Theatre Royal Brighton

Steel Magnolias

- 1 March 2023

When a drama receives so much attention on being taken to film as Steel Magnolias...

Noughts and Crosses

- 23 February 2023

This stylish yet bleak dramatisation of Malorie Blackman’s novel for young adults is captivating but...

Hey Duggee

- 8 February 2023

I often leave theatres in despair at the fact that young people seem not to...

The Shawshank Redemption

- 24 January 2023

When a play is based on a film that has become iconic and that film...

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW

- 4 January 2023

One has to ask whether Richard O’Brien, when first thinking of writing a pastiche 1950s...

Death Drop: Back in the Habit

- 14 December 2022

I’m not a fan of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, I know, I am meant to...

MOTHER GOOSE

- 12 December 2022

It’s back! Yes, pantomime is back at Theatre Royal Brighton and it could not have...

The Lavender Hill Mob

- 22 November 2022

The fashion for taking a popular period piece of cinema and turning it to a...

JOE BLACK: CLUB CATACLYSM 

- 21 November 2022

Unsure of what to expect I took my seat at Theatre Royal Brighton persuaded to...

AN INSPECTOR CALLS

- 16 November 2022

Returning to see JB Priestley’s classic play in what is now seen as a classic...

THE CHER SHOW

- 2 November 2022

Theatre Royal Brighton’s stage is undeniably small, small but in my view perfectly formed. But...

THE MOUSETRAP

- 26 October 2022

It’s no longer just a play, it’s a piece of theatre history and with that...