Arts
Dance Review: Sad Book @ Old Market Hove
Sad Book is a beautiful picture of one man’s sorrow and the world’s ignorance of it
Dance
Mariposa, choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s queer take on Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, to tour the UK from October 2024
Under the flickering neon lights of a distant Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love and a young man is asked to sacrifice his gender in exchange for love and a better life…
Dance
Ground-breaking queer Kathak dance production, ‘Waltzing the Blue Gods’, coming to Brighton during Pride on Sunday, August 4
Jaivant Patel Company is performing Waltzing the Blue Gods at South East Dance during Brighton & Hove Pride on Sunday, August 4 from 6pm. Part auto-biographical, part fantasy, the evening celebrates new possibilities for a rich and traditional North Indian art form, Kathak, in the context of modern
Arts
REVIEW: Fool’s Moon: Dance Plague @ Bosco Spiegeltent
Fool’s Moon: Dance Plague is a peculiar piece of theatre that teeters on the edge of brilliance and befuddlement.
Arts
REVIEW: ‘The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions’ @ Southbank Centre
This retelling and centring of queer history is a searing read of patriarchy and the audience buzzed as they left, entertained but unapologetically magically queered up by these faggots and their friends.
Arts
REVIEW: Giselle by Varna International Ballet @ Theatre Royal Brighton
There’s something extra fun about watching a classic ballet, danced in a classic way in a rococo theatre like the Theatre Royal, its velvet plushness and plastered glided excesses underlining what a lovely experience ballet can be.
Arts
REVIEW: The Burnt City by Punchdrunk
I was moved by this Epic dark experience, it was emotive and evocative. I left feeling that I’d been shifted into a different reality, It’s a memorable experience, you will remember it. They’re not afraid of shade are PunchDrunk, in any way means or form.
Arts
PREVIEW: Moroccan acrobats, singing soldiers and a Drag aristo
Brian Butler finds a lot of Queerness on Brighton and London stages
Arts
SPOTLIGHT ON: Chichester’s Winter Season
Brian Butler finds stage delights, including the oldest profession and gunge gangsters
Arts
201 Dance Company welcomes Christina Aguilera to Pride with dance rendition of Dirrty on the streets of Brighton
To give Brighton & Hove Pride headliner Christina Aguilera the warmest welcome to Brighton, choreographer and director Andrea Walker, founder of 201 Dance Company, has once again brought a team of phenomenal dancers together to perform Aguilera’s noughties hit Dirrty in iconic spots around the city.
Comedy
The Trocks are back in Brighton!
The Trocks are to return to Brighton with a performance at The Dome on Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24.
Arts
PREVIEW: Brighton’s midsummer music season
Brian Butler finds many delights in next weekend’s Brighton Early Music Festival