I don’t know how they do it, but I have to say Vienna Festival Ballet are really great.
When first offered a review ticket for Birmingham Royal Ballet 25 years ago I knew nothing at all about ballet. The resulting quarter of a century has been an education not just for me but for their ever-growing audiences the length and breadth of Britain.
Ever since their first appearance, Different Animal have pounced on iconic stories and remade them with reverent affection, allowing us to take a fresh look at why these fables enshrine treasured cultural values for us as a national family.
The award-winning Laurence Jones Band played a set of assured blues, jazz, rock and funk music when they appeared at the Lichfield Guildhall.
Read Phil Preece’s review of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s performance of Swan Lake.
The married duo of Jacqui Dankworth and Charlie Wood played a varied set of standards and special arrangements for an attentive audience when they appeared at Lichfield Guildhall.
Read Ann Mayo’s review as the Lichfield Garrick Youth Theatre tackle a production of Ghost the Musical.
Despite being one of the first great works of the English Renaissance, Marlowe’s Edward II is still comparatively rarely performed.
Read Ben Macnair’s review of Dracula’s Ghost at the Lichfield Garrick.
The American singer-songwriter Eric Andersen played some of his best known songs and arrangements when his five stop tour bought him to Lichfield Guildhall.
Take a royal family living firmly in the middle of a media storm. Stressful? Well kings have always been public – they are literally at the head of their people and therefore visible; an invisible king is no king at all.
Lichfield Garrick Youth Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Concert was simply amazing. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better – it did!
