There's no time for Darcey Bussell to put her wellworn feet up after a stellar career. Roz Laws talks to a woman whose enthusiasm still burns bright.Read
J.M. Barrie's immortal Peter Pan was concerned with the mournful process of growing up. "We change", Barrie might have written, "we grow up - nothing is forever - in the end, everything goes away".Read
David Bintley’s version of the classic fairy tale has its darker moments, but for much of the evening, has plenty of the old Birmingham Royal Ballet razzle dazzle.
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“A comedy about tyranny” gleefully declare the posters around the theatre and the wonderfully dark humour comes with a strong seasoning of violence.
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The strains of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane fill the theatre as young mum Medea is relentlessly driven mad trying to deal with being abandoned by a cheating husband who has left her for a younger model.Read
This is the final tour of the record breaking professional play based on the true story of a Yorkshire Women’s Institute group who raised eyebrows by posing nude to raise cash the local hospital.Read
Twenty years can be an eternity in the arts, yet around that period during the eighties, the Bolshoi Ballet’s arrival at Birmingham Hippodrome provoked a great deal of resentment from political activists who staged human rights protests.Read
During the extended nomadic period imposed by the major redevelopment of its building, Birmingham Rep has become involved in a number of interesting partnerships in unusual theatre spaces.Read
