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The mother figure with a heart of glass

One of Britain’s most versatile actresses, Brenda Blethyn makes her first appearance in Malvern next week in an American classic. Read

Terry Grimley: Big Brother Olympiad truly beyond our understanding

After the debacle of Britain’s eight-minute hand-over ceremony in Beijing, should we be (a) indifferent (b) afraid, or (c) very afraid at the prospect of a four-year UK “Cultural Olympiad”? Read

Ford Madox Brown exhibition at Birmingham

Terry Grimley reviews an in-depth exhibition devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites’ odd man out, Ford Madox Brown. Read

Born In The Garden, at Malvern Festival Theatre

Peter Nichols has a reputation for writing comedies with jagged, uncomfortable edges, and that certainly describes this play, set in his native Bristol. Read

Researching the dancing complexity of Cabaret

The West End revival of Cabaret comes to Birmingham Rep this weekend. Choreographer Javier de Frutos tells Terry Grimley why it's not a clone of the Liza Minnelli film. Read

A window of success at Stourbridge glass festival

First launched in 2004, Stourbridge’s ever-expanding International Festival of Glass has helped put the town back at the forefront of international glass-making. Read

The sky's the limit as ballet's Robert Parker returns

Former BRB star Robert Parker, who gave up dancing last year to train as an airline pilot in America, will rejoin the company as a principal dancer this autumn. Read

International glass phenomenon

The development of studio glass over the last three decades has been an international phenomenon, but a little known aspect of it is how much of it has been rooted in the Black Country. Read

Review: Tempestade at Richardson Hall Wordsley

No-one could possibly accuse Stourbridge’s International Festival of Glass of lacking ambition or imagination. If you think that glass is basically either for looking at or looking through, the idea of glass theatre may be a bit of a stretch. Read

The Portrait of a Lady at Malvern Festival Theatre

Today’s divorce rate is usually interpreted as a worrying symptom of a decline in social stability, but there’s another way of looking at it: the 19th century must have been full of people trapped in miserable marriages. Read

Terry Grimley: Major takes a bow for turning Lottery cash into Olympic gold

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and after long years of disappointment from Blair and Brown it was refreshing to hear the statesmanlike tones of the once equally hapless John Major on yesterday’s Today programme. Read

Snail sheds light on Elizabeth Lee's opinions

Elizabeth Lee’s witty videos have enlivened two recent open exhibitions of West Midlands art. She tells Terry Grimley about her double life in art and the NHS. Read

Meet RSC's man on a mission

The Royal Shakespeare Company has launched a new postgraduate qualification for actors as part of its mission to bring Shakespeare to young people. Read

Artistic exercise in democracy

Terry Grimley takes a stroll through the complete public art collections of Staffordshire, courtesy of the Public Catalogue Foundation. Read

A sweet note finally emerges from Arts Council grant fiasco

As Birmingham Opera Company stages its latest production, the inquiry into the row over the Arts Council’s Christmas cuts shows how reorganisation created a structure that was unfit for purpose. Read

Finnish double for CBSO in Mozart festival debut

Its Finnish music director Sakari Oramo may have bowed out earlier this summer, but the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s connections with Finland’s vibrant current musical generation will feature strongly in New York next week. Read

Review: Hamlet at The Courtyard

Having sold out for its entire run until mid-November, with tickets being traded for crazy prices on eBay, this Hamlet faced a tall order in living up to its anticipation as one of Royal Shakespeare Company’s biggest events for years. Read

Patrick Stewart boldly goes back to his spiritual roots

When the former captain of the SS Enterprise lands at the Thistle Hotel I don’t recognise him immediately. In sporty cap and jeans, 68 year-old Patrick Stewart cuts a youthful and athletic figure. Read

Terry Grimley: Classical music is dead - and, at the same time, alive and well

There is a general perception that the classical music recording industry is not so much in crisis as lying in ruins. But that’s just one side of the coin. Read

David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet at the RSC

Terry Grimley reviews the RSC's sold-out Hamlet at The Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Read

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Terry is The Birmingham Post's arts editor.

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