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Review: Rafi Resurrected at Symphony Hall

Musical history was made at Symphony Hall on Tuesday, when for the first time a leading Indian vocalist appeared on stage with a major symphony orchestra in a concert of Bollywood classics. Read

Midland director set to take on top role at Royal Academy

Kathleen Soriano, director of Compton Verney, the art museum in Warwickshire run by the Peter Moores Foundation, has been appointed director of exhibitions at the Royal Academy. Read

Hills are alive with new drama

Terry Grimley catches up on the ongoing success story of Malvern Theatres with chief executive Nic Lloyd. Read

Real life in these designs

Terry Grimley reviews the largest retospective exhibition of Shropshire-based sculptor Juginder Lamba. Read

Art that puts real people delicately in the picture

Terry Grimley reviews the RBSA’s open portrait exhibition. Read

Easily digestible fruits of CBSO's most adventurous collaboration

The CBSO's Bollywood adventure may be shrewd business, but it's the quality of the music itself that really justifies it. Read

The Murder Game at Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

The great thing about the Charles Vance Summer Rep Season is that it offers a rare opportunity to rummage through the now largely defunct repertoire of British stage thrillers. Read

Fresh look at family strife and the nanny state

Actor and writer Julian Fellowes talks to Terry Grimley about the challenge of adapting Mary Poppins for the stage Read

Crown Matrimonial at Malvern Festival Theatre

Royce Ryton’s historical drama is a static, stuffed sofa of a play. It imagines how the abdication crisis of 1936 might have played out as a family drama. Read

Terry Grimley: Here's Johnny – but will Moby Grape ever make it to Bilston?

With the news that Quicksilver Messenger Service are playing the Robin in Bilston next month, the question has to be asked: can Moby Grape be far behind? Read

Gwens Reunited at the Barber Institute

There is surely no stranger story in the history of British art than that of a brother and sister who grew up together in remote West Wales in the 1880s. Read

Fabric of life through the ages

Terry Grimley takes a look at an exhibition depicting the use of fabric throughout history. Read

BRB director Bintley accepts Tokyo job

David Bintley, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, has accepted an invitation to become artistic director of the New National Theatre Ballet Company in Tokyo. Read

Transmissions at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

One of the Rep's best projects of recent years has been its Transmissions programme, in which young writers aged between 12 and 26 are given professional coaching leading to an annual festival of rehearsed readings. Read

Armonico consort lured further down theatrical road

The Armonico Consort started out as a choir - so what's it doing putting on a play with the co-author of The Vicar of Dibley? Terry Grimley finds out. Read

Terry Grimley: How the BBC failed to get a clear line on the future of rail

I'm uncomfortably aware that this column is threatening to turn into trainspotters' corner, but please bear with me: railways are a hot topic just at the moment. Read

Bigger Picture: Should the central library stay or go?

Birmingham Central Library is far from a classic and it’s time it was flattened, says Arts Editor Terry Grimley. Read

An appropriate choice for inaugural Herbert exhibition

Terry Grimley reports on a new gallery for Coventry and an exhibition celebrating one of its postwar heroes. Read

Will the public flock to West Bromwich to enjoy The Public?

The Public, West Bromwich's controversial arts and media centre, finally opens its doors next weekend. Terry Grimley gets a preview. Read

The trials and tribulations of playing a witch

Welsh National Opera's Graham Clark tells Terry Grimley about the trials and rewards of playing one of opera's most celebrated old hags. Read

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Terry is The Birmingham Post's arts editor.

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