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South African actor, activist and playwright John Kani (The Island, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Black Panther) stars alongside fellow South African Tony Sher…
Steve Sutherland reviews The Taming of the Shrew, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until 31st August “Tis the mind that makes the body rich…” Uh, oh… Here…
Second Thoughts Drama Group bring a production of Little Women to The Bear Pit Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday. Little Women is a classic American…
We've freshened up FOCUSlife magazine (note new title!) to bring you lots of interesting reading and fab photos to make April a bit brighter! In this…
Georgina Fuller reviews The Scummy Mummies at The Theatre Chipping Norton, 29th March Wine, crude jokes, odes to Captain Birdseye, confessions, childbirth…
Last seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company as pirate Knock Bone Jones in 2013’s Wendy and Peter Pan, Richard Clews has returned to play Grumio in The…
“We’re all right, bit tired!” so say new parents Catherine Prout and John-Robert Partridge, executive producer and artistic director of Stratford’s foremost…
Shakespeare was really a mum of six called Shirley, according to new research. Doubts about Shakespeare's authorship have been voiced for more than 150…
Stratford Choral Society presents music by Beethoven and Haydn at 7.30pm on Saturday, 23rd March in Holy Trinity Church with soloists Joelene Griffith,…
Sound the alarm! The tickets for musical The Boy in the Dress, the most hotly anticipated Royal Shakespeare Company show since Matilda, are now on sale. Robbie…
The Dante String Quartet, pictured, appear at the Shakespeare Institute on 17th March at 7.30pm. The programme features Haydn, Quarter in G, Op 33, No…
Ahead of Liza Pulman’s show at Stratford Play House on Saturday, when she performs Streisand songs, Herald arts talked about life, singing and cats with…
India: People & Place is a new exhibition by Natasha Kumar running at The Stratford Gallery until 23rd March. Gill Sutherland takes a look around…
Lucy on high with diamonds Steve Sutherland reviews As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until 31st August Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave,…
Director Andrew Anderson Stratford Musical Theatre Company are brightening up the week with their 1980s-inspired show Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat…
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2017 winners Ross Ainslie & Ali headline Fleece Inn, Evesham, this Sunday (10th March). The dynamic duo will play a host of…
If you see Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat scampering around, a boy in a dress or Wally looking lost - don't worry the lunatics haven't taken over…
Shocking figures released by the NHS recently revealed that one in eight under-19s have suffered mental health issues — and it’s a growing problem. A…
The unbelievable truth All is True, the new Shakespeare film, was released on 8 th February All is True is, in equal measure, both brilliant and troubling. Here…
Shining a light Peter Buckroyd reviews Visitors at the Bear Pit I didn’t know Barney Norris’s Visitors and wasn’t wholly convinced that I would like it.…
