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REVIEW: Twelve Angry Men @ Theatre Royal Brighton
Patrick Duffy serves up a quiet, reflective convincing ‘good man’ performance. Both fascinating and keeping the focus on the slow deliberate unfolding action.
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REVIEW: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie @ Theatre Royal Brighton
It’s a triumphant toetapping trumpeting of gender diversity, celebrating untrammelled queerness as the core of being.
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REVIEW: ‘Simply Barbra’ – simply amazing!
Brian Butler finds a legend re-created
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REVIEW: Secret Byrd @ BREMF
The Secret Mass was a beautiful opening gig to BREMF….with this sacred music made tangible, giving everyone something to sigh over
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OPERA REVIEW: Peter Grimes @ London Coliseum (English National Opera)
A night of grim fascinations.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘DRAG: A British History’ by Jacob Bloomfield
The book takes us by the manicured gloved hand and leads us, via clubs, shows, scandals, politics, intrigue, to some rather delicious Queer individuals and the way they used Drag to succeed and flourish on stage
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Theatre Royal Brighton’s winter season, from Ruby Wax’s journey to find peace to Liza with a Z and THE Dame Joan Collins
Brian Butler finds poltergeists galore, a teenage drag artist and Royal rock stars at Theatre Royal Brighton
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Deirdre O’Halloran to join Birmingham Hippodrome as Head of New Musical Theatre
Birmingham Hippodrome has announced that Deirdre O’Halloran will be joining them as the Head of New Musical Theatre. The first UK venue to launch an in-house department dedicated to musical theatre, O’Halloran will head the Birmingham Hippodrome’s development of new musicals for the West Midlands.
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REVIEW: A Strange Loop @ Barbican Theatre
Loop lives up to the hype and effortlessly surpasses the publicity and cant, using originality wit and tenderness to offer up an almost unique theatrical experience wrapped in a comforting familiar style.
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MUSIC REVIEW: Five-star musical theatre – it’s all in the mix
Brian Butler finds two recordings of musicals get a great fresh sound
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Meet the Author: Redfern Jon Barrett @ the Ledward Centre tonight
Join Eric Page as he gently probes author Redfern Jon Barrett at the Ledward Centre about his new book Proud Pink Sky – a vision of the world’s first gay state
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A Brighton billboard takeover by artist Helen Cammock, inspired by ‘All About Love’ by bell hooks
Billboard and advertising spaces across Brighton & Hove will be taken over by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Cammock for one weekend in August as part of BUILDHOLLYWOOD’s first major curatorial and artist commission, All About Love. Originally planned to coincide with the opening of a major outdo