Centre
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A chilling new adaptation of Frankenstein comes to Newbury

A storm-lashed summer in 1816 set the stage for one of literature’s greatest gothic tales: Frankenstein. Trapped indoors by the weather, Lord Byron,...

Three people around a table, the one seated is Tiny Tim
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Tiny Tim: Theatre’s search for talented young actors for festive role

Reading Rep Theatre is inviting Reading’s youngsters to audition for the role of Tiny Tim in its festive production of A Christmas Carol....

The poster for RABBLE Theatre's Glitch
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Glitch gains national tour: funding for Post Office scandal play

Reading-based RABBLE Theatre is preparing to take its acclaimed play Glitch – The True Story of the Post Office Scandal on a national...

Stand Out Stand Up poster
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Stand Out Stand Up 25: Stewart Lee, Shazia Mirza and Arthur Smith to join Alexei Sayle for special Reading comedy night

Comedy royalty is coming to Reading this autumn as Alexei Sayle hosts Stand Out Stand Up, a one-night-only event featuring some of the...

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Acclaimed comic reveals comedy preview as he shapes new production