- 17 May 2025
What a risky programme! Not so long ago it would have scared away the crowds...
The evening opened with a narration, the story of the bulbul, or nightingale as we...
- 16 May 2025
Let’s start at the very beginning. In my thirty odd years of reviewing live entertainment...
- 15 May 2025
Over the years I have enjoyed so much of director and theatre maker Emma Rice’s...
- 14 May 2025
No fuss, just a ripple of applause, a moment of calm, then fortissimo G octaves....
- 13 May 2025
It’s so lovely when talented youth teaches old ears wonderful new tunes. That’s exactly what...
- 11 May 2025
I am audience. Or at least until last night that would be how I categorise...
- 10 May 2025
What nerve! For a happy troupe of mainly middle-aged men to adopt the label of...
Anoushka Shanka’s curating of the Brighton Festival 2025 has divided opinion, whilst many of us...
- 9 May 2025
Kumar Muniandy’s one person drama is anything but second class, it goes beyond first class,...
- 8 May 2025
Five excellent musicians – that is three singers, one also playing a Vielle (an early...
- 7 May 2025
Brighton Fringe 2025 has an impressive number of LGBTQ+ pieces, from comedy to the serious....
