Comedy Holiday Sing-A-Long for Philippines relief Judith Owen and Harry Shearer’s Holiday-Singalong, featuring a plethora of celebrity guests, takes place at Leicester Square Theatre, London on Saturday, November 30. This good old-fashioned Christmas knees-up will feature welsh singer-songwriter Judith Owen and American actor, comedian and writer H By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Terrence McNally’s controversial Corpus Christi returns to London stage Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally’s controversial retelling of the Gospel, will be performing at The Space Theatre in London from Tuesday, November 26 to Saturday, December 14. The show was last performed 13 years ago when a fatwa was issued against the writer, and sees equality, sexuality and religi By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Satyagraha: ENO: Review Satyagraha: Phillip Glass: English National Opera: Review Following the early life of Gandhi in South Africa and his non violent campaigning against segregation and racism and named after his word for Non-violence (for which there is no word in any language in the whole word, which is worth noting.) By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts The Laramie Project comes to Brighton : Remember Matthew Shepard? On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death provoked extreme reactions – from the GOD HATES FAGS preaching of Rev Fred Phelp By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Is monogamy dead? Prompted by the breakdown of several close friends’ long term partnerships, disgruntled serial monogamist Rosie Wilby presents a loose sequel to her Fringe Report Award winning 2009/10 show The Science Of Sex (which she recently performed in New York) after making a pact with her best friend that th By Besi • 1 min read
Community News The Seattle presents an evening with Sally Vate in aid of the Sussex Beacon Local entertainer and drag queen extraordinaire Sally Vate will be entertaining guest and visitors alike in the Seattle Bar at the Seattle Hotel in Brighton Marina on Friday, November 29 between 9-11pm. The event is free but there will be buckets on the door for discretionary donations to the hotel’ By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Win tickets to see Robin Cousins and Ruthie Henshaw this Christmas Starr Trust patron Robin Cousins and West End legend Ruthie Henshall to appear at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel for a festive concert of Christmas songs. Following the huge success of February’s An Evening with Robin Cousins, the star of ITV’s Dancing on Ice is once again providing an exclusiv By Besi • 2 min read
News Most Haunted Tribute Show in Worthing Kemptown ghost walker Adrian J Andrews will be paying A Haunting Tribute to the Most Haunted TV series at Bar Jolly Brewers, Clifton Road, Worthing on Thursday, December 5 at 10pm. New owners Sophie Lush and Lisa Haugh have planned the evening, which will be filmed and recorded, to fundraise for Can By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Community News Circus Starr to visit Hove Circus Starr, a charitable organisation that supports disabled, underprivileged and vulnerable children through a 75 venue tour held three times a year, will be visiting the Windmill Theatre, Blatchington Mill School, Hove on Sunday, January 12, 2014. The Brighton branch of Demelza Hospice Care for By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Tommy Steele : Song and Dance Man James Ledward chats to his mothers idol. I grew up with a poster of Tommy Steel on the wall of the family home in Liverpool. My mother idolised him. After getting over the gushing introductions when I met him at the Brighton Centre last month, Tommy went on to tell me how at the grand […] By Besi • 4 min read
Arts The Magic Flute: ENO : Review From its clever opening to the dramatic close this new production directed by Simon McBurney’s of Complicite caught the attention of the audience and kept it held close like one of the delightful flapping paper birds that followed Papageno around. The setting feels organically oppressive, set in som By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts HAVE A WORD : Clare Summerskill and Maureen Duffy at Latest Music Bar tonight, Wednesday November 12 The next HAVE A WORD is on November, Tuesday 12 at the Latest Music Bar in Brighton. HAVE A WORD is an event for LGBTQI people and their friends’ with performing arts, poetry, photography, comedy, history, politics, spoken word, and music from five fantastic artists including: Maureen Duffy, Clare By Besi • 1 min read
