Arts New dates added to The X Factor Live Tour 2017 Due to huge demand, new dates have been added to The X Factor Live Tour 2017 in Glasgow, Bournemouth, Cardiff and Brighton on March 17, 2017. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Win a pair of tickets for Holiday on Ice: BELIEVE at Brighton Centre Holiday on Ice returns to the Brighton Centre once again in January with their new show BELIEVE, directed and choreographed by skating legend, Christopher Dean. By Contributor • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Lady Chatterley’s Lover@Theatre Royal The book, famously banned for being obscene is opened and parred own here here like a delicate flower, pressed into it’s perfume and essence, but it’s still a challenging analysis of what happens when patriarchy, entitlement and brutality are challenged by honesty, trust and tenderness. Tenderness w By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Rent The new 20th Anniversary production of Jonathan Larson’s ground-breaking Pulitzer Prize – and multi Tony Award-winning musical RENT comes to the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne this spring. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: BREMF: GAIA – Three Intermedi for a Living Planet The music was superb, opening with tremendous aplomb with Josquin des Prez’s Qui habitat. Astonishing opening, lifting, soring purity of voice rising into the high ethereal vaults of this highest of Parish churches, the programme of music was ambitious in scope and well thought out and balanced and By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dr Dee’s Daughter and The Philosopher’s Stone: Palisander Palisander attired in courtly Elizabethan angelic gossamer and with hardly a pause to check the music, worked those wondrous recorders of all shapes and sizes in a deft performance, showing us the range of recorder music at its best, while the kids watched the antics of the puppety crows and shadows By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts GFEST 2016: films and performances begin this weekend. London’s annual LGBTQI cross-art and cultural event GFEST – Gaywise FESTival opened on November 7 followed on November 8 with a visual arts exhibition ‘arty-party’ at Menier Gallery near London Bridge. By Gary Hart • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Miss Hope Springs is Live at Zédel, Soho Miss Hope Springs bring her Christmas offering, ‘Now It’s Christmas Time’ to the wonderful surrounding of the Brasserie Zédel in December. Playing at the piano and singing her award-winning repertoire of uniquely catchy all-original songs, lounge-tastic ex-Vegas nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Lulu: ENO Considered to be one of the seminal operas of the twentieth century, Berg’s score creates a unique sound world that combines his lyrical gifts with powerful orchestral writing. A gritty exploration of sexual desire, it follows the downfall of the enigmatic Lulu, who shatters the lives of her many lo By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Boys in the Band: Theatre Royal Political criticism has dogged Mart Crowley’s 1969 play from the start. Its portrayal of a group of bitchy, self-hating queens has never been on-message as far as the gay rights movement is concerned. It’s the perennial problem with gays – or any minority – that their portrayal could be seen as pres By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Stalin’s Englishman – The Lives of Guy Burgess a talk by Andrew Lownie A unique series of Tuesday talks at The Old Courtroom continues with Andrew Lownie discussing his book Stalin’s Englishman The Lives of Guy Burgess who believes Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies – Maclean, Philby, Blunt – all brilliant young men recru By Contributor • 2 min read
Carole Todd Arts TONIGHT: Tales of Toddography – (showbiz facts and fiction) Carole Todd will be sharing facts and fiction about her years as a West End Director, Choreographer and Actress at the Queens Arms on Monday, November 7. By Contributor • 1 min read
