Arts REVIEW: Expenses Only – The Musical @Phil Starr Pavilion In the good old days when I did stage plays and musicals we used to reckon that you needed one hour of rehearsal for every minute of actual playing time on stage when the show played. So it was incredible to learn that the talented singing line-up in this new show by Andrew Stark had just four days By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts Tonight at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Expenses Only The Musical! – World Premier. Dust off your sequins and spend some time with drag queen royalty in Expenses Only The Musical! onstage at The Phil Starr Pavilion, Brighton as a part of LGBT History Month and The B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival. This new musical has been written by Andrew Stark, the writer of the Alternative Pa By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dead and Breathing @The Albany, London A somber kaftan laden upper-class cancer patient, Carolyn (Lizan Mitchell), unashamedly bares all as she is bathed by working class (and transsexual) carer, Veronika (Kim Tatum aka Mzz Kimberley). By Tin Nguyen • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Jubliee @Lyric, Hammersmith Chris Goode’s adaptation of Derek Jarman and James Whaley’s Jubilee is a ravenously sex-fueled and unvarnished representation of the state that the world is in. It assures to have one question if royalty or religion are still relevant in an ever-changing society. By Tin Nguyen • 1 min read
Arts Tonight at B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: The Seven Doors of Danny A new musical based on Shakespeare’s The Seven Ages of Man with music by Ricky Horscraft, words by John McCullough with additional material for musical theatre adaptation by Tom Slater-Hyndman. Performed by members of Actually Gay Men’s Chorus, University of Sussex Symphony Orchestra, guest performe By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Hair @The Old Market The American Tribal Love Rock Musical Hair composed by Galt MacDermot originally opened on both Broadway and the West End in 1968. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Iolanthe @ENO Iolanthe English National Opera This all new production of Iolanthe has a different director Cal McCrystal from the ENO G&S smash hit Pirates of Penzance, but looks like being as huge a success as that was. McCrystal – who is newish to opera – plays it straight, proper Gilbert and Sullivan and this By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: TWINKLE @ Phil Starr Pavilion Harold Thropp is a very tired very angry panto dame. Arriving at a down at heel Northern town – probably Sunderland – he discovers that Widow Twankey has been reduced to a tiny cupboard of a dressing room in what he describes as the “cellar “. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Star of ITV’s Transformation Street takes to the stage in ‘Dead and Breathing’ Actress Kim Tatum aka Mzz Kimberley stars in ‘Dead and Breathing’ By Chisa Hutchinson, at The Albany (London), February 19 – March 3, 2018. Transformation Street is a three part ITV documentary following the staff and patients in a London gender clinic. The show follows gender reassignment speciali By Besi • 2 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: Paul Diello – EPICENE Award winning singer songwriter Paul Diello brings his gender-blending extravaganza ‘Epicene’ to the B Right On LGBT Community Festival after a sold out success at Brighton Fringe. Paul Diello invites you to his gender-blending celebration of iconic women in music. After a run of three sold out, fiv By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Mayor of Brighton & Hove opens B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival The Mayor of Brighton & Hove, Councillor Mo Marsh officially opened the 2018 B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival last night (February 16) celebrating Brighton’s contribution to LGBT History Month. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts B RIGHT ON LGBT Community Festival: TWINKLE starring Miss Jason To celebrate LGBT HISTORY MONTH for one night only Jason Sutton (aka Miss Jason) stars in Philip Meeks’s one man play: TWINKLE. Following recent performances in Brighton, which delighted audiences and critics alike, TWINKLE now plays for one night only in the Phil Starr Pavilion at the B RIGHT ON LG By Besi • 3 min read
