Midlands Cover - July _Layout 1 24/06/2013 18:05 Page 1 MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS THE MIDLANDS ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE ISSUE 331 JULY 2013 JULY www.whatsonlive.co.uk £1.80 ISSUE 331 JULY 2013 THE LION KING WEST END MUSICAL IN BRUM INSIDE: Art In The Heart vote for your favourite work of art... feature inside Joe Pasquale back in the Midlands interview inside School’s Out! THE DEFINITIVE LISTINGS GUIDE where to go and BIRMINGHAM what to do.... WOLVERHAMPTON WALSALL DUDLEY COVENTRY STRATFORD PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART WORCESTER REDDITCH MALVERN SHREWSBURY TELFORD STAFFORD STOKE What’sOn bring a touch of the American MAGAZINE GROUP south to Birmingham... ISSN 1462-7035 grand_whatson FP july_Layout 1 24/06/2013 12:10 Page 1 Great Theatre at the Grand! TUES 2 - SAT 6 JULY MON 8 JULY TUES 9 - SAT 13 JULY THE ROCKIN’ GOOD VARIETY SHOW! 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No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in an electronic system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recording or otherwise, without the prior knowledge and consent of the publishers. News July_Layout 1 24/06/2013 12:36 Page 1 News A ROUND-UP OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Learning opportunities on offer at motor museum Warwickshire’s Heritage Motor Centre this month launches a series of informal learning initiatives for adults and children based on the museum’s collection. The venue’s cur- rent Morris The Man exhibition provides the focus for a 13 July lecture entitled Morris The Man And Nuffield Place. Facilitated by Richard Henderson - property manager at Nuffield Place, the former home of William Morris - the talk focuses on Morris’ work ethics and his decision to give his wealth to those less fortunate than himself. A second lecture, entitled The History Of Jaguar, fol- lows on 20 July. For further information, visit www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk. The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Live from Stratford-upon-Avon... The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a new initiative which will see some of its major productions screened live into classrooms and cinemas across the UK. The live screenings will also be available in North America, Australia, Japan and Northern Europe. The result of a collabo- ration with Picturehouse Entertainment and Ravensbourne College, Live From Stratford-upon-Avon launches on 13 November with the RSC’s Richard II, starring David Tennant in the title role. The production will be filmed using multiple cameras around the stage and auditorium, and will be pro- duced by John Wyver, the man behind the RSC’s previously celebrated filmed versions of Support for Hippodrome’s Macbeth - featuring Antony Sher and Harriet Walter - Hamlet, with David Tennant, and, more First Night Scheme recently, Julius Caesar for the BBC. Richard II is the first of three RSC plays which will be filmed live during the course of the next year, and marks the start of an ongoing programme to make the One of the world’s largest professional serv- company’s work more accessible to a nationwide and global audience. The production plays at ices organisations, Price Waterhouse the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from 10 October to 6 November. For further information, visit, Coopers, has lent its support to the www.rsc.org.uk. Birmingham Hippodrome’s First Night Scheme. The theatre’s free-to-join initiative offers discounted tickets to young people aged between sixteen and twenty-three, to Mammoth Messiah in Brum Work begins on National allow them to enjoy some of the region’s Choirs and individual singers are being Indoor Arena redevelopment offered a unique opportunity to take part in a best ballet, opera, dance and musical pro- Work on the £26million redevelopment of ductions. Launched in 2011, First Night cur- mass performance of The Messiah, one of the world’s most famous choral works, and Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena has rently has over nine hundred members, now begun. The first-phase construction will many of whom experience theatre for the at the same time help raise funds for Barnardo’s Midlands. Accompanied by the centre on the backstage areas of the venue, very first time via the scheme. with the control room, medical and storage Rob Macpherson, Director of Marketing & New English Concert Orchestra and con- ducted by Douglas Coombes MBE, partici- facilities, production offices, crew catering Development at Birmingham Hippodrome, facilities and dressing rooms all receiving a said: “PwC have a longstanding relationship pants will be required to take part in two rehearsals during the afternoon of 30 makeover. The second and most dramatic with the Hippodrome, and we’re delighted phase, in 2014, will see hospitality suites and that they’ve chosen to support First Night. As September before appearing in a ‘big per- formance’ in the evening (7.30pm). concourse expansion getting a major over- a registered charity, we’re committed to haul. This is in addition to the installation of a encouraging young people to attend per- sparkling, glass-fronted facade, which, show- formances here, with the aim of developing New name for literary festival casing the venue’s front-of-house, will ‘create an audience for the future.” The much-celebrated Birmingham Book a dynamic arrival for visitors’. Festival this year has a new name, new look New album launch for and new website, as well as a new home at the soon-to-be-opened Library of Birmingham artist Birmingham. The festival, which has show- A local singer/songwriter whose work is cased hundreds of authors, celebrities and inspired by the human condition has chosen to personalities during its fifteen-year history, launch his new album at Birmingham’s has been renamed the Birmingham Crescent Theatre. Presented by Moseley Folk, Literature Festival. This year’s event includes the album launch for Dan Whitehouse’s contributions from UK Poet Laureate Carol Reaching For A State Of Mind takes place at Ann Duffy and writers Will Self, Catherine the theatre on 29 September, with tickets cost- O’Flynn and Germaine Greer. The festival ing £8 in advance and £10 on the door. Check takes place at various venues throughout the out Dan’s music at www.dan-whitehouse.com.