STRICTLY Come Dancing favourites Lilia Kopylova and Darren Bennett will be turning up the heat this summer at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall with their Latin Fever show.Read
TOP singing coach Zoe Tyler is coming back home to Birmingham next weekend – to host a three-day intensive singing, acting and dancing workshop for children.Read
AS she nervously watched the performance unfold in front of her, Beverley Trotman realised what her family had gone through when they came to support her on The X Factor.Read
OR, to give it its full name, Torvill & Dean’s Dancing On Ice: The Bolero 25th Anniversary Tour.Read
Review: West Side Story at Birmingham Hippodrome
HALF a century on from the creation of this magnificent musical, the Jets and the Sharks still had plenty of bite.more
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NATIONAL disco dancing champion, soap star, singing sensation and now the king of Dancing on Ice, Ray Quinn has packed more into his first 20 years than most people manage in a lifetime.Read
DESPITE more than 20 years working as an actor, when Ged Simmons comes to the Birmingham Hippodrome with West Side Story next week, it will be only his second time on stage in the city.Read
ACTRESS Sarah Jayne Dunn has her feet firmly on the ground – and that’s just the way she likes it.Read
HEARD the one about the zoologist who turned into Shaggy?Read
DUDLEY’S favourite son Lenny Henry gets serious and proves a Bard hit. Read
AT every venue it visits with its latest production, Italian company Teatro Kismet leaves behind a little magic.Read
NINE members of Wolverhampton Central Youth Theatre, aged from 13 to 18, are going to present their version of the oldest English epic – Beowulf – in the Czech republic.Read
WHEN the Disney Live! Mickey’s Magic Show rolls into the NIA this Easter, there will be yet another American in town called Brad.Read
COMPOSER Howard Blake is used to hearing his song Walking in the Air in different guises. And when he went to the Korean capital Seoul this week to launch the Birmingham Repertory production of The Snowman he was treated to the Korean version.Read
PRODUCERS of The Snowman are walking on air today after the show received a rapturous response at Seoul Opera House.Read
BIRMINGHAM’S Crescent Theatre is to present Sheridan’s The Rivals next month – which is fine, but I can’t help thinking that the other play for which he is equally well known would have been a better choice.The School for Scandal is understandably described by The Theatre Guide as his finest work, and Lady Teazle’s screen scene as ranking with the Malvolio letter scene in Twelfth Night as among the finest in English comedy. The big bonus in The Rivals is, of course, Mrs Malaprop, that woman of wondrous words. The Crescent’s studio production will run from April 17-25.Read
DANCER Robin Gladwin has his sister Emma to thank for his career on stage because it was watching her take part in ballet classes which set him en route to joining one of the country’s foremost dance companies.Read
