Newbury Mayors Benevolent Fund Charity Concert at Avenue, featuring, Odis Palmer, Screenbeats, T.I.C. Bruce Hogg Lance Skybaby, Afflixion and many more. If you like live music, you will love this!

This special evening is a chance to watch Plested & Brown mucking around with ideas for their brand new show Seven Year Bitch: The Road Show. This is a chance to see how a show is created and have your say: is it funny or should they go back to the drawing board?

Discover how to be happy with an imperfect man. Learn to be patient and respectful. Stop finding your husband so irritating. Ultimately, give up the notion of the perfect man and become the perfect wife. This sharp, satirical take on modern marriage promises to expose the flaws in our relationships. It is time to save your marriage and discover who is wearing the trousers, or more to the point, who is ironing them.

Set in depression era New York, Annie Junior tells of a orphan determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage run by the evil Miss Hannigan.

In a series of adventures, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's devious plans, befriends President Franklin Roosevelt and manages finds a new family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable dog named Sandy. The bright, tuneful score filled with the familiar numbers Hard Knock Life, Easy Street, Maybe, Little Girls and of course the heart-rending Tomorrow.

Newbury YoungStars isthe youth section of Newbury Operatic Society for children aged 9-15.

Here it comes over the brow of the hilarity. It’s Tim Vine in a train. Stand back from the platform in case you get hit by a prop. Every carriage is packed full of gags. King of the one-liner and star of BBC1 Not Going Out tours the country with his brand new stand-up show.

No one else will give you as many gags for your money. Vine is superb, as clever as anything being done today - The Guardian

Support Act: John Archer

www.timvine.com

The collaboration of Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri brings together their eclectic backgrounds from the worlds of soul, pop and rock.

Since they first started working together 9 years ago, Carmelo and Kiki have been on a journey that has results in beautiful music that speaks straight to the heart, exploring some of the world’s most beautiful songs.

www.kikiandcarmelo.com

Presented by Long Nose Puppets Long Nose Puppets (creators of Shoe Baby) return with their new show, based on the award-winning book by Polly Dunbar about a little boy and his adventurous toy penguin.

Penguin is exiting, surreal and full of surprises. The lively songs by Tom Gray of Gomez will have everyone joining in with this spectacular theatre experience for all ages.

Hilarious and really rather cute - Bookseller

Age Guide: 3-7+

www.longnosepuppets.com/blog

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
directed by JanJoost van Elburg

With 18th Century Sinfonia and English Cornet and Sackbutt Ensemble Kate Hawnt and Sophia Brumfitt (sopranos), Marco van de Klundert and Julian Stocker (tenors) .