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Wrestlefest: Palace of Pain
16:49 - 15 May 2008

GET ready for the craziest, maddest, most fun–filled night of family entertainment you can possibly imagine – Wrestlefest is back! After the havoc of Wrestlefest IX, this time wrestling-lovers can witness their favourite gladiators battling it out in the... Full Story »

Keep the Home fires burning

10:48 - 15 May 2008

THE TV comedy series that spawned the classic line, Don t tell them your name Pike comes to the St Albans stage next week. Dad s Army – The Lost Episodes is the stage adaptation of the hit BBC comedy which told of the misadventures of the UK s favourite... Read More »

Forty years of theatre

10:45 - 15 May 2008

TORRENTIAL rain was falling on Westminster Lodge on a night in April 1968 when the city of St Albans was welcoming a royal visitor. The guest was the Queen Mother and she was there to perform the opening ceremony at the Company of Ten s new home, the Abbe... Read More »

The full spectrum

10:31 - 15 May 2008

A SPONSORED Theatrethon is being held in St Albans later this month to help raise funds for a major production by a local youth theatre group. Spectrum Arts, which has around 25 members aged between 13 and 18, meets at St Stephen s Church Hall in Watford... Read More »

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Be prepared for a triple bill of comedy
10:31 - 15 May 2008

THREE highly talented comedians will be performing at Knebworth Village Hall on June 7. Knebworth Scouts and Guides Comedy Night will see Terry Alderton, Tom Craine and Marlon Davis take to the stage. Terry Alderton is an outstanding comic and has perfo... Full Story »

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Art and about
10:48 - 15 May 2008

A LAUNCH exhibition for a new initiative to get locally-produced professional paintings, sculptures and other visual work out on public display is being held for a week from tomorrow (Friday). It can be seen on the first floor of the Maltings shopping ce... Full Story »

Keeping it real

10:44 - 15 May 2008

GUSTAV Courbet and Realism in France is the subject of a lecture organised by Radlett Art Society next week. Barry Venning will be talking about the artist who had colossal talent together with an equally colossal ego. Largely self-taught and profoundly c... Read More »

Impressions of summer

10:39 - 08 May 2008

After four years working in London as a freelance illustrator, Welsh artist Steven Jones decided to opt out of the rat race and return to his native Anglesey in search of more creative freedom and inspiration. He found it in the themes beloved of the Fren... Read More »

 

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