Theatre Royal Brighton

BLOOD BROTHERS

- 11 February 2026

It’s 1983 and I am 27 years old, sat in the Lyric Theatre in the...

MIDSOMER MURDERS: THE KILLINGS AT BADGERS DRIFT

- 4 February 2026

Somehow I have managed to never ever have seen a single episode of the Midsomer...

VARNA INTERNATIONAL BALLET: CINDERELLA

- 1 February 2026

The stage at Brighton’s beautiful Theatre Royal is small and yet from time to time...

ELLEN KENT OPERA: CARMEN

- 28 January 2026

The announcement that Ellen Kent’s company was making a farewell tour was sad news. For...

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE

- 14 January 2026

From walking into the theatre itself there was an air of promise about this production....

SUNNY AFTERNOON

- 18 December 2025

At the heart of any successful piece of theatre and above all I expect a...

2:22

- 7 October 2025

Seeing a play, a ghost story, for a second time has its pitfalls. Do you...

THE LIGHTNING THIEF

- 1 October 2025

Most of us grow up with comics, The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle for my...

DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY

- 3 September 2025

Austen to PD James, novel to novel to TV to stage… can it survive? It’s...

LES MISERABLES: LET THE PEOPLE SING

- 14 August 2025

Forty years on and it is still so hard to understand why, on its opening,...

THE MIDNIGHT BELL

- 31 July 2025

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

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

- 23 July 2025

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




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