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John
Slim's
amateur stage
john.slim@behindthearras.com
SMALL THOUGHTS
Sworn to
shock
You sure that's the
write price?
Bennett
Gordon what a distraction
Time
to erase the band
Slings and arrows of outrageous
scenery . . .
Set point lost amid the crowds
Actors of all trades - except
ice of course
Critic should come with a
health warning
AMATEUR REVIEWS
(reviews remain for two weeks after a show ends before
heading off into the archive and immortality . . . sort of)
Ladies Down
Under. Grange Players, Grange Playhouse.
An Inspector
Calls. Dudley Little Theatre.
For One Night
Only. Brownhills Theatre
The Effect of
Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Hall Green Little
Theatre
Strictly Murder.
Highbury Theatre Centre.
Billy Liar, Circle Players, Aldridge Youth Theatre
The Gondoliers, Walsall Gilbert & Sullivan Society,
Brownhhills Community College
Gaslight. Swan Theatre
Handsworth Gang Show. Crescent Theatre.
Paul Marston
Reviewing amateur and professional stage and the CBSO
NEWS
Points of view on Pinter
Choir opens fundraiser
Winners and losers at The
Swan
Great Witley
play with a straight bat
Crescent opens up
The poster's the thing . . .
Lucky thirteen
A Duet with Quilter
Cleaning up on a picture
Aldridge making music
Crescent in a dream
Prize play for Hall Green
Musical
stalwarts on song
Course for
producers
It’s mayhem
at Highbury
Highbury special
Grange
honour
Chain
reaction at Dudley
Hancock back in the limelight
. .
FEATURES
Sullithon heroes take a well
deserved bow
Who is the man who can fit decades into minutes in
Dudley?
A question of murder as Angela
Lanyon plans another festive demise . . .
AMATEUR ARCHIVE
Past reviews
WHAT'S ON
- some of the things on stage now or coming shortly
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In the spotlight
Curtain up at the theatre
with Roger Clarke
roger.clarke@behindthearras.com
THEATRE REVIEWS
The Hobbit.
Wolverhampton Grand
2Oth anniversary
celebration. Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Adolf Hitler: My Part
in his Downfall. Birmingham Rep.
Sleeping Beauty.
Birmingham Hippodrome.
Witness for the
Prosecution. Grand Theatre
Dancing at Lughnasa.
Birmingham Rep
One Man Lord of the
Rings. Licfield Garrick
Rocky Horror Show.
Wolverhamton Grand
Giselle,
Swan Lake,
Sleeping Beauty
Wolverhampton Grand
Cling to me like Ivy.
The Door, Birmingham Rep.
Traces. Biurmingham
Hippodrome
Christian Clarke
Reviewing theatre and comedy
NEWS
Jaki Graham back for big band sound.
More.
Roger Clarke talks to Birmingham Royal Ballet's Shoe Master.
More
Sean Lock promises laughs at the Hippodrome.
More
Christopher Morley talks to Mark Morris.
More
Charles and Camillia to attend Birmingham Royal Ballet.
More
A Midland pensioner takes up the baton to conduct the CBSO.
More
Dancing At Lughnasa opens the rep programme.
More
Brian Conley talks to Paul Marston about is return to the
Midlands in Hairspray. More
Calendar Girls make a date.
More
Couple find cupid has his own orchestra - the CBSO.
More
Birmingham Royal Ballet scoops top dance award.
with the CBSO taking the music crown
More
WHAT'S ON
- some of the things on stage now or coming shortly
Performing arts
Richard Digance. Lichfield
Garrick
Tim Vine. Birmingham Town
Hall.
Sean Hughes. Wolverhampton
Grand.
ARCHIVES
Theatre
reviews
Performance reviews
Features and news
PUBS & CLUBS
with Gary Longden
gary.longden@behindthearras.com
NEWS & REVIEWS
Brenda Read-Brown, Streetly
Library
Poetry at the cafe
Rhymes. Custard Factory
Poetry at the Cafe
Measure for
Measure, Custard Factory.
An evening of
Rhymes
Rogueplay's
Measure for measure is a star at the Custard Factory
What's on
Young Actors in the mix
Guitar recital over
coffee
What's on at the custard Factory
Reviews
Archive
The Director's Chair
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