New grandmother Linda Robson is rolling back the years as she prepares to take to the stage in the West Midlands for Birds of a Feather.

So then, the big question.

A feast of ballet is in store for visitors to Birmingham with two outstanding productions reaching city theatres during the coming week.

Theatre-goers who were expecting to see former EastEnders stars Samantha Womack and Alex Ferns perform in hit musical South Pacific in Birmingham last night said they were disappointed after both performers again pulled out due to ill health.

When Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II penned the score for their 1949 Broadway musical South Pacific, they could hardly imagine how successful it would become.

With the boards still vibrating from the Strictly dance gang at the NIA at the weekend, the programme’s badboy Brendan Cole blew into town hot on their heels cocking a snook at the show’s bosses.

Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole will hit the dancefloor in Birmingham with his dynamic show, Live and Unjudged on January 23. Here the Strictly bad boy shares his perfect weekend . . .

It may have left our screens for another year, but the region is bracing itself for another dose of Strictly fever.

“Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery . . . all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts” . . . so begins the international award-winning musical Chicagowhich comes to Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre in March.

It’s a grease lightning! One of the greatest musicals of all time has hit Birmingham’s New Alexandra theatre – and it’s done so with a bang.