Birmingham Rep Archives - The Bromsgrove Standard

4^th Jun, 2026

Birmingham Rep35 posts

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 12^th May, 2026

REVIEW - Decorated Second World War comedy Operation Mincemeat delights at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 30^th Apr, 2026

REVIEW - Midsummer Night's Dream at Birmingham Rep is a fast, bouncy, flamboyant easy watch

LIFESTYLE 22^nd Apr, 2026

REVIEW - Johnny Cash musical at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre just about Walked the Line

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 3^rd Apr, 2026

REVIEW - 'Small Island' at Birmingham Rep is an emotional rollercoaster, exploring issues along the way

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 18^th Feb, 2026

REVIEW - New play at Birmingham REP The Battle brings Oasis, Blur and BritPop brilliance

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 7^th Dec, 2025

REVIEW - Head to the Caribbean via the Birmingham REP's sun-kissed Anansi the Spider

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 21^st Nov, 2025

REVIEW - Festive Sherlock Holmes and 12 Days of Christmas at Birmingham REP is a real cracker

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 24^th Oct, 2025

REVIEW - New musical 'Starter For Ten' at the Birmingham REP could graduate to become a West End hit

LIFESTYLE 27^th Jun, 2025

REVIEW - Marriage Material at Birmingham REP is 'Punjabi pantomime' at its best

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 16^th Oct, 2024

REVIEW - Becoming Nancy at Birmingham Rep has a stellar cast but script needs more work

LIFESTYLE 28^th Feb, 2024

REVIEW - New musical Bhangra Nation at Birmingham REP is an 'energy-fuelled, action-packed extravaganza'

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 4^th Oct, 2023

REVIEW - Sinatra the musical at Birmingham REP is so good it's 'off the scale'

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 27^th Apr, 2023

REVIEW - Rush at The Rep in Brum had great music but needed more

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 24^th Mar, 2023

REVIEW - 'Wild West' Of Mice and Men at Birmingham Rep is far too tame

LIFESTYLE 17^th Feb, 2023

REVIEW- 'Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World' is a stunning theatrical adventure

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 21^st Aug, 2022

REVIEW - Six-country cast delivers empowering Counting and Cracking at Birmingham REP

LIFESTYLE 31^st Jul, 2022

REVIEW - Brilliant Bugsy Malone at Birmingham REP takes you back to those classic childhood storylines

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 16^th Jun, 2022

REVIEW - Playboy of the West Indies at the Birmingham Rep is fitting on warm summer evening

LIFESTYLE 21^st Apr, 2022

REVIEW - Gripping Grimeboy - premiered at Birmingham Rep - shines light on realities of rap scene

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 20^th Oct, 2021

REVIEW - New Tom Jones musical What's New Pussycat? had Birmingham Rep audience purring

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

11^th Sep, 2021

Great to see the Birmingham REP back and 'East is East' at the theatre where it started

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

27^th Feb, 2020

Damned good theatre at the Birmingham Rep as Faustus comes to town

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

The play that's Asking for It to be talked about

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

Peter Pan wows the crowd as he flies into the 21st century at the Birmingham Rep

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 20^th Nov, 2019

Graeaet performance as group get one over on run-of-the-mill theatre with psychological thriller

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

16^th Oct, 2019

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) at Birmingham Rep is a raucous romp

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

Robert Lindsay is chink of light in Birmingham Rep's 'flawed masterpiece' Prism

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

24^th Sep, 2019

Brum Rep's Rebel is a tad disheveled

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 11^th Sep, 2019

Lovely Bones formed in Brum will run and run

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 30^th May, 2019

Captain Corelli's Mandolin struck a great chord with the Birmingham Rep crowd

LIFESTYLE 25^th Apr, 2019

Young Birmingham Rep's Jekyll and Hyde is a 'gothic delight'

LIFESTYLE REVIEW 27^th Feb, 2019

Ins-purr-ational Cat in the Hat at the Birmingham Rep gets the thumbs up!

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

30^th Nov, 2018

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Birmingham Rep for cracking Wizard of Oz

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

The Lovely Bones at the Birmingham Rep provides cutting edge theatre, telling a shocking story

LIFESTYLE REVIEW

12^th Apr, 2018

Brighton Rock at the Birmingham Rep captivates the crowd without really immersing