Review: Jamie Cullum

Richard Lutz listens to Jamie Cullum fill a big stage.

Review: Book of Mormon

Richard Lutz takes his pew at BIrmingham Hippodrome for the team that brought you South Park. 

Above the drowning world

Richard Lutz takes to the air and witnesses the deluge.

Review: The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel

Richard Lutz takes his pew for an endearing play about two movie icons.

Cheers and Piers

Richard Lutz is blasted by a storm and blessed with a Google promise. 

Kinver Edge and a trick of the light

Richard Lutz rides a storm on the Kinver escarpment.

Review : 2Faced Dance/Elmhurst Ballet School

Richard Lutz reviews two productions that reflect the healthy dance world in the West Midlands.

Review: Transatlantic Sessions at Symphony Hall

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a barnstorming night of Celtic connections.

Review: Asking For It

Richard Lutz watches a searing account of sexual violence and a descent into hell.

Review: Orchestre National de Lille

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a classic performance at Symphony Hall.

50 shades of you know what

Richard Lutz tours the geometry of a grey Evenlode valley.

This cup of land

Richard Lutz explores 2,000 years of history in the Cotswolds.

Books: First class writer in the third class carriage

Richard Lutz points to the books he enjoyed in 2019. And the ones he’d rather forget. 

Review: Last Night of the Christmas Proms

Richard Lutz take his pew for a fanfare of classics.

2020 and the snap of the plastic flags

Richard Lutz witnesses change and immutability as 2020 approaches.

Panto review: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Richard Lutz takes his pew for Christmas technicolor mayhem at Birmingham Hippodrome.

Review: Dweezil Zappa plays Hot Rats

Richard Lutz chews his pew over Hot Rats at Birmingham Town Hall.

Voting and the long poisonous shadow of the referendum

Richard Lutz braces himself for an election that will stop the country cold in its winter tracks.

Two weeks, two walks, two winter days

Richard Lutz treks through the changes of winter.

Review: The Boy in The Dress

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a feel.good musical about change and friendship.

Review: Jools Holland at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall

Richard Lutz survives a full assault of Jools Holland.

Screengrab: The Irishman

Richard Lutz takes in a long eulogy to the Mafia life.

The fingerprints of man on the edge of winter

Richard Lutz roams through another week.

RSC Review: A Museum in Baghdad

Richard Lutz watches two plays on the same Stratford stage. But does it work?

Review: Carlos Acosta, Birmingham Hippodrome

Richard Lutz takes a pew for a Cuban spectacle.

Of haws, herons and hawks

Richard Lutz takes in the autumn. 

Opera Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

Richard Lutz takes his pew at the Birmingham Hippodrome.

Bonkers brexit bonanza ballot

Richard Lutz checks into Hotel Ballotbox.

RSC review: Shakespeare swaps genders in the swinging sixties

Richard Lutz takes his pew for King John at Stratford’s Swan Theatre.

All aboard: First plans go in for revamped Camp Hill rail line

Richard Lutz reports on a step forward in opening the Moseley/Kings Heath train line.