I was a bit worried when I discovered that the Players’ new show to inaugurate their seventieth (seventieth!) anniversary season was about cricket. I mean, my only experience of playing
There’s something very comforting about sitting in a warm, dark theatre on a wet night watching a play about some well-imagined people and their serious but sortable troubles.
Invited to see what’s on offer at the Hip this Crimbo I gracefully accepted and am I glad I did. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has that feel-
Well it’s that time of year again when we look forward to some Christmas fun and for me there’s nothing better than a good old-fashioned panto.
Last
I know I’ve said it before but in our house Christmas just isn’t Christmas without the BRB Nutcracker. Most critics rate this as the best in the business
I used to say I didn’t do musicals but that was before I saw Oliver Rowe’s mind-boggling 2008 production of Les Miserables for the Lichfield Garrick Youth
Great ballet isn’t about lavish costumes or spectacular sets but great dancing and that’s what this good-looking, talented young company has with knobs on.
This is an
Plays with a moral message have more or less been out of fashion since about the time Cole Porter wrote the prescient lyrics for Anything Goes, but JB Priestley was
Coming to ballet as a novice I’ve found Birmingham Royal Ballet’s intriguing triple bills a real education over the years. They always surprise with new, sometimes challenging experiences
With the dark nights creeping on, I reckon it’s time to sit back and enjoy an atmospheric thriller where sex, violence and a hint of the supernatural creepily collide.
Lichfield is currently basking in a golden age of theatre.
Although nominally amateur the local theatre scene is actually fuelled by gifted professionals who just happen to do other stuff
That Alan Bennett’s a clever old thing. Even after all these years he seems as cosy as a pair of worn-out slippers and yet his plays always have
