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Birmingham Rep

May 2024

  • the animated film version of Coraline.

    Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to become ‘dark, spangly’ stage musical

    Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas’s adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025
  • Withnail & I W&I Production Pic 067 - Morgan Philpott (Wanker), Adonis Siddique (Marwood) and Robert Sheehan (Withnail). Credit Manuel Harlan

    The week in theatre: Withnail and I; Spirited Away; Mary Said What She Said; Boys on the Verge of Tears – review

    Bruce Robinson’s new adaptation of his cult film is too theatrical by half; the latest staged Studio Ghibli fantasy is more effects than feeling; and all hail Isabelle Huppert’s many Marys in Robert Wilson’s magical production
  • Withnail & I W&I Production Pic 256 - Adonis Siddique (Marwood) and Robert Sheehan (Withnail). Credit Manuel Harlan

    Withnail and I review – downtrodden duo return to demand some more booze

    A strong cast and a magical set make this more or less word-for-word stage transfer of the cult hit an entertaining tribute piece

April 2024

  • An illustration in tones of blue, grey and red, of people connected with Birmingham arranged around some of its landmark buildings

    Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
    Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

    Austerity-hit Birmingham’s decision to stop funding the arts is a calamity for a city whose rich contribution to UK culture – from Tolkien to the Streets – is such a vital source of civic pride

March 2024

  • Zaynah Ahmed (centre) and company in Bhangra Nation.

    Bhangra Nation: A New Musical review – big, bright and bursting with energy

    A university bhangra dance team is torn apart by cultural differences, seamlessly expressed through music and movement, in this zinger of a show

February 2024

  • Actors on stage surrounded by dancers with flower fans

    Bhangra Nation review – Punjabi dance powers a joyful high school musical

    Soaring ballads and spirited movement abound in a charming show about teenage self-discovery

October 2023

  • Paul McGann, Richard E Grant and Richard Griffiths in the 1987 film Withnail and I.

    Withnail and I creator Bruce Robinson adapts film for the stage

    Play based on the beloved 1987 comedy will open at Birmingham Rep next year directed by Sean Foley

September 2023

  • Samantha Morton and Tom Cruise in the 2002 film Minority Report.

    Minority Report drama to feature in Lyric Hammersmith’s ‘really bold’ spring lineup

    Tom Cruise’s character becomes Dame Julia in a new adaptation of Minority Report, kicking off a season that, the venue’s artistic director says, will focus on communal experience

July 2023

  • Siobhán McSweeney as Winnie in Happy Days.

    Happy Days review – Siobhán McSweeney brings masterful touch to Beckett’s masterpiece

    The Derry Girls star adds wonderfully subtle clowning and a beguiling naturalism to the absurd classic about a woman quite literally stuck in marital stasis

May 2023

  • Victoria Wood pictured in 2003.

    New playwriting prize for comedy launched in honour of Victoria Wood

    Conceived by the artistic director of Birmingham Rep, Sean Foley, the award will be open to all with the winner receiving £25,000

March 2023

  • Wiliam Young as Lennie and Tom McCall as George.

    Of Mice and Men review – an evocative production with quietly radical casting

    Wiliam Young, an actor with learning disabilities, gives an affecting, lived-in performance as Lennie in this assured adaptation of Steinbeck’s Dust Bowl classic

February 2023

  • Carrie and Boris Johnson - Idiots Assemble Spitting Image Saves the World - credit Mark Senior

    Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World review – impressive puppetry

    The excellent puppeteers are the stars of this two-hour staging of the popular TV satire where Paddington plays an evil powerbroker but the punchlines are too often predictable

October 2022

  • Simon Nagra, left, as Imran, facing Asif Khan in the title role of Tartuffe:

    Tartuffe review – modern Brummie staging skews a little too broad

    Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto’s updating of Molière favours caricature over character, offset by some dynamic performances

July 2022

  • Sir Lenny Henry takes part in the baton relay as it arrives in Birmingham.

    Commonwealth Games opener will be on par with London 2012, says director

  • Mona Hammond in 2005.

    ‘We were always in awe of her’: actors celebrate the life and legacy of Mona Hammond

June 2022

  • Durone Stokes as Ken in Playboy of the West Indies at Birmingham Rep.

    Playboy of the West Indies review – feelgood musical that fails to click

    Birmingham Rep
    This attempt to make Mustapha Matura’s adaptation of the classic drama into a calypso-laced entertainment has lost something in translation

April 2022

  • Raising Icarus, staged by Barber Opera, in Birmingham

    Raising Icarus review – high-flying chamber opera that packs a punch

    This mythical story of parental wrongs is well served by strong performances and Michael Zev Gordon’s impressive music
  • Life of grime … Keiren Hamilton-Amos in Grimeboy.

    Grimeboy review – a pair of battling MCs become allies

    Casey Bailey’s moving, emotionally honest grime musical grows in power and has its own poetic, street-smart presence
  • Paula Kay as Floella Benjamin in Coming to England at Birmingham Rep.

    Coming to England review – Floella Benjamin story overlooks her ascent to Play School

    We see the shock of Windrush-era racism from a child’s perspective, but miss the details of how she rose nontheless to become the face of children’s TV

December 2021

  • Dennis Herdman, Tom Hiddleston and Thom Tuck.

    The Play What I Wrote review – Morecambe and Wise homage brings us sunshine

    This 20-year-old comedy with the nightly surprise guest works its magic in a superb revival directed by its co-writer, the Rep’s artistic director, Sean Foley
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