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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 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…
Dame Helen Mirren declared Shakespeare Live “phenomenal and terrifying” in an exclusive chat with the Herald after last night’s gala show broadcast live…
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…
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…
BILLED as ‘an intimate comedy’, Second Thoughts Drama Group are set to perform Noel Coward’s Private Lives at the Bear Pit Theatre, in Stratford-upon-Avon,…
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…
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…
DESPITE its off-putting misogynistic title, The Woman Hater was the perfect production to christen the theatre at The Other Place. Although the new RSC…
ALCESTER couple Andrew and Barbara Swinn are stepping down from their roles with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra after an incredible 47 years. The couple,…
