Sherlock Holmes and The 12 Days of Christmas continues at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre until 18 January 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A strong script and sharp comedy performances make this a fun festive night out as you count down to the big day.
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Starter for Ten: A New Musical – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Starter for Ten: A New Musical was reviewed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre where it continues until 1 November 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A lively, warm-hearted and thoroughly engaging piece of work.
Nativity! The Musical – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Nativity! The Musical continues at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre until 7 January 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Uplifting, joyous, heartfelt and festively entertaining, Nativity! The Musical feels like a present from Santa himself, and one that would make even The Grinch himself sit back and smile.
Christmas homecoming for the REP’s Nativity! The Musical
Much-loved Christmas show Nativity! The Musical will make its long-awaited return to its first home, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, for the 2022/2023 Christmas season. Postponed twice due to the pandemic, the successful stage version of the hit film Nativity! will now return to the venue where it debuted in 2017, two years later than planned […]
What’s New Pussycat? – Birmingham Rep
What’s New Pussycat? continues at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until 14 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Surely it was only a matter of time until a ‘jukebox’ musical featuring the back catalogue of Welsh singing superstar Tom Jones came along. And now it has, in the shape of the highly impressive What’s […]
UK premieres of Something Rotten! and Breakfast On Pluto to feature in Birmingham Rep’s new season
The UK premieres of the hit Broadway comedy Something Rotten! and a new musical adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s novel Breakfast On Pluto look set to be among the highlights of Sean Foley’s first full season as artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Foley will also direct his first show as artistic director, the Tony […]
The Wizard of Oz – Birmingham Repertory Theatre
The Wizard of Oz continues at Birmingham Repertory Theatre until 13 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Any production of The Wizard of Oz is always going to stand in the shadow of the classic MGM film. Under the direction of Liam Steel, this new staging at the Birmingham Rep, while retaining the elements of […]
Nativity! The Musical premiere – full cast revealed
Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of Nativity! The Musical which is due to open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Friday 20 October. Produced by Jamie Wilson, Entertainment One, Ramin Sabi and Belgrade Theatre Coventry, the musical version of the hit 2009 festive family tale of the ultimate school Nativity play will […]
Nativity! The Musical – Daniel Boys, Sarah Earnshaw and Simon Lipkin cast
Casting has been revealed for the world premiere of Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s production of Nativity! The Musical opening at the Rep on Friday 20 October 2017. Daniel Boys will play Paul Maddens, Sarah Earnshaw is Jennifer Lore and Simon Lipkin plays Mr Poppy. They will be joined by Andy Barke, Jamie Chapman, Jemma Churchill, Gary […]
One Love – The Bob Marley Musical – Birmingham Rep
One Love – The Bob Marley Musical continues at the Birmingham Rep until 15 April. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s 72 years since the birth of an icon. Bob Marley has become synonymous with philosophies of peace, brotherhood, and unity. But what of the man? One Love is writer and […]
Hamilton star Cleve September takes on creative role in Birmingham youth production of In The Heights
One of the stars of the much-anticipated West End debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton will take on a guiding role in a Birmingham youth production of Miranda’s debut musical In The Heights. Cleve September has signed on as associate director of the Birmingham Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA) summer production of Miranda’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
One Love: The Bob Marley Musical – full cast and creative team revealed
Full casting has been announced for Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s production of One Love: The Bob Marley Musical which premieres in March (10 March to 8 April). Set across a dramatic period in the music legend’s life, this new production written and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, tells the story of a man propelled from rising reggae star to global icon. […]
Musical stage version of Nativity! to open in October 2017
The world premiere of Nativity! The Musical will open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Friday 20 October 2017, prior to a short tour visiting Southend Cliffs Pavilion, Sheffield Lyceum, Manchester Palace, Plymouth Theatre Royal, a London season at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo and a Christmas season at Leeds Grand Theatre. Casting to be announced soon. Nativity! The Musical will be written and directed by the creator and director of […]
One Love: The Bob Marley Musical open at Birmingham Rep in March 2017
The premiere of One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, a new musical focusing on a defining period of global legend Bob Marley’s life and career in the 1970s, will open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in March 2017. The musical, written and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, has its UK premiere on 10 March and runs until 8 April 2017. […]
