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On Friday 31st May, producer Simon Greiff will release the latest recording under his SimG Record Label The Confession Room. Continuing his ongoing commitment to new British musical theatre writing, The Confession Room is released with a concept recording starring West End stalwarts; Anna-Jane Casey (Billy Elliot, Spamalot, Chicago), Dean Chisnall (Shrek, Love Never Dies, [...]

A new actor-musician production of Olivier Award winning Madness Musical Our House leads the New Wolsey Theatre’s autumn season, announced today. Opening in Ipswich on 12 September ahead of a UK tour that takes in Nottingham, Edinburgh, Bath, Coventry, Brighton and Plymouth, Our House has had acclaimed runs in the West End and on tour [...]

Emerging theatre artists in the West Midlands have been given a boost with the news that, thanks to significant support from The Leverhulme Trust, Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s REP Foundry artist development programme will continue until 2016. Created under The REP’s new artistic director, Roxana Silbert in January 2013, REP Foundry aims to discover and promote [...]

International singing sensation Susan Boyle is taking to the stage in her very first live tour, Susan Boyle In Concert in July 2013. The exclusive seven-night Scottish tour is said to herald a new era in Susan’s career, and is sure to be very popular with Susan’s many fans in Scotland, the UK and beyond. [...]

Twenty-three performances from twelve different countries will run alongside exhibitions, discussions, workshops and home-cooked food this summer, as Birmingham’s annual festival of European work, BE Festival, returns to the city for a fourth year. With an emphasis on collaboration, participation and exchange, the performance programme is built around participatory events and a communal meal, and [...]

Although a local arts centre, The Public in West Bromwich is known across the nation as a hugely expensive white elephant, writes our Central Region Editor, Selwyn Knight. It has been widely criticised for its design – it is large and pink with, to be honest, rather uninviting solid doors and windows that look as [...]

In a project directed by Google’s Tom Uglow and the RSC’s Geraldine Collinge, people all over the world will be able to join the Royal Shakespeare Company live in Stratford-upon-Avon and online, as they present a one-off digital theatre project, Midsummer Night’s Dreaming. This creative experiment will take place over Midsummer weekend, 21 –24 June [...]

The Public Reviews congratulates Hamish Glen as he celebrates his tenth year as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre. Originally from Scotland, Hamish made the move to the Belgrade from Dundee Rep Theatre, where he was Artistic Director from 1992. During his career in the theatre industry he has directed over 60 [...]