The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
This past weekend saw the elusive street artist and agent provocateur, Foka Wolf, take over a small part of The Custard Factory with his own brand of satirical paste-ups, courtesy of Bene Culture. Something of an enigma the artist (or is that ‘artists’?) has made the gentrification of Birmingham his/her canvas and playground.
This year’s Birmingham Improv Festival will welcome over a hundred performers to the Blue Orange Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, between Friday 26th October and Saturday 3rd November. We caught up with festival director Jon Trevor at the Birmingham REP, where he gave us an insight into the planned performances and what to expect.
The countdown is on! One of the biggest improvisation festivals outside of London opens this month in Birmingham offering audiences 9 days of unique performances and professional workshops. Birmingham Improvisation Festival 2018 will welcome over 100 performers to the Blue Orange Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre from Friday 26th October to Saturday 3rd November.
“Always look on the bright side of life, always look on the light side of life. If life seems jolly rotten, there’s something you’ve forgotten…” Great song from the Monty Python film Life of Brian, a song which gives us Villa fans some solace in these dark and troubling times. The club has no money…
Is she here? And why is she hiding? Early on the Saturday morning, during the walk up towards Victoria Square for the start of the Birmingham Pride 2018 Pride Parade, I was approached by an incredibly reputable and thoroughly “trustworthy source” who informed me that Hunger Games star and A-list celebrity, Jennifer Lawrence, was attending the…
Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town are returning to Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre next year as comedy musical Avenue Q returns to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends. Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and smash hit tours in 2014, 2015 and 2016 – packed with mischief, bad behaviour and risqué…
Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town are returning to Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre next year as comedy musical Avenue Q returns to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends. Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and smash hit tours in 2014, 2015 and 2016 – packed with mischief, bad behaviour…
Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be returning to Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre next year as comedy musical Avenue Q returns to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends. Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and smash hit tours in 2014, 2015 and 2016 –…
Veteran British comedian Dawn French has tweeted a hilarious oh-so-sweet and simple response to a magazine cover headline asking if she’d had a facelift. Snapping back at a photo of her looking slim on the cover of Woman Magazine, which was accompanied by the headline: “Is a facelift behind Dawn’s new look?”, the 60-year-old responded with a lengthy…