Highlights
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Shrewsbury Folk Festival
A highlight of any folk fan’s calendar, this four-day fest brings together centuries of musical tradition in one picturesque setting.
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Stratford Literary Festival
The autumn edition of the Stratford Literary Festival returns from 30 October to 2 November, complete with an impressive line-up of bestselling writers and household names from stage and screen. Feat...
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Hetain Patel: Come As You Really Are
Featuring hundreds of objects created, crafted and collected by hobbyists.
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Mary Poppins
Everybody's favourite magical nanny is flying back into the Midlands!
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How We Learn To Love
Emma Talbot explores the experience of life - from birth to death.
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Bryan Adams at Warwick Live
This year’s Warwick Castle Live series kicks off with Bryan Adams’ brand-new Roll With The Punches tour, which shares its laissez-faire name with his upcoming album, due to be released the following d...
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Texas
play Warwick Live
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
screening & live music at Warwick Castle
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Pet Shop Boys
play Warwick Live
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The Rocky Horror Show
Richard O Brien’s scantily clad and seductive cult musical
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Brick Dinos
Step back in time for a Dino-tastic day out at the Herbert!
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Shakeitup: The Improvised Shakespeare Show
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand... Using The Bard's language, audience suggestions - and the company's overactive imaginations, ShakeItUp cre...
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Omid Djalili: Namaste
The Persian Comedy Powerhouse performs his acclaimed new show...
Latest...
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The Good the Bad and the Rugby Reboots and Re-Suits
The chart-topping podcast returns to theatres
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Award-winning young magician shares inspirational story
A young south Warwickshire man has published the story of how magic saved his life
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Action-packed Lunt Roman Festival returns this weekend
Families will be transported back nearly 2,000 years at ancient Roman site
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A VR rave-up, Black Power and Perfect Shows...
There’s lots to Care about in Warwick Arts Centre’s Autumn/Winter Season
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Stratford Literary Festival announces its biggest ever Autumn festival lineup!
Speakers involve Sir Philip Pullman, Graham Norton, John Cleese, Lyse Doucet and more...
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Warwickshire searches for future Birmingham Bears stars
Aspiring young cricketers can still apply for the Youth Pathway programme
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John Leader to play The BFG at Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Showing at the Stratford-upon-Avon theatre from 25 November 2025 – 31 January 2026.
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Chilling journey into a haunted past at Warwick’s Bridge House Theatre
take a chilling journey into a haunted past...
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Survive the School Holidays – Without Breaking the Bank!
Family Adventures Made Easy with West Midlands Railway.
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The Good the Bad and the Rugby Reboots and Re-Suits
The chart-topping podcast returns to theatres
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Award-winning young magician shares inspirational story
A young south Warwickshire man has published the story of how magic saved his life
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Action-packed Lunt Roman Festival returns this weekend
Families will be transported back nearly 2,000 years at ancient Roman site
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A VR rave-up, Black Power and Perfect Shows...
There’s lots to Care about in Warwick Arts Centre’s Autumn/Winter Season
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Stratford Literary Festival announces its biggest ever Autumn festival lineup!
Speakers involve Sir Philip Pullman, Graham Norton, John Cleese, Lyse Doucet and more...
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Warwickshire searches for future Birmingham Bears stars
Aspiring young cricketers can still apply for the Youth Pathway programme
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John Leader to play The BFG at Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Showing at the Stratford-upon-Avon theatre from 25 November 2025 – 31 January 2026.
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Chilling journey into a haunted past at Warwick’s Bridge House Theatre
take a chilling journey into a haunted past...
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Survive the School Holidays – Without Breaking the Bank!
Family Adventures Made Easy with West Midlands Railway.
