Arts PREVIEW: We’re Still Here!: The JEWish Cabaret “We’re Still Here!” is a tribute to the Queer songwriters of the Jewish community who have transformed and defined music and theatre over the years. This performance aims to raise funds and awareness in aid of the LGBT+ community in Chechnya, who are currently being persecuted for their identity. T By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Resound and Brighton Chamber Choir Resound and The Brighton Chamber Choir (BCC) bathe the audience in shimmering Water Night. For the first time two of Brighton and Hove’s favourite choirs are pooling their vocal talents to create a night overflowing with shimmering music. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Buddy The Buddy Holly Story @Theatre Royal In just 18 short months between 1957 and 1959 Buddy Holly changed the face of modern music, producing in the process a treasure trove of rock and roll classics that have become the soundtrack of following generations. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: All You Need is Love: Shanni Collins All families come in different shapes and sizes, but they are all special when they love and respect each other. These fun rhyming stories are a celebration of the diversity of families and encourage inclusion and acceptance in a child’s relationships. By promoting diversity and understanding in fam By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Arr’ we there yet? Head First Acrobats If you’ve ever seen them then you know what they do, and they’ve adapted their impressive skills to suit both adult evening shows and this fun kids show. Swashbuckling daftness abound with some delightful daft tango’ing with mops as they swabbing the decks, climbing the rigging on a unsupported ladd By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: La Voix @Brighton Spiegeltent With new ventures taking La V out there, in the arts festival circuit this was a new move, with some seriously tongue in cheek acknowledgments of the (same) old material. The house was packed full of fans, who knew what they wanted, and weren’t disappointed. With a fan base of older gay men Brighton By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Guilty of Love @St Mary’s Church Books, plays and films about the life and death of the brilliant code-breaker Alan Turing are many and varied. This is the second musical on his life which I have seen in recent years , and as it’s 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalised, it’s a timely re-visit to the subject matter. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Gypsy Queen @The Marlborough Theatre Hope Theatre Company’s latest production of Gypsy Queen isn’t a bad play; it’s everything you would expect to see in a gay play: repressed sexuality, conflicting masculinity, gay male stereotypes, jokes about tops/bottoms, a homophobic climax and full-frontal nudity. Even the show’s poster is obviou By Spencer Charles Smith • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Traumfrau Disco and DIY @Komedia Queer disco, Traumfrau, takes over Komedia Brighton for Disco & DIY featuring special guest American DJ, producer and musician JD Samson on Friday, June 16 from 11pm. The legendary JD Samson, one third of the American electronic-feminist-punk band Le Tigre, will be joined by the equally epic DJ Jume By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts Voting closes at midnight in the 2017 Golden Handbag Awards There is just over 24 hours left to vote in this years Golden Handbag Awards. Voting closes tomorrow night, Monday, May 29 at midnight when the countdown begins to the winners being announced at the Golden Handbag Show on Sunday, June 11 at the Brighton Metropole Hilton starting at 7.30pm sharp. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: The Starship Osiris @Komedia Studio George Vere’s hour-long confection is a riotous piece of grade-Z science fiction in which a rather bijou starship has to battle cheaply made monsters, a demoralised cast, Vere’s monstrous ego and some of the worst sci-fi power ballads known to humankind. Slowly its creator’s ego trip, during which w By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Agent of Influence In this Dick Barton style cheap spy thriller monologue Rebecca Dunn as Times newspaper fashion and gossip columnist Lady Pamela, conjures up a world of high society, smart clothes, Nazis and the abdication of Edward VIII. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
