Double trouble in the land of Bojo and Trump

Richard Lutz feverishly peers into his crystal ball as the political world swirls around him.

Measure for Measure review at Stratford: ‘..the stage sweats sex…’

Richard Lutz is whisked back to a Shakespearean play set in a turn of the century Vienna.

Baseball in Britain: Boom-boom time way down in England

Richard Lutz sits back and thinks of baseball and England.

Review: Venice Preserved at The Swan, Stratford

Richard Lutz is dragged into the world of Restoration noir at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

This is rubbish

Richard Lutz is reduced to writing about garbage.

Review: (Un)leashed by Birmingham Royal Ballet

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a triple treat.
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Music from the depths of a river- and other tales

Richard Lutz gets to see the woods through the trees. 

Going off-map on the island of little places

Richard Lutz decides it’s time to re-consider 216, 191 and good old number 50.

Dance review: Rite of Spring Re-Imagined at The Patrick Centre

Richard Lutz watches dance fusion between east and west.

Review: The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa at Symphony Hall

Richard Lutz grabs a barstool for a 3D version of the original Mother of Invention.

Review: The Provoked Wife at The Swan in Stratford

Richard Lutz takes a pew for a 300 year-old sex comedy that’s still alive and kicking.

Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns at The Birmingham Rep

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a play about Afghanistan’s enduring nightmare.

Flowers of Scotland and a baritone in the back row

Richard Lutz wanders….

Two takes on Africa and the tale of the dragon

Richard Lutz dips into African theatre twice and finds a lost church.

Social media and the sewer of venom, hate and fraud

Richard Lutz on the poison pouring out of the digi-world .

As You Like It: Bells, whistles but all too tricksy

Richard Lutz takes his Stratford pew for Shakespeare’s intriguing forest comedy.

Nepal: Troubles in a high place

Richard Lutz travels the high road through the mountain nation

Pepperland review: “…sharp, snappy, zippy, trippy”

Richard Lutz takes the yellow submarine to Pepperland.

Book Review: ‘Our City’ explores how immigration changed Birmingham

Richard Lutz reviews an investigation into the changing face of our city landscape.

Voices in the Machine

Richard Lutz queries just who benefits from ever-newer levels of digital technology.

Review: Blue/Orange at Birmingham Rep – ‘’wonderfully angry…”

Richard Lutz watches a twenty year old play that is still relevant.

Swans of Stratford

Richard Lutz saunters down to Shakespeareland.

Sinatra and ringing in the changes

Richard Lutz checks out a film by Old Blue Eyes. But first, a word about telephones….

Brexit wreckage: The merry go round that’s gone mad

Richard Lutz scrapes through the shattered remains of Brexit-land to find any signs of anything …except madness.

Table talk

Richard Lutz checks out his coffee table to find out who he is.

Screengrab: When the pen is mightier than skullduggery

Richard Lutz points the finger at the TV film you can’t miss this week.

Adieu Mr Redford, goodbye 2018

Richard Lutz says goodbye to The Sundance Kid and leafs through his own bookshelf in yet another first week of a new year.

Peter Pan: ‘…a Crimbo winner, a nutcase classic’

Richard Lutz can’t get enough of panto at the Hippodrome.

Listening to the bend of the river

Richard Lutz hears the river flow

A Christmas Carol: “…a delight, 9.5 out of ten…”

Richard Lutz – with help from eleven year old Finn – checks out a Christmas cracker.