“โญโญโญโญ An ebullient musical that gets you wanting to sing along and dance in your seat”. After a whirlwind summer holiday romance, Danny and Sandy are reunited when she moves to Rydell High for her senior year, making friends with the Pink Ladies. Will they rekindle their love and survive the trials and tribulations of…
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Theatre shows in the Midlands
Derren Brown, Showman
“๐๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ต๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐, ๐น๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐๐. ๐ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ” – ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ด ๐ง๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ Wow. Just wow. Have you watched Derren Brown before? I hadn’t so was incredibly excited to see what the multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion was like on stage….
The Wicked Lady
โญโญโญโญ “A superb performance leaving you looking over your shoulder for the rest of the evening”. On Thursday evening we were lucky enough to go and watch one of this years last showings of brand new theatre show, The Wicked Lady. A ghost story written by the incredibly talented James Williams (artistic director of JW…
Dirty Dancing
โญโญโญโญโญ “(Iโve Had) The Time of My Life”. It might be a song from the show but it is exactly how I can sum up tonightโs epic performance of Dirty Dancing which is currently at Alexandra Theatre until October 16th 2021. Youโve seen the 1987 film which made Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey stars in…
The Cat and the Canary
โญโญโญโญ “A classic mystery with melodramatic flourishes and tense dramatics” – Small House Big Trips 20 years after his passing, the will of Cyrus West, a rich old eccentric, is being read at his country home at the stroke of midnight. Cyrus so specified this for his will, as he had grown tired and frustrated…
Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror World Tour is in full swing and tonight the show opened at The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. Showing until October 2nd 2021, The Alexandra have allowed plenty of days for Brummies and people further afield to come and see this legendary Rock’n’Roll Musical from Richard O’Brien. I have to admit from the start…
Heathers The Musical
“Murderously good with a killer soundtrack” – Small House Big Trips If you grew up in the eighties and nineties, you may remember one of the greatest cult films of all time, Heathers, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Running at The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham until the 25th September, we have Heathers: The Musical, directed…
Ladybird Live
What the Ladybird Heard by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks has left the West End and has arrived today (16th September 2021) in the truly stunning location of Birmingham Hippodrome as a stage show. Kenny Wax Family Entertainment have adapted the story to be performed on the stage and having watched the tour back in…
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Everybodyโs Talking About Jamie is a pure masterpiece or like the title of the penultimate song in Act One, it is a โWork of Artโ. Evoking a variety of emotions (mostly happiness I should add) that really pull on your heart strings particularly when Margaret New (played by the extremely talented Amy Ellen Richardson) gave…
Rock of Ages – 5 Star Production
“Theatre is well and truly back”, in the words of Kevin Clifton who plays the role of Stacee Jaxx in what I can only describe as one of the best stage show Musicals that I have ever seen. It felt so good to be back watching a live theatre production, especially at one of our…