Arts Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival 2015 TLVFest’s will be celebrating their 10th anniversary at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque during Pride week in Tel Aviv from June 6 to June 15. This year’s festival features new movies starring James Franco, Robin Williams and Natasha Lyonne. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dome: Being Both As one of the great vocal artists of her generation, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is renowned for her Handelian repertory and the portrayal of roles originally written for castrati. With lots of indication of depth and analysis about this most curious habit of mixing up of gender roles bringing insight By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Benefit for Sussex Beacon at Proud Cabaret Across The Pond is a blend of old and new performers providing a plethora of cabaret entertainment at Proud Cabaret, Brighton on Wednesday, July 29 2015. The show will be hosted by Mysterry Drag-Queen who felt that the traditional Sussex Beacon Fundraiser that occurs on the last Wednesday before Bri By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Brighton Pride: Libraries Literature Live in the Park After the critical success of last year’s Literature Live at Brighton Pride, Brighton & Hove Libraries in partnership with Queer in Brighton and ‘HAVE A WORD’ will host an afternoon of entertainment at Preston Park with writers and performers talking about and reading from their own work. Sit back, By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: Wolf Meat From the same group – Wildheart & Lyric – that brought us ‘told by an idiot’ last year this new outing Wolf Meat has a plot very loosely based on the tale of Red Riding Hood but based in a geriatric drug factory in a Croydon Council estate. This glamourized the world of drugs, porn and violence to t By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: The Pirates of Penzance: ENO This highly anticipated swashbuckling farce with its new staging is directed by Mike (I’ll never direct an opera) Leigh, who made his operatic debut this evening. I liked his version, all geometric sets and ultra-simplistic colours from Alison Chitty, they worked well, softly gliding and sliding int By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Fringe: Stalin’s Daughter at the Rialto In Stalin’s Daughter, David Lane’s powerful and disturbing monologue presents us with a haunting psychological examination of the later life of Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. Uprooted and transient after her defection to the United States three decades earlier, the story opens with S By Paul Gustafson • 1 min read
Sheila McWattie Arts The Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage – call for performers at Brighton Pride Singer songwriter Nicky Mitchell, performance poet, stand up and MC Annabel Pribelszki and the Charity Cabaret team will be hosting the Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage at this year’s Brighton Pride Festival in Preston Park. The Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage will showcase the br By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Irish rock band supports equal marriage in Ireland Alternative rock band HAWK have released a new track, Glass, inspired by the upcoming Marriage Equality Referendum, taking place in Ireland on May 22. The track has an ethereal quality that’s further intensified by drums and a stripped back guitar sound lending weight to the haunting vocals, while t By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Could you be the next John Peel or Fearne Cotton? RadioReverb, Brighton’s community radio station, has launched a new training facility at their studios in Cheapside, offering fun, practical engaging radio presenting courses run by industry professionals which focus on practical skills and hands-on experience with a learning by doing approach. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Fringe: Threesome Review: Threesome Theatre Box: Warren Brighton Fringe This new play examines the effects of changing the rules of engagement in a settled marriage played to a sold out house at the neat little Theatre Box over the weekend. Chris Willoughby’s delightful and subtle performance as confused and bemused By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘Out of the Woods’ with Resound Male Voices Resound Male Voices, a Brighton & Hove based male singing group, will be performing with the Rebelles at Out of the Woods: Music at Midsummer, a magical evening of vocal music loosely set in a Scandinavian midsummer forest on June 20. The choirs, both led by opera singer and vocal coach, Stefan Holm By Besi • 2 min read
