Arts REVIEW: Comedy of Errors The Globe at Midnight (or at any point of an evening) is a great place to visit and start your night time adventures in London and being smack in the middle of the South Bank, you can always go clubbing afterwards if you really, really have to. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Michael Lewton’s Mirando comes to the South Marlborough Theatre Brighton and Omnibus Theatre Clapham are to host Theatre North’s latest production, Mirando. Mirando is an exuberant adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Four centuries after the death of the playwright, this production will honour the original text but re-imagine the By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Otello at ENO This was a stark and emotionally harrowing production and one of the most thrilling and upsetting Otellos I’ve seen, but the utterly monstrous and slithering compellingness of Summers’ Iago is it’s real triumph. Perhpas this was Alders point all along, to redirect us into the dark heart of this Oper By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dance: Casting Traces It was a subtly disturbing piece, full of reflection and meta reflection, us watching – being watching – watching ourselves watching while being watched, in the end it spiralled into softness, a mirror in a mirror, and I allowed the dancers the music and the ever moving set to just be and get on wit By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Traumfrau & Pink Fringe present ‘The Late Summer Backyard Festival’ The Late Summer Backyard Festival, a Traumfrau Brighton and Pink Fringe collaboration featuring performance, live art and dancing will take place at Wagner Hall, Brighton on Saturday, September 13 at 7.30 p .m. The lineup includes Bryony Kimmings, the Royal Society for the Pursuit of Love Birds, Pro By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: The Short & Girlie Show Eight women, three acts, two hours. Are you ready for the Spreading the Love Tour? The UK’s longest running all-female comedy improv troupe present sketches and songs based on audience suggestions and feature: • The Short & Girlie Show IMPROVISATION www.shortandgirlie.com • Hannah Brackenbury CO By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Picture of John Gray The Picture of John Gray, a period piece exploring sexual identity and acceptance and a completely new angle on the story of Oscar Wilde, is playing at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London till Saturday, August 30 from 7.30pm. In the play, set in 1889, writer C.J. Wilmann offers a challenging, untold st By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Craig Hanlon-Smith Arts Addressing the concerns of older LGBT people through drama MadEd Theatre is looking to develop a play for performance at The Brighton Festival in 2015/2016, that addresses the concerns of the older LGBT community. The theatre performance is intended to fit the genre of ‘Verbatim Theatre’ which takes the words of real life stories and situations and then fit By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Review: Drag King Richard III Drag King Richard the Third is well worth catching, it’s a thoughtful and powerful piece of directly challenging modern drama while allowing the humanity of its subject matter to sit next to us, turn to face us and speak directly to our own experiences of life By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Hippodrome campaign group appeal direct to City Councillors Campaigners call for Hippodrome planning application to be ‘called in’ by the Secretary of State. A campaign group created to save the Hippodrome in Middle Street as a live theatre venue is making a last ditch appeal to City Councillors to defer a decision on the future of the Hippodrome site for si By Besi • 3 min read
Arts PRIDE ARTS PREVIEW: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ New Venture Theatre’s second amateur production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, returns for a limited run as part of Brighton Pride’s Arts and Film Festival, 2014. Following its huge success and sell-out shows at this years Brighton Fringe Festival 2014, Hedwig plays from July 31 to August 3 at the Ne By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Into the Woods This is a magical production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical set in a fairytale world in which we see familiar characters but in an unfamiliar light. Red Riding Hood is on the brink of discovering her sexuality – with a little help from a certain Mr Wolf; Jack betray’s the giant’s hospitality and late By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
