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.
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 through 2026 to sell-out crowds for its 52nd year. And thankfully, the musical is showing at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham f...
William Shakespeare is as strongly associated with 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 his wife, Agnes, af...
"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 Curve production for the...
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 festi...
After a sell-out West End performance in 2024, Rob Brydon is set to take his celebrated Christmas show around the country. Accompanied by a fabulous eight-piece band, the Gavin and Stacey star will usher in the festive...
Lily Allen is on a roll right now, dropping her shade-throwing, bop-filled album, West End Girl, last month before announcing a string of theatre shows performing it in full next year. Now, after selling all of those ou...