What's on at Birmingham Rep Theatre - March 2025

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Sat 01 Mar 2025 - Sun 30 Mar 2025

A magnificent month of marvellous shows awaits visitors to the Birmingham Rep Theatre throughout March. The very best of dance, drama and entertainment will be taking to The Rep stage in Centenary Square with thought-provoking dance pieces, evenings in conversation with legends of broadcasting, and new stage adaptations of film and television favourites.

Beginning the season is Myra's Story on Saturday 1st March. Written by Irish playwright Brian Foster, this one-woman play starring Fíonna Hewitt-Twamley as all the larger-than-life Dublin characters tell the incredible story of a middle-aged homeless alcoholic, Myra McLaughlin, living rough on the streets of Dublin.



Legend of television broadcasting, renowned journalist, author and playwright Joan Bakewell, will be in conversation with fellow journalist Matthew Stadlen (BBC Radio 5 Live, Channel 5, Sky News) for one night only on Wednesday 5th March. Joan will be taking audiences through her fascinating career spanning 60 years, with the promise that no stone will be left unturned in this insightful and engaging discussion.

The Rep’s largest stage, The House, will also host the UK’s most celebrated hip-hop dance theatre company, Boy Blue, with its latest production, Cycles. on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th March. Composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante MBE describes Cycles as ‘a tenacious exploration of hip-hop dance in all its forms’. Later in the season, dance fans can also enjoy Ballet Black who make a welcome return with an exciting new double bill.



Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman plays from Tuesday 11th - Saturday 15th March. In this fresh new production of ‘one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century’ acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad’s Army) plays the lead role of Willy Loman in this timeless and powerful tale about the sacrifices made in pursuit of the ‘American Dream’.

Following this is James Graham’s powerful new adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s BAFTA award-winning television drama series, Boys from the Blackstuff, which can be seen at The Rep from Tuesday 18th - Saturday 22nd March, having come directly from the National Theatre and the West End.



On Tuesday 25th March), actor Nigel Havers will share the behind-the-scenes gossip, tales of triumph (and disaster), moments of sheer madness, and a fair bit of Talking B*ll*cks in his first-ever solo show, taking audiences through his five decades in show business, while closing out the month is the compelling storytelling, warm humour, and unforgettable music of Jamaica Love (Saturday 29th – Sunday 30th March). Featuring the legendary vocals of John McLean, the soulful harmonies of Celia Wickham-Anderson of Black Voices fame, and a live band, Jamaica Love will take audiences on a musical journey through Jamaica’s rich musical heritage.

The Rep will also be celebrating the very best of emerging work from a series of new writers in their most intimate performance space, The Door. The programme starts with Tiny Fragments of Beautiful Light (Tuesday 4th - Thursday 6th March) - a moving piece exploring the writer's own diagnosis of autism through a female lens.



(The) Woman (Friday 7th & Saturday 8th March) is a fiercely funny and brutally honest depiction of motherhood by award-winning upcoming writer Jane Upton; while The Intrusion (Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th March) is a darkly comedic collaboration between Bric à Brac Theatre and Told by an Idiot about the end of the world and the threat of extinction around the corner.

The Door's March season is followed by Everybody Wants to Be Ronaldo (Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd March) about the pressures of football academies on young men, before concluding with Everywhere (Thursday 27th March) - a triple bill of 30-minute original and diverse short plays.

For further information visit: https://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk

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