The Corn Exchange welcomes one of the UK's top touring theatre companies to Newbury, Out of Joint, for the World Premiere of their newest piece of work.

Young fireman Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. He's recruited by Costello, the charismatic "Big Fellah", who wants to use Doyle's brownstone apartment in The Bronx as a safe house for an escaped killer. But it soon becomes clear that someone is leaking information to the FBI…

Set among Irish Americans in New York, Richard Bean's epic, glinting, funny play spans three turbulent decades. A boisterous and witty story of loyalty, disillusion and betrayal.

'A marvellously funny and humane dramatist' Daily Telegraph

Studio 8 is a group of 10 artists resident at New Greenham Arts who work in a variety of media including glass, painting, print, sculpture, installation and mixed media. Their exhibitions have consistently showcased an exciting mix of work that responds each year to a new and contemporary theme.

Does every day matter? What difference does a day make; or should we live each day as it comes? Is it the ordinary or the extraordinary? Rituals or cycles? Collections or recollections? What future in these uncertain times? Can we live in the past or look to the future? Every day matters…

Jane Cannon | Sculpture/Mixed Media
Leonie Cleeves | Painter/Installation
Shirley Eccles | Glass/Mixed Media
Flora Gare | Sculpture/Installaion
Jessica Hardy | Sculpture/Installation
Sally Haynes | Drawing/Mixed Media
Margaret Hodges | Mixed Media
Simon Jardine | Painter/Illustrator/Digital Media
Helen Peake | Painting/Mixed Media
Steven Sommerville | Sculpture/Mixed Media

Arquiem tells the chilling tale of a boy who murders his love to preserve one moment for ever.

With live music, stilts, pyrotechnics, acrobatics and beautifully crafted mobile structures, Arquiem is a powerful promenade performance inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and Robert Browning's poem Porphyria's Lover.

Arquiem is the third of a programme of large-scale outdoor arts events in Newbury by major European companies.

The Corn exchange outdoor arts programme is funded by Greenham Common Trust

Director and Organ: Alastair Ross Charpentier: Mass for Le Port Royal. and motets by Monteverdi and Carissimi.

This ensemble first visited Douai in September 2008 when they sang Charpentier's Vespers for Le Port Royal. This important convent was very near to the monastic community's first home in Paris in the 17th & 18th centuries; it is known that Charpentier also visited our monastery and found that the organ was "an exceedingly good one". The concert in 2008 was very well received and the ensemble have been keen to return with a programme of similar music.

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Music by Barry Manilow
Lyrics by Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman
Book by Barry Manilow, Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman
Directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood
Musical supervisor and musical arrangements by Sarah Travis
Designed by Diego Pitarch
Lighting designed by Richard G. Jones
Sound designed by Gareth Tucker

New York City, showbiz capital of the world. Lola Lamar, small-town girl with big dreams of stardom trails from one steamy nightclub to another looking for her big break. Enter budding song writer, Tony Star, with dreams of his own.

Smitten by the lovely Lola, he arranges an audition at the Copacabana and launches her career as a Copa girl. But the path of true love never did run smoothly and the Lola is whisked away by the villainous Rico to perform in his club, the Tropicana, in Havana. Aided by the sensational Cuban star Conchita Alvarez, Tony stages a dramatic rescue...

Steamy, sexy, dazzling and daring, enter the world of the Copacabana and its pulsating rhythms where music and passion are always in fashion!

The creative team behind the award-winning Watermill production of Spend Spend Spend! Hot Mikado and Sunset Boulevard bring you their own unique take on Barry Manilow's hit musical.

Studio 8 is a group of 10 artists resident at New Greenham Arts who work in a variety of media including glass, painting, print, sculpture, installation and mixed media. Their exhibitions have consistently showcased an exciting mix of work that responds each year to a new and contemporary theme.

Does every day matter? What difference does a day make; or should we live each day as it comes? Is it the ordinary or the extraordinary? Rituals or cycles? Collections or recollections? What future in these uncertain times? Can we live in the past or look to the future? Every day matters…

Jane Cannon | Sculpture/Mixed Media
Leonie Cleeves | Painter/Installation
Shirley Eccles | Glass/Mixed Media
Flora Gare | Sculpture/Installaion
Jessica Hardy | Sculpture/Installation
Sally Haynes | Drawing/Mixed Media
Margaret Hodges | Mixed Media
Simon Jardine | Painter/Illustrator/Digital Media
Helen Peake | Painting/Mixed Media
Steven Sommerville | Sculpture/Mixed Media