Arts Stars support Eastbourne Hippodrome grant bid Show business stars back the Royal Hippodrome Theatre (RHT), Eastbourne in their bid to secure a £25,000 grant from the Aviva Community Awards. If successful in their bid the CIC will use the money to prepare the paperwork for their £1.2million Heritage Lottery Bid which will see a restored facade, By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ABC Exhibition at Gallery 40 Hove residents’ David Apps and Billy Chainsaw team-up with Gaye Black (formerly of punk legends the ADVERTS) for the ABC art exhibition. Apps, Black and Chainsaw share a vision – to provide a visual remedy to the mundanity of modern life. By Besi • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Bald Prima Donna Eugene Ionesco’s classic absurdist play was first performed in Paris in 1950 and since then has gone on to become one of the most performed plays in France. This is perhaps not surprising given that, situationally, the play is set in the suburbs of London and takes great delight in poking fun at the By Paul Gustafson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Fringe: Elixir REVIEW Elixir Head First Boscow Tent Old Steine This new show from Head First Acrobats where three acrobatic and enthusiastic scientists attempt to create the elixir of life is a unique mix of mayhem where lithe handsome boys and incredible circus tricks meet with impeccable comic timing to make you By Eric Page • 3 min read
Sally Vate, Chamonix Aspen and La Voix Arts Chamonix Aspen, wins Brighton Drag Idol heat Chamonix Aspen, a name to remember, was the unanimous choice of the judges tonight to go forward and represent Charles Street in the national final of Drag Idol. La Voix and Sally Vate hosted this evenings Brighton Heat of Drag Idol at Charles Street Bar, the best Drag Idol heat staged in Brighton f By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Basement: 4 Guys Chillin’ This is a verbatim drama based on interviews with a number of men who go to ‘chill out’ parties or, to be perhaps slightly more accurate, ‘drug-fuelled orgies’. As it starts off it seems as if it’s going to be a basically sensational tale of hedonistic gay men and the hijinks they get up to. There’s By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts Help take the Brighton Pride Parade to the next level! Do you want to be an exotic participant in the Brighton Pride Parade? Now is your chance to find your inner ANIMAL and get involved, courtesy of a new project by andwhatarts and costumier extraordinaire Mandinga Arts. Proud Interventions funded by Arts Council England is a stylised costume based pro By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Jungle Book comes to Emporium, Brighton Emporium will be staging its own tribute to Rudyard Kipling, the Rottingdean based writer born 150 years ago, with a musical version of his most famous work, The Jungle Book. This classic tale of Mowgli the man cub raised by wolves, taught by a bear but hunted by a tiger, will transport its audience By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Marlborough: Miss Behave’s Gameshow The premise of this show is that the most important division in the world isn’t male and female or gay and straight but those who own iPhones and the rest of us. As we enter the confines of the Marlborough the audience is split into these two rival factions and then the games commence. Some utilise By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘Sinderfella’ The Alternative Panto at Sallis Benney Theatre Naughty adult entertainment returns to Brighton in February 2016 when Southern Entertainments will be producing sixteen performances of The Alternative Panto ‘Sinderella’ at the Sallis Benny Theatre in Brighton. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Golden Handbag Awards – The Countdown begins With a month to the Golden Handbag Awards at the Brighton Metropole Hilton and two weeks left to vote, the outcome of this years awards promises to be the closest ever. This year, 3,000 people voted in the first four days of online voting, smashing last years early doors vote which was less than hal By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Festival: The Joey Arias Experience A great night out, with a stunning performer in the perfect venue, the band could have been a little tighter as they seemed as languid and laid back as Arias pretended to be, but somehow that’s a small criticism for what was one of the best Festival shows I’ve seen. By Eric Page • 3 min read