Latest Reviews
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Review: The Constant Wife at the RSC
"charming, thought-provoking and ever so chic"
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Review: Mary Poppins at Birmingham Hippodrome
"infectious energy and playfulness which leaves the audience rapt"
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Review: The Winter's Tale at the RSC
"powerful and grungily supernatural, in a collision of modern ideals, magic and myth"
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Review: Peaky Blinders: The Redemption Of Thomas Shelby
"a modern masterpiece"
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Review: Greg Davies Full Fat Legend at BP Pulse Live, Birmingham
"rude, grisly, puerile and most importantly hilarious"
Coming soon to the Midlands
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Things to do in the Midlands
Check out our selection of things to do in the Midlands during the next few weeks.
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Let's go to the theatre…
Check out our selection of shows coming to venues across the region during the next few weeks...
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Get looking! Visual arts across the Midlands
Check out some of the fantastic exhibitions showing across the region this month.
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Havin' a laugh!
Get your ribs well and truly tickled over the next few weeks...
Features, interviews & blogs...
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Beneath The Stars
Warwick Live takes place at Warwick Castle this August.
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Chewing The Fat
Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham makes its UK debut at the RSC this month...
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Back To The Future
Martha Wainwright stops off in Shrewsbury.
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Striking The Right Notes
Tickets are on sale now for The CBSO’s 2025/26 season.
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Saturday Day Fever
“...because life’s too short to save the dancing for after dark”
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Off The Wall
August sees Compton Verney showing that it’s so much more than an art gallery...
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Thinking Games
Alan Davies talks about returning to the stage for the first time in a decade.
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Snowball Effect
The magical world of Slava’s Snowshow returns to Birmingham this autumn.
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Practically Perfect
Mary Poppins flies back to Birmingham.
What's On Arts Venues
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Royal Shakespeare Theatre
The home of the Royal Shakespeare Company was originally opened in 1932 as the Shakespeare Memorial...
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Belgrade Theatre
The Belgrade was built in 1958 as part of the city’s reconstruction after the Second World War. The...
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Albany Theatre
The Albany is a beautiful Art Deco theatre in the heart of Coventry which stages in-house and profes...
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Warwick Arts Centre
One of the largest multi-artform venues in the UK, Warwick Arts Centre first opened its doors in 197...
Places To Visit
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The Wave
The Wave is one of the UK’s largest and newest indoor waterparks and offers something for all the fa...
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Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park
Compton Verney is widely considered to be an art gallery of international standing. The Georgian hou...
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Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
England’s first open-air museum with over 700 years of Midlands history and 19 acres of countryside...
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Coventry Transport Museum
This popular museum not only houses the largest publicly owned collection of British vehicles on the...
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Severn Valley Railway
Beautiful railway operating mainly steam-hauled passenger trains between Bridgnorth, Bewdley & Kidde...
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Thinktank Science Museum
Located in Birmingham city centre, Thinktank offers a great day out for visitors of all ages....
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West Midlands Police Museum
Discover stories about some of Birmingham’s most notorious criminals, including the real Peaky Blind...
Eat & Drink in Warwickshire
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The Woodsman to host exclusive tasting evening with Shakespeare Distillery
The Woodsman Restaurant, located within Hotel Indigo Stratford upon Avon, is to host an exclusive ta...
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Independent distillery wins Traveller’s Choice Award for third year
The Warwickshire business is in the top 10% in the world on Trip Advisor
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Warwickshire hotels shortlisted for Foodie Awards!
Hotel Indigo Coventry & Hotel Indigo Stratford upon Avon shortlisted four times
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Quill & Cup Takes Centre Stage in Stratford-Upon-Avon
The new independent café serves show-stealing crumbles
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Bookings Now Live at Rudy's Leamington Location
The neighbourhood Neapolitan pizzeria announces its opening date.
What's On elsewhere in the West Midlands...
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Shrewsbury Folk Festival
A highlight of any folk fan's calendar.
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Calamity Jane
Starring West End actor and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Blood Brothers
Willy Russell's iconic musical.
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Mary Poppins
Everybody's favourite magical nanny is flying back into the Midlands!
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Shrewsbury Folk Festival
A highlight of any folk fan's calendar.
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Calamity Jane
Starring West End actor and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Blood Brothers
Willy Russell's iconic musical.
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Mary Poppins
Everybody's favourite magical nanny is flying back into the Midlands!
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