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Birmingham Repertory Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Birmingham Repertory Theatre (commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep) is a theatre and theatre company based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England. The Rep was founded by Barry Jackson in 1913 when the earlier touring 'Pilgrim Players' company opened a permanent home on Station Street (now the Old Rep). Although Jackson retired in 1948 the Rep retained its national and international reputation, discovering actors such as Paul Scofield, Julie Christie and Derek Jacobi. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_Repertory_Theatre   (287 words)

Birmingham (England) - Wikitravel Birmingham International Airport (BHX) is a major airport situated about 8 miles south-east of central Birmingham, serving the city and the rest of the West Midlands region with frequent domestic and international charter and scheduled flights. Birmingham hosts some of the largest events, exhibitions and conferences in the country, which may or may not be of interest to a visitor. Birmingham has seen a rapid proliferation of lap dancing clubs in recent years (jazz fans were left fuming when the legendary Ronnie Scott's was closed to make way for one), to the extent that they are now touted as a typical night out for businesspeople. wikitravel.org /en/Birmingham_(Midlands)   (7360 words)

Behzti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The play became the centre of a major controversy in the United Kingdom in December 2004 when the opening night was disrupted by a riot at the Birmingham Rep theatre. The controversy was caused by a particular scene in the play, which is set in a Gurdwara (Sikh temple), that included scenes of rape, physical abuse and murder. Another group, the Birmingham Stage Company, offered to put the play on, but after allegedly receiving death threats Bhatti said she did not want it to go ahead. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Behzti   (572 words)

News Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) Birmingham County FA wait to see who their FA County Youth Cup Third Round opponents will be after victory at Sheffield & Hallamshire... Birmingham began their defence of the MCYFC title with a 3-1 victory at Derbyshire County FA... Birmingham face an away tie at West Riding in the First Round of the 2005-06 FA County Youth Cup... www.birminghamfa.com /repteams/summary.htm   (625 words)

BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Protest play could find new venue Birmingham Repertory Theatre dropped Behzti, which depicts murder and sex abuse in a temple, on safety grounds after protesters clashed with police. He said if the Rep could not be persuaded to reconsider its decision to drop Behzti he would produce the play. The Rep cancelled Behzti after three police officers were hurt in clashes with about 400 demonstrators outside the venue on Saturday. news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4112985.stm   (540 words)

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Theatre community defends 'courageous' Birmingham Rep Stuart Rogers, executive director of the Birmingham Rep, at the press conference to announce the cancellation of Behzti on safety grounds. The Birmingham Rep has a superb record in giving voice to the culturally invisible communities that surround it. The management of Birmingham Rep are absolutely right to do whatever they need to do to protect the welfare of their company and their premises. www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1377938,00.html   (801 words)

Old Rep Theatre Birmingham The Old Rep Theatre is a 378 seat venue, built in 1913, and is home to the Birmingham Stage Company and several local amateur companies. The Old Rep Theatre Birmingham was the first Theatre in England to be specifically designed for repertory. In 1971 the Birmingham Repertory Company moved to their new theatre on Broad Street and the Old Rep became a theatre used by many local amateur dramatic and operatic companies. www.mybrum.co.uk /birmingham/art-old_rep.htm   (321 words)

The Stage | News | Kavanaugh joins Birmingham Rep as artistic director Birmingham Repertory Theatre has appointed Rachel Kavanaugh as the first female artistic director in the venue’s 93-year history. While at the Rep she has worked on the Wizard of Oz, the theatre’s most successful family Christmas show to date and the David Hare Trilogy, which she co-directed with Jonathan Church in 2003. The Rep was the very first theatre I ever worked at as a general assistant. www.thestage.co.uk /news/newsstory.php/12293/kavanaugh-joins-birmingham-rep-as-artistic   (493 words)

none Birmingham residents who want to take advantage of the new Freddie Mac initiative should contact the Birmingham Urban League at (205) 326-0162. The Birmingham Urban League is a 501©(3) nonprofit, community-based, social service and civil rights organization, an affiliate of the National Urban League and a United Way Agency. The mission of the Birmingham Urban League is to assist all racial and ethnic groups, particularly African Americans and the urban poor, in achieving social and economic equality. www.freddiemac.com /news/archives2002/birmingham_072202.htm   (1006 words)

