It’s that time of year again when the energy, enthusiasm and hard work of hundreds of St Albans children and adult volunteers come together to make spectacular memories and build skills to last a lifetime. Yes, rehearsals are well under way now for the award-winning St Albans Gang Show. The last rehearsal...
Churches across St Albans, Harpenden and the district around will be celebrating the birth of Jesus, the new-born king, in services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Here the St Albans Times publishes a round-up of many of those services, showing the range of celebrations on offer – from midnight Mass...
Playwrights will have the chance to see their scripts performed next year at a two-week long New Writing Festival to be held at the Abbey Theatre in St Albans. Local drama group, The Company of Ten, is putting on the Festival in July 2024 to give emerging writers much needed stage...
Deborah Heath meets visual artist Rana Begum ahead of the launch of her new exhibition...
Laura Bill is back treading the boards with the cast of this year’s Alban Arena panto...
There may have been more rain than snow, but the magic of Christmas was still evident at Willows Activity Farm’s Santa Spectacular this weekend. Families should put aside a whole day to ensure they make the most of the vast number of festive activities taking place this year, from writing a...
The biggest celebration of live music and quality food to hit St Albans is preparing to return for its fourth triumphant year - with more on offer than ever before. Pub in the Park St Albans will be back in Verulamium Park next September for another mix of celebrity chefs and...
More than 200 festive fundraisers donned Christmas attire and antlers to take to the streets of St Albans for Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care’s annual Rudolph Run on Sunday, There were two routes – 1.5km and 5km - both starting outside the Waterend Barn pub where each runner picked up a...
Audiences will be spending Christmas in Narnia courtesy of The Company of Ten’s yuletide theatre production of C S Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The classic tale of good versus evil is set in a land of ice and snow, cruelly ruled over by the White Witch and...
Singer-songwriter Seb Wesson is returning to The Horn to promote his new album, ‘The Man from the Moon’. The gig is on December 13 and kicks off at 8pm. Having cut his teeth working with UK band Munkster, Seb is also the current guitarist in the band Captain and contributor to projects...
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