Arts PREVIEW: TWINKLE Little Star @Queens Hotel Jason Sutton aka the drag entertainer Miss Jason is to play the role of Harold Thropp in a new production of Philip Meeks’s TWINKLE Little Star. The play started life many years ago as an Edinburgh Fringe show and has been seen in a number of theatres since, being performed by a list of dame-playing By Besi • 2 min read
Arts THEATRE REVIEW: Rules for Living @ Theatre Royal Sam Holcroft’s marvellous comedy looks at a family get-together as it gradually disintegrates. Over the course of a Christmas lunch revelations are revealed, old resentments are reignited and no one is left unscathed by the events – events for which they all share some of the blame. The play has bee By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Hundred Watt Club – Burlesque and Cabaret Don your finery and enjoy an evening of vintage inspired entertainment by the sea. Hundred Watt Club returns with another dazzling, giggling, glittering burlesque and cabaret show on December 2! Perfect for a festive night out with a difference! By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: X Factor Live Tour is back in 2018! The X Factor Live Tour returns for 2018 and for the first time ever the audience will choose their own winner…each and every night! The X Factor digital host, Becca Dudley, will be on the road with the contestants and presenting the tour competition each night. At the end of each show, the audience By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: The Barber of Seville @English National Opera Two centuries after its premiere and thirty years after its first outing in 1987, Jonathan Miller’s Tiepolo-inspired staging brilliantly intercuts the traditions of the Italian commedia dell’arte and the Whitehall farce to create a charming evening of musical and comedy enjoyment. Rossini’s prequel By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts THEATRE REVIEW: Cilla The Musical @Mayflower Theatre Southampton It is always tricky when you choose to present the life of a showbiz legend in the format of a musical, but on many levels Bill Kenwright gets it spot on with his new production Cilla the Musical. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts THEATRE REVIEW: Dreamboats And Petticoats @Theatre Royal Inspired by a multi-million-selling series of albums, Dreamboats And Petticoats breezed into Brighton on a wet Monday evening but managed to send the audience away from The Theatre Royal very content and humming numbers from the golden age of rock and roll, 1956-62. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts THEATRE REVIEW: Sunday Night @Theatre Royal There was a time when a benefit show for any charity would guarantee a full house at a theatre and bring communities together in support of a good cause. That is no longer the case with the traditional charity show format becoming much more difficult to pull off and theatres even more difficult to f By Besi • 3 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Aida @ENO Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones gave us a real heroic Radamès, full and resounding and committed to the very end, he was wonderful although trapped behind his Gilbert and Sullivan epaulettes and wooed Latonia Moore’s Aida in the most convincing way, Morre was excellent, pure, fine and focused her humi By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts 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 By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts 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 By Besi • 3 min read
Arts 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 By Eric Page • 4 min read
