Month: February 2025

Hope Mill’s latest production is a play rather than a musical, but one with a musical theme. Peter Quilter’s 20-year-old play centres on the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the American socialite from the early twentieth century who was proclaimed as one of the worst opera singers in history but who sold out Carnegie… Continue reading Glorious

Allison Davies’s play, Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light, is a warm, compassionate and playful love story based on her own experience of autism. It was first seen in Newcastle in 2023, and Birmingham is the last stop on this 2025 tour. We first meet Elsa (Hannah Genesius) aged fourteen, full of hormones and hopelessly in… Continue reading Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light

Curl Girl Productions is a West Midlands-based theatre company, led by artistic director Kiren Jogi, which focusses on South East Asian culture. The Valley of Queens is a piece of verbatim theatre performed by a cast of five women. It was created out of a project funded by Creative Black Country in which women aged fifty and… Continue reading The Valley of Queens

For the fourth year running, Paul Hendy and Emily Wood’s Evolution Productions has teamed up with York Theatre Royal’s Juliet Forster to present a family-oriented and feel-good take on a traditional Christmas panto. Sticking closely to the conventional plot, Sario Solomon’s Aladdin (but you can call him Al) goes from rags to riches in his… Continue reading Aladdin

Secrets and lies abound in The Housetrap,but will the audience ever correctly guess whodunnit? For the finale of their 18th birthday celebrations, Guildford Shakespeare Company (GSC) is on the road again, and instead of taking a flight of fantasy on a Boeing 747, they are instead in residence at the magnificent West Horsley Place. Star of BBC’s Ghosts and… Continue reading The Housetrap