Arts What’s Cookin’? Jaq Bayles meets Woody Cook, whose new media company aims to ‘give back’ and create a community By Jaq Bayles • 4 min read
Arts Marlborough Productions call for LGBTQ+ performers Marlborough Productions has three £12,500 commissions available to support the development of LGBTQ+ performance artists. By Rachel Badham • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Passagers by The 7 Fingers @ Brighton Dome Brian Butler marvels at the daring young men and women on the flying trapeze when he watched Passagers by The 7 Fingers @ Brighton Dome By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts Fruitful Collective Bitten Peach was formed with fellow performers on the cabaret scene. They sold out as soon as they announced shows. Was that because of the individual performers or the nature of the group? “I think it was the collective aspect… no one had really seen an all-Asian group. ShayShay has a good followin By Alex Klineberg • 4 min read
Arts FEATURE: Spotlight on Brighton, Eastbourne and Worthing theatre seasons Brian Butler finds ballet, circus, bedknobs, broomsticks and a mad dog in our local theatres By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Hairspray @ Theatre Royal To say the audience loved this show would be an understatement, they were on their feet roaring at the end of it, and it’s here that Hairspray gives it’s best, a wholesome, entertaining show, full of cartoon colour and Marc Shaiman’s luminous score (along with happy lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittm By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Midnight Bell New Adventures Mathew Bourne Superb and with a lot to recommend it, The Midnight Bell is a wonderful show to enjoy in the Theatre Royal with enough flair to impress the dance aficionados, more than enough to satisfy the Bourne fans in the house, and enough real passion for your average audience member to enjoy. Its overflowing By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Comedy, fake news and amazing circus acts come to Brighton Dome Brian Butler look forward to world-class entertainment at Brighton Dome By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dirty Dancing @ Theatre Royal Brighton He is a superb dancer. His body writing with a gymnastic energetic which is astonishing, jumping, twisting, lifting, spinning, thrusting, gyrating and doing all the things you can possibly do with a huge thickly muscled body to music. He understands the affect this has on his audience and plays up t By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts FEATURE: Brighton’s Theatre Royal roars back Brian Butler gets an actor’s view of Brighton Theatre Royal as it re-opens By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Coppelia and The Supermarket Suite Brian Butler marvels at ballet at the supermarket and the Soho sex shop By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Alyssa Edwards- Memoirs of a Queen Brian Butler gets swept up in the glitz and glamour of a Southern belle By Brian Butler • 2 min read
