Your guide to the arts in Birmingham: exhibitions, plays and musicals, and concerts and gigs. Plus, discover what’s on at galleries, museums and cinemas across the city.
More than half of the UK’s grassroots music venues failed to make a profit in 2025, with thousands of jobs lost and the national touring circuit shrinking to a handful of major cities. The latest annual report from the...
Liverpudlian comedian John Bishop has announced today (January 23) a major UK and Ireland tour for spring 2027 with a brand-new show, Let’s Go Round Again. Hot on the heels of his sold-out, critically-acclaimed in...
The film awards season is in full swing, and the finishing line is now in sight, with all eyes now on the biggest prize, the 98th Academy Awards. The Oscar nominations are in (Thursday, January 22), and there are alread...
It feels like it’s been a lifetime of waiting for the ‘Peaky Blinders’ movie, but the wait is almost over. There are two months until we sit down and watch ‘The Immortal Man’. Finally getting closure on the Birmingham c...
Pobody’s nerfect, but too quickly do we brush aside our failures and focus solely on our successes. There’s a lot to learn from our mistakes, and if not, they can still bring us a good laugh. This is where the Museum of...
We all need a reminder to laugh in the winter months. A major photographic exhibition of some of the UK’s comedy legends, past and present, opens at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in February. ‘I photograph comedia...
The iconic smash-hit musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as it continues to play its UK tour through 2026 to sell-out crowds for its 52nd year. And thankfully, the musical is showing at the Alexandra Theatre in&helli...
William Shakespeare is as strongly associated with Stratford-upon-Avon as Black Sabbath is with Birmingham. So when it came to filming Chloe Zhao’s new film ‘Hamnet’, which follows the relationship between the Bard and...
“Hello, Patriots!” Elle and Bruiser are coming to a real-life stage in Birmingham in 2026, bringing ‘Legally Blonde The Musical’ to life. The musical is produced by ROYO and Curve, under Made at...
Reading & Leeds 2026 have just gone ahead and dropped the names of all the headliners playing in 2026, with a corker of a first announcement for the festival next year. Topping the bill at Reading & Leeds festiv...
