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Sexy Preview

With Sexy, Vanessa Kisuule arrives at the Brighton Dome ready to ask some probing questions; what do you find sexy, are you sexy, and what does sexy even mean anyway?…

Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group Preview

The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) will be hosting a discussion centring around the influential intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group on Friday 10 November. In partnership with the…

“Merging science experiments and gawky comedy” – You Can’t Polish A Nerd Preview

Comedy-science trio Festival of the Spoken Nerd are heading to The Old Market as part of their UK tour: You Can’t Polish A Nerd. Merging science experiments and gawky comedy,…

Bent Double Preview

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…

A Number Preview

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…

Séance Preview

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…

Trump Depression Hotline Preview

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…

FAME Preview

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…

Dracula: The Bloody Truth Preview

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…

BONER KILLER Preview

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…

REMOTE Preview

Interactive theatre-makers Coney arrive at The Old Market in Hove for one night only on their UK tour of game theatre experience, REMOTE. Boldly proclaiming itself “theatre of the future”,…

“A Wild, Strange Ride” – The Saga of the European King Live – Preview

On Friday evening, O N C A is presenting as part of Brighton Digital Festival, the first live performance of the audio drama: The Saga of the European King. The…

“A twisted take on classical clowning” – ErictheFred Preview

Recently, we have found ourselves amidst a bizarre kind of “clowning renaissance”. From the unnerving and occasionally violent sightings across the US over previous years, to FX horror anthology American…

“Romances, rivalries and rock ‘n’ roll anthem” – Dreamboats and Petticoats Preview

Jukebox musical, Dreamboats and Petticoats, arrives at the gorgeous Theatre Royal Brighton this week, for its 10 year anniversary tour. Set at a British youth club in the early sixties,…

“Blood-soaked collage of performance and sexual confession” – Medea, Written In Rage Preview

Jean-René Lemoine’s acclaimed reimagining of the classic Medea story hits the UK’s shores this week with a performance of Medea, Written in Rage at Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre. The production, itself…

“How Far Will They Go?” – The Best Man Preview

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…

“A Journey Into The Unconscious Mind” – WHIST Preview

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…