“One particular one would be in Pompeii. It’s on a split level, with water features, terraces, fountains and pergolas. It must have been especially fine…
Tickets for the Birmingham show are on sale from www.orchestraoftheswan.org
There are three portraits of William Shakespeare that are deemed to be faithful likenesses: the Cobbe portrait (1610), the Chandos portrait (early 1600s)…
Out now free with the Herald, the February edition of Focus takes a look of love and marriage in Warwickshire. It features the romantic story of CATHRYN…
On Shakespeare’s Birthday, Saturday 23 April, the Royal Shakespeare Company will celebrate Shakespeare’s legacy across the arts with Shakespeare Live!…
Businesses on Bridge Street, Stratford, lost trade on the busiest day of the week when power was lost or severely limited to 13 properties on Saturday. Shops…
Stars of screen and the page are stepping up to make the ninth Stratford Literary Festival the biggest ever. As the eyes of the world are turned on Stratford-upon-Avon…
Steve Sutherland “Dad, David Bowie’s dead!” This was my daughter Molly at 7.15am on Monday morning. She came into the kitchen, nearly in tears. She’s…
Like the rest of the country in this 400th anniversary year since the death of Shakespeare, thee Beeb has gone mad for the Bard. Yesterday (Thursday)…
Local musician Jack Blackman is starting the new monthly music night at the Cross Keys in Alcester. The regular evening has been dubbed The Tuery Sessions,…
Funds raised contribute towards not only the entire education and care of all the touring children, but also to the continued development and support…
The RADA Summer School provides young actors with an experience of a leading British drama school and illuminates the distinction between drama as it…
At the end of last night’s performance of Love for Love Nicholas Le Provost, who plays central character Sir Sampson Legend, dedicated the performance…
The RSC has announced details of its Winter 2016 Season this morning. New productions of King Lear , Cymbeline and The Tempest will run from September…
Share your memories below, or email your thoughts to arts@stratford-herald. See Thursday’s Herald for a fuller tribute.
He made it through two rounds before losing in the head-to-head. But on the night he was knocked out of the show pop producer Will.i.am, a judge on the…
Herald arts understands that some of the singer’s family, including his grandparents live close by. A pub regular told us: “It was a big family gathering,…
The real highlight of the evening, however, will be a new anthem especially written by Paul Edmondson, and which has been set to music from a Richard…
Clive Peacock heads to the Stratford Music Festival: seeing Toby Young with Contemporary Concert at the Shakespeare Institure on 21st october; and then…
Clive Peacock looks at the best of the SMF's lunchtime events at the Town Hall, 19th – 23rd October. Not a cough, not a rustle of sweet wrapper, not a…