Culture Editor Emily Breeds visits the Wolverhampton Grand and enjoys a ‘compelling’ production of Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita

Life&Style Editor Frankie Rhodes takes a look around cartoonist Pete McKee's pop-up gallery in The Custard Factory, Digbeth

Culture Editor Emily Breeds reviews an outstanding production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Birmingham Hippodrome

Culture Critic Grace Baxendine reviews an evening of performance by Italian actors of Commedia dell'Arte in Padova, Italy, reviving the Renaissance form

Culture Critic Luca Demetriou reviews Matthew Bourne's youthful production of Romeo and Juliet, whose cast is picked in each performance location

Frankie Rhodes reviews a creative evening at Barber Lates event Nocturnes: A Woman Refigured

Culture Critic Charlotte Gill recommends five books to read this summer

Culture Writer Frankie Rhodes reviews a moving touring production of Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Spendid Suns

Naomi Simpson reviews the bold and exciting reimagining of The Taming of the Shrew at the RSC

Lydia Waller reviews A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre

Frankie Rhodes reviews Beyond the Horizon's visually astounding production of Metamorphosis

Frankie Rhodes reviews the atmospheric, exciting and sometimes frightening play, The House on Cold Hill