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AMATEUR REVIEWS A-Z Index of affiliate reviews Reviews listed by affiliates Murder on the Nile, The Nonentities, Rose Theatre, Kiddermister Boeing Boeing, Grange Players, Grange Playhouse, Walsall Private Peaceful, Stage2, Crescent Theatre, Birmingham Waiting for Godot and Privates on Parade, Bridge House Theatre and The Loft, Leamington Sleeping Beauty, Hall Green Little Theatre The Ladykillers, Highbury Theatre Centre Mother Goose, Sutton Arts Theatre, Sutton Coldfield Season's Greetings, Dudley Little Theatre, Netherton Arts Centre Chorus of Disapproval, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster An Evening of Victorian Melodrama, Murder, Mystery & Mayhem, Moorpool Players, Moorpool Hall, Harborne Oh, What a Lovely War!, The Arcadians, Crescent Theatre, Birmingham Bazaar and Rummage The Nonentities, Rose Theatre, Kidderminster Directory of leading amateur companies. If you want details about becoming an affiliate contact Sue Clarke. sue.clarke@behindthearras.com Other reviews Footloos, The Musicl Youyh On Stage, Dovehouse Theatre, Solihull Brownhills Goes to Broadway, Brownhils MTC Oliver! WBOS Youtheatre Fiddle on the Roof, Lichfield Operatic Society, Lichfiled Garrick NEWS Call for nymphs and shepherds for the Manor Changing of the charities at Shelfield David set to raise his baton for a half century with Erdington ARCHIVE Past reviews The Late John Slim's FINAL THOUGHTS SMALL THOUGHTS			THEATRE REVIEWS Reviews by title Reviews by theatre (If a review is not found try Other reviews) LATEST Dead Simple, Coventry Belgrade Return to the Forbidden Planet, The New Aleandra Theatre, Birmingham The Marriage of Figaro, Coventry Belgrade Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Malvern Theatres Fleabag, The Door, Birmingham Rep East is East, The New Alexandra Theatre The Frozen Scream, The Patrick Centre, Birmingham Hippodrome Jack and the Beanstalk, Birmigham Hippodrome Kate Rusby at Christmas Malvern Theatres Cinderella, Lichfield Garrick Aladdin, Malvern Theatre Jersey Boys, New Alexandra Theatre Oh No It Isn't, B2 Coventry Belgrade Cinderella, Wolverhampton Grand A Christmas Carol, DerbyTheatre The BFG, Birmingham Rep Performing arts Nils Lofgren, Birmingham Town Hall The Sound of Musicals, Symphony Hall Cole Porter in Hollywood, John Wilson Orchestra, Symphony Hall. Songs from the Sixyies, CBSO, Symphony Hall Jackson Browne at Symphony Hall Performing Arts Archive 1 2 NEWS Showtime for BRB's new studios and Thorp Street HQ IDFB wins Britain's top dance award Bodyguard set for Wolverhampton date FEATURES Welsh National Opera need hundreds of costumes a year on the grand scale and Diane Parkes has been to see how they do it More Wagnersx Ring Cycle is about to arrrive in Birmingham and we look at the latests news More Dominic Antonucci, Ballet Master at Birmingham Royal Ballet, talks about his new venture as a music promoter More Contact roger_clarke@behindthearras.com

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	Dead Simple, Coventry Belgrade: PETER James’ Roy Grace detective series is well known and well loved. Dead Simple started life as a novel and has been adapted for the stage cleverly by Shaun McKenna and it makes a gripping, chilling addition to the stage repertoire. Read on Return to the Forbidden Planet, New Alexandra Theatre: It is easy to imagine how the original Return to the Forbidden Planet production must have been when it first took to the stage back in the 80s. Read on Murder on the Nile, The Nonentities: For isolated country house in a snowstorm, read paddle steamer on the Nile, add assorted guests from the posher end of the street, throw in a few foreigners, who we all know are congenitally dodgy, a body count to rival Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie fans will be in their element . Read on ROCK and Roll guitarists do not come with any more impressive resume than that of Nils Lofgren, whose current solo U.K. tour rolled into Birmingham's Town Hall this week. Read on The Marriage of Figaro, Coventry Belgrade: The simplicity of this semi-staged version with a new, brilliant libretto and orchestration of just three accompanying musicians (piano, viola and clarinet) is wonderfully funny, brilliantly directed by Sarah Tipple and gorgeously sung in English. Read on
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	Jack and The Beanstalk is ne of the best panto we have seen for many a year - Oh Yes it is!!!!! and is on at Birmingham Hippodrome until February 1. Review
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	WHEN Birmingham Royal Ballet arrived in Birmingham their new facilities were state of the art – among the best in the ballet business with rehearsal studios, offices, space and a huge theatre, the Hippodrome, next door. Twenty five years on and the world had not only caught up but forged ahead, state of the art had become merely an echo of the 90s. Read on
	Coventry Belgrade enjoyed last year's tour of Peter James' The Perfect Murder which gave us a psychological thriller and murder mystery complete with laughs. Now the same team bring another James' novel to the stage with he chilling Dead Simple which opens at this month More
	Birmingham Royal Ballet: Who is in, who is out and who is moving up in the world at BRB More
	Birmingham Royal Ballet's Ruth Brill talks about choreographing George Gershwin's iconic Rhapsody in Blue for BRB's Evening of Music and Dance at Symphony Hall More
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Dead Simple, Coventry Belgrade: PETER James’ Roy Grace detective series is well known and well loved. Dead Simple started life as a novel and has been adapted for the stage cleverly by Shaun McKenna and it makes a gripping, chilling addition to the stage repertoire. Read on

Return to the Forbidden Planet, New Alexandra Theatre: It is easy to imagine how the original Return to the Forbidden Planet production must have been when it first took to the stage back in the 80s. Read on