Arts B RIGHT ON FESTIVAL: LGBT History Month: Sing-a-long-a ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Now at long last The Rocky Horror Picture Show gets what it’s been SCREAMING for – the full sing-a-long-a treatment. If you’ve done The Time Warp before, you’ll never have done it quite like this! By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: ‘We Raise Our Hands in the Sanctuary’ New play spotlights the crucial importance of queer spaces and club culture. The 1980’s saw a major shift towards the emergence of a global gay club culture, but it was set against a backdrop of desperate levels of unemployment, riots, driven by racism, and AIDS casually reported as a gay plague. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Celebrating the city’s dancers – Dance Active returns for a fifth year Dance Active, Brighton & Hove’s annual community dance platform, returns for a 5th year bringing 300 dancers to the stage for an evening of hip hop, flamenco, Charleston and much more. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Win a pair of tickets for Holiday on Ice: BELIEVE at Brighton Centre Holiday on Ice returns to the Brighton Centre once again in January with their new show BELIEVE, directed and choreographed by skating legend, Christopher Dean. By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts GFEST 2016: films and performances begin this weekend. London’s annual LGBTQI cross-art and cultural event GFEST – Gaywise FESTival opened on November 7 followed on November 8 with a visual arts exhibition ‘arty-party’ at Menier Gallery near London Bridge. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
A scene from Rabbit and Fiction from Life by BalletBoyz @ Sadler’s Wells. (Opening 20-04-16) å©Tristram Kenton 04/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com Arts DANCE REVIEW: BalletBoyz@Brighton Dome All male dance company BalletBoyz has made a triumphant return to Brighton with Life – a two-part show looking at life, death and some of the tones in between. The programme consists of two commissioned pieces from choreographers known for very different approaches and styles. By Paul Gustafson • 3 min read
Arts Star names for Guildhall stage at Priory Park Festival, Chichester A treasure trove of writers, poets and musicians have now been confirmed for the second performance stage at Priory Park Festival Chichester. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Smoke and Mirrors This carefully explored, almost forensic due of endurance, acrobatic skills, and mesmerising body movements and dance is a very clean looking performance, lights, sound and set all stripped back to an essence By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: The Sissy’s Progress This was a Via Dolorosa with trombones. Part triumphant movement, part clown, dangerous and painted and unpredictable lurching forward into the unknown and part monstrously perfect, demanding affirming reclaiming of the streets. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Briefs Slip into BRIEFS in Brighton this May during the Brighton Fringe Festival at Republic on the beach next to Brighton Wheel. This Spring, the heart-stopping blend of cabaret burlesque, Australian machismo and punkish swagger comes to Brighton following a barnstorming year of sell out runs and ecstatic By Contributor • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Sisters of Avalon: Lullabies for Lover and Sinners The performance starts where the video “Night circus” stops. At the end of the tunnel. It is all about the journey of my inner self, as the tunnel symbolises the unconscious internal self. Inside its darkness, I had only one weapon to fight with, My light. My light was my childhood captured in songs By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Richard Alston Dance Company@Sadler’s Wells As part of a 2016 nationwide tour which comes to Brighton in October, Richard Alston presented the world premiere of his sparkling new commission, An Italian in Madrid, alongside three other established company works. By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
