Getting the new Poet Laureate to Lichfield would have been a real coup by incoming Festival Director Fiona Stuart even if Carol Ann Duffy’s visit hadn’t been the
St Michael’s on Greenhill is one of my favourite Festival venues, its friendly warmth and great acoustics just right for small music ensembles, so tailor-made for the award-
Well finally it’s Festival Time again, now under new Director Fiona Stuart, and good omen! This year the weather has decided to play ball and keep us all swelteringly
After last week’s thrilling triple bill showed BRB’s true coming of age it seemed Swan Lake was about the only thing with which they could convincingly follow. The
With this Triple Bill I realise that BRB Director David Bintley is trying to teach us a lesson. He can seem an enigmatic force who never spells anything out, but
I’ve been fortunate enough to have had the privilege of reviewing the Players’ productions now for what seems a very long time and I really do have to say
The Garrick Rep Company’s latest offering, hot on the heels of other notable successes like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Entertainer is a real sizzler.
Based
The one ballet I can never resist is Giselle, and after watching Ballet Nacional De Cuba’s version at the Hippodrome I now know why.
Giselle has a deep and
It’s grim up North, we all know that. It’s why we live in lovely Lichfield.
But dahn sahth they think we’re in the North anyway so perhaps
The Sleeping Beauty is one of my most favourite things so I was really looking forward to seeing the Vienna Festival Ballet’s version. They’re new to me and
There’s always something about Intimate Theatre’s productions that has a real charm. Maybe it’s the elegant venues, here the gorgeous Georgian ballroom Jane Austen would have loved
I might as well confess it at once. I’m the last person left in the western hemisphere who hasn’t seen the film When Harry Met Sally but I
