Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2020 inductees Depeche Mode announced today at a special event in Berlin that they will be releasing a new album and embarking on a world tour in 2023. The Memento Mori Tour will support the band’s forthcoming 15th studio album, Memento Mori, due out in Spring 2023.

RoguePlay, Birmingham’s Award-Winning Aerial & Physical Theatre Company, have been chosen to host the very first Midlands based Nikon Photography Day which will take place on Tuesday 18 October at their base at West Midlands Circus & Creation Centre in the city’s creative quarter.

Celebrated Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam's new film Ponniyin Selvan:1, a Tamil-language epic period drama, has taken the box office by storm. Sudha G Tilak on what makes the film a hit.

Ponniyin Selvan, based on one of India's greatest emperors, is widely considered by many to be the finest novel ever written in Tamil. It was the name conferred by the loyal subjects on Rajaraja Chola - whose name means 'king of kings' - of the Chola dynasty, which ruled Tamil land from 9th Century to 13th Century.

This Christmas, Telford & Wrekin Council are delighted to announce Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs is coming to Telford Theatre from 8 December to 2 January.

Starring EastEnders and Dancing On Ice Winner – Sam Attwater as The Prince, back by popular demand, the hilarious – Ian Smith as Dame Dolly, comedy star – Carl Dutfield as Muddles, local favourite – Chloe Barlow as Snow White, 90s Pop Star ‘Lolly’ – Anna Kumble as The Wicked Queen and singing sensation – Sophie Jane Walters as Fairy Fortune.

Following a successful at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022, the award-winning, red-hatted actor, writer, and comedian, Elf Lyons takes her terrifying, and appalling, Stephen King-inspired comedy show on tour around the UK from Autumn 2022, just in time to spice up this year’s Halloween.

Half Mad Clown spectacle, half Hammer Horror – in Raven, Elf becomes your own personal Pennywise as she merges horror techniques with old-school storytelling to make you burst into laughter and tremble in fear in the same breath.

A unique work of art that captures Black Sabbath’s ‘heavy metal’ bench in Birmingham has been created for and delivered as a special gift to Tony Iommi, the band’s lead guitarist.

And now a limited edition of 250 prints of the painting have been produced for die-hard metal fans to purchase.