Arts PREVIEW: Have a Queer New Year Traumfrau presents a Queer New Year, an underground New Year’s Eve party at the Wagner Hall in Brighton on Thursday, December 31 from 9pm. Featuring DJs Von Petrovsoky and Alex Spinks, performers Alfie Ordinary, Rosy Carrick and Lydia L’Scabies, art, food, and more dancing than you can shake a stick By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Miss Hope Springs: ‘Now it’s Christmas time’ The uniquely talented Ty Jeffries bring his creation Miss Hope Springs to the Komedia on Tuesday December 8 with her laugh-out-loud-move-you-to-tears’ one woman show. The ex-Vegas nightclub chanteuse Miss Hope Springs will be playing the piano and singing her award-winning repertoire of uniquely cat By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Holiday on Ice brings PASSION to Brighton in January Holiday on Ice (HOI), the worlds most popular ice show will return to the Brighton Centre for 10 shows in January 2016. PASSION is an exciting entertainment experience will focus around the lives of the show’s true stars, the skaters and will take the audience through the journey that each skater ex By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Hairspray at the Theatre Royal, Brighton Hairspray is a joyous candy-coloured confection which has a heart as big as its outsize heroine. It manages to combine a thrilling slickness of staging with something quite magically uplifting and the result might, quite possibly, be the most purely enjoyable show of the last few years. By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Mikado: ENO Set in an ever-so English 1930s seaside hotel, bleached white with privilege and wealth Jonathan Miller’s Marx Brothers-inspired song-and-dance Mikado is a popular hit with audiences of all ages. A distant picture of Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the only gentle echos of this operettas By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: ‘Industrialising Intimacy’ : Elaine Mitchener Industrialising Intimacy is the fruit of this unique collaboration, using vocal improvisation, movement and sound to create an original work of contemporary music theatre. Wavering between observer and partaker the audience were invited to share Michener’s exploration of the many facets of intimacy. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts ‘Trouser-Wearing Characters’ goes on regional tour Local author Rose Collis to embark on first ever regional tour of Trouser-Wearing Characters, funded by Arts Council England. The tour will take place in February 2016, during LGBT History Month, when the show will be performed at ten different regional libraries, starting at Ipswich Central Library By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Celebrate! Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus All communities have their high and low moments. Celebrate! the 10th Anniversary Show with the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) at the Theatre Royal on Sunday November 22 was one of those high moments not only for the singers but for everyone lucky enough to be in the audience on the night. By Besi • 4 min read
Photo: Amanda Baker Arts PREVIEW: Wanting the moon by Rose Collis Local author Rose Collis will be appearing in a new play she has written, Wanting the moon at the Marlborough Theatre in January in a production directed by Keith Drinkel. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Mayor attends launch of Alternative Panto The Mayor of Brighton and Hove, Cllr Lynda Hyde was guest of honour at the launch party for the Alternative Adult Pantomime Alice in Pantoland at Pinocchio’s restaurant. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Flown Arts PREVIEW: Festive fun and more at Brighton Dome this December Following a stand out performance at Brighton Festival 2014 and fresh from a sell-out tour across Australia, the Dome welcomes back Pirates of the Carabina as they perform a special Christmas run of their acclaimed show, Flown, a thrilling mix of theatre, acrobatics, aerial feats and stunts –all set By Paul Gustafson • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Force of Destiny: ENO While not perfect this new ENO production is an exciting, challenging and interesting night out with quality singing and a sumptuous orchestral score, director Bieito has done bloody well to get so much out of this difficult Verdi epic. By Eric Page • 4 min read
