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During the lockdown Herald arts finds out how local creatives are dealing with their downtime. Here Adrian Edmondson shares his thoughts. The actor played…

A MILITARY macaw parrot named Wilma was a surprise visitor to a Warwickshire vets after escaping from a West Midlands zoo and going on an adventure. Wilma…

This week innovative professional ensemble Anərkē Shakespeare bring their candlelit production of Macbeth to Holy Trinity Church. They recreate some of…

RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran A magical musical and top war stories come to the Royal Shakespeare Company for its winter 2020 season. Here artistic…

Director Nicky Cox tells Gill Sutherland about the challenges of staging Alan Ayckbourn’s epic domestic trilogy The Norman Conquests, which is currently…

Gill Sutherland goes to a happy place as she talks to creative dynamo Evgenia Golubeva about her new children’s book, I Am Not A Mouse. The book is being…

Gill Sutherland gets aboard the ‘trans-Europe express’ with Stratford band Scratchy Beard ahead of their gig to promote their debut album on Thursday…

Laughing at dyslexia may not sound a very right-on or ‘woke’ think to do but that’s exactly what documentary I Am Dyslexic encourages us all to do. The…

Based in a chic and welcoming office in Stratford-upon-Avon, travel consultancy Holiday Inspirations devise tailor-made holidays using their incredible…

FOCUSLife comes free with this week's Herald (which is in the shop's from 31st December this week). In it you will find: Inspiration for living well in…

We are becoming more used to seeing female actors taking on Shakespeare’s well-known male characters (hello King John on page 8!) but what is it like…

In real life actor Rosie Sheehy is funny, warm and friendly and a delight to chat to... The polar opposite of King John, who she is playing in the Royal…

“It’ll be like where the Hobbits live: there will be food planted in the streets, there will be more water around and we will all be unified and happy…

This story originally ran in the Herald edition of 9th May 2019. The sun shone and a feeling of joy pervaded as journalist and Labour Peer Joan Bakewell…

Caroline Quentin is currently playing the outrageously vain Lady Fancyfull in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s must-see production of The Provoked Wife…

Photographer William Mulryne tells Herald arts about his compelling exhibition, Living with History, at Hall’s Croft. It’s amazing how much photographs…

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…

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…