Arts BRIGHTON PRIDE: D.E.Experience returns to Legends Cabaret Tent Jonathan Hellyer aka The D.E. Experience, one of the country’s top drag queens, makes a welcome return to Brighton Pride, where for many years he headlined the Legends Cabaret stage. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Wolf Meat Wolf Meat is about having fun, both with the performance, with theatrical convention, as well as the audience, and its dark silliness drags you into their world to revel fully in it. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: La Poule Plombee La Poule is the triumph of self delusion, she’s a dangerously unstable mix of abandoned Norma Desmond, a soupcon of young gifted Streisand some hefty dollops of Little Eddie from Grey Gardens, all folded into the fragile body of a falling apart Minnelli it’s a heady frothy explosive intoxicating stu By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: FRINGE: The Tiger Lilies – PIAF The Tiger Lillie’s are a complex, dark acquired taste but an addictive one if they sate your appetite then it was a veritable feast served up at the Spiegeltent on Sunday, no one in the charged up thrilled audience left hungry. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Club Briefs BRIEFS was born in the back warehouse space of a bookshop in Brisbane’s West End in 2008. The boys put on a club night to give performers the chance to try out some new late night cabaret/variety acts. There were no rules or restrictions. They weren’t answering to a brief or a venue or a funding bod By Eric Page • 3 min read
Cabaret REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: CircoPitanga An excellent hour of well crafted and seriously impressive skill. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Cabaret REVIEW: Pink Fringe: Madame Señorita Valluerca managed the raucous fringe audience well, charming everyone with just a hint of Iberian Menace behind those flashing eyes. She has that wonderfully Spanish mix of dark and light so compounded in the Spanish soul, like Goya eating candy floss of getting your face sliced by las Meninas, Mada By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Buckle up Bitches! at Brighton Pride Turn your inflight devices to entertainment mode as we get set to welcome international comedy star Pam Ann to Brighton for her exclusive Pride warm-up show Buckle Up Bitches. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts STOOSHE to headline Portsmouth Pride Following the success of Portsmouth Pride last year, organisers have listened to feedback from supporters and created a bigger event in 2016. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Elixir Zombie Circus show returns to Spiegeltent. The award-winning comic acrobatic show Elixir will return to the Brighton Fringe once again this year after their killer debut at last years Festival. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Daggers MacKenzie She’s wanted dead or alive and she juggles knives. The one woman, knife juggling rock opera Daggers MacKenzie comes to Brighton Fringe. By Contributor • 1 min read
Lola Lasagne Cabaret Pride announce line-up for Legends Cabaret Big Top The irrepressible Stephen Richards a.k.a. Lola Lasagne hosts the legendary Legends Cabaret Big Top once again this year. By Graham Robson • 3 min read