Culture

Film Club’s musical movie

An American in Paris comes to Rye

Let’s go to the movies!

With a special resonance for Rye and Hastings, which both sent ships to Dunkirk, the story is retold in Christopher Nolan's epic starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and featuring One Direction's Harry Styles

Rye Arts Festival launch

An enthusiastic response was given to the 2017 Rye Arts Festival programme, now published

Monastery hosts festival appetiser

A preview performance for the Arts Festival was performed in one of the towns iconic buildings

Jazz & Blues Festival launch

The full details of the Rye Jazz & Blues Festival 2017 are here

Songs for a Summer Evening

Some wonderful music, beautifully performed for a perfect summer's evening

When Shakespeare came to Rye

The riddle of whether Shakespeare really did come to Rye with his company has finally been solved

Let’s go to the movies!

The marauding monkeys are back as they and dastardly humans fight each other for survival

Music at the Monastery

Rye's medieval monastery is to be used for an amazing classical recital

Rye musical aiming for West End

A new Mapp and Lucia musical was shown off at the community centre, to tumultuous applause from EF Benson Society members

Let’s go to the movies!

Much genteel smouldering ensues when during the American Civil War, wounded Union soldier Colin Farrell is sheltered at a Southern girls' boarding school that also contains Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning

Look out for The Looker

A travelling theatre company with a difference brings its puppets to Rye