Script - Success Stories Birmingham Rep also commissioned and mounted 'All That Trouble That We Had' (1999) and 'The Slight Witch' (2000), both directed by Anthony Clark at The Door, and published by Faber and Faber. Fraser’s play, 'Perpetua' – about the ‘abortion wars’ in the US – was joint winner of the 1996 Verity Bargate Award, and was produced at the Birmingham REP in 1999 (director: Jonathan Lloyd), and revived at the Latchmere Theatre in 2004 (director: Dan Milne). The play 'Birmingham New Street this is Birmingham New Street' was developed in 2003 and as a direct result of sending this play to Script, she was then accepted on the Rep's Attachment Scheme for playwrights in 2004. www.scriptonline.net /home_success.html   (1173 words)

Birmingham Repertory Theatre In November 1999, Birmingham Repertory Theatre opened its doors on an extensively refurbished auditorium and technical production system — the third theatre in the company’s history. The original "old rep", created in 1913 by the producer, Sir Barry Jackson, was replaced in 1971 by a 903seat theatre. The new state of the art production lighting and sound systems are operated from a new control suite, and the whole auditorium incorporates an ether-link network to make working with modern technology easier. www.tpcworld.com /ports.asp?id=78&curpage=78&cat=c   (197 words)

Birmingham Hotels, Birmingham Apartments, Accomodation Birmingham has shed its industrial image to become a thoroughly modern city with many beautiful parks and is taking its rightful place as the heart of England. The city is also famous for being the home of the balti, a distinctive form of curry which is cooked in a shallow wok type pan, and served in the pan with naan bread, the Sparkbrook and Sparkhill districts of the city are known world wide as the “Balti Belt”. Birmingham is also an intensely cultural city, with an endless variety of theatres, opera, comedy clubs and music venues to keep even the most demanding culture vulture happy. www.apartmentsapart.com /Europe/UK/Birmingham   (571 words)

BBC - Birmingham Stage - After the collaboration between the Birmingham Rep and the West Yorkshire Playhouse of 'A View from the Bridge' - it's now the turn of 'The Madness of George III'. The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett is showing at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 22nd October until 15th November. The Birmingham Rep and the West Yorkshire Playhouse have done just that with two productions: Arthur Miller's 'A View from the Bridge' and Alan Bennett's 'The Madness of George III'. www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/stage/2003/10/madness.shtml   (367 words)

Berkeley Repertory Theatre Directed by Berkeley Rep Artistic Director Tony Taccone, the two plays, Mothers Against and Daughters of the Revolution, will be presented in repertory at each theatre with the current cast and design scheme. He founded and directed Britain’s first post-graduate course in playwriting at the University of Birmingham from 1989 to 1999; he was appointed professor there in 1995. In March 2001, Berkeley Rep opened The Roda Theatre, a 600-seat proscenium theatre that complements the existing 400-seat Thrust Stage. www.berkeleyrep.org /html/AboutTheRep/release_10.28.03_CD.html   (1258 words)

EktaOne.com - Everyone Keeping Together As One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) The REP was not willing to make any concessions, other than the reading and distribution of a statement made by the Sikh community regarding the production and Sikh faith. Rep aware of this and both sought to consult widely with the Sikh Community prior to staging the play. The REP was still unwilling to make the changes requested by the Sikh Community, therefore the Sikh leaders stated that the protests would continue. www.sikhifm.com /bezti_campaign.php   (3234 words)

Birmingham Football Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) Birmingham U18's eliminated from the F.A County Youth Cup by Bedfordshire. Birmingham City Keeper Malik Taylor is in the running for the FA's prestigious FA Cup ' Player of the round ' award after his fifth round heroics at the weekend. Birmingham County FA Sunday Junior Cup - Round 4... www.birminghamfa.com /summary.htm?page=4   (639 words)

Birmingham Birmingham’s Chinatown boasts a wide range of restaurants and interesting specialist supermarkets, and for those who are fond of curries, Birmingham is the capital of the ‘Balti’ – inexpensive Kashmiri cuisine served in a wok-like metal dish. Birmingham is bursting with clubs playing anything from dance, house, drum and bass and jungle, to hard rock, 70s, 80s, lounge, soul, jazz and garage. Birmingham lies at the heart of England and is surrounded by a wealth of beautiful countryside. www.aston.ac.uk /birmingham   (2291 words)

Behzti news Birmingham rep censorship Birmingham Repertory Theatre's decision to cancel the remaining run of Behzti has been met with howls of derision - and rightly so. That a major UK theatre, enjoying huge public subsidies (Birmingham Rep Revenue grant 2003/4 £1,641,188) should allow its programme to be decided by the action of a mob is a slur on British traditions and ideals. Britain is a country that believes in free speech and artistic expression - allowing its artists and writers of all persuasions to investigate and satirise, examine and comment on all aspects of life, without exception. www.concepttshirts.co.uk /news.htm   (242 words)

