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Diane Parkes

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Restorian comedy comes to Birmingham Old Joint Stock Theatre.

RESTORATION comedy arrives in local theatres in the shape of William Wycherley’s The Country Wife.Read

Denise Lewis supports Breast Cancer Awanress Month

OLYMPIC gold medallist Denise Lewis is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month’s Tickled Pink campaign.Read

Dance: Artist Caravaggio inspires choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller

IT HAS taken choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller nearly five years to bring his latest creation to fruition. But his new show Caravaggio: Exile and Death arrives in Birmingham next week.Read

Theatre: New play looks at Bible translators

BIRMINGHAM playwright David Edgar has become an expert on the Bible.Read

Dance: Tamworth schoolgirl Emma Slater dances the world with Burn the Floor

EMMA Slater was just ten years old when she watched a show dance and first felt Latin fever – now she is touring the world performing in Burn The Floor.Read

Special report: Road show to reveal breast and testicular cancer

AT FIRST glance the piece of rubber in my hands looks like a chicken fillet. But I then turn it over and discover it is a model of a woman’s breast.Read

Bromsgrove writer Sue Watson finds there is life after the BBC

A FORMER television producer who took redundancy from the BBC has just seen her first novel in print.Read

New service for women with mental difficulties in Sutton Coldfield

BIRMINGHAM Mind has launched For Women, a weekly service aiming to support women experiencing emotional and mental difficulties.Read

Putting Birmingham on the map for Black History Month

SHOPPERS in Birmingham can follow black history trails thanks to a temporary exhibition in the city centre.Read

Special report: How a West Midlands charity is helping people with autism

DIMITRI Alexiou has Birmingham’s bus routes on the tip of his tongue. He knows the country’s rail lines and stations like most of us know our backyards.Read

10% of families in Midlands skipping meals to save money, says Oxfam

MORE than one in ten people in the West Midlands skip meals to save money, according to a survey conducted for charity Oxfam.Read

Rowney Green players to perform at Redditch theatre

The comedy tells of the adventures of two Russian ballet dancers who defect to the West while performing Swan Lake but then face discovery.Read

Aston Arena Zumba party to raise money for charity

A GIANT Zumba party in Aston is aiming to raise money for a host of charities.Read

Workshops in Birmingham for cervical cancer

WOMEN who have experienced cervical cancer are invited to take part in a day of talks and workshops.Read

Lichfield teacher Carol E Wyer pens novel

A FORMER school teacher from Tamworth has published her first novel.Read

Drumming up interest in African dance and music

A FREE open evening is aiming to encourage people to take up African drumming and dance.Read

Theatre: DV8 uncover censorship

FREEDOM of speech and censorship come under the spotlight in DV8’s latest show Can We Talk About This?Read

Theatre: Much Wenlock is Olympian town

WORCESTER-based Vamos Theatre Company opens the lid on the links between the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock and the 2012 London Olympic Games in its new show Much Ado About Wenlock.Read

Theatre: On the pilgrim's progress

DUDLEY-based Saltmine Theatre Group has created a new production of John Bunyan’s classic novel The Pilgrim’s Progress.Read

Theatre: Cannon Hill arts centre to stage waterfall in At Swim, Two Boys

BIRMINGHAM’S mac plays host to a waterfall for Earthfall’s production At Swim, Two Boys on Tuesday.Read

Author Profile

Diane Parkes has worked in journalism for 14 years and has been with the Birmingham Mail for ten. She is Women's Editor covering health, fitness, education, fashion and beauty features. As Dance and Theatre Editor she is also responsible for professional arts coverage across the region.