Arts Sophie Evans in Concert: An evening with Dorothy and Jesus Sophie Evans, who very nearly made it as Dorothy in the Beeb’s Over the Rainbow, proves she’s got what it takes to be a Musical Diva (yes, with a capital M and a capital D!) next week when she arrives on the stage of the Eastbourne Hippodrome for her very own show. She’ll be belting […] By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts Call for male dancers for new Disney stage show Disney Theatrical Group are looking for men who can dance, for their new musical Newsie. Newsie, inspired by the real-life New York Newsboy Strike of 1899, has been an unexpected hit on Broadway for two years and now Disney want to bring it to the West End. Male dancers are being called for audition By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts Queen live! Drumming outburst over with, and Pride support ticked off, Dame Helen Mirren is now back to her day job of playing Queeny in The Audience at the Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. But if you aren’t lucky enough to have a ticket (£125 each last time I asked at the box office!!) you can do [ By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts Dave Lynn stars in Brighton revival of DIAMOND – opens tonight In June, local entertainer Dave Lynn revives the role he created at the Kings Head Theatre in London in 2006 when he played Diamond Lil in the musical drama DIAMOND. The show played to rave reviews at the time with Dave’s performance of Diamond Lil coming in for special praise from the critics. DIAM By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Purple cow goes ‘Wonderground’ If you’re missing the whole festival vibe and especially the wonderfully draughty Speigeltent, you don’t have far to go to catch both by the tail, as the tent has pitched up, Tardis-like, 60 miles away on the lawns of the South Bank for the rest of the summer and now goes by the name of […] By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper: Spiegeltent: Festival review This was a delightful and charming show full of fuax crudity, clever post feminist deconstructive humour, filthy foul mouthed asides and some pretty impressive acrobatics and trapeze work too, it’s not often this critic ends up on stage dressed as a Satyr, balanced on a semi naked lady’s feet, deep By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts NIght after night: Neil Bartlett & Nicolas Bloomfield: Marlborough Theatre This classic Neil Bartlett/Nicolas Bloomfield music drama explores a shadow world of longing both familiar and alien. The year is 1958. The playwrights’ parents meet at a theatre in London’s West End to celebrate the playwright’s conception. They encounter a host of characters whose lives are linked By Besi • 1 min read
Arts The old spells are the best A story of love in middle age told by two older Canadian lesbians comes to the Marlborough stage on the June 9. Book of Spells: A Love Story is a unique storytelling performance that explores what happens when two women cast caution to the wind and begin sharing a life together. Performed by Jan And By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts Less Than Kind: Theatre Royal: Review It’s with some sense of foreboding I approach a ‘lost’ work of art in any medium: it’s a truism that their respective authors didn’t release them into the wider world for a reason. Sometimes it’s due to writing something scandalous for the time (like Forster’s posthumous gay-themed Maurice) but usua By Eric Page • 2 min read
News £10 tickets available for Pride Gala Show tonight for Gscene readers The ultimate Brighton Pride Gala Show at the Sabai Pavilion Ladyboys Tent tonight, Sunday, May 26 brings this years Pride at the Fringe to a close. A madcap evening of the outrageous and alternative is promised featuring a double bill of side splitting fun when the infamous ‘Gay Bingo’ hosted by cu By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Between: The Marlborough: Review Oskar Brown’s two-hander has a lot going for it: the actors – Brown and Nicholas Campbell – have the charisma and technical skill to absolutely engage the audience’s attention. The writing is sharp and delivers a pretty compelling hour of theatre. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Theatre Theatre: Tiger Lillies’ Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Brighton Dome Twisted cabaret trio the Tiger Lillies conjured up a dark, and occasionally twisted, musical retelling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, the existential story of a damned sailor drifting across the ocean after shooting an albatross. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
