In the age of big screens and digital video games and special effects does live theatre still have the power to shock? That was the question the Royal…
Debra Ann Byrd undertook a remarkable journey to take on the role of Othello — which she performed in her native Harlem. The actress is now recording…
The Drama Club brings The Snow Queen to Stratford ArtsHouse from 2nd to 4th November — here director Aaron Bixley, pictured, tells Herald arts all about…
The November issue of Focus magazine is out free with Thursday’s Stratford Herald. This month you can: Get festive with Stratford’s Santa and meet the…
Herald arts talks to actor Mark Lockyer about his biographical play Living With The Lights On – which deals with his mental breakdown. The play runs at…
Nick Deverell-Smith chef/owner at The Churchill Arms in Paxford is rounding of a momentous year with a truly inspiring festive food offering. He was on…
WELL-KNOWN actor and playwright Michael Mears brings his one-man play, This Evil Thing, about conscientious objectors in the First World War, to The Bear…
Playwright Nick Wilkes and his Malvernbard Theatre Company are performing his new work, To Build A Wooden O, at the RSC’s The Other Place until Saturday,…
The death of Irish comic and actor Sean Hughes, 51, was announced earlier today (Monday). It is believed that he died as a result of liver cirrhosis. The…
Comic-with-guitar Mitch Benn, well-known for his musical turns on Radio 4’s The Now Show, talks to Gill Sutherland about bringing his new show, Don’t…
Scriptwriter Simon Beaufoy is responsible for such well-loved films as The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire. Stratford Samaritans are hosting a charity…
Gill Sutherland talks to Haydn Gwynne about her role playing pushy mum Volumnia in Coriolanus at the RSC Haydn Gwynne A brilliant comic actor, stage,…
Local writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the first Briton to do so for ten years. The novelist, who has homes in Chipping…
In this month's issue...Get spooked in Stratford's most haunted bits. Take a tour with Stratford Town Walk. Hear about a wartime correspondence between…
We can be action heroes... Gill Sutherland reviews Coriolanus, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until 14th October Watching a fork lift truck raise sacks…
‘By far the most stunning experience of the season’ – Steve Sutherland reviews Dido, Queen of Carthage, at the Swan Theatre, Stratford, until 28th October MUCH…
A day ahead of the Royal Shakespeare Company announcing their spring/summer 2018 season, artistic director Gregory Doran talked Arts Editor Gill Sutherland…
It seems fitting that on the day the founder of the RSC and great innovator Sir Peter Hall exits our world pursued by love and homage, a challenging and…
There's still a chance to see Miss Saigon which is on at the Birmingham Hippodrome until 23rd September. Based on Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, musical…
After visiting The Townhouse, Stratford, for dinner last Friday, I have a new motivation in life. Listening to Radio 4 on the same day, I heard a presenter…