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Who said the Americans can’t make cheese? They certainly can. That said, this particular cheese would benefit from a little more processing and some maturation. But behind the glitz The Texas Tenors are three men with great voices and great charm. They seduced the audience, even me, and I enjoyed most of their set, excluding a few clumsy operatic arias. But there was good harmony work and a few excellent country songs that really worked. ‘Shenandoah’ was superbly rendered but perhaps that stood out as the band, a shoddy and amateurish outfit, did not play.
24 August, Theatre Royal Brighton
3/5
Andrew Kay

Andrea Fox gets a bit hot and bothered but not very cross at CrossFit

America. It’s given us so much. Oreos for a start! And now a tough new way to burn them off called CrossFit. If getting fit is literally making you cross then you might like the fact that during an hour at CrossFit you will probably only be working your butt off for 20 minutes. I was hard at it for a mere seven minutes. But it left my legs so tired I couldn’t jump off the ground.

The idea is that just running or weight training isn’t going to give you overall fitness and that the best thing to do is act like a triathlete and mix up your sessions. Gymnastics, weight training and cardio are all involved in the nine different moves used in the session, to really work the body with tough tasks that constantly change.
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A Fine Line

Made ‘on the spot’ and commissioned by Fabrica, Frederic Geurts’ structure of delicate steel pylons that elevate a rising white curve from one end of the gallery to the other is ‘A Fine Line’. Geurts’ fascination with the dynamic properties of materials extends to finding the ‘tipping point’ – the point at which the whole piece may fall over…
A Fine Line, Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, 01273 778646. Until 30 August
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a massive, sprawling monster, showcasing the great, the good, the bad and the downright evil to the cultural masses, be they television executives or ordinary punters. So naturally the creative types of Brighton and East Sussex have been up there in force.

Local boy Seann Walsh’s first solo show is selling out over at the Pleasance Courtyard, with his observational humour very successfully hitting a chord and garnering him more and more attention. The way that he throws himself physically into the show, acting out some of his gags, provokes an equal level of engagement from his audience with their laughter.
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