Review: Macbeth

Jessica Harris watches the RSC’s latest production.

Review: Falkland Sound

Jessica Harris watches the RSC tackling a modern war story.

Review: The Empress

Jessica Harris explores a tale of empire at the RSC.

Review: As You Like It

The RSC’s latest production, as seen by Jessica Harris.

Review: Hamnet

Jessica Harris has a mixed response at the Swan Theatre.

Review: Julius Caesar

Jessica Harris hails the RSC’s latest production.

Review: Richard III

Jessica Harris ventures to see the RSC in one of Shakespeare’s finest.

Wars of the Roses

Jessica Harris reviews this RSC production.

Review: Henry VI: Rebellion

Jessica Harris reviews this Royal Shakespeare Company production.

Review: The Comedy of Errors

Jessica Harris sees the RSC’s latest production.

Dream, by the Royal Shakespeare Company

Jessica Harris reviews this online digital production.

Review: Romeo and Juliet

Jessica Harris watches the latest online offering from the RSC.

Twelve years a slave to the stage: My best (and worst) moments

Richard Lutz remembers a dozen years of reviewing Midland performances. 

Living in a viral world

Richard Lutz re-adjusts to a life that has changed.

Review: The Boy in The Dress

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a feel.good musical about change and friendship.

RSC Review: A Museum in Baghdad

Richard Lutz watches two plays on the same Stratford stage. But does it work?

RSC review: Shakespeare swaps genders in the swinging sixties

Richard Lutz takes his pew for King John at Stratford’s Swan Theatre.

Measure for Measure review at Stratford: ‘..the stage sweats sex…’

Richard Lutz is whisked back to a Shakespearean play set in a turn of the century Vienna.

Review: Venice Preserved at The Swan, Stratford

Richard Lutz is dragged into the world of Restoration noir at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Review: The Provoked Wife at The Swan in Stratford

Richard Lutz takes a pew for a 300 year-old sex comedy that’s still alive and kicking.

Two takes on Africa and the tale of the dragon

Richard Lutz dips into African theatre twice and finds a lost church.

As You Like It: Bells, whistles but all too tricksy

Richard Lutz takes his Stratford pew for Shakespeare’s intriguing forest comedy.

Swans of Stratford

Richard Lutz saunters down to Shakespeareland.

A Christmas Carol: “…a delight, 9.5 out of ten…”

Richard Lutz – with help from eleven year old Finn – checks out a Christmas cracker.

Train and theatre tickets for under £20

West Midlands Railway partners with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Review: Macbeth at Stratford

Richard Lutz watches an up to the minute production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. But does it work? he asks.

Coriolanus review: When mother knows best

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a story about power and the inability to compromise.

Vice Versa at Stratford: “madcap but not sharp enough…”

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a new comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford: Electric performance hampered by plodding plot

Richard Lutz takes his pew for the classic Shakespeare tragedy about love and lust when youth leaves the stage.

Stratford restaurant celebrates re-launch

Extensive refurbishment adds to town’s attractions.