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Review: Bahok at Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Co-commissioned by Birmingham's Dance Xchange along with many other parties, and partly devised during three weeks of rehearsals in its studios, this 75-minute collaboration between Akram Khan Dance Company and the National Ballet of China could hardly be more international. Read

Review: Equus at Malvern Festival Theatre

HHH Although it became an instant landmark on its first production in 1973, Peter Shaffer's play had never been revived in the West End until this production, originally starring Daniel Radcliffe, opened there last year. Read

Review: Tillana Tarana at Birmingham Town Hall

An evening of classical dance which began with a piece reflecting the cyclical concept of Indian time ended up demonstrating its elasticity. Read

Texas signs up Birmingham author Jim Crace

Birmingham novelist Jim Crace has joined Samuel Coleridge Taylor, D H Lawrence and Norman Mailer in having his archive acquired by the University of Texas. Read

The Taming Of The Shrew at The Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon

Having not particularly enjoyed Conall Morrison's debut RSC production of Macbeth in the Swan Theatre, his debut at the Courtyard comes as a pleasant surprise. Read

Review: Blackbird at Malvern Festival Theatre

A 40-year-old man has an affair with a 12 year-old girl and spends three years in prison. Years later he has changed his name and moved to another part of the country. Read

Terry Grimley: It's so bad I'll be forced into voting for the Tories

Tomorrow morning I may do something I could never have imagined I would do only a couple of years ago: I may vote to keep Mike Whitby in power. Read

How To Tell The Monsters From The Misfits, at Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Paul Lucas has developed a personal brand of screwball comedy - but it seems caught between zany and irritating Read

Review: French and Saunders at Birmingham Hippodrome

All good things come to an end, and on this tour Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are bidding farewell to a comedy partnership which has lasted for 30 years. Read

David Prentice gets a bird's-eye views of London skyline

Malvern painter David Prentice tells Terry Grimley why he had to overcome vertigo to produce his latest exhibition Read

Review: Packers at Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton

Alex Jones's new play is a rarity indeed - a feelgood comedy written in broad Black Country dialect. Read

Review: Red Hat No Drawers at Old Joint Stock, Birmingham

Birmingham writer Katy Coxall first unveiled her neighbour-from-hell Rob Greenie in a sketch staged at the Old Joint Stock several years ago, before its conversion into a regular theatre venue. Read

Review: Hapgood at Birmingham Repertory Theatre

With Alan Bennett's Single Spies playing at Malvern, this seems to be espionage week in West Midlands theatre. Read

Terry Grimley: Sticky jargon and the mutating curator

The English language, as we all know, is constantly changing, sometimes but not always for the better. Read

Review: Single Spies at Malvern Festival Theatre

Alan Bennett has said his interest in the Cambridge traitors had to do with the idea of exile rather than espionage, to which you might add that to be gay in 1930s Britain must have already been a kind of exile at home. Read

Final masterpiece of Burne-Jones returned to UK

The last work of Birmingham-born Edward Burne-Jones, The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, has returned to the UK for the first time in more than 40 years. Read

Pigskin, noodles and cocaine turned into jewellery

Europe’s leading exhibition of contemporary jewellery is paying its first visit to Birmingham, writes Terry Grimley. Read

Partenheimer brings first one-man show to the UK

Terry Grimley reviews exhibitions by Jurgen Partenheimer and Ruth Claxton at Ikon Gallery. Read

Compilation tapes at the heart of Static

Dan Rebellato tells Terry Grimley about the lost art of the mix tape. Read

Mac lands another £1.2m for redevelopment

The redevelopment of the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham has been upgraded with an extra £1.2 million from Arts Council England. Read

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Terry is The Birmingham Post's arts editor.

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