Brian Butler finds passion, forbidden love, singing and dancing in the latest queer theatre offerings
Brian Butler finds passion, forbidden love, singing and dancing in the latest queer theatre offerings
Brian Butler gets very emotional watching a tribute to the late great Sondheim
In 2010 he founded the Deaf Men Dancing company. “I was always being asked if I was the only deaf dancer. I knew there were others, but we didn’t talk about it. I thought: what happens if I put them all together?
Brian Butler looks forward to 4 Sondheim shows and an angry Hedwig
Brian Butler talks to Brighton-based Mark Smith about his latest project
Brian Butler gives his top 20 of 2020 – on stage, film and streaming
As We move to a limited reopening of theatres Brian Butler talks to three of Brighton’s theatre professionals.
Brian Butler surfs what’s on offer this week, including a boy who never grows up .
Brighton-based Stephen Mear has established himself internationally as the go-to choreographer for big classy stage musicals. Fresh from his triumph with Chess in the West End, he talks to Brian Butler about dyslexia, Strictly, and working with Stephen Sondheim.
THE history of the stage musical Chess is as chequered as its current set design at London’s Coliseum. A successful stint in the West End from 1986 to 1989 was long overshadowed by a Broadway disastrous run of two months following vast rewrites as US producers insisted that the American must beat the Russian at the end of Act One, and not as the story originally dictated.
