This year’s brilliantly wide-ranging Birmingham Dance Festival has zipped by in a headlong rush filled with inspired programming that’s brought a heady mix of dance styles from right around the world to the Midlands, with the overall emphasis quite rightly on the new.
Vienna Festival Ballet’s regular visits have been among the real highlights of the last few years for Lichfield theatregoers and I for one have become a huge fan.
This year’s International Dance Festival Birmingham has been a revelation, full of fascinating, shocking, moving, beautiful and inventive theatre.
Lichfield Arts bought something new and original to the stage when the musical duo of Dan Donnelly and Ben Paley made their debut at the Guildhall.
I’m always up for new theatre so when invited to see Eurotrashed, a group of new plays by Birmingham based writers’ group BOLDtext, I jumped at the chance.
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.
The popular Climax Blues Band drew a near capacity audience to Lichfield Guildhall.
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.
Lichfield Operatic Society’s Jesus Christ Superstar at the Garrick this week is a first rate production.
Music fans enjoyed a smorgasbord of sound when two ensembles of completely different types of music played at Lichfield Guildhall.
With little more than a violin, an accordion and some well honed repartee, the critically acclaimed musicians Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham turned the grandeur of Lichfield Cathedral into an intimate folk gig.
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.
