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King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, until October 2017 Didn’t you just love the Olympics? It’s a true test of almost godlike human endurance and ability.…

Actor Patrick Marley brings his one-man show about the life of Oscar Wilde, Wilde at Heart, to the Bear Pit this tonight and Saturday. Here he tells Gill…

The Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival returns on Sunday (18th September) and runs through to the 25th. The week-long programme of exciting events and…

This week the Royal Shakespeare Company announced the artistic programme for 2017 spring/summer which it is calling its ‘Rome season’. It leads with four…

Playbox Theatre’s annual end-of-summer Musical Theatre Festival this year brings a familiar and very loved show to The Dream Factory, Disney’s Beauty…

Talent scouts are coming to Stratford on Saturday, 10 th September, hunting for worthy contenders for Britain's Got Talent 2017. The auditions will take…

Could it be that The Two Noble Kinsmen is just one big mickey take? It was the last thing Shakespeare wrote — teaming up with junior scribe John Fletcher…

True to their name, local band True Heights are on the up. This week the five-piece rock band are being given national radio airplay. Their recent single,…

58173,58174,58175,58176,58177,58178,58179,58180,58181,58182,58183,58184,58185,58186,58187,58188,58189,58190,58191,58192,58193 THOSE who answered the ‘call’…

THE town of Chipping Campden was last week treated to a musical extravaganza of breathtaking brilliance — two concerts within two days with Nicola Benedetti,…

STRATFORD Literary Festival has put together a wonderfully eclectic programme for its short autumn programme, which includes the authors of some of this…

THE UK’s longest-running poetry festival returns to Stratford from Sunday, 18th September, with a line-up of readings, performances and workshops featuring…

AS the summer season draws to a close and the musicians of Stratford’s Orchestra of the Swan (OOTS) momentarily set down their bows, care homes can reflect…

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IT'S the last two days of the Stratford-upon-Avon Art Society annual exhibition currently running at King Edward VI School in the town. The society's…

A PLAQUE was unveiled in the RSC’s Swan Theatre, in Stratford-upon-Avon, on Sunday (31st July), by the late Brett Goldin’s mother, to mark the tenth and…

The RSC are hoping to introduce more young people to Shakespeare with a special production of The Tempest aimed at 8-13 year-olds next year. The First…

Hundreds of theatre-goers were left disappointed when last night’s performances of Hamlet and The Alchemist were cancelled at the Royal Shakespeare Company…

THE Stratford Herald is celebrating another successful partnership, this week with Escape Arts. The town charity, which helps make a difference to people’s…

YOU know all the hoo-ha earlier this year, as Stratford commemorated Shakespeare’s death 400 years ago? Well, the big news is that we needn’t have bothered. It…