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REVIEW | The String Quartet’s Guide To Sex and Anxiety | Birmingham Rep

The String Quartet's Guide Credit: Robert Day

When I first saw the posters for this production around Birmingham, I found myself looking at it thinking ‘Is it a play? Or is it a concert?’. This intrigue was…

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Brighton Rock 2018 Gloria Onitiri as Ida

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REVIEW | Brighton Rock | UK Tour

Peaky Blinders meets Romeo and Juliet in the 60s gangster love story Brighton Rock. Adapted by Graham Greene’s classic novel, it is a story set in the heart of the…

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Aden Gilett as Arthur Winslow and Tessa Peake-Jones as Grace Winslow (c) Alastair Muir

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REVIEW | The Winslow Boy | UK Tour

Providing a window into the Edwardian life, Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy is a story of miscarriage of justice not told from a courtroom, but the living room of…

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REVIEW | 101 Dalmatians | Birmingham Rep

The Birmingham Rep couldn’t set themselves a bigger challenge than creating a Christmas show that features 101 dogs, but they’ve managed to pull it off with their superb musical production…

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4 min

INTERVIEW | Dramaturg Elle While Talks Bringing the Magic to What The Moon Saw

Opening in Birmingham this week to delight audiences of all ages is the world premiere of 2Faced Dance’s What The Moon Saw. The new re-imagination of the Hans Christian Andersen…

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REVIEW | The Nutcracker | Birmingham Royal Ballet

There was magic in the air last night as Birmingham Royal Ballet took to the stage to perform their annual production of The Nutcracker which has been delighting Birmingham audiences…

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REVIEW | Dreamboats and Petticoats | UK Tour

Capturing the heart of the 50s/early 60s and inspired by the multi-million selling album, Dreamboats and Petticoats is a musical about teenage love and heartbreak set inside a youth club…

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Birmingham’s Barrio | A Step Inside BITA’s Production of In The Heights

As Lin Manuel Miranda’s smash hit musical Hamilton arrives in the UK this November, actor Cleve September who has been cast as Philip Hamilton/John Laurens is associate directing the Birmingham…

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