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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…

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON-born artist Jane Tomlinson has created three illustrated maps in praise of William Shakespeare. Jane started drawing maps just as…

PARRY Taylor Films will have their fourth short film premiered at the Stratford-upon-Avon Picturehouse tomorrow night, Friday, 29th April. The Stratford…

SURPRISED, honoured and humbled - that is how Sir Trevor Nunn described how he was feeling after collecting this year's Pragnell Shakespeare Award. Speaking…

SIR Trevor Nunn has been presented with the 26th Pragnell Shakespeare Award this afternoon. The acclaimed theatre director,Trevor Nunn, who was artistic…

Herald arts correspondent Gill Sutherland will be in the audience at Shakespeare Live! From the RSC this evening, Saturday. Yesterday, she went behind…

The news of Victoria Wood’s death, from cancer aged 62, has led to a massive outpouring of grief, with many taking to social media to pay homage to the…

THE final day of this year’s Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival is given over entirely to children, who will have the opportunity to meet some of the…

A COPY of Romeo and Juliet in Russian that was handed to the Shakespeare Memorial Library in Birmingham by a 30-strong delegation from the Soviet Union…

PAAPA Essiedu, 25, was brought up in east London by his mum. He studied drama at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Three years after graduating, the…

A Night At The Opera , 14th March, Butterworth Hall, Warwick University Massed choirs and 400 young musicians transported the audience at Warwick University’s…

THE George Huxley Jazz Men will return to Tysoe Village Hall, by popular demand, to celebrate St George’s Day on Saturday, 23rd April. George Huxley is…

Body Doubl e, The Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford, runs until Saturday, 9th April IN acting parlance, a ‘body double’ is an actor who substitutes for a leading…

In this Thursday's Herald (on sale 7th April) the arts pages feature an interview with Hamlet lead, Paapa Essiedu; a preview of the Stratford Literary…

Steve Sutherland reviews Hamlet - at the RSC until 13th August TO be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the…

LOCAL playwright Mark Carey tells Gill Sutherland about how his new play, Body Double, which is on at The Bear Pit this week, came about. “In 1986 I did…

THIS week has seen more details of the ninth Stratford Literary Festival revealed by organisers — and one of the stand-out events is an attempt at a feat…

TERRY Deary — the man who created Horrible Histories — was at Warwick Castle earlier this week to open a new maze inspired by his hugely-popular series…

MUSICAL lovers look set to enjoy a heavenly dose of song and dance when Stratford Musical Theatre Company performs the hit show Godspell at the Royal…

LOCAL playwright Mark Carey tells Gill Sutherland about how his new play, Body Double , which runs at The Bear Pit next week, came about. “In 1986 I did…