Editing Ludlow (section)

===Arts===
The town is home to an arts and cinema centre, The Ludlow Assembly Rooms, that hosts live and streamed music, theatre, stand-up comedy and talks. It acts as an arts community centre, has a [[visual arts]] gallery, and on most evenings, shows a film, from a wide variety of genres (including classic, [[arthouse]], and [[blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]]).<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk/ |title= Ludlow Assembly Rooms |access-date=10 November 2007}}</ref> Ludlow is now also home to the Rooftop Theatre Company. Originally from the South East, they have been delivering contemporary-styled Shakespeare since 2003. Their first Ludlow production was The Comedy of Errors in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.rooftoptheatre.co.uk/ |title= Rooftop Theatre Company |access-date=9 April 2015}}</ref>

Ludlow has featured in movies and TV programmes including [[Tom Sharpe]]'s ''[[Blott on the Landscape]]'' and 90s TV adaptations of ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' and ''[[Moll Flanders]]''. In Shakespeare's [[Richard III (play)|''Richard III'']], Ludlow is mentioned,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Austin |first=Sue |date=2023-11-08 |title=Shropshire's remarkable connections with Shakespeare are fascinating |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/north-shropshire/2023/11/09/shropshires-remarkable-connections-with-shakespeare-are-fascinating/ |access-date=2023-11-10 |website=www.shropshirestar.com |language=en}}</ref> as the place where the young [[Edward V of England|Edward V]] is to be fetched as Richard III plots to seize the crown. The town is described as the capital of [[Wales]] following a [[zombie apocalypse]] in the novel [[World War Z]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Brooks |first=Max |title=World War Z |year=2010 |publisher=Gerald Duckworth |isbn=978-0715637036 |page=188 |edition=Kindle }}</ref>

Ludlow has connections with a number of figures in the arts – including [[Alfred Edward Housman]], poet and author of "[[A Shropshire Lad]]" (his ashes were buried in the graveyard of St Laurence's Church and were marked by a cherry tree). [[Stanley J. Weyman]], the novelist known as the "Prince of Romance", was born in Ludlow, as was sculptor [[Adrian Jones (sculptor)|Adrian Jones]], whose ashes are buried in the same churchyard. The naval historian and novelist Captain [[Geoffrey Bennett (historian)|Geoffrey Bennett]] (Sea Lion) lived in Ludlow after his retirement in 1974 up to his death in 1983 and his ashes, too, were interred in the parish churchyard.