The Red Lion is a Heartwood Inn on the canal-side, just moments from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Located in a Grade II listed building, it offers a blend of historic charm and thoughtful design. There’s a spacious bar, an elegantly styled dining room – the burgers are especially tasty – and a large garden with […]

Even with somewhere like Stratford-upon-Avon, with its host of historic attractions and ever-changing list of forthcoming plays, you can sometimes suffer ‘cultural fatigue’. At the risk of upsetting, well, almost everyone, as proud adopted Stratfordians, even we sometimes feel the need to get away from the tights, iambic pentameters and arrases (or is the plural […]

 The RSC’s latest programme announcement really does give us something to look forward to, bringing together stories from across the centuries and from across the globe. Joining previously announced productions of The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure and The BFG in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre a new production of Henry V has been added to the schedule. In the […]

The Attic Theatre is a brilliant fringe theatre right on our doorstep. Located in Cox’s Yard in the heart of Stratford upon Avon, this unique and intimate theatre has just 92 seats and is housed in a Grade II listed timber yard with the original features of the building clearly visible in the auditorium. The […]

For the last few years we have run a very successful Christmas Raffle to raise funds for Shakespeare’s Puppies – a local appeal supporting Guide Dogs for the Blind: While Vern (our gorgeous Yellow Labrador guide dog stud) is continuing with his sterling work to support the cause, we have decided that this Christmas we […]