Annette Rubery

A media and communications professional with ten years’ experience on Metro newspaper and a passion for web development and social media.

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The Spark cafe bar opens in Lichfield
By Annette Rubery on August 19, 2011
Brand new cafe-bar The Spark has opened in Lichfield. The venue is at 19 Tamworth Street, in the premises formerly occupied by outdoor clothing chain...
Review: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @ Lichfield Cathedral
By Annette Rubery on July 18, 2011
It was a stirring sight to see Lichfield Cathedral so packed for the closing concert of the Lichfield Festival – a visit from the excellent...
Review: Joanna MacGregor @ Lichfield Cathedral
By Annette Rubery on July 11, 2011
Even those tentatively interested in classical music can’t be unfamiliar with Joanna MacGregor: a dreadlocked pianist famed for her virtuoso playing, funky style and for...
Review: Dark Angel @ Lichfield Garrick Studio
By Annette Rubery on July 8, 2011
A bare set with books strewn across the floor, a pumping soundtrack by The Smiths and The Clash, a boy with a poem scrawled on...
Lichfield writer brings Elizabethan conspiracy theory to the stage
By Annette Rubery on July 4, 2011
On May 30, 1593, the dramatist, poet and translator, Christopher Marlowe, was said to have been stabbed to death by Ingram Frizer in a brawl...
Review: WNO @ Birmingham Hippodrome
By Annette Rubery on June 10, 2011
Returning to Birmingham Hipporome this week, Welsh National Opera brought two triumphantly modern-dress productions – of Turandot and Cosi Fan Tutti – which could hardly...
Birthday Celebrations For Lichfield’s Speakers’ Corner
By Annette Rubery on May 17, 2011
Amidst the Son of Buskathon event this Saturday, Speakers’ Corner celebrated its second birthday with a rendition of Happy Birthday, led by MP Michael Fabricant....
MP Michael Fabricant sings at Lichfield Buskathon
By Annette Rubery on May 16, 2011
The disappearance of sunny weather hasn’t put people off this weekend’s Son of Buskathon event, which is raising funds for Lichfield Fuse Festival 2011. Saturday’s...
Opera Review: WNO’s Die Fledermaus @ Birmingham Hippodrome
By Annette Rubery on March 11, 2011
With Spring on the way, it seems the perfect time for Welsh National Opera to tackle the light, frothy world of Johann Strauss’s operetta, Die...
Special deal for local businesses at Lichfield museum
By Annette Rubery on March 2, 2011
Businesses across Lichfield and beyond looking for a place to hold an event or think creatively are being offered the opportunity to host events at Erasmus...