Arts and Entertainment

INTERVIEW: Expect some feel-good festive nonsense when James and the Giant Peach opens at the Bear Pit this weekend, says director Emily Myerscough

Shakespeare Lions will be helping Father Christmas visit the streets of Stratford.

Contemporary Arts Fair Discover:Gather:Give clocks up another colourful year at Stratford Town Hall.

Production company Two Hats Films was shooting the latest scenes for its Second World War movie.

Noah sails into Stratford on his ark… don’t worry there is no flood, just fun Mystery Plays at Holy Trinity.

REVIEW: The Box of Delights at the RSC *** (three stars)

Nia Gwynne is relishing her return to the RSC stage to play jewel thief Sylvia Daisy Pouncer.

The Bear Pit Theatre launches film nights with showing of Allelujah starring Judi Dench, Jennifer Saunders, David Bradley, Derek Jacobi, et al.

REVIEW: Cowbois at the RSC is a trail and saddle-blazing winner, five stars

Horrible Histories and Ghosts star Mathew Baynton announced as Bottom in RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

INTERVIEW: The company behind The Cherry Orchard at the Bear Pit, Stratford, speak about the complex and compelling Chekhov drama.

Forty years ago today – on 23rd October 1983 – Echo & The Bunnymen stole the show at the RSC. Music journalist Steve Sutherland looks back.

Reuben Joseph talks about going from Hamilton in the West End to Macbeth at the RSC.

The Box of Delights will be this year’s festive family show at the RST, showing from October to January.

Phoenix Players bring Nightfall, a trio of spooky Poe tales, to the Bear Pit stage from Wednesday.

REVIEW: The Mistake by Michael Mears offers a gripping account of the horror of Hiroshima.

From air fryers to flat caps and flamingos – John Lewis has identified 12 products it thinks define our shopping habits over the last 10 years.

The town centre will be filled with more than 300 stalls offering Christmas gifts, craft items, food and drink and much more.

REVIEW: The five-star Merchant of Venice at the RSC is a powerful and timely reminder to resist heinous propaganda

Herald Arts chats to comic Bridget Christie ahead of her set at Stratford Play House on Saturday.