With an engaging stage presence and energetic musicianship, the five-piece ensemble Fret and Fiddle played to an appreciative audience when they appeared at Lichfield Guildhall.
A Guildhall packed to capacity and a leading Irish group offered an early St Patrick’s Day celebration when Craobh Rua performed in Lichfield.
Two bands of widely divergent styles performed at Lichfield Guildhall when the original folk duo Wilson Wright and the almost genre-free The Orange Circus Band took to the stage.
The Lichfield Garrick hosted the one-man show Burton this week, lifting the lid on the life of one of the acting world’s best-known names.
Some marvellous power has made this new, subtly updated version of Cinderella crucially urgent, and suddenly the iconic rags to riches story has become insistent, even shocking in its powerful call to our deepest subconscious fears and aspirations.
“This landmark production is simply a choreographic tour de force from one of the world’s top creative artists.”
With its forensic exploration of truth, image and make believe, Wrecking Ball by Action Hero could not be a more timely investigation of some of the more pressing issues facing the international media today.
The popular boogie woogie and blues pianist Steve ‘Big Man’ Clayton bought his talented quartet to play at Lichfield Guildhall.
It had to happen. David Croft and Jimmy Perry’s homage to the ageing (and youthful) volunteers otherwise known as Dad’s Army, is the perfect material for those of us for whom the war’s outcome and an affectionate distance has given those terrible years a cosy glow.
With a sizeable and appreciative audience, a set-list of fine original material and some choice covers, and a hugely sympathetic acoustic room in the Guildhall, Enchante retired with some style during their last ever performance.
Lichfield Arts rounded off a successful 2016 with a show that packed humour, stirring musicianship, dance and familiar songs performed in unfamiliar ways when The Magical Christmas Tree came to the Guildhall.
Christmas just isn’t Christmas without the panto, and this is the biggie, the one Midlands panto that’s a must-see treat in a tradition that defies fashion and time.
