FEATURE: Spotlight on Brighton, Eastbourne and Worthing theatre seasons
Brian Butler finds ballet, circus, bedknobs, broomsticks and a mad dog in our local theatres
Dance
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
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
PREVIEW: Comedy, fake news and amazing circus acts come to Brighton Dome
Brian Butler look forward to world-class entertainment at Brighton Dome
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
FEATURE: Brighton’s Theatre Royal roars back
Brian Butler gets an actor’s view of Brighton Theatre Royal as it re-opens
REVIEW: Coppelia and The Supermarket Suite
Brian Butler marvels at ballet at the supermarket and the Soho sex shop