KOMEDIA, THE OLD MARKET, ROPETACKLE, BRIGHTON OPEN AIR THEATRE

by Franco Milazzo - January 02, 2025

When I first saw The Nutcracker, I was convinced one of these things must be true: either someone had spiked my drink, the cast were all on drugs or we were all in some kind of baffling nightmare. No other explanation seemed plausible to my young mind....

by Gary Naylor - December 31, 2024

Angelina Jolie is compelling in a movie that concentrates on the misery to the exclusion of almost everything else in the diva's life...

by Amber-Rae Stobbs - December 31, 2024

Riotous queer theatre show is NSFW - in a good way!...

by Gary Naylor - December 29, 2024

Macabre and spectacular, this is Christmas fare as it once was and should still be, fully trusting its audience....

by Christiana Rose - December 30, 2024

Based on Tom Fletcher’s best-selling children’s book and adapted by scriptwriter Miranda Larson, The Creakers musical is an escapade which highlights the very real need for sustainability, through a tale about Lucy and the ‘kidderlings’ of Whiffington. The children wake up to find that all of the ad...

by Franco Milazzo - December 27, 2024

There’s something about the London Community Gospel Choir that will get any place - even one as large and grand as the Royal Albert Hall - up on their feet, dancing, clapping and singing along as if their entire Christmas was rolled into this one night....

by Gary Naylor - December 26, 2024

There's praise for plays old and new and musicals, well, mainly old...

by Franco Milazzo - December 23, 2024

Somewhere in that creative space between cinema and live drama, Please Right Back looks at family, fantasy and the place fiction plays in difficult times....

by Amber-Rae Stobbs - December 22, 2024

A play that deserves a larger audience in 2025...

by Gary Naylor - December 22, 2024

Traditional fringe panto offers value and and the comfort of familiarity and escapism at Christmas...