Celebrity chef Jean Christophe Novelli was the star of third and final day of the Stratford Town Centre Food Festival yesterday. He took up residence…
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…
THOSE that like to ‘take it easy’ to a bit of West Coast rock — such as the sounds of legendary band The Eagles — are in for a treat when Talon come to…
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’…
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…
Preston Witts reviews Jenůfa at Longborough Festival Opera, Saturday, 16th July The West Midland's great mezzo-soprano, Gaynor Keeble, is renowned for…
THE newly-adapted original musical of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which first premiered in Chicago in 2011 and has been touring domestically and internationally…
Hundreds of theatre-goers were left disappointed when last night’s performances of Hamlet and The Alchemist were cancelled at the Royal Shakespeare Company…
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…
THIS weekend marks the start of Bretfest 2016 in the village of Bretforton, while in Stratford folk fans are preparing for two days of folk music and…
WHAT do you call a Shakespearean actor on a bike? A HandleBard. Well you do if he/she is one of the intrepid HandleBards — a group of touring actors who…
Peter Buckroyd reviews the Thomas Nickell Concert at Orchestra of the Swan, Stratford ArtsHouse, Sunday, 10th July Introducing the concert Conductor David…