Arts REVIEW: Rocky Horror Show: Theatre Royal Brighton For just a moment, when Frankinfurter entered stage centre through a pair of doors, I was disappointed. I wanted an elevator with an iron grated folding door just like you see in the movie. But then I was almost instantly captured by the fresh cheeky character that grabbed and held the audience thro By Michael Hydes • 2 min read
Cabaret REVIEW: Scrooge Inspired: Spire This is my Christmas city tip! Take the kids, take the boyfriend, take the girlfriend, take the in-laws or out-laws, take the neighbor as it’s Xmas, but dress up warm, By Eric Page • 3 min read
Resound Arts REVIEW: Resound & Rebelles ‘Hove For The Holidays’ After a taster of what these two classy choirs could do at the World Aids Day concert on December 1, my expectations were very high – and I was not to be disappointed. Musical Director Stefan Holmström has drilled both groups to a peak of perfection that any musical ensemble could be proud of, profe By Andrew Kay • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Miss Hope Springs at Komedia Tragic glamour puss and songstress, Hope Springs, sprinkled a bucket-load of lametta over the Komedia on Tuesday, December 8, with Now It’s Christmas Time, her sparkling Christmas show filled with festive songs so finely-sculpted you’d be forgiven for thinking they’d long-since entered the classic C By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Christmas at Kew Gardens This new winter trail for 2015 is filled with magical moments to enjoy with friends and family. The one-mile sparkling path winds its way through the world-famous botanic gardens in a magical after-dark experience. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Rainbow Chorus Christmas Show The Christmas spirit finally came to Kemptown last night, December 5 with the Rainbow Chorus’ Christmas Show, Do you hear the Rainbows Sing? By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Bridge of Spies CD + DVD Box Set This multi-disc re-mastered release of their multi-platinum selling debut outing can only ensure that they remain in our conscience for a little whole longer yet. Including the original album in full, all the big hitters are here, most notably China in Your Hand, Heart and Soul, and Valentine, but a By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Madonna: The Rebel Heart Tour Whilst I have seen Madonna put on a show before, The Rebel Heart Tour has to be up there amongst her finest onstage outings. Although not amongst her most commercially successful, the Rebel Heart album is a cracker and of the opening seven songs, six are taken from her latest release. By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Lulu -The Tiger Lilies: Dome The Tiger Lilies, crepuscular music makers and all round darkly dark cabaret trio, who’s music, songs and personas are as twisted as a Prime Ministers arguments for war and just as deluded and deadly presented their new show Lulu: a murder ballad at the Brighton Dome. By Eric Page • 3 min read
In The South REVIEW: World Aids Day Concert This annual event is an extraordinary coming together of the City’s LGBT music scene, mainly choral, as an act of remembrance and awareness and also as a fund raiser for the charity Lunch Positive – and as such it would be wrong to in any way criticise any of the performances. By Andrew Kay • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Hairspray at the Theatre Royal, Brighton Hairspray is a joyous candy-coloured confection which has a heart as big as its outsize heroine. It manages to combine a thrilling slickness of staging with something quite magically uplifting and the result might, quite possibly, be the most purely enjoyable show of the last few years. By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Mikado: ENO Set in an ever-so English 1930s seaside hotel, bleached white with privilege and wealth Jonathan Miller’s Marx Brothers-inspired song-and-dance Mikado is a popular hit with audiences of all ages. A distant picture of Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the only gentle echos of this operettas By Eric Page • 4 min read
