Birmingham Comedy Festival 2022 line-up announced
BGT’s Axel Blake, Troy Hawke, Dan Nightingale, improvised Austentatious, free half dayers and more.
International artists set for Birmingham Improv Festival
New venue for acclaimed comedy event.
Arts and families are centre stage at Moseley Folk Festival
Leading comedians, poets and authors head to Birmingham festival.
Birmingham Rep announces new season
Spitting Image theatre premiere amongst the highlights into 2023.
An unqualified success
Comic Sara Pascoe tries to define success.
Wychwood Festival final line-up announced
Family entertainment and musical maestros on show.
Review: Omid Djalili
Stephen Whitehouse enjoys the Good Times.
Imelda May’s Towersey of Power
UK’s longest-running festival announces full programme.
The Guilty Feminist Live comes to Birmingham
Podcast host Deborah Frances-White tells us what audiences can expect.
Made in the Midlands for Flatpack Festival
New short films from filmmakers, artists and animators.
Bringing back the Good Times
Dave Woodhall talks football injuries and suicidal audiences with comedian Omid Djalili.
Stratagem for success
Alan Partridge, in the words of Steve Coogan.
Comedy as therapy, cocktails and chemistry,
Flatpack Festival’s programme dishes up a series of unexpected experiences.
Lichfield festival announces 2022 line-up
Landmark anniversary for cathedral city event.
New comedy writing takes centre stage at Rep
Collaboration with Sky Studios sees award-winning writers mentor new talent.
Flatpack Festival returns this May
Sixty eclectic in-person events throughout the city to escape with.
Swan upping
Where we talk to and try to understand comic Paul Foot.
Midland Arts Centre announces Christmas line-up
MAC makes Christmas merry and bright with festive event line-up.
Birmingham Comedy Festival 2021 almost underway
Sell-outs as more shows added.
This can’t be it?
Debating the meaning, and the length, of life with comedian Mark Watson.
I blame the parents
Comic Geoff Norcott brings his new show to the Old Rep.
Comedy triple bill for Sutton Coldfield town hall
Rosie Jones heads top comedy bill in Sutton this November.
Birmingham Weekender set to brighten bank holiday
City centre to host free family extravaganza.
University live programme to advise new students
Comedian Sideman talks about overcoming adversity as part of Get ready for uni: live.
Enjoy a night out at MAC this summer
Music, comedy and much more in the great outdoors.
Russell Kane to headline Sutton comedy event
First live stand-up show at Town Hall for eighteen months.
Additional headlining shows announced at Birmingham Hippodrome
New productions to go ahead along socially-distanced guidelines.
Black Country comic plays virtual Cinderella
Doreen Tipton launches online panto to support Acorns Children’s Hospice.
Barbara Nice goes online at MAC
Housewife superstar staging a Christmas cracker.
Twelve years a slave to the stage: My best (and worst) moments
Richard Lutz remembers a dozen years of reviewing Midland performances.