AMATEUR THEATRE REVIEWS
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affiliates
Di and Viv and Rose, Highbury Theatre Centre
The Railway Children, Hall Green Little Theatre
Rumours, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
The Dumb Waiter/This Wide Night, Sutton Arts Theatre
Blood Brothers - The Play Highbury Theatre Centre
Chase me up Farndale Avenue, s’il vous plait, Hall Green
Little Theatre
Platform 2, STAC, Swan Theatre, Worcester
The Children, the Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster.
Gaslight, Hall Green Little Theatre
Arms and the Man, Second Thoughts, Stratford-upon-Avon
A Taste of Honey, Sutton Arts Theatre
Rules for Living, Grange Playhouse, Walsall
Death of a Salesman, Highbury Theatre Centre
Antigone, Hall Green Little Theatre
How the other half loves, Swan Theatre Amateur Company, Swan
Theatre, Worcester
Calendar Girls, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Love, Love, Love, Highbury Theatre Centre
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic
Society Murder Mystery, Highbury Theatre
Centre
Private Lives, Hall Green Little Theatre
Art,
The Loft, Leamington Spa
Flat Out, Sutton Arts Theatre
Tom, Dick & Harry, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Sleeping Beauty, Hall Green Little Theatre
Robin Hood & the Babes in the Wood, Sutton Arts Theatre
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Highbury Theatre
Centre
Go Back for Murder, Grange Players, Grange Playhouse,
Walsall
Dear Jack, Dear Louise, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
A Walk in the Woods, Sutton Arts Theatre
Art , Highbury Theatre Centre
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Hall Green Little
Theatre
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Lichfield Operatic Society
Bunkered, Hall Green Little Theatre
A Month of Sundays, Grange Playhouse, Walsall
It Runs in The Family, Highbury Theatre Centre
Going Straight, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
The Girl on the Train, Sutton Arts Theatre
Status Update & Education, Education, Education, Stage2 The
Crescent Theatre
Goodnight Mr Tom , Hall Green Little Theatre
Taking The Waters, The Loft, Leamington Spa
Private Lives, The Talisman Theatre, Kenilworth
Agnes of God, Swan Theatre Amateur Company
Cranford, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster
Present Laughter, The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa
Company, Sutton Arts Theatre
And Then There Were None, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
The Effect, Hall Green Little Theatre
Relatively Speaking, Grange Players, Grange Playhouse
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Loft,
Leamington Spa
Passion Play, Highbury Theatre Centre
Heroes, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre,
Kidderminster
Trust Me, I'm a doctor, Edward's Boys, King Edward VI
School, Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Dada Masilo has created a fusion of European and African dance
and culture in The Sacrifice which arrives at Birmingham
Hippodrome thus week.
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BLACK SABBATH and BRB are the unlikeliest of bedfellows to a
collaboration on Black Sabbath - The Ballet is one of those
landmark events theatre can throw up, a fascinating
prospect all made in Brum.
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THE KING AND I returns to The Alexandra Theatre in February with
Call the Midwife's Helen George as Anna and Broadway's
Darren Lee as the king.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet has set chance to the best young
ballet graduates from around the world including a UK tour of
classical favourites.
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The Osmonds run has
been the launchpad for The Alexandra Theatre's And They Call
it Puppy Love fundraising appeal for
Guide Dogs Midlands & East
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The Alexandra Theatre
hosted Dreamgirls
over Christmas and four of the show's stars gave a preview of
the show with a convert performance at the Alex. Watch it
here
Highbury Theatre Centre aim to
make 'em laugh with farce It Runs In The Family to open
the new season wandering through horror and more laughs until
the bigger buns arrive for Calendar Girls
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Sutton Arts open their new season with The Girl on the Train
and head through spies and laughs, drama and despair on
their way to a classy musical finale with Funny Girl
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Smash hit Girl from the North
Country, set to the music of Bob Dylan arrives in Birmingham
next month.
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The festive season is upon
us and theatres are grearing up for the festive season with
pantos and family shows for the Christmas season and here is a
directory of some of the best shows of the season.
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Pantomime's origins, at least in name, stretch back more
than 2,000 years, building through the middle ages, adding on an
Italian import, finding there is nothing like a dame, and even
incorporating mediaeval religion. That's Panto for you, Oh yes
it is!
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Victor
Hugo's Les Misérables didn't have an easy ride at its launch as
either a book, or now smash hit musical. It runs at
Birmingham Hippodrome in August 2022 and we look where it all
started.
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