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John Slim Directory of leading amateur companies. If you want details about becoming an affiliate contact Sue Clarke. sue.clarke@behindthearras.com
Somewhere in the middle of the class . . . Life still goes on Putting your best cat forward Rise and fall of the motoring man Dead reckoning
AMATEUR REVIEWS A-Z Index of affiliate reviews Why is John Lennon wearing a skirt? Stage2, Crescent Theatre Ghosts, The Nonentities, Rose Theatre, Kiderminster
Steel Magnolias, Highbury Theatre Centre, Sutton Coldfield Steaming, Sutton Arts Theatre, Sutton Coldfield The Phantom of the Opera, Lichfield Garrick Youth Theatre Sweeney Todd, Walsall Operatic Society Of Mice and Men, Circle Players, Aldridge
Paul Marston Reviewing amateur and professional stage and the CBSO
Things that go bump at The Grange TFO tinkering with fate at the Crescent These socks made for walking at Manor Bromsgrove is just crazy for you Polly. Rita graduates with honours at Highbury
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THEATRE REVIEWS (If a review is not found try Other reviews) LATEST Robin Cousins' Ice Wolverhampton Grand Happy Days - A New Musical, Hippodrome Dance til Dawn New Alexandra Theatre Private Peaceful Malvern Theatres Toms Midnight Garden Coventry Belgrade Dial M for Murder, Malvern Theatres The Mousetrap, Lichfield Garrick A Passion for Birmingham, The Old Joint STock, Birmingham Brassed Off, Wolverhampton Grand Refugee Boy Birmingham Rep Black Coffee, Malvern Theatres Spanish Golden Age, Coventry Belgrade West Side Story, New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham West Side Story - Paul Marston's view Dreamboats and Petticoats, Malvern Theatres Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Wolverhampton Grand The Two Worlds of Charlie F, Malvern Theatres The Threepenny Opera Birmingham Rep The Two Worlds of Charlie F, Wolverhampton Grand Anon, Welsh National Opera, Midland Arts Centre
Christian Clarke Reviewing theatre and comedy
Coventry Schools Young Entertainer of the Year, Coventry Belgrade Last Night of the Spring Proms, Birmingham Symphony Hall Birmingham to Broadway, Symphony Hall
Shostakovich Symphony No 5
Songs for Swinin' Orchestras, CBSO, Symphony Hall Performing Arts The Globe's acclaimed tragic tale of Abelard and Heloise heads to Wolverhampton Grand Show Boat set to dock at the Hippodrome Jack Shepherd talks of ghostly goings on heading to the Midlands International Dance Festival Birmingham 2014 launched
Cast talk about Brassed Off and Roger Clarke looks at the background to the play More Is West Side Story the best Musical ever? Diane Parkes talks to the creators of new opera Anon Iain Mackay talks about the long hard road back to fitness after crippling injury in The Nutcracker. Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer Ruth Brill talks about choreographing George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Nick Arnold, creator of Horrible Science tells Diane Parkes how he was always fascinated by gore
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