A THEATRE and Arts Centre has been crowned as the best place to watch live shows in Berkshire.

The Muddy Stilettos Awards, which aims to celebrate the efforts of independent businesses across the region, separated numerous establishments into several categories as nominations came from the public on what they thought was the best business for each section.

Readers of the award-winning Muddy Stilettos lifestyle website nominated and voted in their hundreds of thousands for their favourite independent businesses across 27 different lifestyle categories – from Best Destination pub to yoga/Pilates studio, boutique stay to wedding venue.

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In total, 75,000 businesses were nominated across the country with 752,000 votes being casted in, which made it the most popular Muddy Awards to date.

South Hill Park in Bracknell has taken the top spot as the best Theatre/Arts Centre in the county.

Staff at SHP feel "delighted" to have been voted and "look forward to continuing to bring a fantastic range of live shows, cinemas, courses, exhibitions and events.

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Craig Titley, chief executive, said: "The past year has been challenging for the arts but the team at South Hill Park Arts Centre was determined to open as soon as possible to support residents’ mental and physical well-being through a range of courses, theatre productions, outdoor live music and cinema screenings.

"It is therefore wonderful that the public has voted Bracknell’s much loved arts venue winner in Best Theatre/Arts Centre 2021."

The Muddy Stilettos website was first launched in 2011 and looked at all the things that people could do in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, but as the site grew in popularity, founder Hero Brown decided to branch out.

Things to do in counties such as Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Kent, Northants, Norfolk, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire were then added to the website.