An independent feature film created by a Wolverhampton-based company, exploring queer love and South Asian culture, has been picked up by a major distributor. A Teacher’s Gift, co-produced by New Lion...

Over thirty new Hate Crime Reporting points have been rolled out across Warwickshire as part of a project developed by equality charity EQuIP in partnership with Warwickshire’s Police and Crime Commis...

Birmingham Literature Festival returns this Autumn with a line-up of literary events exploring a range of topics, themes, and genres. Among the bookish events programmed for 2027 are several that shin...

Send in the Clowns, a cabaret collective made up of performers: Fatt Butcher, Blü Romantic, Alanna Boden, and Dahliah Rivers, will return in 2027 with a new show. Following the success of ‘Queeny Todd...

ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss

Part of the multi-award-winning ‘Grandad’s Camper’ series, Harry Woodgate’s latest children’s picture book, Grandad’s Christmas is the third instalment in the collection.

Birmingham-born and raised actor, Bethany Antonia, has been announced as one of the celebrity dancers in 2026’s Strictly Come Dancing cast.

In association with SHOUT Festival, The Pansy Project will be returning to Birmingham. The project, launched and run by artist, Paul Harfleet, plants pansies at the sites of homophobic and transphobic...

Professional footballer, current Aston Villa W.F.C. striker and former England Lioness player, Rachel Daly, and former Aston Villa teammate, Sutton Coldfield-born professional footballer, and current ...

A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.

Peter Sparkes says there has been "deliberate misinformation" spread about the charity.

The longest-running West End show and longest continuously-running play worldwide, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap embarks on its 75th anniversary tour across the UK and Ireland, with a stop at Birmin...

Birmingham-based Drag King, Blü Romantic AKA Gabe (32) is set to appear on the latest series of The Great British Bake Off.

Walsall Pride returned to the Arboretum extension on Saturday 29th August, and come rain or shine the show went on. Following extreme heat and drought, then thunder, lightning and heavy rain in the ar...

Our Story is a touring exhibition that brings together a gallery of portrait photographs, personal ephemera, and audio stories, to showcase the lives of trans and gender-diverse people in Nottinghamsh...

Congregational, a newly-composed choral service for the nightclub, from artist and vocalist, Fatt Butcher, is heading on tour across England. Opening in Manchester, the tour will then visit various ve...

New research by Birmingham City University (BCU) has found comedy can be a useful tool for improving mental wellbeing and resilience for Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ community. A new study published in the psy...

Grindr the Opera: The Unauthorised Parody is a musical production for the modern world that puts the best-known gay hook-up app at the centre of an opera. Exploring gay dating and hook-up culture, thi...

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is set to return to BBC iPlayer and BBC Three this autumn, and among the fresh new cast of drag queens are three performers hailing from the West Midlands. Staffordshire’s KY Kel...

Inspired by tarot, illustrator Sam Prentice-Jones made their writing début with the recently published graphic novel series Arcana: The Lost Heirs (2025), followed by Arcana: The Cursed Fate (2026). F...

Organisers for Warwickshire Pride, which is set to take place at the end of August, have announced that security measures have been increased ahead of this year’s event. In response to growing anti-LG...

The Karate Kid is a new musical based on the hit film of the same name. Bringing the 1984 movie to life on stage is a Tony Award-winning design team known for transforming cinematic moments.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a new production, staged at the Birmingham Rep, marking the first major UK revival of the show since 2012

Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show returns to the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham this summer, and Wolverhampton-raised Laura Bird joins the cast in the dual roles of Usherette and Magenta.

Birmingham’s own Joe Lycett is set to return to stages with his first comedy tour in five years. The tour will play at two different Birmingham venues as well as dates across the Midlands

Coming direct from the West End to Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre, Mean Girls the musical is the hit production that won Best New Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards. Created by an award-winning team i...

A Reform UK councillor has been reported to the police over comments made in an email that Warwickshire Pride have described as “transphobic”. The complaint over Warwickshire county councillor, Wayne ...

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 19 June · 53min

Dominus Von Vexo is House of Allure’s multi award-winning drag and burlesque producer, teacher and performer. This year, Dominus is taking on an exciting new challenge; producing the UK’s first Drag a...

Following a previous, hit UK tour, Frankie Goes to Bollywood, returns to stages promising to be ‘bigger, bolder, and bursting with Bollywood glamour.’ The production, which takes titular inspiration f...

Organisers of Warwickshire Pride have released their own statement in response to another from the Leader of Warwickshire County Council, Reform UK councillor George Finch. His latest statement relate...

The organisers of Coventry Pride say they’ve received a slew of online hate, including one person who threatened to drive a car into the festival crowd. In response, the organisers have had to allocat...

Nadia Whittome, MP for Nottingham East, has tabled a motion to reject the EHRC code of practice. The code has been redrafted in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, which stated that the legal defini...

The hit musical, Annie, returns to Birmingham in a new touring production. Set in 1930s New York, foundling Annie is living the ‘Hard Knock Life’ at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage but her luck could all ch...

Waitress is a joyous musical of love and friendship, centring Jenna; a waitress and expert pie maker, who dreams of a happier more fulfilling life. Starring Carrie Hope Fletcher (Calamity Jane, Heathe...

Wolverhampton Council has announced that the city’s Pride will be free of charge in 2026, thanks to “strong levels” of sponsorship ahead of the event.

Birmingham Museums has acquired several pieces of costuming from Brummie comedian Joe Lycett for the city’s permanent collection. The donations include costumes worn by Lycett for award show red carpe...

A play based on the 90s psychological thriller of the same name, Single White Female is a world premiere stage production offering a modern take on the bestselling book (SWF Seeks Same by John Lutz) a...

Playing at the RSC’s The Other Place Driftwood is a vibrant work set in 1950s Caribbean. The first play from Martina Laird, the production is directed by Chichester Festival Theatre’s Artistic Directo...