The Blue Orange Theatre in Birmingham’s now-trendy Jewellery Quarter is fast making a name for itself as the place to see new drama. There’s been some great
This is the big one, the Christmas treat many Midlands theatre-goers look forward to all year round and believe me this year it’s the real deal.
Given its
Vienna Festival Ballet seems to be on a career high at the moment. In these tough times you might reasonably expect a small independent company to be a bit lightweight
It’s been a long time since I last saw this company, then named Ballet Rambert after their illustrious founder Dame Marie Rambert, one of the pioneers of British ballet.
I hope the students at Birmingham School of Acting know how lucky they are, cast in fascinating plays by some of the world’s most interesting playwrights, given parts that
My overriding impression of the Players’ new production is amazement at their audacity in putting it on. Richard III is a big play, a famous play, and it needs actors
“I am the flower of the culture of the nineteenth century,” declared Wilde, and if his other works are no longer so widely read and his legend has been eclipsed
Some of the best things I’ve ever seen in the theatre have been done by the students of Birmingham School of Acting. Their tutors are really clever. They choose
For many ballet lovers Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is the big one, quite rightly given its thrillingly dramatic score, wealth of opportunities for spectacle and of course, those swans, whose
I saw Lichfield Youth Theatre’s 2008 production of Les Miserables once by accident and a second time on purpose. It still ranks as one the best things I’ve
I must confess I have a particular interest in this play – I taught it for A level and came to love it.
Based on Australian author Thomas Kenneally’s novel
