AT the end of May, Stratford-upon-Avon’s Picturehouse cinema will celebrate the Bank Holiday weekend by welcoming back the annual pop-up event with an…
BAFTA and Emmy award-winning film-maker Sheila Hayman documented the coming together of the Chipping Campden Festival orchestra in her fascinating documentary…
Yukio Ninagawa , the Japanese stage director known for his adaptations of Shakespeare, has died aged 80. In response to the sad news, the RSC posted a…
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 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…