WHETHER it’s campaigning against the Government’s alleged erosion of civil liberties or fighting to save a boatyard in his home town of Oxford from redevelopment, it’s easy to see Philip Pullman as a full-time Mr Angry.Read
CONGRATULATIONS to Astwood Bank Operatic Society, whose current foray into The Count of Luxembourg at the Palace Theatre, Redditch, is part of its policy of risking a rare show every so often when its piggy-bank can stand a potential loss.Read
CHOREOGRAPHER and dancer Bawren Tavaziva usually visits his family in Zimbabwe each Christmas, but those trips look to be at an end as his new work, My Friend Robert, will hardly make him a welcome guest in the African country.Read
This Birmingham Royal Ballet Triple Bill is a splash of colour, humour and variety, mixing works by George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and David Bintley.Read
A CITY song and dance troupe which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year is hosting Birmingham’s first ever Festival of Polish Folklore tomorrow and Sunday.Read
RIVERDANCE is one of the biggest international dance phenomena, seen by more than two billion people on stage and on television, but this year it all comes to an end.Read
IT has been 15 years since David Bintley’s full-length ballet, Sylvia, graced the stage in Birmingham and audiences can expect a few changes since then.Read
AFTER an absence of 16 years, Wythall Theatre Company is preparing to revisit Truvy’s hairdressing salon and re-live the laughs and the dramas contained in Steel Magnolias.Read
LIFE with the circus certainly has its moments say husband and wife team Jerome Le Baut and Anna Vicente, who perform the act known as Statue in Quidam.Read
LEAMINGTON’S Loft Theatre embarks on a mighty challenge – possibly a non-professional first – on Monday, when it begins a two-week season of two Irish plays – The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Pillowman on alternate nights.Read
THE entertainment starts even before the lights go down as hapless members of the audience are picked out by cast members wandering among the seats.Read
THE entertainment starts even before the lights go down as hapless members of the audience are picked out by cast members wandering among the seats.Read
