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

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Alexander Larman on Theatre ● TO KICK OFF ...

“Between you and me …”

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

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...