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.
Judd and Donald Trump – are they related?
Sir Howard Elston takes on the world’s burning quandaries.
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.
Review: The Half God of Rainfall
“A torrent of words but a drop too much,” says Richard Lutz.
Social media and the sewer of venom, hate and fraud
Richard Lutz on the poison pouring out of the digi-world .
Janesville blues
Will Mapplebeck is engrossed by a cautionary American tale.
Nepal: Goodbye pink Chanel lipstick and other tales
Last week we published a piece about Nepal. Sheilagh Matheson, a recent traveller to the mountain nation, recalls an episode close to every woman’s heart…
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.
How Moody Blues star once played for Villa youth team
Steve Dyson uncovers a little-known chapter in the story of Birmingham music, and of Aston Villa.
Book Review: ‘Our City’ explores how immigration changed Birmingham
Richard Lutz reviews an investigation into the changing face of our city landscape.
Chuka to Trumpie: We need help. Now!!!!!
Sir Howard Elston, not long out of Belle Isle Open Prison, reports on the latest British balls-up.
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
Sir Howard: I did not use my charity as a money laundering machine
Sir Howard Elston, a saint who walks among us, explains why his charity is being hounded by agents of evil.
A Christmas Carol: “…a delight, 9.5 out of ten…”
Richard Lutz – with help from eleven year old Finn – checks out a Christmas cracker.
Howard: Shock exclusive with May
Sir Howard Elston (DOA) grants an audience to Prime Minister Theresa May as she stops Brexit vote.