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…
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…
Stratford-based award-winning playwright and lyricist Michael Davies, and composer Michael Blore have created a sumptuous new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s…
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 will headline the popular Warwick Folk Festival which returns for its milestone 40th year from 25th to 28th July at Warwick School and the…
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…
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…
Tomorrow (Wednesday, 5pm to 6pm) a fascinating talk takes place, 'Cross-gender Shakespeare: a research conversation', at The Shakespeare Centre Presented…
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…
PLAYBOX Theatre enters 2019 with an ambitious vision after receiving a funding windfall. They are to receive an investment from Arts Council England of…
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…
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,…
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,…
Steve Newman reviews Handel’s Messiah, A Sacred Oratorio, Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society with The Regency Sinfonia, Holy Trinity Church, 15th December George…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Director Simon Godwin has had major successes at the Royal Shakespere Company — with recent productions of Hamlet and Two Gentleman of Verona — here Gill…
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…