Arts Trans? Lady? Queen? With America passing new laws to prevent gender-panic in cottages, and supermodel Andreja Pejic turning heads all over the global media – not to mention our very own and very marvellous Rebecca Root and Paris Lees – you could be forgiven for thinking that trans is the new queer. You might also think By Neil Bartlett • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Of Mice and Men: Theatre Royal This is a complex play about simple people, doing simple things with terrible consequences, it’s about love, kindness and brutality and the ties that bind them done with a vivid lightness of touch that engages from the off. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Jackie: The Musical: Theatre Royal The Musical has all the ingredients of a superb night out. It’s nostalgic, frothy and as substantial as a bubble being lit by a disco ball and exactly what this audience wanted. The packed house loved it, were up on their feet for the end of the show and left singing, chatting nosily away as they he By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Herbal Bed @ Theatre Royal This is a lovely piece of work, of plausible women doing daily struggle in a world where there’s no rewards for her gender for intelligence, companion, adventure or discovery, whose wiles and ability to see the bigger picture and spin a greater, more convincing story steers a ship of male fools safe By Eric Page • 3 min read
Dance REVIEW: Ballet Rambert@Theatre Royal This excellent show is worth catching if you’ve an interest in contemporary dance but Rambert also reward the first timer with their accessible dance and the audience at the Theatre royal left buzzing after this energetic thrilling evening. By Eric Page • 3 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: Celebrate! Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus All communities have their high and low moments. Celebrate! the 10th Anniversary Show with the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) at the Theatre Royal on Sunday November 22 was one of those high moments not only for the singers but for everyone lucky enough to be in the audience on the night. By Besi • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pam Ann at Theatre Royal Pam Ann flew into Brighton’s Theatre Royal with her new show, Queen of the Sky, proving that this 46-year-old Aussie, blessed with the vocabulary of a truck driver, has a lot of air miles left in her. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: CELEBRATE! with Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus return to the Theatre Royal, Brighton with their winter show ‘Celebrate!’ to mark the culmination of their 10th Anniversary year celebrations. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: BalletBoyz – theTALENT It’s now 14 years since Michal Nunn and William Trevitt first brought us BalletBoyz, and their all male dance company is still going strong, delivering on its manifesto to promote men’s dance and make modern ballet and contemporary dance more accessible to a wider audience. But this doesn’t necessar By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Festival: The Joey Arias Experience A great night out, with a stunning performer in the perfect venue, the band could have been a little tighter as they seemed as languid and laid back as Arias pretended to be, but somehow that’s a small criticism for what was one of the best Festival shows I’ve seen. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus raise over £1,000 for the Rainbow Fund Following its debut at the Theatre Royal, with their Christmas Show, Putting on the Glitz, Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus raised £1,002.50 for the Rainbow Fund. Following its debut at the Theatre Royal, with their Christmas Show, Putting on the Glitz, Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus raised £1,002.50 for the Ra By Besi • 2 min read
