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John Slim's amateur stage Directory of leading amateur companies. If you want details about becoming an affiliate contact John Slim. john.slim@behindthearras.com
Some thoughts on Pudsey It must be that time of year again . . . Slim has retired . . . again; but this time it looks like its for real Just the ticket for a major raffle . . . Guess who'll be going to dinner Twerps alive and well on Twitter Manly thouights fade at Moorpool No sex please we're . . . chair Slim on the beaches Sock it to 'em, Slim Getting to the bottom of things It seems butts have come to a head . . . Slim failed by words? Never! Awight for the time of year Hair today . . . or maybe not Nether here and there . . . Becoming the news . . . AMATEUR REVIEWS A-Z Index of affiliate reviews My Boy Jack, The Nonentities, Rose Theatre, Kidderminster Jane Eyre, The Crescent Theatre Copacabana, Youth on Stage, The Old Rep Duet for One, Sutton Arts Theatre The Sunshine Boys, Highbury Theatre Centre The Producers, Brownhills MTC, Lichfield Garrick Calamity Jane, Lichfield Operatic Society, Lichfield Garrick The Wizard of Oz, Willenhall Musical Theatre Company, Dormston Theatre Hall, Sedgley AND a shaggy dog story to gladden the heart. Pygmalion. The Fellowship Players, Grange Playhouse, Walsall Road, Stage2 Youth Theatre, The Crescent, Birmingham Titanic - The Musical, West Bromwich Operatic Society, Wolverhampton Grand Don't Dress For Dinner, The Nonentities, Rose Theatre, Kidderminster. Fame, Garrick Youth Theatre, Lichfield Garrick Oh What a Night, The Arcadians, Crescent Theatre Blood Brother & The Fish, Aldridge Youth Theatre Proof, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle & Dick
Paul Marston Reviewing amateur and professional stage and the CBSO
Comedy and tragedy in equal measure in Hall Green's orchard Shakespeare in the Commandery Charity gig in Pelsall Waving farewell in song at Shelfield Nonentities in search for an old radio, gramaphone and horn. Sun shines on Highbuty Awards flood into Highbury Sutton off to find the wizard Costume appeal in Lapworth Out on the road with Stage 2
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In the spotlight with Roger Clarke roger.clarke@behindthearras.com
THEATRE REVIEWS (If a review is not found try Other reviews) LATEST Birds of a Feather, New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham Educating Rita, Malvern Festival Theatre Chicago - The Musical, Wolverhampton Grand Push, Birmingham Hippodrome Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Birmingham Hippodrome The King and I, Birmingham Hippodrome Hamlet, Melting Pot Theatre, Lamp Tavern, Digbeth, Birmingham Private Lives, Lichfield Garrick Artifact, Royal Ballet Flanders, Birmingham Hippodrome. Anne Boleyn, Malvern Festival Theatre Swallows and Amazons, Wolverhampton Grand Dancing in the Streets, New Alexandra Theatre On Golden Pond, Lichfield Garrick All the fun of the fair, Wolverhampton Grand MAN, Citizen598, The Old Joint Stock, Birmingham
Christian Clarke Reviewing theatre and comedy
The Wizard of Oz, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall Three Short Works, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Crescent Theatre British Classics, CBSO, Symphony Hall. Classic Chaplin, CBSO, Symphony Hall Il Divo, LG Arena, NEC Good Friday:
Gergiev Conducts Parsifal, Birmingham Symphony Hall Sokhiev Conducts the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, Birmingham Symphony Hall St
Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Plays Russian Masterworks An Evening of Chamber Music, Forest Arts Centre, Walsall Birmingham Rep is coming home Birmingham Royal Ballet announces new season Avenue Q star offers help to Wolves Farndale ladies set to being chaos to Macbeth and Hall Green An old boy returns to Birmingham Royal Ballet
Linda Robson, one of the stars of the sell-out Birds of a Feather tour talks to Roger Clarke Birmingham Hippodrome closes for four weeks next summer to replace its 30-year-old stage and has now launched an appeal to find the money to pay the £1.13 million bill.
SPOKEN WORD with Gary Longden gary.longden@behindthearras.com May 2012 Latest reviews Four Crystals Pamphlets Showcase, City Gallery, Nottingham Mouth & Music, The Boar's Head, Kidderminster Phenomenal Women 2, Birmingham Library Theatre Wizard, Dominic Berry, The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, London. Bang Said The Gun, The Old Nag's Head, Jackson's Row, Manchester Marianne Boruch: A Poetry Reading, Leicerster Guildhall Night Blue Fruit, Taylor Johns Vaults, Coventry Bilston Voices, Metro Cafe, Bilston Sounds and Sweet Airs, Bookmark Library Theatre, Bloxwich Spoken Worlds, Old Cottage Tavern, Burton Upon Trent, |
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| Hit TV sit-com Birds of a Feather is still flying strong in a new touring stage production and Jeff Grant caught up with it at the Alex More |
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Matthew Kelly and Claire Sweeney star in a revival of Willie Russell's 1980 play Educating Rita at Malvern Festival Theatre More | |||||||
| Chicago brings its glitzy, razzle, dazzle music and stunning choreography to downtown Wolverhampton in a five star show at the Grand More |
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A sad and moving tale, tinged with hope, about a violinist struck down with MS and her psychiatrist in Duet for One at Sutton Arts Theatre More | |||||||
| A culture clash when East meets West fuel an entertaining production of The King and I at the Hippodrome More |
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Royal Ballet Flanders' Artifact, by legendary choreographer William Forsythe is a coup for International Dance Festival Birmingham More | |||||||
| They are dancing in the seats, in the aisles and on their way home as Motown comes to the New Alexandra Theatre with Dancing on the Streets More |
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Stage2 Youth Theatre provide a stark, brutal look at society in Jim Cartwright's play Road, full of social comment, at The Crescent in Birmingham More | |||||||
| The brilliant Middle Ground production of On Golden Pond is at Lichfield Garrick this week - don't miss it More |
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Rodgers & Hammersteins's The King and I is reigning again holding a rather fabulous court on the stage of the Grand in Wolverhampton More | |||||||
| Mathematical drama Proof is calculated to tax minds at the Rose Theatre in Kidderminster in the skilled hands of The Nonentities More |
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The historical hysterical musical Spamalot based (loosely) on King Arthur's search for the Holy Grail is laughing its way through the Alex More | |||||||
| The dramas behind the Carry On films is revealed in Terry Johnson's Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick at Sutton Arts Theatre More |
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The ghost of Anne Boleyn is striding the stage of the Alex in a wonderful English Touring Theatre production of the Globe hit More | |||||||
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| Birds of a Feather may have been off our TV screens for 14 years but the stage show is playing to packed houses. One of the stars Linda Robson talks to Roger Clarke More | ||||||||
| Paul Marston discovers the heartwarming story of Sammi, canine star of the Wizard of Oz More. | ||||||||
| Joe Pasquale and Robert Powell have been talking abouut their roles in Doctor in the House wich is coming to the Grand at Wolverhampton More | ||||||||
| Madonna has announced a Birmingham date in July for her World Tour More | ||||||||
| Birmingham REP is coming home. Return date announced More | ||||||||
| Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced its productions for autumn 2012 and 2013 with some old favourites and a UK premiere More |
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Birmingham Hippodrome has launched its appeal to find £1.13 million to replace the huge stage which is showing its age after 30 years of constant use. Roger Clarke has been looking beyond the footlights More | |||||||
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