Reviews

Jennifer Lane reviews The Merchant of Venice by ShakeSoc, University of Exeter, at Stratford ArtsHouse, June 2016 An amateur university group bringing…

Preston Witts reviews Le Nozze di Figaro, Longborough Festival Opera, Sunday, 26th June SINCE the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is one…

Preston Witts reviews Tannhäuser, Longborough Festival Opera, Thursday, 9th June YET again Longborough Festival Opera has set the bar high in its celebration…

Gill Sutherland meets Mark Williams and Martin Kemp on the set of Father Brown YOU usually feel a bit nostalgic when you enter the rather splendidly landscaped…

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…

BAFTA and Emmy award-winning film-maker Sheila Hayman documented the coming together of the Chipping Campden Festival orchestra in her fascinating documentary…

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,…

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…

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…

THINGS have been getting mysterious and spooky at Stratford School as students prepared for the arrival of the Addams family. A wonderful cast that spans…

Mary Poppins has just flown in at the Birmingham Hippodrome – and with a heavyweight collaborative pairing of Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, behind it,…

“STRATFORD, it’s not all about Shakespeare”, is the often-trumpeted mantra beloved by many locals bored of the Bard — especially in this much-hyped 400th…

Eleven-year-old Ben dreads his regular Friday nights at granny's house. She is the epitome of boring, she insists on a game of Scrabble and an early night…

It is quickly apparent that the hotel’s new interior design has drawn inspiration from Cardiff itself, a contemporary city with its roots in history.…

Clive Peacock heads to the Stratford Music Festival: seeing Toby Young with Contemporary Concert at the Shakespeare Institure on 21st october; and then…

Clive Peacock looks at the best of the SMF's lunchtime events at the Town Hall, 19th – 23rd October. Not a cough, not a rustle of sweet wrapper, not a…

There’s no need to go Christmas gift-shopping this year– we’ve done it all for you Our fabulous stocking features some very special gifts donated by local…