Arts | Birmingham Rep Theatre gets its first female head   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) The Birmingham Rep Theatre has appointed a female artistic director for the first time in its 93-year history. However, the National Theatre of Scotland is run by a woman, Vicky Featherstone, and the past few years have seen female directors taking leading roles in London and at regional repertories, such as the Liverpool Everyman. Kavanaugh won't be drawn on her plans for Birmingham, but admits that she is hoping to stage some adventurous shows with large casts. arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329454900-110427,00.html   (220 words)

Birmingham arts and entertainment Birmingham Born Chris Kenny is a vocalist who performs at venues throughout the Midlands and South West. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Choruses are world renowned for their music-making. Based in Birmingham, Trio Gitano are three guitarists performing gypsy-influenced Spanish, Jazz, Latin and Flamenco music, with much new and exciting original material written by Director Bryan Lester. www.virtualbrum.co.uk /lynx/arts.htm   (1337 words)

NBC 13: Birmingham collegians to be charged in church arsons - Birmingham Business Journal:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) Three college students were arrested Wednesday in connection with a string of church fires in Alabama that brought national attention to the state, in part because it was believed the succession of arsons could be hate crimes. Cloyd is a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Four of the 10 churches that burned are in Rep Davis' Birmingham area district. www.bizjournals.com /birmingham/stories/2006/03/06/daily16.html?t=printable   (396 words)

Britain: Closure of the play Behzti in Birmingham The cheering thing about the debate that preceded the opening of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s fl comedy Behzti at Birmingham Rep theatre, was that it was held at all. The staff of the Birmingham Rep, in the middle of a season packed with children’s shows, felt they had to pull the play on public safety grounds. What is going on here is not about Birmingham theatres – though the management of the Birmingham Rep theatre deserve praise for their solid stand in defence of free expression for as long it was possible – it’s about a debate within the Sikh community itself. www.indexonline.org /en/news/articles/2004/4/britain-closure-of-the-play-behzti-in-birmin.shtml   (1165 words)

Bradmans EUROPE Birmingham has one of the most vibrant arts and cultural scenes in the UK outside London and is also home to some of the best venues too. The Birmingham Rep is also located in Centenary Square and has a year-round programme of productions (www.birmingham-rep.co.uk). The visual arts are also a central part of Birmingham’s rich cultural life—Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (www.bmag.org.uk) in Chamberlain Square and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (www.barber. www.bradmans.com /europe/birmingham/todo   (541 words)

BBC NEWS | UK | Birmingham becomes stage for a tragedy The violent confrontations that greeted theatre goers at the Birmingham Rep have genuinely shocked the city. The talk radio stations have been full of it, taxi drivers talk of nothing else, and, three years after escaping the riots that hit other areas, there was a palpable sense of something about to go terribly wrong. Shakila Taranum Mann, a London artist, said she had returned to Birmingham to defend the play after being impressed when she first saw it. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4113287.stm   (971 words)

OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts Reluctantly, the Birmingham Rep canceled the run, for neither the theater nor the police could guarantee the safety of audience and staff. Determined to defend free speech, a second Birmingham company volunteered to stage the play instead, only to withdraw the offer at the request of the playwright, now in hiding after receiving several death threats. In Birmingham this month, "they" did do something horrible, vandalizing private property, issuing death threats, and bullying a theater director of integrity into violating his own beliefs--which, being secular, apparently count for little. www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110006080   (783 words)

Creative Partnerships | Open House Open House is a nursery age multi-sensory production created by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with the help of four nursery education consultants from four Creative Partnerships Birmingham schools. Open House was created in response to a Birmingham Repertory Theatre initiative, REP’s Children, that was launched in October 2004 and offered every baby born at Birmingham’s City and Sandwell Hospitals a free theatre experience every year for the first 10 years of their lives. The aim of REP’s Children is to engage families from local neighbourhoods in the life of the theatre. www.creative-partnerships.com /events/67369   (228 words)

Birmingham : Nightlife | Frommers.com The Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Broad Street at Centenary Square (tel. The widely known "Rep" comprises the Main House, which seats 800 theatergoers, and The Door, a more intimate 120-seat venue that often stages new and innovative works. The box office is open from Monday through Saturday 10am to 8pm on performance days, 10am to 6pm on nonperformance days. www.frommers.com /destinations/birmingham/0489010030.html   (528 words)

City Centre, Birmingham, West Midlands,UK The millenium project is compiling a record of lives of the people of Birmingham from 1945 onwards. This is where the New Year Celebrations are held and several annual events run by the local council. The Rep is situated in Centenary Square along with the Hall of Memory and Baskerville House. www.birminghamuk.com /citycentre.htm   (573 words)

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