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Watch This Space

A world of dance on your doorstep

IF you are out and about in the city next weekend make sure you take in a visit to Victoria Square where more than 30 dancers will be performing the open air show Watch This Space! Read

Cheeky play not for the easily offended

CHRIS Jaeger, director of the Blue Room, which opens at the Swan Theatre, Worcester, next week, is approaching it from the premise that there's plenty to laugh at in sex. Read

Playhouse Disney Live On Tour, NIA, Birmingham

CHILDREN'S favourites such as Mickey Mouse, Tigger and Pooh all feature in this stadium-sized show, as well as lesser known characters like Handy Manny, Little Einsteins and Darby. Read

Dance Festival

Join the global dance party

GET ready to party as Birmingham's inaugural International Dance Festival kicks off next week. Read

Kiss Me, Kate, Studley Operatic Society, Palace Theatre, Redditch

THIS is a satisfying production that does not actually pull up any trees. There's not a lot of sparkle, despite the ceaseless warfare between Fred Graham, played by Keith Parish, and the fiery Lilli Vanessi (Mandy Goddard). Read

Titanic, Worcester Operatic & Dramatic Society, Swan Theatre, Worcester

A MOMENTOUS theme deserves the musical it has been given, and it deserves this stirring, compassionate production. Read

Dad's Army, Alexandra Theatre

DON'T panic! A mystery "technical hitch" delayed the start of the first night of Dad's Army in Birmingham. Read

Annie, Get Your Gun, The Arcadians, Crescent Theatre, Birmingham

THIS is a production that has efficiency but not fizz. Read

Children working with a Czech director

THE full age range of a Black Country youth theatre group will be involved when it stages a double bill - one of the plays being a debut project for a new Czech director. Read

How To Tell The Monsters From The Misfits

Clueless cops hunting killer

NEW play at Birmingham Repertory Theatre aims to turn the crime thriller on its head. Read

Come On, Jeeves, Lichfield Garrick

A FIRST rate cast keeps this Ian Dickens production of P G Wodehouse cantering along at a cracking pace. Read

Hapgood

Hapgood, Birmingham Rep

TOM Stoppard's play takes us back to the age of the Cold War when the Eastern bloc swopped agents, double agents and triple agents with the West. Read

Smackdown: Wrestlemania Revenge Tour, NEC

THESE man-mountain wrestlers, such as "the world's strongest man" Mark Henry, look like they could smash through brick walls. Read

Dancing On Ice Tour, National Indoor Arena

IT'S captivated TV audiences for three series - and the Dancing on Ice domination continues with the new live show. Read

The Wedding Singer, Hippodrome Theatre

TEN years on from the hit movie, The Wedding Singer is continuing to rock them in this outstanding new stage version. Read

Top Girls, Crescent Theatre

WRITTEN by a woman and consisting of an all female cast, it would be easier to regard this purely as a feminist play. Read

The Harder They Come, Birmingham Hippodrome

THE Birmingham showing of The Harder They Come was something I'd eagerly anticipated. Read

Ice Queen

THE stars of Dancing On Ice are coming to Birmingham - but don't think they'll be taking it easy now the TV cameras have finished rolling! Read

In the footsteps of reggae royalty

WHEN actor Rolan Bell met legendary singer Jimmy Cliff he was so starstruck he missed the opportunity to grab an autograph. Read

Pregnant pause for somersaulting dancers

TWO dancers in the Peterbrook Players production of My Fair Lady at Solihull Library Theatre last week had to revert to singing roles because they are pregnant. Read