The Russians Are Coming… and Birmingham Opera Company Needs You
Wanted – actors, dancers and flash-mobbers. Flash Mob – Easter Sunday , 31st March 2013, 1430 – 1530, Millennium Point Main Concourse
BBC Strike: Sir Howard Gives You The Background
Sir Howard Elston, our roving reporter without portfolio, explains the background to today’s strike by BBC journalists
Review: The Bard Buried in a Blizzard of Confusion
Richard Lutz finds that confusion reigns in the RSC’s latest production when it joins forces with a renowned New York theatre group
Review: King John
Richard Lutz reviews the RSC production of King John – “The wrong king in the wrong time when the barons made him sign his name on the Magna Carta?”
Joyful Mozart (Including the Cheeky Bits…)
Two pleasant things flow from Wales into Birmingham. One is water. The other is music from Welsh National Opera.
Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” returns to Birmingham
Mendelssohn wrote this great work specifically for a Birmingham Festival in 1846
Birmingham’s Town Hall & Symphony Hall – What’s On
Legendary names from many and varied fields will soon be taking to the stages.
Review: Measure For Measure
Richard Lutz at the RSC’s Swan Theatre in Stratford This is a play about, among other things, sex and the law. And these are two forces that are very much still in fashion these days. The liberal Duke of Vienna decides to retreat under a friar’s cloak and retire from the fraught world leaving a…
Review: Don Giovanni
Richard Lutz takes his seat at the Birmingham Hippodrome for this Mozart classic about love, sex and, inevitably, death
Town Hall & Symphony Hall listings
Comedy and family fun are on offer in the venues’ latest promotions.
Bournville String Orchestra
Good music for a good cause is on offer at the local Barber this coming Saturday says Steve Beauchampé.
Classical Gas
Warwick Arts Centre have released details of their upcoming classical series
Kings Heath set to be grabbed by the ghouls
Birmingham-based Theatre Company “Don’t Go Into The Cellar!” is bringing a series of gripping Victorian capers to King’s Heath over the summer.
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Cardenio: To Bard Or Not To Bard
Richard Lutz reviews Shakespeare’s lost play at Stratford.
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth: Too Tricky By Half
Richard Lutz takes his seat for the new season in Stratford
St. Peter’s Sinfonia
A concert in aid of Cancer Research UK
West Mids Arts Feels the Cold Wind of the Cutback
The Arts Council wielded its axe today in response to the government demand to chop back spending in the cultural world.
Review: King Lear at Stratford
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….
Birmingham premiere for Paul McCartney’s classical work
Sir Paul McCartney’s classical music work partly inspired by the death of his wife Linda is to have its Birmingham premiere this month.
Review: Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella
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.