Arts

Sunday 5 November Komedia will be hosting monthly stand-up comedy night Bent Double. The show runs every first Sunday of the month and consists of 2 acts, a headliner and…

“Stop! Stop shopping! Stop! Stop shopping!” So chants the procession of the neon-clad, New York-based gospel choir into the little theatre at The Marlborough. With vibrant dungarees, mesh tops, neck…

Picking A Number was an easy choice. Director and actor Tom Chown explains his love for Caryl Churchill and how her “lineage of plays throughout her career, from Cloud Nine…

The play, Fame, was superbly acted by the Brighton Theatre Group (BTG). The performance was well timed, and enthusiastic until the very end. The actors took their roles very seriously,…

Initially formed while at the University of Nottingham, the early success of the band led them to abandon their studies and pursue music. Back in 2013, four shows into their…

I’m never usually one to travel for gigs; as much as I enjoy the experience of witnessing a live performance, I like to have the comforting knowledge that I can…

At the heart of Brighton’s North Laine sits Resident Records, popular among those in the musical know. On Sunday night, a very select group of Wolf Alice fans witnessed the…

Calvin Harris and Florence Welch of Florence and The Machine have both expressed their anger regarding their music being played at this year’s Conservative Party Conference, earlier in the month.…

For this year’s Halloween the Brighton Dome is showing an unsettling production that will make you question reality. Séance is a twenty minute show where twenty participants enter a pitch-black…

Next week at The Marlborough, New York collective Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir will be making their next stop on their latest UK tour: Trump Depression Hotline. The…

Theatre often gets a reputation for being something of a middle-class amusement. Picture a busy auditorium and you’ll probably see flocks of white, middle-aged men and women in fancy clothing,…

Drummer Sam Cox thrusts a drumstick skyward, interrupting the second refrain of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights playing through The Old Market’s PA. A synthwave drum beat gives way to the…

A remake of the 1980s television series Fame, which was also made into a 2009 feature film, is now being performed by the BTG (Brighton Theatre Group) Youth live at…

With Halloween ominously looming around the corner, it seems only apt to delve into what Brighton Theatre’s weird and wonderful world has to offer this October. Next week at Brighton’s…

Katie Dale-Everett’s Digital Tattoo came to the Attenborough Centre last Tuesday, blending dance, projection and interactive theatre to critique our increasingly dependent relationship with social media. The first, and stronger,…

Brighton’s queer performance venue The Marlborough Pub and Theatre will be showing Erin Markey’s BONER KILLER”. The show takes Markey’s story-driven stand-up into an intimate musical conversation between what Markey…

I went into this performance with few expectations, but I did have one: I was certain I would experience interactive theatre. This exciting possibility was my only preconception due to…

Upon arrival at O N C A the event looked like a private viewing of a production. The space was picturesque, eccentric and hosted at an art gallery. The room…

This week we talked with Constance, A recent English Literature Graduate, who is now taking her masters at Sussex University. How has being in Brighton influenced your photography? Brighton influences…

Science fiction, at its best, should be intellectual, philosophical and innovative. It should be creative, but also reflective of our own reality. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is paradoxical in…