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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,…

PUPILS at Bridgetown School in Stratford-upon-Avon rocked the audience with their performance of Shakespeare Rocks! The production by year four pupils…

Restaurant critic, presenter and jazz pianist Jay Rayner calls into Lemington Spa town hall with his show My Dining Hell on Friday (13 th May). He chatted…

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…

GOSPEL and blues guitarist Leo ‘Bud’ Welch is performing at The Norman Knight, Whichford, on Monday, 9th May. He was born in Sbougla, Mississippi, in…

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…

THE Stratford-upon-Avon Art Society’s annual Founders’ Lecture takes place on Thursday, 12th May, at at the Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, Stratford. Vivien…

NEW York rapper Devon Glover, aka the Sonnet Man, recited all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets back-to-back on Sunday. 24th, rounding off the weekend and…

THE seventh Chipping Campden Literature Festival gets under way on Tuesday, 3rd May. Highlights include Prue Leith talking about her latest book, The…

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…