Stage design

The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd, the flare of the floodlights – what enchantments they conjure! If you’d visited a regional playhouse over two centuries ago, though, a very differe

As a child, I was very creative and always drawing, painting or making a mess at the dinner table, but my other love was theatre. I was a dancer and performer first, but as a person of colour, I didn’

This Christmas, swathes of golden shades, a dusting of glittering metallics and a bounty of beautiful foliage come together as an enchanting and luminous backdrop for all the festivities

Rufus Bird says rumours of a market decline are overstated

There are currently five main theatres in the centre of Birmingham but, in the past, there were many more. Most of those were lost as cinema, radio and television took hold, as audiences, especially f

When a musical automaton of a conjurer was consigned to Roseberys’ Fine & Decorative sale, specialist Jack Wallis knew it would strike a chord. The piece was amongst 10 automata up for sale that day,