Highlights

  • The Festival of Brilliant events

    The Festival of Brilliant

    The children's book festival returns to Biddulph Old Hall this July.

  • St George’s Day Celebrations events

    St George’s Day Celebrations

    Tamworth’s popular St George’s Day celebrations are back for 2025 and feature medieval-themed fun for the whole family. The line-up of entertainment includes jousting, archery, falconry displays, a li...

  • Just Between Ourselves theatre

    Just Between Ourselves

    Mention Alan Ayckbourn and a list of brilliant observational comedies springs readily to mind, the most famous among which - think Relatively Speaking, Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests, Be...

  • Newton Faulkner music

    Newton Faulkner

    Newton Faulkner’s penchant for tapping and hitting his guitar has certainly helped him stand out from the crowd - as has his undoubted talent as a musician.  One of the most successful UK singer-songw...

  • Cirquoise events

    Cirquoise

    Featuring clowns, death-defying acrobats, breathtaking jugglers and contortionists.

  • Find The Flock: Shaun The Sheep Trail events

    Find The Flock: Shaun The Sheep Trail

    Trentham Gardens is this month launching an art installation featuring 12 supersized Shaun the Sheep sculptures. Presented in collaboration with public-art experts Wild In Art and Academy Award-winni...

  • Bing’s Birthday theatre

    Bing’s Birthday

    Bing’s Birthday’s promoters are confident that their brand-new show is a perfect ‘first theatre trip’ for pre-schoolers and their families. And why wouldn’t they be, given that the production is awash...

  • Pilot Training events

    Pilot Training

    RAF Museum Midlands is hosting an array of aviation-themed activities for the whole family to enjoy across the Easter holiday. The interactive Pilot Training show, presented by Up An’ At ’Em History...

  • Dracula theatre

    Dracula

    Adapted for the stage by Nick Lane

  • Emilia Quinn music

    Emilia Quinn

    Powerful, gritty, and ranging almost three octaves, Emilia Quinn’s raw, soulful and classically trained vocals have played a major role in getting her noticed. Her output - from badass anthems to hear...

  • The Toys Strike Back visual arts

    The Toys Strike Back

    Readers of a certain vintage will surely recall the impact which Star Wars made when it first hit cinema screens way back in 1977. They may also remember - and might even have owned - some of the Star...

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What's On Theatres

  • Regent Theatre

    Regent Theatre

    When the Regent first opened its doors, it wasn’t a theatre at all but a cinema, presenting its firs...

  • Lichfield Garrick

    Lichfield Garrick

    The purpose-built Lichfield Garrick Theatre opened in 2003 and has a main auditorium seating more th...

  • New Vic Theatre

    New Vic Theatre

    Purpose-built as a theatre-in-the-round and opened in 1986, the New Vic is the regional producing th...

  • Stafford Gatehouse Theatre

    Stafford Gatehouse Theatre

    Opening in 1982, Stafford Gatehouse Theatre programmes both professional and amateur shows, and thro...

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Places To Visit across the Midlands

  • Lichfield Cathedral

    Lichfield Cathedral is one of the oldest places of Christian worship, the burial place of Anglo-Saxo...

  • Thinktank Science Museum

    Thinktank Science Museum

    Located in Birmingham city centre, Thinktank offers a great day out for visitors of all ages....

  • West Midlands Police Museum

    West Midlands Police Museum

    Discover stories about some of Birmingham’s most notorious criminals, including the real Peaky Blind...

  • Weston Park

    Weston Park

    Weston Park is a house set in 1,000 acres of Capability Brown-landscaped parkland, making it the per...

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