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Terry Grimley

Terry Grimley

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

Ikon hosts solo debut for international duo

Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander is the latest addition to the already lengthy list of international names who have made their UK solo exhibition debuts at Ikon Gallery. Read

Festival of the glassmakers

Returning for only the third time later this month. Stourbridge’s International Festival of Glass can seriously claim to be the most internationally significant visual arts event taking place in the West Midlands this year. Read

Gant's British Symphony finally gets debut airing

Scandal is not entirely unknown in the classical music world, but it is difficult to think of a precedent for one which took place in Brighton early last year. Read

Dominic's Tale of two cities

London’s reconstructed Elizabethan playhouse is now bringing its authentic approach to Shakespeare out on tour, writes Terry Grimley Read

Gaslight at Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

Championed as a serious novelist by admirers including John Betjeman, Patrick Hamilton is now best remembered for the films based on his stage thrillers Gaslight (two versions) and Rope. Read

The pain and power of seven

Simon Stephens’ play about the July 7 bombings is having its first UK performances in Edinburgh and Birmingham. Terry Grimley met him during rehearsals Read

Scattergun approach reaps limited rewards

Terry Grimley reviews the second instalment in a series of biennial exhibitions of West Midlands art Read

Review: Murder Without Crime at Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

The bran tub which is the Charles Vance Summer Repertory Season has come up with another intriguing period piece. Read

Stretching the boundaries of opera

Birmingham Opera Company is preparing to make an international splash alongside the canal in Ladywood. Terry Grimley meets artistic director Graham Vick. Read

Terry Grimley: While Eastside waits, Manchester gets even more trams

Thanks to the internet I’ve just caught up with the news feature BBC Midlands made a couple of months ago about Birmingham’s G8 summer and its legacy. Read

Birmingham opera in disused rubber factory attracts international attention

Opera companies from Venice, Lisbon, Brussels, Verona, Madrid and Austria are expected to send representatives to see a production of Mozart’s Idomeneo at a disused rubber factory in Birmingham next month. Read

Ikon artists are a chip off the old block

Ikon Eastside’s latest installation is literally a breakthrough. Read

Exhibitions bring a sense of time and place

Terry Grimley reviews three photography exhibitions on the theme of place at Walsall’s New Art Gallery Read

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Terry is The Birmingham Post's arts editor.

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