Richard Lutz takes his seat at Stratford- on- Vegas for the latest Royal Shakespeare Company play. This is a production you will either love or hate: Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice placed emphatically and over the top in Las Vegas complete with Elvis, casinos, drunk gamblers and a Yank accents (some of them suspect). It is…
I’m not one to go on and on about Birmingham. Just like I was never one to go on and on about other cities I lived in
Two Chinese faces peep out from the front pages of the papers this week: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and activist Ai Weiwei.
Richard Lutz takes his seat at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre for a play about MacBeth …and Afghanistan
Richard Lutz gets the incense and Jack Daniels out for the Greg Allman night at Symphony Hall in a month’s time.
Richard Lutz has always been suspicious that everytime he picked up a mobile there was a digi-signal lining up a bullseye inside his head.
Richard Lutz returns to a subject that our readers can’t ignore
There was once a village. And in this village there was a slew of gossip – work gossip, hot gossip, bad gossip, outright untrue gossip, relevant gossip.
Oooo…Nothing like a ribald play filled with fops, tarts and dandies, writes Richard Lutz
So, this is what it has come to…
Politician David Laws deceived us, the taxpayer, out of tens of thousands of pounds to hide the fact that he has a male partner.
Richard Lutz laments the supine decision to allow the former Rover bosses to walk away from a disaster they created
Now that the dust is settling over the killing of Osama bin Laden, there are some uncomfortable issues that must be addressed
From Richard Lutz It’s safe to say that one of the major questions to arise from the Osama bin Laden death is: just what did the Pakistani military know or not know? The terrorist’s compound was within spitting distance of the national military academic, a place akin to Sandhurst. It was a compound with 15…
Richard Lutz reviews Shakespeare’s lost play at Stratford.
Richard Lutz takes his seat for the new season in Stratford
I would never let a criminal into my house. I would call the police in case he robbed me, hurt my family or stole my property or my mind.
Richard Lutz flips the calendar over to April the First to see what’s happening on Planet Earth today.
The Arts Council wielded its axe today in response to the government demand to chop back spending in the cultural world.
Richard Lutz reviews a grown up production that isn’t child’s play
It was only last winter that I wrote a review of the Stratford production of King Lear. But a year is a long time in the whacky world of Thesbo-land….
Richard Lutz pitches in with a warning about the UK’s very own special representative for international trade and investment.
Richard Lutz adds a second insight into Le Fille mal Gardee among the kindergarden critics.
Richard Lutz watches both versions of a classic western
By Richard Lutz The day Robin Cook died on a Highlands mountain, I was in Scotland too on the hills. I was lying on a hotel bed and saw it on the tv. I yelled over to my friend- we had just clambered over a bunch of mountains and were dog tired- and said: ‘I…
Matthew Bourne likes to take old fashioned ballets and operas, rip them from their moorings and fling them into new settings. Richard Lutz reviews Cinderella.
Two Birmingham neighbourhoods are taking part in a ground breaking campaign to help businesses ‘go green.’
Birmingham University has one of the best profiles for equal access to higher education.
Richard Lutz heads off for some African sunshine…. at Warwick Uni.