Steve Sutherland reviews The Duchess of Malfi, at the Swan Theatre, until 3rd August WHAT a bloody mess! Literally and, unfortunately, figuratively, director…
A riot is underway at The Bear Pit Theatre Company as it welcomes a run of Habeas Corpus, the riotous comedy written by Alan Bennett and directed by Vanessa…
Georgina Fuller reviews Australian comic Kathy Lette's touring show, which came to The Theatre, Chipping Norton, on Friday 16th March “We thought we were…
The Castalian Quartet and pianist Daniel Lebhardt play the final concert of the Stratford Chamber Music Society this Sunday at the Shakespeare Institute…
MUSIC, history, drama and comedy are celebrated during a week-long series of events in Henley next month. For the second year running, Henley Guild Hall…
TO mark 100 years of the beginning of suffrage for women, and to celebrate the #MeToo campaign, a central theme of this year’s Stratford Literary Festival…
A season of Studio Ghibli films are showing as part of Stratford Picturehouse’s Vintage Sundays, which sees “cool classics put back on the big screen”. Studio…
Elaine Binks reviews Dick Whittington, Bridgetown School, 2nd February; and Puss in Boots, The Willows, 16th February... and declares the winner of 'the…
Florence Smith: Now & Then, Bear Pit Theatre, 25th February There’s been much talk of time travel of late. Various ‘time travellers’ have made increasingly…
A Bunch of Amateurs, Second Thoughts at The Bear Pit Theatre, 24th February So these are the opening lines of this light-hearted comedy written by Spitting…
Radio presenter Zoe Ball stopped by for breakfast at Talton Mill, near Newbold on Stour, this morning as she prepared to set off on the latest leg of…
Steve Sutherland reviews Billy Elliot, Chipping Campden School, 9th February “In everything you do Always be yourself, And you always will be true…” It…
An American youth choir and award-winning director from Minnesota are coming to perform in Stratford. On Thursday, 8th March, at 1pm, the Hudson High…
THE Stratford Musical Theatre company bring a mega heart-warming production of Les Miserable Schools Edition to the Stratford ArtsHouse from 8th to 10th…
Peter Buckroyd reviews The Bald Prima Donna, Bear Pit Company, Bear Pit Theatre, Saturday, 17th February WHEN is the absurd not quite as absurd as you…
This edition we will be celebrating cartoons, chocololate, daffodils and the Oscars! Read our fascinating features about people with local connections.... Marvel…
LONG-LISTED for the Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award, Nazanin’s Story — described as ‘political theatre at its best’ — tells the true and ongoing struggle…
WHERE’S the pantomime season? It’s behind you! Not for two local primary schools who have this month performed their annual parent/staff pantomimes —…
RSC actor Christopher Saul, who lives in Stratford and is currently in Imperium, has written a one-woman play based on the memories of his grandmother,…
A memorial plaque remembering much-respected Cotswold Warden Rita Turner has been stolen. Rita, who lived in Shipston with her husband Allen, was a warden…