Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
This Christmas season, the BOA Group Productions are bringing their production of The Wizard of Oz to The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham from next week Tuesday 26th November onwards to Tuesday 31st December 2024. The show is directed by Lorna Laidlaw.
Halloween Scaremaze is back this October 2024. Following last year’s spine-chilling success, they are now back with more ghastly horror and more terrifying experience than ever before at Luna Springs in Digbeth. It is not too late to book your tickets as their last day is on the 2nd of November. This experience is strictly for those over 18 only. Go and secure your spot at the Halloween Scaremaze.
This year, The Old Rep Theatre is presenting the awesome family favourite Peter Pan The Musical based on the novel by J.M. Barrie! This is the eighth Christmas production that The Old Rep has produced alongside the Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA) Group. The show features a cast of six professional actors alongside 12 students of the BOA Group and the musical is aimed at ages four and above.
For their Christmas productions this year, The Old Rep Theatre are welcoming you and your family to come and watch this timeless classic of Beauty and the Beast. It is brought to the stage by Alec Fellows-Bennett and they are working again with Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA) staff and students, including four separate casts, playing over the next three weeks. They are currently on stage twice a day (except Sunday and Monday) until the 16th of December 2022. There is a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted performance on Saturday 10th December 2022 at 1.30 pm. So hurry and get your tickets now.
You have until 14th August 2022 to catch this superbly enjoyable Bugsy Malone The Musical at Birmingham The Rep. We loved this bad boy musical, especially with the lively music, the great energy levels from a talented cast of 9 to 15 year olds and the excitement which ran throughout the show.
This year, the Old Rep Theatre is bringing you a brand new twist to Lewis Carroll’s classic magical Alice in Wonderland to the stage. Now you are joining Alice and her three daughters on their adventure down the rabbit hole following the White Rabbit to meet some extraordinary characters. Not only that, this year they are working with BOA staff and Year 13 Musical Theatre students to, include four separate casts, playing over the next four weeks.
Netflix’s highly anticipated Chinese animation, Over The Moon, has arrived on its platform since 23rd October 2020, just in time to watch with your children this half term! To celebrate the release of the brand-new animated film, Netflix has been working alongside Chinatown districts to display a series of magical lanterns illuminating in Gerrard St and Newport Place, London, and The Arcadia, Birmingham until 15th November 2020.
Spies in Disguise movie will be out on Boxing Day 26th December 2019 in cinemas across the UK! Are you planning to watch it? This is a brand new 2019 American computer-animated spy comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.
The Addams Family movie is out today in cinemas across the UK! Are you planning to watch it? This is a brand new 2019 American 3D computer-animated comedy horror film based on the comics of the same name by Charles Addams. With an all-star cast including Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Bette Midler, Nick Kroll, Allison Janney, Oscar Isaac and Finn Wolfhard.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 is out in cinemas across the UK and Ireland! Have you watched it yet? We have! We managed to catch the first show of the day and we had so much fun! I love all the little humour that embellishes this movie. I won’t be revealing too many of the juicy details but this is definitely a great movie to take your children along to watch this summer!
The Kid Who Would Be King is a 2019 fantasy adventure movie, written and directed by Joe Cornish and distributed by 20th Century Fox. To celebrate the theatrical release of this movie, we were gifted a backpack, hoodie and a handmade Excalibur sword piñata which was filled with lots of chocolates! We were all super-excited!
Yesterday, we were invited to watch an exclusive musical show – Emily Brown and the Thing at the Birmingham Hippodrome’s Patrick Studio. This musical show is based on the much-loved book by Cressida Cowell (author of How to Train your Dragon) and Neal Layton. This delightful family-friendly show is brought to you by Tall Stories theatre company and is the perfect treat for all the family until the 6th January 2019! Catch the show during this festive season before it transfers to New York and embarks on a North American tour in 2019.
This Christmas season, if you happen to be in Birmingham or are planning things to do with your family, why not check out this outstanding performance of Pinocchio at The Old Rep Theatre? This adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s classic tale Pinocchio is now showing until the 30th December 2018!
This year, the award-winning Gandey’s Circus brings you the Greatest Showmen Tour to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the creation of the circus. We were thrilled to be invited to see their Special Half-Term Halloween Spooktacular event exclusively at Merry Hill.
If you have missed it, there is another show in Belfast from Friday 23rd November 2018 to Sunday 6th January 2019! For more information, please visit http://www.gandeyscircus.com/tour-dates.html or you can book over the phone 0871 705 5507.
For the first time, the much-loved characters from the Cartoon Network series, Teen Titans GO! is on the big screen! Come and join Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy as they take on Hollywood!
