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.
Dog day afternoon and other tails
Richard Lutz goes to The Edge.
Screengrab: Never forget Irving Bacon
Richard Lutz plunges into TV movieland to dredge up a gem or two.
Review: Wizard of Oz
Richard Lutz takes to the Yellow Brick Road.
Ballet Review: The Nutcracker
Richard Lutz chats with eight year-old Stan about The Nutcracker at the Hippodrome.
Letter from Brexitland: In the terrain of the unbridgeable
Richard Lutz listens to the clock tick away until Britain leaves the EU.
No tooth, nothing but the tooth
`Richard Lutz stumbles through another week.
Great Escapes
Richard Lutz enjoys light comedy in a dark world.