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REVIEW: Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder On The Orient Express’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

REVIEW: Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder On The Orient Express’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

I kick off by saying Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express just couldn’t be bettered – it is stunning in both its staging and its acting. Lucy Bailey directs a version that teeters between white knuckle thriller and camp and comic farce – and it works, oh how it w

REVIEW: Kinky Boots @ Theatre Royal Brighton

REVIEW: Kinky Boots @ Theatre Royal Brighton

Sequins, Salvation, and Societal Transformation at Kinky Boots, a fiercely luminous testament to resilience, identity, and radical empathy.

REVIEW: La Bohème @ Theatre Royal

REVIEW: La Bohème @ Theatre Royal

This renowned romantic opera, telling the heartbreaking story of the consumptive Mimi and her penniless writer lover, was beautifully brought to life on stage.

REVIEW: ‘Picture You Dead’ at Theatre Royal Brighton

REVIEW: ‘Picture You Dead’ at Theatre Royal Brighton

Brighton-born Number One crime writer Peter James delves into the shady world of art forgeries for his latest stage offering, Picture You Dead, deftly adapted from the novel by Shaun McKenna. Stephen Sondheim wrote in his masterful musical about painter Georges Seurat: “art isn’t easy,” and forging

REVIEW: ‘The Last Laugh’ at Theatre Royal Brighton

REVIEW: ‘The Last Laugh’ at Theatre Royal Brighton

Three comedians walk into a dressing room – no seriously – three comedians walk into a dressing room. This is the premise at the centre of Paul Hendy’s tragicomedy The Last Laugh – which he both wrote and directs. And not just any comedians – these are giants of late 20th-century comedy – Tommy Coop

“Big Brother is still watching you…”

“Big Brother is still watching you…”

George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, about a totalitarian state, was written 75 years ago and it’s depressing and scary that most of its futuristic visions have come true. As we enter the auditorium at Brighton’s Theatre Royal for Ryan Craig’s stage adaptation we are scanned by a camera in the huge

REVIEW: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

REVIEW: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

Evan Hansen is an isolated high school student with no friends and no life and on medication for social anxiety disorder- and he’s fallen out of a tree and broken his arm, now in plaster. When his doctor prescribes that he writes a daily letter to himself – hence the show title Dear Evan Hansen […]

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