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3rd July 2024

Very Revealing – The Calendar Girls at the Garrick!

Calendar Girls the Musical By the Lichfield Operatic Society (LOS) Lichfield Garrick main auditorium Tuesday 2 July 2024 Review by Jono Oates I’ll let you all […]
22nd May 2024

Kinky Boots strut their stuff at the Garrick!

Kinky Boots the Musical – Review Lichfield Garrick main auditorium Sutton Coldfield Musical Theatre Company Tuesday 21 May 2024 By Jono Oates During the glam-rock era […]
10th April 2024

Vive La France – LMYT storm the barricades at Les Mis!

Les Misérables – School Edition By the Lichfield Musical Youth TheatreLichfield Cathedral  Tuesday 9 April 2024 Review by Jono Oates One of the best-known musicals in […]
9th April 2024

Twelve Angry Men – Review

Lichfield Garrick main auditorium Monday 8 April 2024 By Jono Oates I remember watching Twelve Angry Men, the 1957 film, when I was about 12-13, it […]
24th May 2023

We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday…

Men of the World by John Godber The Lichfield Players at the Lichfield Garrick Studio theatre Tuesday 23 May 2023 The Lichfield Player’s latest production takes […]
24th May 2023

Lichfield Sinfonia: Grieg, Greville and Gaudeamus!

Lichfield Sinfonia Spring Concert Lichfield Cathedral Saturday 20 May 2023 By Jono Oates At the age of 12, as an under-performing scholar at Bishop Vesey’s Grammar […]
28th September 2022

The Danger of the Sleeping Dog

Dangerous Corner by the Lichfield Players Lichfield Garrick Studio Theatre Tuesday 27 August 2022 Theatre Review by Jono Oates After the joyful exuberance of Priscilla, the […]
19th January 2022

Abigail’s Party is Well Worth the Invite!

Abigail’s Party by the Lichfield Players The Garrick Studio Theatre Tuesday 18 January 2022 By Jono Oates Today we know Alison Steadman as one of the […]
25th January 2021

The Great Lichfield Snow of 1947!

Lichfield has definitely seen a considerable amount of snow in the last couple of days, however this is nothing to compare with the Great Snow of […]
1st January 2021

The Lichfield New Years Day Train Crash

On January 1st 1946, just a few months after the end of World War Two, Lichfield suffered its worst rail crash disaster when 20 people were […]
24th December 2020

Ghosts of Lichfield’s Christmas Past

In this festive blog I look at some of the Christmas’s of Lichfield’s Past, starting with Samuel Johnson, Lichfield’s most famous son, to see what he […]
7th November 2020

The King of the Criers and Jubilee Albert

At 11am on Sunday 11 November 2018 I stood by the Lichfield War Memorial in the Garden of Remembrance, on a cold, but bright and sunny […]