The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
Birmingham City Council is set to approve nearly nine million pounds to support the arts sector and cultural activities in Birmingham over the next three years, it has been announced. The financial spend for the years between 2023 and 2026 is set to be approved by Cabinet next week (21 March 2023), according to a council statement.
Celebrated Birmingham photographer Pogus Caesar‘s film about the legendary Tower Ballroom – where music acts such as David Bowie and The Wailers performed – will get a special screening at a free event on Sunday (9 October). The Tower of Dreams film looks back at the social and cultural history of Birmingham’s Tower Ballroom at…
The audacious multicultural opening ceremony of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 thrilled with a show that dared to look at the dark past while looking forward to a positive future. Thursday night’s show threw a subtle, yet profoundly moving, spotlight on the horrors of colonialism, slavery and homophobia, while looking forward to a more hopeful and…
Midland Actors Theatre and Purbanat Theatre premiered a philosophical new work in the Jewellery Quarter which explored humanity’s descent into the dark abyss after an apocalyptic war wipes out most of the human race. ‘Descent’ is a stark and daring new drama which takes the audience on a unique theatrical journey from the darkness of…
Birmingham Opera Company’s eagerly awaited production of ‘Wagner’s RhineGold’ will go ahead at Symphony Hall on Saturday (31 July). Sir Graham Vick, artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company, tragically passed away this month while working on the new production. The decision was taken by the company to go ahead with the opera as a tribute…
The opera world has been devastated after news broke about the death of pioneering director Sir Graham Vick who died from COVID-19 complications on Saturday 17th July. The 67-year-old artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company tragically died of complications arising from COVID-19. The company announced he had been in hospital since June after testing positive…
Birmingham Opera Company, the internationally acclaimed company led by Graham Vick CBE, is unveiling ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ – a work once banned by Stalin – as its 50th project with set designs by Block9 who previously worked on Banky’s ‘Dismaland’ project.
A brand new version of Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ is thrilling audiences in Birmingham in unexpected and refreshing venues where opera is rarely heard. This production of the opera boasts a racially diverse and exciting cast, and the drama at the heart of the opera, which is sometimes diluted due to large and lavish productions, is here…