Arts Bourne Free – the 11th edition Bourne Free returns in 2015 for its 11th annual pride event in Bournemouth. This year you can expect more of the same with great entertainment lined up for the three-day celebration starting on Friday, July 10. It all kicks off with the Family Fun Night on the Friday with a Broadway themed evening. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brit Floyd – Space & Time World Tour Brit Floyd – The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show, returns to Europe in 2015 to present its Space & Time World Tour, its most ambitious show to date; with a spectacular new light show, and an even bigger stage production. Celebrating five decades of Pink Floyd; from their creation in 1965 right thro By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Fringe: Mirando the Gay Tempest As well as being our most celebrated dramatist, Shakespeare was a prolific story-teller. In Theatre North’s Mirando, the Gay Tempest, which has just finished a run of performances at Brighton Fringe, Martin Lewton’s one man show brings Shakespeare’s play to new life through a remarkable tour de forc By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts Resound Male Voices to sing at Charity Gala ‘Resound Male Voices’ will be performing at a Charity Gala for The Martlet’s Hospice in Hove, on Saturday, May 16 at The Windmill Theatre in Blatchington Mill School. The evening will be presented by the Rotary Club of Brighton and Hove and include performances by ‘Resound Male Voices’, ‘Rebelles’, By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: Get A Round This is fresh, raw theater, using common clichés and sad tragic lives to spear us with some uncomfortable truths about our empty consumer lives. One of my fringe highlights so far! You will love them and they will love you, unconditionally. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Lady Boys of Bangkok The Lady Boys of Bangkok bring much-needed glamour to the city during the Fringe with their new production Beauties and the Beats. This year’s bevy of beauties are quite simply stunning and in my humble opinion the most glamorous LadyBoys we have seen in the 17 years the troupe have been returning e By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Fringe: The Trousered Traviata In a flapping noisy tent with the wind picking up outside we sat down to watch Verdi’s tragic opera Traviata, but with a female cast. Having an all female cast changed the whole tone of the opera; remarkably so, with a mean mother and female lovers changing the texture of this misogynist opera and t By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Fringe: Express Yourself: If You Leave Brighton Fringe Festival and particularly the collection of Warren venues continues its tradition of innovative forward thinking programming with 201 Dance Company’s ‘If You Leave’. Following a brief yet successful run in London and ahead of its Edinburgh stint this August ‘If You Leave’ is a must f By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Fringe: carMen Set in the gay community of liberal 1920s Spain. José, the central character in this all-male reworking of Bizet’s tragic opera, is sexually confused and dominated by a strictly religious upbringing. His infatuation with handsome Carmen leads to inner turmoil and tragedy – a journey which reflects t By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Camille O’Sullivan: Spiegeltent Some folk write their own reviews, some folk are lucky to get one, some folk impress, Ms O’Sullivan deserves more than a good review, she deserves a love letter from us humble critics. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts ME Show (Open House) at Merlin & Ellis For the duration of May, Merlin & Ellis in Manchester Street are hosting a diverse collection of art from a group of hugely talented artists. Merlin & Ellis is a treasure trove of goodies including vintage and second hand label clothes, LGBT books, natural scents, eau de colognes and a huge range of By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Call for performers for controversial play Edit Profile is a play being produced by the Very Awkward Company which will run at the Marlborough Theatre on July 2,3, and 4, 2015. The producers are still recruiting cast members and extras to participate in the production which is the story of a recently single gay man’s journey into the world o By Besi • 1 min read
