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Terry Grimley

Opera show goes on with £330,000 grant

A threat of closure hanging over Birmingham Opera Company has been lifted after the organisation settled its differences with the Arts Council, which has restored a £330,000 funding package. Read

Two stages of Claire's career

Claire Price tells Terry Grimley why she likes to mix TV detectives with classical theatre. Read

All hands on deck for Mother Ship tour

Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell has made something of a speciality of writing for young people. Read

Terry Grimley: The price of bringing touring drama to Brum

If you live in Birmingham and own a car, you have reasonable access to a pretty good range of live theatre, but one of my most frustrating encounters with the city's growing traffic congestion happens like this. Read

New Horizons at RBSA Gallery, St. Paul's Square

The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists has established a niche in its spring exhibition programme in recent years to show off work by students from various colleges around the West Midlands. Read

Jazz music scene through the lens

Terry Grimley meets a photographer dedicated to documenting the city's burgeoning jazz scene. Read

Big-hearted Andy's still blowing his horn of plenty

Celebrations for Birmingham saxophonist Andy Hamilton's 90th birthday later this month are being launched with an exhibition of photographs at Symphony Hall. Terry Grimley went to meet him. Read

Review: Metamorphosis at Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Franz Kafka's famous short story is based on a simple but audacious premise: a young commercial traveller, Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning in the family home to find he has been transformed into a giant insect. Read

Bourne to create a buzz around any theatre

Matthew Bourne's individual approach to dance theatre has won a huge following across the country. He talks to Terry Grimley about the revival of his early take on a Tchaikovsky favourite. Read

Play in need of a brush-up

The Clean House at Malvern Festival Theatre Read

Triangular cubby-hole made worse by clutter

Terry Grimley prefers the art to its presentation at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, and finds a bleak fascination in Edmund Clark's photographs at the Light House. Read

Taking 39 steps around the world

Already a big hit in the West End and on Broadway, Patrick Barlow's adaptation of The 39 Steps comes to Wolverhampton next week. Read

A director who lets the play do the talking

Director Paulette Randall talks to Terry Grimley about the social issues underpinning Roy Williams' new play. Read

Terry Grimley: A bit more paranoia, maestro, please ...

As I write this column I am looking at one of those compilation albums of Classical Favourites from Classic FM. I'm sure you know the sort of thing I mean. Read

Rewarding aspects on 2,000 years of Chinese art

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is seeing in the Chinese New Year with the first glimpse of an outstanding bequest, writes Terry Grimley. Read

Katherine revives a humble craft technique of old Birmingham

Terry Grimley meets the Barber Institute's sculptor-in-residence. Read

Nicola keeps to a tough schedule

Only just out of her teens, young violin virtuoso Nicola Benedetti is philosphical about the rigours of a jetsetting career, writes Terry Grimley. Read

Le Brun - there's no accounting for taste

Terry Grimley finds Christopher Le Brun's work hard to like in a major exhibition at Walsall's New Art Gallery. Read

Pianist Warren back where it all began

Pianist Warren Mailley-Smith talks to Terry Grimley about the recital which brings him back to Birmingham tonight. Read

Terry Grimley: Longbridge and how we've missed the tram again

It was momentarily surprising last month to hear Radio 4's early evening news programme, PM, including a feature on the regeneration of Longbridge. Read

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Terry is The Birmingham Post's arts editor.

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