We are pleased to announce that @ A E Harris is one of four venues hosting productions as part of the first edition of
“Birmingham Fest” a new performing arts festival in the city.

The festival runs for two and a half weeks (12th – 28th July) and draws together artists and companies from across the UK. Other venues are The Blue Orange, The Crescent and The Old Joint Stock.

Our shows are Tempestory (see image above) and Twelfth Night. Details of both can be found by clicking through the diary links to the right here.

For details of other Birmingham Fest events visit their website.

Photo Credit: Graeme Braidwood

Invitation to Open Space

Matt Burman, Louisa Davies, Steve Johnston, Frances Land, Roxana Silbert and James Yarker invite you to address the question:

“HOW DO WE WORK TOGETHER TO PUSH THEATRE FORWARD IN THE WEST MIDLANDS?”

We all share a passion for Theatre and for its growth in the region. Individually we are all committed and working to this cause but experience tells us that our greatest strength comes when we work together. It has been two years since the theatre tribes of the West Midlands have come together in Open Space to chart paths and forge alliances. This time has come again.

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For one night only a series of encounters, performances, installations and projections will be set up throughout the venue. Resulting from a variety of cross-art form collaborations between students at Birmingham City University this promises to be a spectacular event, it’s free, the bar is cheap and it should be lovely weather – what a great evening we have planned for you.

It’s been a while but finally we are pleased to welcome back PILOT NIGHT on 16th May. Tin Box are curating this event, there is visual art, an installation, food, acoustic music and a fistful of theatre.

Anne Pawlak: Wonderful World of Dissocia
Gergo Danka: He Was a Bad Man
Joe Hancock: Joe Hancock Presents A Piece about Faded Childhood Genius That is in No Way Autobiographical.
Rambling Heart: The Vaudeville Icarus
SPITZ & CO: Gloriator
Urban Foxes Collective: The Last Dance of the Twenty Odd’s…

Doors open for ancillary activities at 18:30 and the theatre kicks off at 19:30.

Artist, Reveal Yourself! is organised by PAiL, West Midlands in collaboration with Polish Expats Association. It launches on the 3rd of May 2013 @ AE Harris. For three days, visitors will have a chance to see visual art, experience theatre, music, slam poetry, and participate in a range of workshops. (more…)

A collection of memories from past industrial workers, the narratives of Factory Folk are stories collected from real people throughout the north of England, giving an insight into the lives of past factory workers and their families. Blending their words with live music and performance, the show’s heart-warming tales will take you on a journey through the hardship of Twentieth Century Factory Life.

Great and intriguing sounds emanating from the building today as rehearsals crank up for different musical experiments from Birmingham Conservatoire. The whole week has a varied program of events. The best way to work out what is happening is visit the event’s website.

We are pleased to announce two stand-out events visiting @ A E Harris in a single week.

On 22nd April we are flattered that Angela Clerkin and Improbable have chosen @ A E Harris as the Birmingham stop off for national tour of The Bear. The show looks like a lot of fun and we’d be really pleased if there were a good crowd to welcome this prestigious company to our venue.

Then, with a day to recover, we welcome long time Stan’s Cafe collaborator Bernadette Russell to the venue with her own company White Rabbit and her own show 366 Days of Kindness. This is a work-in-progress preview of the piece, which has close connections with Birmingham as it was born out of the riots two years ago.

For Angela’s show you need to buy tickets from here. For Bernadette’s you have to be invited, but that’s easily done if you follow the links.

Four and a half years into @ A E Harris and Riddlewood has to count in the top three most spectacular installations to have gone into the space. It’s made by students from the Birmingham School of Acting. It looks amazing, it’s free to attend but you’re advised to book slots but do go, it’s on until Saturday night in hourly slots details.. Email Riddlewood.bcu@gmail.com

Theatre Fever started in the West Midlands district today. Double Plus Good. Four productions @ A E Harris over these two weeks which contribute to this celebration of West Midlands Theatre. Tonight Inferno Kid, next week 1984, then Palimpsest City and finally The Furies. Surely that’s enough of a range for there to be something you fancy. Come and catch the Fever.