The new owners of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks are set to host their first all-day free festival at the pub they took over in April 2022. Co-owners Martin Robinson, Ian Baulsh and Sam Walker will be turning the pub into a mini-Glastonbury for The Fighting Cocks Fest on July 15 with...
Popular community music event the M Festival went ahead successfully despite a fire causing an evacuation of the site for more than two and a half hours. More than 500 people were already on the field at Marlborough Science Academy when a blaze broke out in the Real Belgium Fries van...
Thousands of people enjoyed the long-awaited return of the Alban Street Festival on Sunday. Cancelled by the pandemic and postponed due to the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the event has not taken place since 2019. It featured a programme of free entertainment including live music, fun activities and street performers, plus...
A parade of giant puppets celebrated the story of Saint Alban, Britain’s first Christian martyr, in a procession of Roman chariots, centurions, lions and executioners. The annual event, which is organised by St Albans Cathedral, took place in the city centre on Saturday as part of the wider Alban Weekend. It was...
Runners endured the hottest weekend of the year to take part in this year's St Albans Half Marathon. The event took place in blazing sunshine on Sunday morning, starting and finishing at Verulamium Park, with a variety of routes on top of the standard half, including a 5K and fun run. All...
In a blasted world, two survivors – a doctor and an actor - pass the time by staging their favourite story salvaged from the flames: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet. But when tensions arise around casting, more than dead bodies start to surface… OVO presents their first co-production...
So you are really tempted to try some outdoor theatre this summer but your worries about the practicalities of it are standing in the way? Well, please read on. To celebrate the launch of this year’s Roman Theatre Festival presented by OVO, Deborah Heath wants to help you be fully...
SustFest23 will feature a host of events focussed on energy efficiency measures for residents and businesses as the increase in energy bills sparks a new wave of sustainable activity. Several events at the annual festival in June are designed to give ideas and information on reducing our energy usage, including a...
An inventive, fast-paced comedy based on PG Wodehouse's iconic characters Jeeves and Wooster comes to the Abbey Theatre this month. Bertie Wooster begins to tell a simple story in his inimitable style, but soon calls for his trusty manservant, Jeeves, who steps in to bring sense from confusion. Assisted by Seppings, the...
In a deeply divided Belfast in 1998, the year the Good Friday Agreement was signed, a pair of star-cross'd lovers will meet their destiny in OVO's new adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. The production is the work of Amy Connery and Stephanie Allison, transporting the story from fair Verona to...
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