Bone Broth by Alex Taylor
Taylor has created something original: a thriller with real heart, horror laced with tenderness, and a trans protagonist we can recognize ourselves in.
Eric Page
Partenope at ENO:
As frothy entertainment with queer sensibility, this Partenope delivers more hits than misses...with enough sparkle to sustain the evening. Seventeen years on, it remains a glorious show.
Chloe Michelle Howarth's Heap Earth Upon It
Howarth's intricate web of suspense proves masterful: trust becomes currency, and she spends it with devastating precision — a writer excavating how we bury feelings at our peril, and how queer desire persists, insists, even in the most inhospitable soil.
Summer Hours by Alessandra Thom
Thom writes with precision and tenderness in equal measure—a formidable combination. One leaves Summer Hours slightly dazed, as if emerging from someone else's fever dream into the cold Scottish morning.
Family Matters: A Celebration of Queer Arab Kinship
Within these stories shine moments of hope and audacious resistance. With profound beauty in surprise friendships, patient lovers, and time's gentle healing. This anthology weaves individual testimonies into a sweeping portrait of queer Arab existence across continents.
Dead Man Walking at ENO: Grace Under the Shadow of Death English National Opera
Dead Man Walking resonates with devastating contemporary relevance.
This is opera at its highest capacity: posing unanswerable questions, creating space for profound feeling, then releasing us—irrevocably touched, fundamentally altered, alone with reconfigured thoughts.
La Fonte Musica Brings Monteverdi's Passion to Brighton
BREMF has once again delivered a stellar season of musical events, staying true to its mission of unearthing forgotten treasures, championing emerging talent, and bringing world-class early music performers to Brighton.