Arts PREVIEW: Bad Girls the Musical@The Old Market Theatre With the local prison service currently in something of a state of turmoil, the timing of the staging of Bad Girls – The Musical at The Old Market Theatre (TOM) in Hove, couldn’t be better. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE PREVIEW: Alan Turing – Guilty of Love – World Premiere New Musical about WW2 code breaker Alan Turing receives World Premiere during Brighton Fringe. Alan Turing- Guilty of Love tells the tragic story of the WW2 hero who broke the Enigma codes at Bletchley Park and helped win the War but was prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952. The show explores his ea By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Noel & Gertie@Devonshire Park Theatre Mtp’s new production of Noel & Gertie, based on the playwright’s 54 year friendship with Gertrude Lawrence is a perfectly charming night out. The love story, devised by Sheridan Morley from the couple’s letters and diaries, is told with all the Master’s flair and wit. Featuring song and scenes from By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE PREVIEW: Tricyclic Transform – A genderqueer musical cabaret Solo musical cabaret exploring genderqueer identity with songs and drag. Miss Liliane, ‘biologically-challenged drag-queen’, has penis envy and that makes her slightly unhinged! Join them round the gender wheel as they try on alternate personas by performing iconic torch songs. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Invincible@Theatre Royal It’s a tragic ending, hard, savage and all the more real for it and although it appears to be a play about social froth it’s a more incisive play looking at the modern struggle for a significant identity and the desperate need for people to have some meaning, some intelligent direction to their live By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE PREVIEW: Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner is an immersive theatre show about sexual fantasy. This piece of new writing comes from Ethan Mechare who takes you through his stories as a naked house cleaner when he moved to London from Los Angeles. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Out of Order@Theatre Royal Ray Cooney’s 1990 comedy is standard issue farce: it’s basically ladies in negligees being shoved into cupboards. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with this, it’s just that Out of Order doesn’t have the charm of a Boeing Boeing, the wit of a Relatively Speaking or the genius plotting of By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Joey visits Brighton ahead of his UK tour Arts Preview: War Horse at the Brighton Centre A multi-award winning, West End superstar was spotted on Brighton Beach and in Pavilion Gardens this week as Joey, the life-sized, equine puppet and star of War Horse came to town to promote the arrival of the acclaimed National Theatre production, which premiers at the Brighton Centre from January By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: At the Junction Cafe @ Purple Playhouse Theatre Homegrown Buckle Collective hits Hove Grown festival with an experimental and playful new drama. At times moving, at times hilarious: At the Junction Cafe is a battle of the generations that explores relationships, memory and human communication in a highly innovative way. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Magid El-Bushra’s A Willesden Liederkreis (‘A Willesden Song-Cycle’) Operatic countertenor Magid El-Bushra’s acclaimed one-man drag opera cabaret A Willesden Liederkreis comes to the Marlborough Theatre this weekend (March 22). A Willesden Liederkreis (‘A Willesden Song-Cycle’) is a funny, provocative and touching work from acclaimed countertenor Magid El-Bushra, bas By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf@Harold Pinter Theatre, London Staunton continues to wow the West End in this stunning production. Given the calibre of casting and of writing, could director James Macdonald have gone wrong with this new production of the classic Edward Albee 1962 play of that oh so thin line between love and hate? Well, I suppose he could, but By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Young, Queer & Skint @ The Marlborough What does it mean to be Young, Queer & Skint in 2017? This new project, supported by Arts Council England, sees the Marlborough Theatre running a series of mini-festivals throughout the year responding to issues relevant to the people who walk through their doors. By Besi • 3 min read
