Gill Sutherland reviews The Provoked Wife, which runs at The Swan Theatre until 7th September Caroline Quentin as Lady Fancyfull Did you see the guests…
Verve Rally, Europe’s first ever so-called ‘carbon-neutral’ supercar rally pulls into Stratford next Friday. As the race makes its way from London to…
Duet for One from the Aspect Theatre company is on at The Attic Theatre until 18th May. Written by Tom Kempinski and d irected by Marc Dugmore Duet…
Stratford-upon-Avon’s artisan gin-makers the Shakespeare Distillery have teamed up with Avon Boating to launch a gin cruise. Launching this weekend, the…
The Chipping Campden Literature Festival this year celebrates its tenth anniversary and runs from 7th to 11th May. Festival director Vicky Bennett talks…
Bonsai headline Stratford Jazz at the Play House on Wednesday (8th May). Bonsai (formerly Jam Experiment) were selected for the Jazzwise feature ‘Shape…
Joseph Arkley has ditched the brooding bad guys to play the role of Kate in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s blistering production of The Taming Of The…
What do you get if you have the spirit of Virginia Woolf, Dame Joan Bakewell, a chocolate fountain, a red carpet, a trumpeter, a 100 bows, and…
In the May edition of FOCUSlife you can... Head down to new retail experience The Farm Take a peak inside Shakespeare Distillery's Gin School Hear about…
Keeping Our End Up, The Loft, Leamington Spa, 3rd to 13th April LIKE all great sporting stories Keeping Our End Up, a new play by local writer and actor…
The Stratford Literary Festival celebrates its glorious 12th year with a superb line-up of speakers and events. The eight day spring festival commenced…
Clive Peacock previews the festival which starts on Friday - and is based at Leamington's Royal Pump Rooms Thank goodness we are on the eve of the 30…
Who was the greatest storyteller that ever lived? Shakespeare would be the obvious ready response. But after seeing Kunene and the King I’m happy to believe…
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…