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Multi-award-winning theatre director Andrew Keates to launch Queer Theatre to tell LGBTQ+ stories and nurture queer talent

Multi-award-winning theatre director Andrew Keates to launch Queer Theatre to tell LGBTQ+ stories and nurture queer talent

A year ago, multi-award-winning theatre director Andrew Keates woke up in a shed at the bottom of a garden pumped full of drugs and on the brink of a heart attack after being sexually assaulted by two men.

REVIEW: Hugh Panaro – ‘Man Without a Mask’ at Crazy Coqs

REVIEW: Hugh Panaro – ‘Man Without a Mask’ at Crazy Coqs

Broadway star Hugh Panaro has an accolade no-one else will achieve for sure: he played the Phantom more than 2,300 times – a staggering achievement. So this huge voice and matching personality could feel constrained in the intimacy of London’s Crazy Coqs cabaret room. Not a bit of it. From the momen

Simply Divine: We speak to Jonny Woo ahead of his new show, ‘Antony and Cleopatra: A Dream Of Passion’

Simply Divine: We speak to Jonny Woo ahead of his new show, ‘Antony and Cleopatra: A Dream Of Passion’

If a film is made of the life of Jonny Woo – and it should be – the only person who could play this dancer, drag artist, poet, actor, writer, DJ and night club owner is: Jonny Woo. If he is a diamond of a performer, it’s because all the rough edges have been polished […]

Lucy Davies announced as the new Chief Executive of Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival

Lucy Davies announced as the new Chief Executive of Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival

Lucy Davies has been announced as the new Chief Executive of Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival. Lucy joins Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival from her role as Executive Director at the Young Vic Theatre, where she has overseen major productions such as a 24-hour non-stop performance of The Second Wom

Book launch and exhibition for Sculpting Colour, a monograph of Romany Mark Bruce, the designer and creator of the Brighton & Hove AIDS Memorial

Book launch and exhibition for Sculpting Colour, a monograph of Romany Mark Bruce, the designer and creator of the Brighton & Hove AIDS Memorial

A book launch, and exhibition, is to take place at Encounters Artspace in Hove for new book Sculpting Colour, a monograph of Romany Mark Bruce, the designer and creator of the Brighton & Hove AIDS Memorial (TAY). Written by Alex Leith, the biography details Romany’s life growing up in Ireland, and h

REVIEW: No Fit State – ‘Sabotage’ at The Level, Brighton

REVIEW: No Fit State – ‘Sabotage’ at The Level, Brighton

So alive, so vibrant, so utterly unforgettable.

“Like most little gay boys, making people laugh was an escape.” Danny Beard to bring ‘Straight Expectations’ to Brighton Komedia in September

“Like most little gay boys, making people laugh was an escape.” Danny Beard to bring ‘Straight Expectations’ to Brighton Komedia in September

Drag performer Danny Beard can trace their stage persona back to the outrageous, flamboyant Leigh Bowery, friend of Boy George, who delighted and shocked audiences in Soho and New York in the 1980s. And now they’re bringing their UK touring show Straight Expectations to Brighton’s Komedia in Septemb

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