Continuing its tradition of presenting Coventry’s medieval mystery plays, the Belgrade has turned over its new building to a number of community groups to present stories from the Bible and the Koran, as well as some which appear in both.Read
There is good news from Walsall’s Philip Holyman, the Fellowship Players member who created a delightful comedy called Oysters and Snails for the Players to premiere a couple of years ago and which deserves a few airings elsewhere.Read
Joan Shirley's 1989 comedy belongs to a very British genre about respectable people doing naughty things in a good cause, but predates the most obvious comparison, Calender Girls, by a decade.Read
I have discovered – sort of – the answer to my failure to understand why child actors have to be off-stage and out of sight by 10pm but Wimbledon’s wonderful ball boys and ball girls were able to remain on show and on duty until Andy Murray and Stanslas Wawrinka had finally settled their differences at 10.45pm.Read
You know it’s midsummer when a British player has just failed to win Wimbledon and the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, is putting on a season of thrillers and comedies.Read
Michael Jackson fans – many of them dressed as their hero – paid tribute to the legend’s talents during an electrifying show at the Alexandra Theatre.Read
The world of theatre is getting used to the stranglehold of the rules about child actors and chaperones that were introduced a few years back. Getting used to it, that is, but not actually liking it any more than it did in the first place.Read
Woodland magic finds its natural home at Longborough, where recent years have brought a wonderful Cunning Little Vixen and an equally wonderful Hansel and Gretel.Read
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Alexander Campbell is small in stature but his characters filled the stage, and more, in the company’s triple dance programme.Read
Having missed its Shakespeares, Dylan Thomas adaptations and previous original musicals, I am a latecomer to the six-year history of the Swansea-based Wales Theatre Company.Read
