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Milkshake! presenter Derek Moran joins the cast of this year's Anvil pantomime

12:00am Thursday 23rd May 2013

POPULAR children’s presenter Derek Moran is to star in this year’s Anvil panto, Aladdin. 

West End cast - led by Janie Dee - to perform Sondheim's A Little Night Music in Guildford

11:00am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

FOR one spectacular night only, a special concert version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music - featuring an all-star West End cast - comes to Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.

A team of just 3 actors deliver Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo in Central Studio on Friday

2:21pm Wednesday 15th May 2013

It's just 100 minutes long and is suitable for ages nine and over.

REVIEW: Steel Magnolias, The Loddon Players

11:55am Tuesday 14th May 2013

Phillip Horton reviews Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, performed by the amateur dramatics group in Sherfield on Loddon Village Hall.

REVIEW: Silchester Players' They came from Mars... Performances continue May 17 & 18

9:56am Tuesday 14th May 2013

See the final performances in Silchester Village Hall on May 17 & 18.

The Gazette's Leisure Editor is treated to a preview performance of Basingstoke Amateur Theatrical Society's new production Little Shop of Horrors

12:00am Monday 13th May 2013

See it in The Haymarket from Tuesday until Saturday.

• Meet the baddies from BATS' forthcoming Little Shop of Horrors
• Meet BATS' Little Shop of Horrors Sha-bop girls

Gothic horror classic is to be next Watermill production

12:47pm Thursday 9th May 2013

ROBERT Louis Stevenson’s classic gothic horror The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is to be brought to life by Rhum & Clay Theatre Company at Bagnor’s Watermill.

REVIEW: Dirty Dancing, New Victoria Theatre, Woking

12:24pm Thursday 9th May 2013

THE magic of Dirty Dancing the film is that the story transforms a plain, dull, ordinary girl into a sexy, dominant, dancing star.

Performances of The Miser continue at The Watermill

1:22pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

THERE'S still a chance to see The Watermill Theatre’s FREEWHEEL project, foused on Moliere's The Miser, directed by Nancy Meckler.

Mingle with High Society at the Mayflower this week

3:04pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

A DAZZLING new production of Cole Porter’s timeless classic High Society runs at The Mayflower Theatre this week.

Meet the baddies from BATS' forthcoming Little Shop of Horrors

12:07pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

BATS returns to The Haymarket this month with one of Broadway’s favourite musicals, Little Shop of Horrors, which features great 1960s-style songs and a story that pastiches old-style horror movies.

Legendary theatre thriller The Woman in Black on its way to Guildford

11:23am Tuesday 7th May 2013

PREPARE to be transported into a terrifying and ghostly world as the unanimously acclaimed stage production of The Woman in Black plays at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre next month.

Hotbuckle bring their adaptation of Hugo's Les Miserables to town

12:00am Thursday 2nd May 2013

HOTBUCKLE theatre company return to Central Studio this month with their dramatic new production of Les Miserables.

Young local dancers to join West End stars for An Evening of Dirty Dancing

10:28am Wednesday 1st May 2013

STUDENTS from Basingstoke Academy of Dancing have been invited to join the cast of An Evening of Dirty Dancing at The Haymarket.

REVIEW: Hairspray! national tour, The Mayflower, Southampton

3:37pm Tuesday 30th April 2013

HUGE hairstyles, big tunes and exaggerated characters entertained an audience at The Mayflower when the hit musical Hairspray arrived.

Silchester Players will bring another tale of the Farndale ladies to life in May

2:58pm Tuesday 30th April 2013

SILCHESTER Players spring production is the elaborately titled They Came from Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church Hall in Time for the Townswomen’s Guild’s Coffee Morning!

Meet BATS' Little Shop of Horrors Sha-bop girls

3:40pm Monday 29th April 2013

David Allard talks to Louise Gains, Kirsty Bennett and Jade Hollingshead.

Celebrate all things Scandinavian - especially The Killing - with spoof comedy thriller Inspector Norse

3:25pm Thursday 25th April 2013

INSPECTOR Norse (The Girl With Two Screws Left Over) comes to The Haymarket next week.

REVIEW: Curiosity Shop, Theatre Alibi, The Haymarket - until Saturday

2:24pm Thursday 25th April 2013

EXETER’S Theatre Alibi provide a contemporary interpretation of Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop in their latest production, which ends its current tour in Basingstoke at the weekend.