One of the best things about festivals is you’re bound to see something new. I’d never seen Netherlands Dans Theatre 2 before but I’m delighted to report they’re simply sensational with a repertoire full of marvellous things beyond anything I’d ever previously imagined.
Calling For Help! is a new drama set in the busy, claustrophobic, increasingly pressured environment of a call centre and describes the toll this takes on its employees.
I don’t normally review musicals – well, I need some nights off – but I saw Oliver Rowe’s legendary youth production of Les Miserables so jumped at the chance of seeing his latest, the heart-breaking electro-rock spectacular about youthful disillusion, American Idiot. Am I glad I did.
I hear on the grapevine that Different Animal’s moving spirit Dan Branch is taking a sabbatical, but on the strength of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense I say go fast, come back soon.
Birmingham Royal Ballet certainly know how to put on a show. Here a packed first night audience from first timers to top London critics were treated to a live spectacle that just got better and better through scene after eye-popping scene.
I don’t know about you but for me there’s nothing like a cosy murder mystery on a cold February evening to chase away those end-of-winter blues, and Middle Ground’s A Murder is Announced turns out to be just the job.
Clever Birmingham Royal Ballet director David Bintley has produced a great programme for the new season celebrating the BRB’s own choreographic heritage.
It’s always a major event when a new Matthew Bourne production comes into town, and this week is no exception as his company New Adventures unveil their production of The Sleeping Beauty to Midlands audiences.
A grandly stylish opening for the new year from the Lichfield Players with their assured production of Denise Deegan’s classic girl’s-school comedy Daisy Pulls It Off.
No Christmas is complete without a trip to the panto and in the Midlands the big one’s always at Birmingham Hippodrome.
I’ve seen every one of Ian Adams’ scrumptious pantos since he first burst upon Lichfield’s festive scene and they’ve always been pure unadulterated delight. But this year something special has happened.
Intimate Theatre’s Christmas Voices has become a festive tradition locally at both the George Hotel and Middleton Hall, and a very welcome one too.
