Arts PREVIEW: The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill Texan writer and performer Greg Wohead collaborates with musician Mat Martin to consider identity and a shifting sense of place in this charming autobiographical show at the Marlborough in November. A true story with a healthy amount of exaggeration, The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill explores the uni By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Short & Girlie Show A night of improvised comedy sketches, silly songs and crap raffle prizes. The show will feature a solo spot from the Short & Girlie Show’s musical director Hannah Brackenbury, otherwise known as Tim Minchin and Victoria Wood’s lesbian love-child. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Marriage of Figaro This second outing of Fiona Shaw’s Figaro has mellowed and matured in the few years since the last time it graced the ENO stage. The wit is still there, the endless movement and r revolving stage allowing us insight and side squints into the upstairs/downstairs business of this grand space and the s By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Best of the Fest The Best of the Fest night always highlights the best stand up comedians who are appearing in the Brighton Comedy Festival. LAST NIGHT’S SHOW, MC´d by Andrew Maxwell in his very ”Orish” way was full of his usual slightly twisted observations about being an Irish man in England and his merciless dire By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Briefs: The Second Coming The acts in this cavalcade of burlesque come fast and furious: one moment a slimmed-down Divine lookalike and a bevy (I think that’s the right collective noun) of muscle boys are fan dancing to INXS, the next Evil Monkey Man in your very lap thrusting his nether regions towards your poor, innocent f By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts Our Brighton Hippodrome campaign group claim financial report was withheld from city councillors The community group who are campaigning to save the Brighton Hippodrome as a venue for live theatre have added a new page to their website detailing what the campaigners consider to shortcomings in the way Brighton and Hove City Council has handled the prospects for the Hippodrome’s future. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Miss Behave’s Gameshow A renegade gameshow for the austerity generation. Part gameshow, part variety show, part disco… Everyone’s a winner! Fifty minutes of games, acts, dancing, fun and phones! In a reaction to the slick and earnest high production populating the world of entertainment today, Miss Behave presents a delib By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Briefs: ‘The Second Coming’ at the Old Market Take six Australian hunks and one New Yorker of differing shapes and sizes, add a fierce portion of drag and mischievous masculinity, infuse with dancing, tumbling, juggling, acro-balancing, trapeze, hula hooping, lip syncing, six-inch heels, cover in sequins frocks and glamour, season with wicked w By Besi • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Comedy Festival The Brighton comedy festival offers the widest range of stand up and performance comedy outside of the Edinburgh festival with the very best up and coming acts, there’s plenty of choice. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts THEATRE PREVIEW: Peter and the Wolf: Dome Studio Chamber House Winds along with narrator Jonathan Butcher introduce us to Prokofiev’s classic composition and the wind family of instruments – with the help of a very long hosepipe and some rather fetching headpieces By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts THEATRE PREVIEW: Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho After a sensational sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe, an award-winning run in Dublin at the International Gay Theatre Festival and an award-winning sell-out run at the Brighton Fringe Festival, the production returns to take part in the Brighton Comedy Festival on October 24 and 25 at 9.30 p.m. at t By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Open air theatre gets go ahead on Dyke Road bowls site A disused bowling green will be turned into an open air theatre following planning permission being granted by Brighton & Hove City Council this week. THE FORMER green in Dyke Road Park will be landscaped to form an amphitheatre shape, with a three-metre acoustic wall to dampen noise during performa By Besi • 2 min read
