With a growing live reputation, and a few albums worth of strong material Claire Free and her well drilled band put on a sterling show, full of quality musicianship, and
I hope the students at Birmingham School of Acting know how lucky they are, cast in fascinating plays by some of the world’s most interesting playwrights, given parts that
I don’t care what anyone says, they don’t write ‘em like this anymore!
Carousel, the second musical collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, premiered in 1945 but
My overriding impression of the Players’ new production is amazement at their audacity in putting it on. Richard III is a big play, a famous play, and it needs actors
“I am the flower of the culture of the nineteenth century,” declared Wilde, and if his other works are no longer so widely read and his legend has been eclipsed
Some of the best things I’ve ever seen in the theatre have been done by the students of Birmingham School of Acting. Their tutors are really clever. They choose
Folk music legend Maddy Prior took her audience on a magical mystery tour of world music when her latest project performed at Lichfield’s Guildhall.
With accompaniment from singers and
With a sound that fused elements of Appalachian folk and Bluegrass, with traditional music the award winning duo of Nancy Kerr and James Fagan returned to Lichfield Guildhall to play
For many ballet lovers Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is the big one, quite rightly given its thrillingly dramatic score, wealth of opportunities for spectacle and of course, those swans, whose
It seems to have taken ages for the ballet season to come round again, and strangely Birmingham Royal Ballet didn’t even open in their home city this year, for
I saw Lichfield Youth Theatre’s 2008 production of Les Miserables once by accident and a second time on purpose. It still ranks as one the best things I’ve
