Updated 6:04am 24 May 2013

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Omid Djalili on his time taking part in Splash!

Comedian Omid Djalili tells Roz Laws about the benefits of making a splash on TV.Read

Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer Kit Holder prepares for special dance

As Birmingham Royal Ballet launches its summer season in its home city, Roz Laws meets a local dancer preparing for a special date.Read

Sandi Toksvig watches as the world twitters on with no manners

Multi-talented Sandi Toksvig tells Roz Laws about rude people, war and her hatred of sport.Read

Review: The Woman In Black at Malvern Festival Theatres

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Powerful and destructive dark forces are at the heart of Stephen Mallatratt's play, adapted from Susan Hill's novel of the same name.Read

Review: Derren Brown at the Alexandra Theatre Birmingham

Derren Brown at the Alexandra Theatre BirminghamRead

Hamish Glen has a decade of delights at The Belgrade

He was the man who discovered David Tennant and has helped transform The Belgrade Theatre as one of the region's top cultural venues. Hamish Glen talks to Catherine Vonledebur about his10 years as artistic director at the Coventry theatre.Read

Review: Midnight Tango at New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham

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Strictly Come Dancing favourites Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace have wowed television audiences with their Argentine tango and so there was great expectation from this show.Read

The humour and pain of coping with anorexia is brought to the stage

Writer and actress Caroline Horton has turned her own experience of an eating disorder into a play, as she explains to Roz Laws.Read

Costume drama not to be missed at the RSC

They have been worn by some of the most famous actors from stage and screen and now the rarely seen costumes from the Royal Shakespeare Company are going on show. Catherine Vonledebur reports.Read

Review: As You Like It RSC Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon

MARIA Aberg's "anarchic summer love story" is fresh, exciting and full of sexual tension.Read

Birmingham Royal Ballet turn their American dreams into reality

As Birmingham Royal Ballet headline a major arts festival in America, Roz Laws goes stateside to see their work.Read

Review: The Imperfect Pearl, Birmingham Conservatoire

****

After a sticky start, when little happens for far too long, this speculative story of the 18th century composer Domenico Zipoli springs to life, thanks to the engaging presence of its two singer-actors.Read

Review: Joan Collins at The Town Hall, Birmingham

****

Now in her 80th decade, Joan Collins is a triumph and the JC you seen in the chocolate bar advert is the woman you got.Read

Review: The 39 Steps, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

Who would have thought it possible to produce a stage version of John Buchan’s classic spy thriller, maintain all the suspense and melodrama whilst having it performed by just four actors?Read

Playwright Tanika Gupta lifts the lid on the scandal that rocked the Victorian court

Playwright Tanika Gupta wanted to write "a multi-cultural costume drama" exploring the hidden history of Indians living in Queen Victoria's London. She talks to Catherine Vonledebur about her thought-provoking new play.Read

Review: Sons Without Fathers in B2 Auditorium at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

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WHO is Mikhail Platonov - a sex symbol, anti-hero, chauvinist pig or the symbol of a lost generation?Read

Review: The Empress, RSC, at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Stories of five true and fictional characters are cleverly weaved together in Tanika Gupta’s breathtakingly beautiful new play at the RSC’s Swan Theatre. Read

Lose yourself in a surround sound action adventure

Actress Lucy Ellinson talks to Roz Laws about her latest project, taking audiences on a journey across the world.Read

Sons Without Fathers at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre

Chekhov's first play Platonov has been given a contemporary twist in a new adaption at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre. Catherine Vonledebur reports.Read

Birmingham Royal Ballet set for a big change of scenery

Birmingham Royal Ballet is off to America to perform and fly the flag for the city. Roz Laws discovers just what it takes to send a £1m show Stateside.Read