Herald arts correspondent Gill Sutherland will be in the audience at Shakespeare Live! From the RSC this evening, Saturday. Yesterday, she went behind…
The news of Victoria Wood’s death, from cancer aged 62, has led to a massive outpouring of grief, with many taking to social media to pay homage to the…
THE final day of this year’s Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival is given over entirely to children, who will have the opportunity to meet some of the…
PAAPA Essiedu, 25, was brought up in east London by his mum. He studied drama at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Three years after graduating, the…
A Night At The Opera , 14th March, Butterworth Hall, Warwick University Massed choirs and 400 young musicians transported the audience at Warwick University’s…
BILLED as ‘an intimate comedy’, Second Thoughts Drama Group are set to perform Noel Coward’s Private Lives at the Bear Pit Theatre, in Stratford-upon-Avon,…
THE George Huxley Jazz Men will return to Tysoe Village Hall, by popular demand, to celebrate St George’s Day on Saturday, 23rd April. George Huxley is…
Body Doubl e, The Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford, runs until Saturday, 9th April IN acting parlance, a ‘body double’ is an actor who substitutes for a leading…
In this Thursday's Herald (on sale 7th April) the arts pages feature an interview with Hamlet lead, Paapa Essiedu; a preview of the Stratford Literary…
Steve Sutherland reviews Hamlet - at the RSC until 13th August TO be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the…
LOCAL playwright Mark Carey tells Gill Sutherland about how his new play, Body Double, which is on at The Bear Pit this week, came about. “In 1986 I did…
MUSICAL lovers look set to enjoy a heavenly dose of song and dance when Stratford Musical Theatre Company performs the hit show Godspell at the Royal…
LOCAL playwright Mark Carey tells Gill Sutherland about how his new play, Body Double , which runs at The Bear Pit next week, came about. “In 1986 I did…
DESPITE its off-putting misogynistic title, The Woman Hater was the perfect production to christen the theatre at The Other Place. Although the new RSC…
ALCESTER couple Andrew and Barbara Swinn are stepping down from their roles with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra after an incredible 47 years. The couple,…
“STRATFORD, it’s not all about Shakespeare”, is the often-trumpeted mantra beloved by many locals bored of the Bard — especially in this much-hyped 400th…
INSPIRED by the iconic 1970s girls’ magazine, Jackie The Musical runs at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry from this week. It tells the story of a 50-something…
A SHAKESPEARE Celebration is the Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society’s next concert on Saturday, 19th March, in Holy Trinity Church, at 7.30pm. The society…
WARWICKSHIRE’S Lunar Festival is to return this June with an enticing line-up of classic acts headlining. The festival’s headliners include Super Furry…
THIS year’s Chipping Campden Music Festival is looking set to break its own box office records with organiser Charlie Bennett describing the 2016 programme…