A comedy inspired by a real life tragedy will see hundreds of rubber ducks filling the stage at Aylesbury’s Limelight Theatre next week.

Four teenagers who formed their own indie band last year returned to their old middle school on Saturday to play in front of hundreds of people.

A town festival that last year raised thousands of pounds for community projects has fallen victim to the tough economic times.

Hemel Hempstead was top of the bill on Saturday night’s episode of Britain’s Got Talent, as both a musician and an R’n’B band from the town featured in the hit entertaiment show.

Lucky visitors will get to see the ancient St Mary’s Church at its most atmospheric in Pitstone this bank holiday weekend.

It’s not uncommon for those who have supped not wisely but too well to wake up the morning after and make heartfelt vows about their future behaviour.

“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past….”

Carolyne Bevan dons the dog-collar of the vicar of Dibley when the curtain goes up tomorrow night on the Kings Langley Players’ take on the popular sitcom – and nobody can accuse her of not preparing for the role

June’s monthly acoustic Greene Note session at the Kings Arms in Berkhamsted High Street has a transatlantic twang.

Stars of the future hone their skills at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts – and you can spot them before they hit the big time by joining the audience at regular shows staged at the on-site Markova Theatre.

Critically-acclaimed comedian Richard Herring is set to tickle a Tring audience with his tongue-in-cheek show Talking Cock next Wednesday.

Columnist Alan Dee writes:

It’s nearly 50 years since plaintive Parisian songbird Edith Piaf died, but she’s still by a long stretch the most significant chanteuse ever to come out of France.

Berkhamsted Jazz Club founder and president Michael Garrick sadly died in 2011 – but it would have been his 80th birthday next week.

Everyone knows the story of Joseph And His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, whether it’s from school productions, the BBC talent show or the Rice and Lloyd-Webber megahit itself.

Some people might think that a polymath is a parrot with a rudimentary ability to do sums, but others will just point a finger straight at Owen O’Neill.

Shakespeare, the Beatles and Andrew Lloyd Webber have all crossed the Atlantic to leave a mark on the cultural fabric of the USA, and so has Piers Morgan for that matter – but did you know that burlesque was also a British export?

Anyone with fond memories of last summer’s Roving Comics night, the traditional launch event of the Tringe comedy festival, will be experiencing a dab of deja vu when they check out the bill for a feast of fun planned for Berkhamsted next month.

The refurbished Hastoe Village Hall will open its doors for a classical concert this summer in a bid to raise much-needed funds for the hall trust.

“You think your world is safe? It is an illusion. A comforting lie told to protect you. Enjoy these final moments of peace. For I have returned, to have my vengeance!”