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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
(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
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 . . 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 . . . Past reviews
WHAT'S ON
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In the spotlight with Roger Clarke roger.clarke@behindthearras.com
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
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 Richard Digance. Lichfield Garrick Tim Vine. Birmingham Town Hall. Sean Hughes. Wolverhampton Grand. ARCHIVES
PUBS & CLUBS with Gary Longden gary.longden@behindthearras.com Brenda Read-Brown, Streetly Library Poetry at the cafe Rhymes. Custard Factory Poetry at the Cafe Measure for Measure, Custard Factory.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrate their 20th anniversary in the city with a seal of royal approval. More |
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Spike Milligan's war memoirs, Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, is on parade at Birmingham Rep. More |
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Birmingham Royal Ballet open their 20th Anniversary celebrations with a stunning and luxurious Sleeping Beauty on their home stage at Birmingham Hippodrome. More |
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A man's life is in the balance in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution at Wolverhampton Grand. More |
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It was a home from home for the Russian State Ballet of Siberia as they opened their three night run at the Grand in a blizzard. More |
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Cling to me like Ivy enjoys a world premiere at the Door and looks set to be a winner for Birmingham Rep and writer Samantha Ellis. More. |
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| Sean Hughes is back on the road doing stand-up and Christian Clarke caught up with him at Wolverhampton Grand . More |
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As Birmingham Royal Ballet opens its 20th
anniversary season with Sleeping Beauty Roger Clarke talks
to the man who keeps the dancers on their toes - Shoe
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Sean Lock makes the first of two visits to the Midlands with the promise of laughs at the Hippodrome More | ||
| International Dance Festival Birmingham 2010 opens with a rare visit of the Mark Morris Dance Group. Christopher Morley caught up with Mark in New York. More |
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater return
To Birmingham Hippodrome for two
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Paul Marston caught up with Brian Conley who appear at both the Grand and the Hippodrome in Hairspray later this year. More |
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THE RSC brings Shakespeare alive and now it is helping teachers inspire their pupils with an active toolkit which helps bring the words off the page. More |
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John Slim wonders where the MD's job ends and the secretary's begins amd who rubs out the line between them . . . More |
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