Rock and roll was the order of the day when Travellin’ Man – The Ricky Nelson story opened Lichfield Arts’ Spring 2019 season.
In what has become something of a Lichfield Arts Christmas tradition, the singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Coppin bought his three man show All on A Winter’s Night to Lichfield for the last night of their national tour.
The stage was packed with equipment as the 10-piece, led by singers Verity Smith, Ian Barton and Dave Ratty, played a host of songs aimed at getting the audience on the dance floor.
While no-one can guarantee we’ll have a white Christmas, there’s one place that you can be certain of playing in real snow this festive season – and that’s at Tamworth Snowdome’s Winter Wonderland.
The marvellously fresh Dick Whittington pantomime at the Lichfield Garrick is a sure-fire hit easily worthy of a much bigger venue
We all know the basic story by now – a miser is visited by his dead former business partner, before three other ghosts show him the error of his ways.
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of the festive Nutcracker is magical, mesmerising and sensational.
I would (almost) crawl over broken glass to see any production by Lichfield Youth Musical Theatre – but I never thought I would have to go as far as, well, Walsall.
With elements of folk, rock, and virtuoso violin playing that took as much from Middle Eastern music as they did from traditional fiddle playing, the bands Merry Hell and Folklaw had a lot in common when they appeared at Lichfield Guildhall.
Although when thinking of rock gigs the Guildhall may not seem like the most obvious of venues, the multi-generational audience and the sound quality of the band all added to a great night of entertainment.
There’s nothing like a whodunnit, and in some ways that was spot on here because right up until the very end we were kept guessing as to what actually had been done, by whom, why, and even exactly who to.
Detective Inspector John Rebus is a Betamax man in a VHS world. He rails against the closure of the pub and the opening of fancy restaurants, the growth of streaming, and the death of vinyl, the growth in mobile phones and the death of the land line.
