I kick off by saying Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express just couldn’t be bettered – it is stunning in both its staging and its acting. Lucy Bailey directs a version that teeters between white knuckle thriller and camp and comic farce – and it works, oh how it works! […]
Omg 50 years ago this summer, The Rocky Horror Picture Show – for me, the best independent musical comedy horror film of all time was released (August 1975). I wasn’t born yet but watching it for the first time with my mum (hey mother duckling!) in the 90’s is etched in my memory. Ten year […]
Sequins, Salvation, and Societal Transformation at Kinky Boots, a fiercely luminous testament to resilience, identity, and radical empathy.
This renowned romantic opera, telling the heartbreaking story of the consumptive Mimi and her penniless writer lover, was beautifully brought to life on stage.
Brighton-born Number One crime writer Peter James delves into the shady world of art forgeries for his latest stage offering, Picture You Dead, deftly adapted from the novel by Shaun McKenna. Stephen Sondheim wrote in his masterful musical about painter Georges Seurat: “art isn’t easy,” and forging it I guess is even harder. A young […]
Three comedians walk into a dressing room – no seriously – three comedians walk into a dressing room. This is the premise at the centre of Paul Hendy’s tragicomedy The Last Laugh – which he both wrote and directs. And not just any comedians – these are giants of late 20th-century comedy – Tommy Cooper, […]
George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, about a totalitarian state, was written 75 years ago and it’s depressing and scary that most of its futuristic visions have come true. As we enter the auditorium at Brighton’s Theatre Royal for Ryan Craig’s stage adaptation we are scanned by a camera in the huge screen centre stage – […]
Evan Hansen is an isolated high school student with no friends and no life and on medication for social anxiety disorder- and he’s fallen out of a tree and broken his arm, now in plaster. When his doctor prescribes that he writes a daily letter to himself – hence the show title Dear Evan Hansen […]
The 39 Steps is a production that honors the legacy of Hitchcock and reimagines it with a joyous, irreverent spirit.
The Kite Runner soars as an emotionally harrowing but ultimately life-affirming play, the triumph of this adaptation rests on the shoulders of the phenomenal cast and their ability to breathe empathetic life into their flawed characters.
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United in Pride launches, bridging the two weeks between Trans Pride Brighton and Brighton & Hove PrideTuesday April 8, 2025
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Brighton & Hove City Council flying trans flags from Hove and Brighton town halls in honour of Trans Day of VisibilityMonday March 31, 2025
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Terrence Higgins Trust auction to return on March 31 with a piece from Dame Tracey EminFriday March 28, 2025
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Brighton & Hove Pride hires digital agency to boost UK and European audiencesWednesday March 26, 2025
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