Arts

On a cold and rainy September evening in Hove, warm yellow light floods a stage strewn with leaves, branches and aeroplane parts. This is the island, and it is our…

Sussex Musical Theatre Society, SMuTS, will be holding auditions for their biggest production of the year this coming Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Every March, the award-winning society puts on a…

Theatre Royal Brighton kicks off an exciting season of top quality theatre next week with West End-bound drama, The Best Man. First performed on Broadway in the sixties, The Best…

According to research commissioned by the Brighton and Hove city council, near 10 million people a year visit the city during the day and almost 5 million come to stay…

One of Brighton’s most bizarre comedy nights returns this coming Thursday with Komedia’s fourth instalment of Comedians Cinema Club: an improvised show where a team of comedians recreate cinema classics,…

On the Wednesday evening of Freshers’ Week, Sussex students new and old will be treated to an exciting evening of dancing and performance with the university’s very own Drag Society.…

As a successful summer at Brighton Open Air Theatre draws to a close, French theatre company Bubblegum Parfum Desert presents My Floorboards. This translated work promises an explosive day of…

The Badger will be bringing you all some jolly good film and television recommendations throughout the coming academic terms. To keep you going until the work commences, here are some…

This September, Ashford-based dance company AΦE bring their five-star performance WHIST to the Old Market, Brighton. WHIST is an art installation come physical theatre piece inspired by the work of…

Published in 1954 and now firmly cemented as one of the nation’s favourite classics, William Golding’s novel about the plight of young schoolboys stranded on a remote island, forced to…

The POLAR boys are back at it again with Boxed In, a 10 week series of Sunday night events in alternative locations across Brighton. From vintage clothing stores to burger…

Spending his Sixth Form years in Brighton, Tom Glover is no stranger to the politics of the left. His production, ‘Wet Bread’, premiered at Brighton Fringe Festival this week. A…

On the 26th of February everyone was shocked that the Academy had bestowed the Best Actor Oscar to Casey Affleck instead of Denzel Washington, who not only is a better…

American Horror Story (AHS) has remained one of the most well produced shows on cable television for six years now. It propelled networks to look into a genre that was…

Self-proclaimed exponents of “Nihilist R&B” (no, they don’t know what it means either)*, King Smo’s charming eccentricities took URF x Smash Vinyl’s showcase by storm last month, and they’re gearing…

Live At Leeds is the North’s award-winning metropolitan festival for new music and the organisers pulled out all of the stops for another successful year. With far too many incredible…

In 2015 Sundance Film Festival screened one of the most interesting and raw documentaries on pornography of the 21st century. Following the 1998 first season of Louis Theoux’s Weird Weekends…

It is hard to file Chelsea Wolfe under a specific genre. Part Joni Mitchell-esque singer-songwriter folk and part all encompassing doom metal riffing, Wolfe has certainly carved out her own…

Last week, SICK! Festival, which describes itself as “the antidote to the physical, mental and social challenges of life”, came to the University of Sussex for a week long showcase…

Photograph: Malcolm Tam The main SMuTS production of 2016-17 was West Side Story (directed by Andrew Crouch), a rousing, high-energy production which played to sold out audiences through five performances…