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  • Staffordshire County Show events

    Staffordshire County Show

    The 2025 Staffordshire County Show offers something for visitors of all ages to enjoy. The Country Pursuits Area will host the West Lancs Dog Display Team, birds-of-prey presentations, a ferret roadsh...

  • Eduardo Martín & Ahmed Dickinson music

    Eduardo Martín & Ahmed Dickinson

    Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas didn’t just admire fellow countryman Eduardo Martín from afar; he actually took lessons with the great man, who is one of the most-performed guitar-music compo...

  • A Shoddy Detective theatre

    A Shoddy Detective

    And the art of deception...

  • The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe theatre

    The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

    This much-loved story from the pen of CS Lewis is rightly regarded as an all-time classic of children’s literature. It sees the lion-god Aslan coming to the aid of four youngsters who’ve accidentally...

  • We Are Scientists music

    We Are Scientists

    We Are Scientists’ breakthrough success came with debut studio album With Love And Squalor, which featured hit single Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt, the song for which the rock duo are best known.  “I...

  • Through Their Eyes: 80 Years On visual arts

    Through Their Eyes: 80 Years On

    Marking this month’s 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, Through Their Eyes is part of the National Memorial Arboretum’s The Year Was 1945... project. The initiative comprises displays, even...

  • Dara Ó Briain: Re:Creation comedy

    Dara Ó Briain: Re:Creation

    Dara’s new show Re:Creation sees one of Ireland’s finest live comedians back doing his favourite thing: standing in a theatre, telling stories and creating madness with the audience.

  • The Festival of Brilliant events

    The Festival of Brilliant

    The children's book festival returns to Biddulph Old Hall this July.

  • Whatever Happened To Phoebe Salt theatre

    Whatever Happened To Phoebe Salt

    Forming part of the Arthur Berry 100 and Stoke-on-Trent centenary celebrations, Whatever Happened To Phoebe Salt is here receiving its world premiere, 37 years after unsung local playwright Berry wrot...

  • VE80 Anniversary Celebrations events

    VE80 Anniversary Celebrations

    Tamworth Castle is marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe with a weekend of activities and entertainment.  Visitors can try their hand at sending Morse Code and decoding secret messages, se...

  • Find The Flock: Shaun The Sheep Trail events

    Find The Flock: Shaun The Sheep Trail

    Trentham Gardens is this month launching an art installation featuring 12 supersized Shaun the Sheep sculptures. Presented in collaboration with public-art experts Wild In Art and Academy Award-winni...

  • Bing’s Birthday theatre

    Bing’s Birthday

    Bing’s Birthday’s promoters are confident that their brand-new show is a perfect ‘first theatre trip’ for pre-schoolers and their families. And why wouldn’t they be, given that the production is awash...

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What's On Theatres

  • Regent Theatre

    Regent Theatre

    When the Regent first opened its doors, it wasn’t a theatre at all but a cinema, presenting its firs...

  • Lichfield Garrick

    Lichfield Garrick

    The purpose-built Lichfield Garrick Theatre opened in 2003 and has a main auditorium seating more th...

  • New Vic Theatre

    New Vic Theatre

    Purpose-built as a theatre-in-the-round and opened in 1986, the New Vic is the regional producing th...

  • Stafford Gatehouse Theatre

    Stafford Gatehouse Theatre

    Opening in 1982, Stafford Gatehouse Theatre programmes both professional and amateur shows, and thro...

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Places To Visit across the Midlands

  • Lichfield Cathedral

    Lichfield Cathedral is one of the oldest places of Christian worship, the burial place of Anglo-Saxo...

  • Thinktank Science Museum

    Thinktank Science Museum

    Located in Birmingham city centre, Thinktank offers a great day out for visitors of all ages....

  • West Midlands Police Museum

    West Midlands Police Museum

    Discover stories about some of Birmingham’s most notorious criminals, including the real Peaky Blind...

  • Weston Park

    Weston Park

    Weston Park is a house set in 1,000 acres of Capability Brown-landscaped parkland, making it the per...

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