Author Archive

KÁŤA KABANOVÁ

- 8 August 2025

The slow reveal from darkness of the stark white setting against the haunting strains of...

THE MIDNIGHT BELL

- 31 July 2025

Having over the years seen many of Matthew Bourne’s works, and loved them all, I...

BRIGHTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS: EURO PARTY

- 27 July 2025

2025 sees the 20th anniversary of the BGMC, a milestone event for one on the...

NEW VENTURE THEATRE: FIVE SHORT PLAYS

- 26 July 2025

How lucky are we to have an asset like New Venture Theatre in our city?...

TOP HAT

- 25 July 2025

This year’s musical revival from Chichester Festival Theatre is Irving Berlin’s Top Hat. Built around...

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

- 23 July 2025

Tudor England, an age of British history that is perhaps the most familiar, the one...

FALSTAFF

- 21 July 2025

In a week of two Shakespeare comedies for me, Glyndebourne’s revival of their wittily shifted...

ACTUALLY GAY MEN’S CHORUS: FABULOUS

- 20 July 2025

As show titles go this could not have been better named. At Twenty years old...

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

- 18 July 2025

A first visit to The Bridge Theatre in London has changed my mind about going...

VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS BY CANDLELIGHT

- 13 July 2025

How wonderful it always is to experience the music room in Brighton’s Royal Pavilion being...

FELIX & FRIENDS

- 11 July 2025

The word cabaret can mean so many things, and in Brighton it tends to be...

THE 39 STEPS

- 10 July 2025

Fiction to film, film to stage, it’s a fashionable trend and has been for some...