Review: Sussex Musicians Club Chapel Royal
To cap it all members gave an impromptu carol service too: flashcarol. Fine and rather affecting.
Genre: Music
Review: Sussex Musicians Club Chapel Royal
A revelatory concert of wind players, fine Beethoven and Bach too.
Review: John Collins Organ Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
Another Collins gem. And so much more music, and composers of whom we've never heard. We are luckier than we can realise.
Review: Berniya Hamie Piano Recital St Nicholas Church
We will be hearing much more of Berniya Hamie in future
Review: Sussex Musicians Club
This is special, commemorating the life of pianist, choral conductor educator and above all musician Muriel Hart (1924-2023).
Review: Evelyn Harrison and Zhanna Kemp-Dashkovskya St Nicholas Church Recital
Evelyn Harrison is a remarkable and underusing artist with a very time that never falters; and Zhanna Kemp-Dashkovskya a loyal and gifted accompanist often seen on the Brighton circuit.
Review: St Nicholas Ellie Blackshaw Solo Violin Recital
Ellie Blackshaw’s a vital, rapt performer and composer on the Brighton and south east scene.
Review: A Conversation Between Hands and Feet
An impressively engaging multi-disciplinary and multilingual showcase of sang, shoogling and music.
Review: Huge Davies: Album For My Ancestors (Dead)
A comedy music concert showcasing a man and his piano.
Review: 12th Year! John Hunt Four O’Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
A very professional gig, old soulful blues songs with intriguing lyrics and a real blues man who's lived it.
Review: Two Hearts: Til Death Do Us Hearts
A must-see show for the night owls of Old Town looking to laugh until it hurts.
Review: Eddy Hare: This One’s On Me
Hare brings a unique and personal charm to his comedy that stands out from the crowd.
Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical….and Helen
Helen, the power behind the Gilbert and Sullivan throne?
Review: A Giant on the Bridge
Lyrical gig theatre finding the soft hidden stories from tough prison lives
Review: Half Man//Half Bull: Daedalus
Exhilarating and cathartic theater- if you can see only one thing this year- see Half Man//Half Bull.
Review: Half Man//Half Bull: Theseus
Exhilarating and cathartic theater- if you can see only one thing this year- see Half Man//Half Bull.
Review: Sitting on a Cornflake: Songs of Lennon-McCartney
A wholesome show for likeminded Beatles fans
Review: Orchestra of Sound
Innovation…entertainment…imagination….you won’t believe your eyes and ears!
Review: Gruppo Corpo Dance Company
Gruppo Corpo Dance Company summons Brazilian history, culture and spirituality in two joyful UK premieres
Review: Limbo: A Sonata for Acrobatic Violinist
An entirely unique and daring pair of acrobats, one of them playing a complex violin concerto at the same time
Review: 2 Concerts, 2 Artists, 2 Premieres
An exciting new voice on the opera scene, both as a dramatic performer and as a composer.
Review: The Kate Bush Story
Hannah Richards brings emotion while exuding humility, embodying the essence of Kate Bush
Review: A Tapestry of Life
Iconic songs and touching poetry in the hands of a highly talented singer
Review: Company RAus’s Dido
A multimedia portrayal of Dido's love and loss, in sound, light and solo dance
Review: St Nicholas Richard Bowen Guitar Recital
Recommended for languorous afternoons such as the burst of May outside.
Review: St Nicholas Simon Carrey Fauré and Chaminade Recital
Simon Carrey is an exquisite and deeply-musical pianist, wholly in tune with Fauré. I’d love to have heard two hours of him, with an interval.
Review: Neil Crossland Piano Recital, Unitarian Church, New Road Brighton
All in all an outstanding recital. Neil Crossland’s piano recital at the Unitarian Church is again on another level
Review: Memories of the Early 1950’s
It is one of those rare things that makes the Fringe special: a real connection with another person, another artist.
