Stage: Holiday on Ice is back plus Harvey Matusow

The Brighton Centre has announced that the world-renowned show, Holiday on Ice, which has been running for over 72 years, will be returning to Brighton for in January 2017 with new spectacular show, Believe.

Directed and choreographed by Olympic and four-time world champion, Christopher Dean, Believe will open at The Brighton Centre on Wednesday 4 January and run until Sunday 8 January 2017.

The show is an incredibly exciting and fast paced and tells the modern day story of the traditional Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet, about desire, jealously and true love. With Olympic level choreographies combined with the best live music, beautiful décor, glamourous costumes and hi-tech special effects, Believe is destined to become a show that will truly conquer hearts.

Believe is the first show that Christopher Dean and Holiday On Ice’s producers Stage Entertainment have worked on together; a new milestone in the great tradition of collaborations between Holiday on Ice and Olympic champions.

The best skaters in the world

Commenting on the partnership Christopher Dean said: “I’ve been on the ice for forty-seven years, performing in shows, training and choreographing others but now I look forward to creating a new Holiday on Ice show with the best skaters in the world.”

Holiday on Ice has become the most famous brand of entertainment on ice for over seven decades with a record number of 328 hundred million visitors. The well-established production guarantees quality performances for Olympic skaters.

Tickets for Holiday on Ice Believe at The Brighton Centre are on sale now and are available from www.brightoncentre.co.uk or by contacting the box office on 0844 847 1538.

EXHUMING McCARTHY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

The election of Donald Trump, concluding as it does the most bitterly divisive Presidential campaign in popular memory, may be said to echo another torrid, smear-happy period of American history: the age of McCarthy.

This November, the University of Sussex takes a look back on that age with two free-to-enter events presented as part of the nationwide humanities festival Being Human. Staged under the umbrella title The Art of Lying, both events will focus on the remarkable life of McCarthyite supergrass Harvey Matusow.

Matusow, whose archives are held by the UoS, became notorious in Cold War America for his professional witness work, all of which came to a halt in 1954, when Matusow announced that most of his “evidence” had been fabricated.

The Art of Lying comprises two events over two nights. On 22 Nov, Professors Diarmuid Hester and Doug Haynes will be joined by writer/actor Robert Cohen at Brighton’s Latest Musicbar, for a discussion aimed at answering the question, Who is Harvey Matusow? On 23 Nov, also at the Latest Bar, Cohen will perform The Trials of Harvey Matusow, the award-winning one-man show he researched in the Matusow archives at UoS.

More info at beinghumanfestival.org Tickets for both events are FREE, but must be booked in advance by emailing bookings@thelatest.co.uk.