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EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE

- 1 November 2023

For a stage musical that has gained such widespread popularity it was heartening to see...

Bach and Buxtehude: Brighton Early Music Festival 23/24

- 29 October 2023

BREMF has become one of the most exciting arts organisations in the city with events...

2:22

- 25 October 2023

With the world currently filled with broomsticks and pumpkins, an Americanism that has replaced my...

BESS: THE OTHER HOUDINI

- 21 October 2023

How many of us have heard of Bess Rahner, very few I would wager. But...

GREATEST DAYS

- 11 October 2023

Taking the hits of a band as successful as Take That and fashioning a show...

YOU

- 7 October 2023

For anyone watching this short but extraordinary play who has grown up in the loving...

BLOOD BROTHERS

- 4 October 2023

From the very first production of Willy Russell’s, in my view, masterpiece, this has sat...

THIS WAY FOR THE GAS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

- 30 September 2023

Long in the making, this epic and challenging work of theatre is finally taking on...

QUIZ

- 29 September 2023

Who wants to be a millionaire? Well in some ways would we all not like...

‘Dine like a Regency king or queen at The Royal Pavilion this September’

- 8 September 2023

Marie-Antoine (Antonin) Carême (1784-1833) – renowned as the ‘King of Chefs and Chef of Kings’...

CHOW TIME

- 18 August 2023

I sort of pride myself on my knowledge of food from around the world, thirty...

TALKING ORTON

- 11 August 2023

It’s shocking to realise that had he lived Joe Orton would be 90 years old....