Amazingly in this wet year we had a warm night for the welcome return of regular favourites the Halle who played in the very first Festival 31 years ago.
Their
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s latest offering is one of their signature triple bills designed to display the company’s wide range of skills by reviving archive works from their repertoire
I’ve never managed to catch Far from the Madding Crowd before so I was really looking forward to seeing how Birmingham Royal Ballet director David Bintley had managed to
I haven’t visited Birmingham’s International Dance Festival before but I just couldn’t pass up the chance to see BRB’s contribution to a Festival whose international offerings
If you love theatre and haven’t yet found Birmingham’s newest, The Blue Orange, then it’s time you did. Set in the heart of the newly-fashionable Jewellery
Noel Coward was a sly old thing. Fallen Angels was written directly after his youthful and scandalously stunning debut with The Vortex but wasn’t produced until he’d proved
I dimly remember seeing the Oscar-winning film of On Golden Pond, a master class of star performances including Katherine Hepburn and Fondas Henry and Jane who had to be
The Lichfield Players never cease to amaze with their ability to discover quality dramas I haven’t seen before and stage them with their own distinctive style. And this past
Birmingham Royal Ballet are definitely on a roll at the moment. Over twenty years I’ve seen them grow from the Royal Ballet’s potentially Cinderella sister into a truly
