Birmingham Rep’s new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream breathes contemporary Brummie life into the mystical play of trickster fairies and humorous misdirection.

Actor Adam Carver (AKA cabaret artist Fatt Butcher) joins Birmingham Rep in their upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Adam took some time, between rehearsals for their role as Puck, to chat to Midlands Rainbow about the show…

Based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel, Small Island is a play adapted for stage by Helen Edmundson, and directed by Matthew Xia. Taking audiences on a journey from Jamaica to 1940s London, the production is an exploration of empire and the Windrush generation, belonging and identity, and hope

Created by Olivier Award winner Jon Brittain and Matt Tedford, Margaret Thatcher – Queen of Soho imagines a world in which, on the eve of the vote on Section 28, Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher gets lost in Soho (the heart of the LGBTQ+ community in London) and accidentally becomes a cabaret superstar. Will her night of glitter and dancing change her mind on this homophobic bill before it’s too late?

Based on the novel by David Nicholls and the film of the same name, Starter for Ten is a new coming-of-age comedy musical set in the colourfully bright 80s.

London City Ballet, former resident company of Sadler's Well, is making its début at The Rep, Birmingham with 'Momentum'; a brand-new repertoire.

Merchant of Venice 1936 transports Shakespeare's original text to the 1930s, starring Tracy-Ann Oberman as the first female Shylock