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Kids loved festive treat

A TAP dancing Santa, snow flurries, actors skating on ice and a levitating ghost are just some of the highlights of this year’s Lichfield Garrick pantomine.Read

Review: The Jungle Book - Old Rep, Birmingham

MY KIDS love The Jungle Book but I did feel a certain trepidation taking them to the Old Rep production.Read

Cracking the heart of Robin Hood at the RSC

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A ROMANCE to warm the cockles of your heart, this new play by David Farr takes us into the forests of Sherwood where Robin Hood is a heartless outlaw.Read

Robin Cousins hangs up skates for Teen Angel in Grease

FOR many, Robin Cousins will always be the ice skater who brought back gold from the 1980 Olympics.Read

Old Joint Stock Theatre hosts play set in a mortuary

BIRMINGHAM’S Old Joint Stock Theatre hosts a Christmas comedy set in a mortuary.Read

Anne Boleyn at Birmingham New Alexandra Theatre

SHAKESPEARE’S Globe Theatre comes to Birmingham with a tale of Tudor intrigue.Read

Theatre: From Greystoke to Jungle Book

PETER Elliott was just out of drama school when he was offered a job as a chimpanzee in the film Greystoke. A re-telling of the Tarzan story, Peter was to dress in a monkey suit and attempt to be an animal.Read

Theatre: Christopher Timothy gets ready for Christmas

WHEN Christopher Timothy was a youngster, he loved playing with puppets.Read

Thatre: ACE music and arts bring ICE to mac

BIRMINGHAM-based ACE dance and music looks East with a new co-production working with a Japanese company.Read

Theatre: Dark side of Sleeping Beauty

FOR actress Alex Clatworthy, the Birmingham Rep production of Sleeping Beauty really is a fairy tale come true – as she plays the title role in her first professional stage show.Read

Theatre: Talent runs in the Caird family

CREATIVE talent overflows in the household of award-winning director John Caird.Read

Theatre: Star is aiming to twinkle for toddlers

TODDLERS are being invited to their first taste of theatre with Star.Read

Theatre: Tears of philosopher clown Slava Polunin

SLAVA’S Snowshow has thrilled theatre-goers for nearly 20 years and this autumn it returns to Birmingham.Read

Theatre: Paul Nicholas heads towards scandal

THE year was 1963 and all the talk was of the Profumo Affair.Read

Wolverhampton Arena Theatre hosts Stig of the Dump

FRIENDSHIP in the strangest of places forms the heart of a new stage adaptation of the children’s novel Stig of the Dump.Read

Review: Marat/Sade, by Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon

WHEN Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1964 it shocked theatre goers, causing some to leave.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

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

Andersen classic The Snow Queen is given a makeover at Solihull

SOLIHULL Arts Complex plays host to a new dance production of Hans Christian Ander-sen’s classic fairy story The Snow Queen.Read