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The Mikado at Alexandra Theatre

It’s like old times seeing Gilbert & Sullivan staged in this theatre, where the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company was briefly based during the 1990s in one of Birmingham’s less successful experiments in importing ready-made companies. Read

The Circle at Malvern Festival Theatre

William Somerset Maugham is the Augustus John of 20th century theatre. Brilliantly successful in its early years – in 1907 he had four plays running simultaneously in the West End – his celebrity had become a distant memory by its end. Read

RSC goes Russian in three-year programme of new plays

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to launch a series of four specially-commissioned new plays about Russia and the former countries of the Soviet Union in Stratford-upon-Avon next year. Read

Fire will spark up again

Now that even the chancellor is in a blind panic and declaring that we are in for the worst recession in human history, can the art market sustain its recent craziness? Read

Many hands make light work for Frank Cohen

Terry Grimley takes a look at the latest selection from Frank Cohen’s collection to go on display at Initial Access and, right, sounds out his thoughts on the state of the art market. Read

Little grains of truth from Stan's Cafe

Stan’s Cafe’s greatest work just keeps growing, says Terry Grimley Read

CBSO to perform piece by Turner Prize winner

Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed will break new ground later this month when he has a composition for orchestra performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Read

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

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Terry is The Birmingham Post's arts editor.

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