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REVIEW: An Audience with Armistead Maupin @Theatre Royal

REVIEW: An Audience with Armistead Maupin @Theatre Royal

This was an unforgettable evening with the Tales of the City author celebrating the launch of his long-awaited memoir Logical Family. From his early life in the conservative South to liberal San Francisco, from his palm-reading Grannie to an awkward chat about girls with President Nixon, Armistead M

THEATRE REVIEW: The Best Man @Theatre Royal

THEATRE REVIEW: The Best Man @Theatre Royal

After making its UK premier at Theatre Royal Windsor earlier this month, Gore Vidal’s 1960 political satire, The Best Man, has landed at Brighton’s Theatre Royal on the second leg of its UK tour. The plot revolves around the characters and ambitions of two very different fictional politicians vying

PREVIEW: Grease – Tom Parker from boy band to leading man

PREVIEW: Grease – Tom Parker from boy band to leading man

Voted The No.1 Greatest Musical in Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Musical – GREASE comes to the Theatre Royal, Brighton for Christmas 2017! In the absence of a traditional Christmas Pantomime at the Theatre Royal again this Christmas, it’s time to dust off your leather jackets, pull on your bobby socks an

THEATRE REVIEW: Driving Miss Daisy @Theatre Royal

THEATRE REVIEW: Driving Miss Daisy @Theatre Royal

This is a perfectly balanced cast, Sian Phillips as Miss Daisy captures the fierce but fragile nature of this woman whose humble beginnings and comfortable retirement dictate her relationship with the outside world. Derek Griffiths as her driver Hoke Colburn who ages and changes along with her is t

REVIEW: The Wedding Singer @Theatre Royal

REVIEW: The Wedding Singer @Theatre Royal

Based on the 1998 box office breaking movie, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, The Wedding Singer’s original musical score written by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin has much to offer but sadly on first hearing, few memorable tunes.

REVIEW: La Cage Aux Folles @Theatre Royal

REVIEW: La Cage Aux Folles @Theatre Royal

When La Cage Aux Folles opened in 1983 it was very much a ‘piece of its time’ scripted by Harvey Fierstein with music by Jerry Herman and introducing the world to the fabulous Les Cagelles. Those were the days before we had gay marriage and many of the rights we now enjoy. The musical gave gay peopl

REVIEW: Shirley Valentine @Theatre Royal

REVIEW: Shirley Valentine @Theatre Royal

I could gush more, I will gush more, but book yourself a ticket now, this was an unexpected treat and I left feeling empowered by Russell’s life affirming writing, as relevant now as it was thirty years ago, and enchanted by this tour de force performance from Prenger. With the audience on their fee

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