The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is holding its annual National Members Meeting in St Albans this year, offering visitors the chance to experience lively pubs and clubs hosting festivals, tastings, live talks and music events. But residents are also invited to enjoy the City of Ale weekend on April 17-19, which...
What could be better to liven up the fag end of winter than an hilarious evening’s entertainment from the pen of comedy genius Richard Bean, writer of the smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors? His play To Have and to Hold is the Company of Ten’s February offering and promises to...
An athletic team of flippers from Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre beat wealth management firm Lumin Group to win the running event at this year's St Albans Pancake Festival. Pipping Meteor Communications to win the walking title were Wagada Digital, led by St Albans Chamber of Commerce President Cheryl Luzet, The Shrove Tuesday...
Expect joyful onstage interaction and stunning individual skill as this band of some of the UK's finest jazz musicians play their way through a delightfully swinging repertoire. Following sell-out concerts at St Albans Cathedral in 2024 and 2025 (under Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon) and the acclaimed worldwide release of...
Oasis, Jamiroquai, The Foo Fighters, Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Chemical Brothers, Alanis Morissette, Robbie Williams and Gwen Stefani are among the tribute acts set to rock the stage of the Totally 90s Festival in St Albans this summer. Taking place at Oaklands College from August 1-2, the event promises...
Lambing season is set to return to Willows Activity Farm this half term as the London Colney leisure attraction gets ready for its annual February Frolics event. The nine-day celebration of fleecy fun starts on Saturday February 14 and runs until Sunday February 22. Director Andrew Wolfe said: “Lambing is our first...
St Albans-based theatre company OVO has announced details of the 12th annual Roman Theatre Open Air Festival. The ancient Verulamium theatre will play host to what is promised to be a bold, imaginative and surprising programme of classic reimaginings alongside a curated line-up of live music and comedy between June 5...
A new exhibition looking at Harpenden's role during the Great War opens in the town's museum this week for a three-month run. Harpenden was a vital training ground for thousands of troops during the conflict, with more than 4,ooo soldiers from the Sherwood Forresters billeted locally from August 1914. Harpenden Common saw...
St Albans Abbey Theatre’s Company of Teens will be bringing fresh urgency and youthful power to a subversive retelling of a classical Greek myth. Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad revisits Homer’s Odyssey from the perspective of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, alongside the chorus of her maids whose fate has long been relegated...
If you haven’t been fortunate to see one of St Albans Gang Show’s many productions over the past 25 years, then nobody would forgive you for having certain preconceptions about what to expect. In fact, reviewing my first show last year, I had an idea of an all-singing, all-dancing variety show...
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