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Les Dennis makes RSC debut and Rufus Hound returns

18 February 2019
Les Dennis makes RSC debut and Rufus Hound returns

Les Dennis makes RSC debut and Rufus Hound returns

18 February 2019

LES Dennis makes his Royal Shakespeare Company debut and Rufus Hound will join the cast of The Provoked Wife at the Swan Theatre. Rufus returns to the…


DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: Visitors opens at the Bear Pit

12 February 2019
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: Visitors opens at the Bear Pit

DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: Visitors opens at the Bear Pit

12 February 2019

The first play from the Bear Pit Theatre Company this year is Visitors, written by Barney Norris, which opens Monday. The moving portrait of old age is…


Tess musical makes its stage debut in Stratford

07 February 2019
Tess musical makes its stage debut in Stratford

Tess musical makes its stage debut in Stratford

07 February 2019

Stratford-based award-winning playwright and lyricist Michael Davies, and composer Michael Blore have created a sumptuous new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s…


INTERVIEW: Gregory Doran on The Boy in the Dress and the RSC Winter Season

07 February 2019
INTERVIEW: Gregory Doran on The Boy in the Dress and the RSC Winter Season

INTERVIEW: Gregory Doran on The Boy in the Dress and the RSC Winter Season

07 February 2019

Last week, the RSC announced what’s ahead for the 2019 Winter Season. Here Artistic Director Gregory Doran talks to Gill Sutherland about Brexit, boys…


Billy Bragg headlines Warwick Folk Festival's 40th year

31 January 2019
Billy Bragg headlines Warwick Folk Festival's 40th year

Billy Bragg headlines Warwick Folk Festival's 40th year

31 January 2019

Billy Bragg will headline the popular Warwick Folk Festival which returns for its milestone 40th year from 25th to 28th July at Warwick School and the…


See 'bonkers' Love's Labour's Lost at Shakespeare Institute

30 January 2019
See 'bonkers' Love's Labour's Lost at Shakespeare Institute

See 'bonkers' Love's Labour's Lost at Shakespeare Institute

30 January 2019

The Shakespeare Institute Players are kicking off their 2019 season with a production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Directed by Bronwyn Barnwell, the production…


FREE Focus magazine with this week's Herald

30 January 2019
FREE Focus magazine with this week's Herald

FREE Focus magazine with this week's Herald

30 January 2019

In our February edition you can: WIN! A meal and overnight stay at Shipston's Bower House Be inspired by Stratford's Polish School Find out about the…


Join conversation on 'Cross-gender Shakespeare'

29 January 2019
Join conversation on 'Cross-gender Shakespeare'

Join conversation on 'Cross-gender Shakespeare'

29 January 2019

Tomorrow (Wednesday, 5pm to 6pm) a fascinating talk takes place, 'Cross-gender Shakespeare: a research conversation', at The Shakespeare Centre Presented…


Boy in the Dress musical comes to RSC later this year

28 January 2019
Boy in the Dress musical comes to RSC later this year

Boy in the Dress musical comes to RSC later this year

28 January 2019

As revealed by the Herald previously, The Boy in the Dress, a new musical based on the David Walliams book, will be the festive family show at the RSC…


Funding boost and happy new year for Playbox

24 January 2019
Funding boost and happy new year for Playbox

Funding boost and happy new year for Playbox

24 January 2019

PLAYBOX Theatre enters 2019 with an ambitious vision after receiving a funding windfall. They are to receive an investment from Arts Council England of…


What was your arts highlight from 2018?

18 January 2019
What was your arts highlight from 2018?

What was your arts highlight from 2018?

18 January 2019

Gill Sutherland, Herald arts editor, shares some of her favourite arts highlights from 2018. I’ve seen and been immersed in so many amazing projects and…


REVIEW: Snow Queen at Playbox Theatre

11 January 2019
REVIEW: Snow Queen at Playbox Theatre

REVIEW: Snow Queen at Playbox Theatre

11 January 2019

Steve Sutherland reviews Snow Queen, Playbox Theatre at the Dream Factory, Warwick, 31 st December Of all the many talents lost to the world in 2018,…


REVIEW: The Bower House, Shipston-on-Stour

10 January 2019
REVIEW: The Bower House, Shipston-on-Stour

REVIEW: The Bower House, Shipston-on-Stour

10 January 2019

It’s New Year, and so traditionally a time of mass neurosis. We worry about our weight, fitness, wellbeing, post-Christmas bank balance, red meat consumption,…


REVIEW: Stratford Choral Society's Messiah at Holy Trinity

08 January 2019
REVIEW: Stratford Choral Society's Messiah at Holy Trinity

REVIEW: Stratford Choral Society's Messiah at Holy Trinity

08 January 2019

Steve Newman reviews Handel’s Messiah, A Sacred Oratorio, Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society with The Regency Sinfonia, Holy Trinity Church, 15th December George…


REVIEW: Timon of Athens at the RSC

02 January 2019
REVIEW: Timon of Athens at the RSC

REVIEW: Timon of Athens at the RSC

02 January 2019

Gold, talking sense and mirth: Steve Sutherland reviews Timon of Athens on at the RSC Swan Theatre, until 22nd February There’s a neat symmetry to the…


A small cheer for The Encore, Stratford-upon-Avon

18 December 2018
A small cheer for The Encore, Stratford-upon-Avon

A small cheer for The Encore, Stratford-upon-Avon

18 December 2018

During the recent Armistice celebrations a photo caught my eye – a picture of troops outside a public house at the bottom of Bridge Street, I didn’t recognise…


REVIEW: Wilson Robert's Friends

14 December 2018
REVIEW: Wilson Robert's Friends

REVIEW: Wilson Robert's Friends

14 December 2018

Sandy Holt reviews Wilson Robert's Friends, Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School, 16th December A surprise performance by RSC actor David Bradley (who…


REVIEW: The Lady's Mad

14 December 2018
REVIEW: The Lady's Mad

REVIEW: The Lady's Mad

14 December 2018

Elizabeth Hardy reviews The Lady's Mad at Holy Trinity, 1st December We have seen the turbulent 1640s dramatised very recently in the RSC’s 2017 Mischief…


INTERVIEW: Simon Godwin, RSC director of Timon of Athens

13 December 2018
INTERVIEW: Simon Godwin, RSC director of Timon of Athens

INTERVIEW: Simon Godwin, RSC director of Timon of Athens

13 December 2018

Director Simon Godwin has had major successes at the Royal Shakespere Company — with recent productions of Hamlet and Two Gentleman of Verona — here Gill…


Show us your Christmas jumper!

13 December 2018
Show us your Christmas jumper!

Show us your Christmas jumper!

13 December 2018

If there seems to be more people than usual donning garish knitted numbers tomorrow (Friday), do not worry, it's just CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY!! Whoop whoop! The…


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