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This year’s Royston town pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, was a huge success and the local drama group behind it, CADS, has also presented its two…

Actor Peter Heppelthwaite's Limitless Academy of Performing Arts has reopens to students - and those wanting to audition should get in touch with the school in Royston.

Queenswood School's A Christmas Carol (abridged) by Charles Dickens. - Credit: Queenswood School. Supplied by WGC YDF More than 200 talented youngsters from nearly 40 entries took part in this year's virtual Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival over six nights online. As the curtain fell on the final night of the 76th WGC Youth Drama Festival on March 7, 2020, nobody could have guessed that, just days later, it would also have curtailed all activities on the Barn Theatre stage for over a year. The subsequent weeks and months came and went, with ever changing edicts and advice from the ...

The Barn Theatre in Welwyn Garden City. - Credit: Danny Loo The 77th annual Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival opens next week in a new online format for this year. Running from Monday, March 1 to Saturday, March 6, a virtual feast awaits viewers missing live theatre.  Who could have known, when the Barn Theatre closed its doors at the end of the 2020 WGC YDF, that it would be the last time an audience would be able to enjoy a performance there for over a year – and counting. The historic Barn Theatre in Welwyn Garden City lit up as part of the Light It In Red campaign.