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Moon Over Buffalo. The Fellowship Players, Grange Playhouse, Walsall

FADING rep stars George and Charlotte Hay are on the way out yet still dreaming of a big break, in this amusing comedy by Ken Ludwig. Read

New play from Company of the Curtain

THE Company of the Curtain's new play - Curtain Up on Murder - runs until February 8 at the Parish Hall, Water Orton. Read

Rafta Rafta, Birmingham Rep Theatre

RARELY does something successfully cross both the cultural and time divide. Read

Dance, laugh and sing in the spring

WOLVERHAMPTON'S Grand Theatre is mixing musicals, mystery and madness in its new spring programme. Read

Let's get physical

BIRMINGHAM Kathak dancer Sonia Sabri kicks off this year's Moving Parts dance and physical theatre festival at mac with a new work Parallels. Read

Our Roger's much more than just a pretty face!

* IT'S nearly time for Birmingham Mail sports desk man Roger Clarke to put on his frock. Read

The Wedding Singer

Wedding singer on the stage

IT was the decade of shoulder pads, big hair, the New Romantics, yuppies and Mrs Thatcher - now the Eighties are back with a bang thanks to the new musical The Wedding Singer. Read

Anita Dobson with Darren Day

Anita: Dolly is my dream role

ANITA DOBSON is the first to admit that she enjoys a little bit of matchmaking so her new role as Dolly Levi in the musical Hello Dolly! is right up her street. Read

Bard's history cycle gets going

TIME turns its wheel at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as the Royal Shakespeare Company performs all eight plays in the History Cycle. Read

Noel Coward's Private Lives run comes to an end

A TALE of divorce and reconciliation at the Kidderminster Rose Theatre is set to close as the curtain falls for the final time on the production of Noel Coward's Private Lives. Read

Group's not resting on their laurels

YOU can't accuse Highbury Little Theatre of sitting back and watching the good times roll. Read

Wedding turns into family crisis

JOIN the wedding party at Birmingham Repertory Theatre with the arrival of the National Theatre production of Rafta Rafta. Read

Dancing wows crowds in land of rising sun

BIRMINGHAM Royal Ballet is proclaiming its New Year tour of Japan a huge success after nearly every ticket for its performances sold out before the shows even opened. Read

Youth theatre celebrates its 20th birthday

EVERYBODY has to start somewhere - and if you begin with Stage 2 you are clearly in with an excellent chance of making a good start on the professional stage. Read

James and the Giant Peach, Crescent Theatre, Birmingham

THIS fanciful and happy tale, quite lacking in the unpleasantness that is in other Roald Dahl offerings that I have seen, enraptured its youthful audience from the word Go. Read

The Crucible, Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome

THE mass hysteria at the heart of the Salem witch trials in puritan America in 1692 is superbly captured by the splendid Stage 2 youth theatre. Read

Charley's Aunt, The Grange Players, Grange Playhouse, Walsall

FOLLOW that! The players have opened their 2008 programme with this classic Brandon Thomas comedy, set in Oxford more than a century ago, and it's a hoot. Read

Dick Whittington, Norbury Theatre, Droitwich

THIS is a delightful pantomime, full of fun - and particularly interesting because the jokes are shared among so many in the company. They don't always work as they should, particularly in the case of Steve Carley (Idle Jack), who speaks too quickly and without enough flamboyance, although he otherwise enters wholeheartedly into the action. Read

Scrooge, Alexandra Theatre

It seemed strange to be watching this musical version of A Christmas Carol so long after the festive season. Read

Shane finds his inner Ebenezer

EBENEZER Scrooge is the archetypal bad boy of the festive season and actor Shane Richie admits that he has just a touch of that miser in him on bad days. Read