The Stratford Herald's photographer, Mark Williamson, has been highly commended at this year's Regional Press Awards. Winners of the Regional Press Awards…
A lorry driver who ploughed into a line of traffic on the A46 near Stratford, causing life-threatening injuries to a number of people, after falling asleep…
PLAYBOX’S acclaimed reworking of Shakespeare’s Henry Vl plays moves to St Mary’s Church in Warwick for more performances following a hugely-successful…
DANCE teacher, Gemma Joyce, poses with young dancers after recently launching Saturday morning classes covering ballet, jazz, lyrical, and showcase work,…
I had misgivings about coming to see this production of Cymbeline at the RSC. A friend had pinged me a message after seeing it the day before: “I have…
TWO art exhibitions saw local artists display their fine work over a gloriously sunny weekend. The Stratford Art Fair was put on by Friends of Stratford…
AT the end of May, Stratford-upon-Avon’s Picturehouse cinema will celebrate the Bank Holiday weekend by welcoming back the annual pop-up event with an…
BAFTA and Emmy award-winning film-maker Sheila Hayman documented the coming together of the Chipping Campden Festival orchestra in her fascinating documentary…
Yukio Ninagawa , the Japanese stage director known for his adaptations of Shakespeare, has died aged 80. In response to the sad news, the RSC posted a…
COMEDIAN and writer Shazia Mirza is a regular face on TV, offering insights and humour on subjects that are considered a no-jokes zone. Tonight (Friday,…
PUPILS at Bridgetown School in Stratford-upon-Avon rocked the audience with their performance of Shakespeare Rocks! The production by year four pupils…
Restaurant critic, presenter and jazz pianist Jay Rayner calls into Lemington Spa town hall with his show My Dining Hell on Friday (13 th May). He chatted…
FOR All Time is the largest permanent site-specific artwork to be commissioned by the RSC. Herald arts caught up with its creator, Brighton based-artist…
GOSPEL and blues guitarist Leo ‘Bud’ Welch is performing at The Norman Knight, Whichford, on Monday, 9th May. He was born in Sbougla, Mississippi, in…
AS God of Carnage, the comedy of manners written by French playwright Yasmina Reza in 2006, opens at the Bear Pit Theatre tonight (Friday, 8th May), Gill…
What a night for the bard. On stage at the RSC the good and the great are having a ball hamming up the to be’s or not to be’s in wisecracking celebration…
THE seventh Chipping Campden Literature Festival gets under way on Tuesday, 3rd May. Highlights include Prue Leith talking about her latest book, The…
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON ArtsHouse is putting on the pantomime Aladdin this year and is inviting local people to join the professional cast. There will be…
Dame Helen Mirren declared Shakespeare Live “phenomenal and terrifying” in an exclusive chat with the Herald after last night’s gala show broadcast live…
Herald arts correspondent Gill Sutherland will be in the audience at Shakespeare Live! From the RSC this evening, Saturday. Yesterday, she went behind…