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.
Today, Ikon Gallery is one of Birmingham’s most iconic buildings. Housed in the gorgeous Grade II-listed, neo-Gothic former Oozells Street Board School. But that wasn’t the original intention for the gall...
Next time you walk down a street in Birmingham and see a billboard that makes you question, ‘Is that real?’ You’ve probably just been Foka Wolf’d. Combining satire, vandalism and advertising, this street...
Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero might’ve been among the most popular exhibitions Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has ever seen. Welcoming almost 800,000 fans in 15+ months. But it’s now been replaced...
After something that’s equal parts jaw-droppingly glamorous and outrageously hilarious this weekend? Look no further than the first festival of its kind in the UK, Birmingham Drag and Burlesque Festival,...
'Ballet of Lights' arrives in Birmingham, shining a fresh spotlight on ballet’s enduring role in the city’s vibrant arts scene. While Birmingham’s creative energy has blossomed lately, with new artistic communities and...
Let's face it: no one could ever replace the perfect pair that is Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the cult classic Dirty Dancing. However, the cast of the Dirty Dancing musical during the UK & Irel...
‘Be Bold, Be Birmingham’: That was the message scrawled on the roof of the former Markets Car Park in Digbeth ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. But still today, that message rings true, and it’s a man...
You can catch the UK’s first and only professional wheelchair dance company in Birmingham next month. Based in the West Midlands, Propel Dance will put wheelchair users centre stage when it performs at Mi...
On Saturday, July 5, 2025, just 17 days before Ozzy Osbourne’s passing, Black Sabbath performed “the greatest heavy metal show ever.” The godfathers of heavy metal took to the stage at Villa Park—just a st...
Keiran Goddard doesn’t live in Birmingham anymore. The London-based writer left Shard End long ago, but his heart may never have. His second novel, ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’, was released two...