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				AMATEUR THEATRE REVIEWS 
				
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				Pontypool, Hall green Little Theatre 
				
				Haunting Julia,Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				Gaslight, Swan Theatre Amateur Company, Worcester 
				
				Beginning, The Loft Theatre Company, Leamington Spa 
				
				A Bunch of Amateurs Hall Green Little Theatre 
				
				And Then There Are None, Highbury Theatre Centre (v) 
				
				FlatSpin, Grange Players, The Grange Playhouse, Walsall 
				
				Witness for the Prosecution, Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				The Unfriend, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, 
				Kidderminster 
				The Enterlude of the Godly Queen Hester, Edward's Boys, 
				Stratford-upon-Avon 
				
				Jekyll and Hyde Stage2, The Crescent Theatre 
				
				Doctor Faustus, The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa 
				
				The Ghost Train, Hall Green Little Theatre 
				Don't Dress For 
				Dinner, Grange Players, Grange Playhouse, Walsall 
				
				Up ‘n’ Under, The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa 
				
				The Sound of Music, Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				Porridge, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster 
				
				Blink, Hall Green Little Theatre 
				
				Stepping Out, Highbury Theatre Centre 
				
				Hansard, Highbury Theatre Centre 
				
				It Could Be Any One of Us, Hall Green Little Theatre 
				
				Murder, Margaret & Me, The Nonentities, the Rose Theatre, 
				Kidderminster 
				
				On The Piste, Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				Tales From Ovid, Stage2 Youth Theatre. The Creascent 
				Theatre, Birmingham 
				
				The Heartless Princess, Highbury Theatre Centre 
				
				Educating Rita, The 
				Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster 
				
				The End of History, Hall Green Little Theatre 
				
				Tom's Midnight Garden, Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				The Girl on the Train, The Grange Playhouse, Walsall 
				
				Last Tango and The Fat Lady Sings In Little Grimley, Swan 
				Theatre Amateur Company, Worcester 
				 
				
				Little Wars, Highbury Theatre Centre 
				 
				
				
				The Unexpected Guest, Hall Green Little Theatre 
				 
				
				The Father, Highbury Theatre Centre 
				 
				
				
				The Incident Room, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, 
				Kidderminster 
				
				Waiting for Waiting for Godot Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				Medea, Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa 
				
				Bazaar and Rummage, Hall Green Lottle Theatre 
				
				The Turn of the Screw, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, 
				Kidderminster 
				
				Home, I'm Darling , Highbury Theatre Centre 
				
				The Hound of the Baskervilles, Grange Playhouse 
				
				A Christmas Carol: A Fairytale, Criterion Theatre, Coventry 
				
				Nativity! The Musical, Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				Rumpelstiltskin, Hall Green Little Theatre 
				 Glorious! The Loft Theatre, Leamington 
				
				Notes from a small Island, Highbury Theatre Centre 
				
				A Tomb With a View, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, 
				Kidderminster 
				
				Class, Grange Players, Grange Playhouse, Walsall 
				
				Copenhagen, The Nonentities, The Rose Theatre, Kidderminster 
				
				Uncle Vanya, Loft Theatre, Leamington 
				
				Wait Until Dark, Sutton Arts Theatre 
				
				Top Girls, Swan Theatre Amateur Company, Worcester 
				
				Strictly Murder, Hall Green Little Theatre 
				
				Sheila's Island, Highbury Theatre Centre 
				
				Mosquitoes, The Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa 
				  
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				Brum is heading for a Plastic festive season next year as 
				the Mean Girls book into the Alexandra Theatre for the holidays 
				as the smash hit musical warms up for a national tour.
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				 Margaret Thatcher was admired and hated in equal measure 
				and Handbagged at Coventry Belgrade is a deliciously wicked 
				comedy imagining the weekly meetings between Mrs T and the late 
				Queen. Two strong women with strong opinions.
				
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				 The world premiere of original climate crisis romcom 
				musical, Hot Mess, from Birminghaam Hippodrome's New 
				Musical Theatre department will be at this year's Edinburgh 
				Festival Fringe from 30 July to 25 August.  
				
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				Dance group Diversity has announced a 60 date, 31 town 
				and city tour of the UK and Ireland from February to May next 
				year withe the tour opening at The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham   
				with other Midland dates in Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham.
				
				
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				The Alexandra Theatre has announced its 2025 festive season 
				production will be the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre production 
				of Fiddler on the Roof which has 13 nominations in next month's 
				Olivier awards 
				
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				Birmingham  has announced its second production, a 
				family musical No Such Thing as Wolves for 3+ from two of the 
				writers of Horrible Histories which will run over the festive 
				period, 2025
				
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				World Theatre Day in March recognises the impact theatres 
				have on the life of their communities and ATG have celebrated 
				the occasion with a new community anthem 
				
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				National Theatre hit War Horse will ride into The Alexandra 
				in July this year bringing Michael 
				
				
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				 The Alexandra Theatre's Stage Experience is celebrating its 
				20th Anniversary with West Side Story this year and is appealing 
				for donations to allow it to perform Bernstein's iconic, 
				symphonic score with a full orchestra. 
				
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				The Emerald City is about to get new visitors as Dorothy 
				and Toto and her friends Scarecrow, Lion and tin man set off on 
				the Yellow Brick Road at The Old Rep to see The Wizard of Oz.
				
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				 X-Factor and stage star  Sam 
				Bailey has joined the cast of NOW That's What I Call a Musical 
				which will be calling at the Alex in March 2025.
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