Theatre Royal Brighton

Laugh Out Loud at Life

- 31 May 2023

Theatre has always been the natural home of comedy but never better than when that...

The Way Old Friends Do

- 3 May 2023

What a joy to sit in the semi dark and be so charmingly entertained. Ian...

ELLEN KENT OPERA: La Boheme & Madama Butterfly

- 27 April 2023

I’m going to start with words not about the two performances this week but about...

Home, I’m Darling

- 12 April 2023

There are moments when I successfully manage to avoid reading too much about a new...

Heathers

Heathers

- 21 March 2023

I approached this cult musical version of a cult film with some trepidation. I loved...

Wish You Were Dead

- 21 March 2023

Before I go any further let me say that I am a fan of Peter...

Fisherman’s Friends

- 8 March 2023

What a joyous way to spend an evening, ensemble theatre at its very best, beautiful...

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...