Review: Janitor/Manager & How to Have an Affair Without Really Trying
Well worth seeing now as they are, especially so you can say you caught them before they took the Fringe by storm.
Review: Charmaine Wombwell: Ma’s Monster
part clown, part Buffon and zany comedy character with loads of humility, charm and warmth.
Review: Potty the Plant – A New Dark Comedy Musical
A light hearted pseudo-horror story with a few jibes at current affairs
Review: Out of the Blue
An hour of entertainment from University of Oxford's male a cappella ensemble
Review: The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
King Boris of Bulgaria stands up to Hitler, accompanied by Bulgarian and Jewish folk music.
Review: Bowjangles: Dracula in Space
The stakes are high, as a talented string quartet encounter Dracula, with tremendously entertaining shenanigans aplenty
Review: How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World – With a Piano!
Quirky and amusing lesson in getting wild and healed
Review: Wee Seals and Selkies
A beautiful wee family show that manages to combine gentility with the warmth of good stories really well told.
Review: A Wee Journey
An exceptionally moving piece of dance theatre which explored migration, refugeehood and connection through the medium of dance, theatre and music, which I truly understood.
Review: Moving Cloud
The most astonishing piece of dance theatre I have seen for some considerable time.
Review: The Three Seas
East Meets West in a fusion of Indian and North American instruments and rhythms
Review: The Queen’s Cartoonists
Animated films are enhanced by a live band performing the lush and intricate movie scores.
Review: Now That’s What I Call A Lot Of Songs About Science
John Hinton performs hilarious songs of science from a very extensive repertoire
Review: Michele Roszak and Lynda Spinney: Spring’s Arrival
A terrific way to blow the cherry blossom
Review: The Paradis Files
Not so much an event as a concentration of Errollyn Wallen’s genius celebrating the life of blind composer Maria Theresia van Paradis, in Graeae’s world-class production
Review: Beautiful
Outstanding, and outstandingly transferred as a tour that brings its stature with it.
Review: The Marching SKAletons and Dead Beat Poets
An 8-piece day of the dead inspired parade band plus the Dead Beat Poets
Review: Bette: Bathhouse to Broadway!
One of the most musically satisfying, funny, filthy and inclusive tribute acts of its kind.
Review: East
A specially crafted evening of musical and poetic works inspired by mesmerising myths, legends, poems, ballads and dance from England’s Eastern seaboard
Review: Sacrament
A revelation, superbly written and acted. Comparisons have been made with A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing. I can think of no higher praise either. You must see this.
Review: Living Newspaper #7
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch a group of young dramatists take on the future
Review: Illusions of Liberty
A finely-calibrated solo play of what it’s like to enter that tunnel of near-undiagnosable but very real illness. Corinne Walker’s both authoritative and quicksilver. Do catch it.
Review: New Moon Monologues April
As we saw in March, don’t be lulled by friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queens of Cups again proves they’re a company to revel with and wait for heart-stopping reveals
Review: Orpheus
A terrific reinvention, bringing gods and heroines up from the death of myth to an altered world.
Review: New Moon Monologues March
Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable
Review: Love, Loss and Quarantine
The Pandemic sheds a new light on relationships, as beautifully told in song
Review: Andrew Lloyd-Webber 50th Birthday Live from the Royal Albert Hall, 1998
The great discovery was the multi-roling Marcus Lovett, sexy and lethal, able to attack several roles and convince you he was born for them, even into them.
Review: Lance Mok Piano Recital
Confirms Mok confirms he’s a pianist bristling with oblique lyricism and spiky character – an ideal late 19th century-20th century interpreter.
Review: Simon Watterton Piano Recital
Another pianist to welcome back before he gets snapped up, even in this climate. Superb.
Review: Sam Brown A John Dowland Lute Recital
A climactic Fantasia lifts the atmosphere of this recital to something quite apt. A superb debut.
Review: Sirius Chau and Irena Radic Flute and Piano Recital
A terrific journey. We need more of this.
