Theatre

Blimey! The Theatre Royal in Brighton have managed to get a bit of a scoop as none other than everyone’s favourite 80’s crooner Paul Young, is set to perform his much loved album ‘No Parlez’ in celebration of 35 years since its release at the New Road venue on Sunday 28th April...

Free Taster Day offers a flavour of Brighton Festival 2019 Brighton Festival is hosting a free taster event on Sunday 7 April at Brighton Dome for visitors to experience a flavour of what’s to come in May. The event is inspired by Brighton Festival’s Guest Director, acclaimed...

FK Alexander is nothing if not powerful. Though her M.O. is to play with her own vulnerability – she wears the scars and marks of self harm across her limbs – it takes enormous strength to hold an audience, as she did at last week’s performance at The Attenborough Centre,...

Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) is preparing to set sail into a summer of theatre, comedy, music and family shows as it celebrates its fifth birthday. Since opening in 2015 the theatre has grown its summer programme and audience numbers exponentially. The 2019 season has an...

The Doc’N Roll Film Festival is set to return to Brighton for its 4th edition on 1st to 7th April 2019. It will feature six exclusive screenings plus special events taking place at Duke’s at Komedia, Hotel Pelirocco and Duke Of York’s Picturehouse. Tickets are already on sale and...

Louisa Robbin’s simple and starkly affecting piece, to care, is described as’ a process, a ritual’, and indeed it is – the making of a body butter from oils and fat, the creation of a product for ‘self-care’. Robbin, a self-described...

After winning Best New Play at the 2018 Brighton Fringe, Rosy Carrick brings her high-octane and highly emotional Passionate Machine back to The Old Market in Hove on March 17th for a hometown show as part of a UK tour. Funny, poignant, and at times shocking, the show sees Rosy...

Seems as though The Big Blue Shed promotions company have delivered yet again, with the announcement today of an outdoor concert in Hove at the B.O.A.T (Brighton Open Air Theatre) by the legendary Spear Of Destiny who will be performing the whole of their second album ‘One Eyed...

PROFESSOR BRIAN COX + ROBIN INCE (UNIVERSAL GLOBAL TOUR) – BRIGHTON CENTRE 26.02.19 Finally the wait was over! It was announced on 25th October 2017 that Professor Brian Cox OBE would be coming to the Brighton Centre in 489 days time with his new ‘Universal: Adventures In...

Talks and Debates: Catherine Mayer FFS https://www.catherinemayer.co.uk/ The Old Market, Brighton 24th February 2019 Writer and journalist Catherine Mayer is co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party and this, the first stop on a short UK tour entitled Catherine Mayer FFS* offered...

A challenging and timely trio of new theatre performance comes to Brighton as part of the Marlborough Theatre’s Radical Softness season, which bills itself as a season of performance interrogating what it means for self-care to be an act of Radical Softness. The term refers...

Horrible Histories – Terrible Tudors, Birmingham Stage Company. Theatre Royal, Brighton The Theatre Royal saw Terry Deary’s enduringly popular series brought larger-than-life – just like its main villain, Henry the VIIIth – as a cast of three and some very special effects...

Sandi Toksvig, the universally-loved funny woman of Radio 4’s News Quiz, Bake off and QI fame, comes to Brighton’s Dome for just two nights on her tour, entitled National Trevor. The title is a nod to her being referred to as a national treasure, much to her scorn....

Magic and Mystery in Moomin Valley, Get Lost and Found. The Old Market, Hove, Dec 2018 Tove Jansson’s signature bittersweet style of storytelling has been brought to life in a beautiful new interactive show for 4-7 yr olds by Get Lost and Found. Narrated by lovable...

Out of the Hat, Long Nose Puppets. Komedia, Brighton, Dec 2018 Long Nose Puppets, Brighton’s most beloved children’s puppetry theatre company, returns with a beguiling new show for 2-8 year olds. The company, which saw considerable critical success and delighted...

My five-year-old son and I took a trip backstage and into the heart of the Theatre Royal for their Christmas show this year. We joined Nellie Limelight, played by the engaging Florence Leon, on her crime-fighting exploits to help crack the case of Ollie Oyster and the lost pearl...

JEFF WAYNE’S MUSICAL VERSION OF THE WAR OF THE WORLDS – ALIVE ON STAGE – BRIGHTON CENTRE 16.12.18 “No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed...

TOM welcomes a ‘mind-glowingly beautiful’ piece of family theatre by the award-winning company 1927, the team behind the hit show Golem. The show, described by as a startlingly original novel brought to life, welcomes you to the Bayou, a part of the city feared and...

As a venue that has been involved in Independent Venue Week since its inception in 2014, Komedia Brighton are excited to announce that they boast one of the largest programmes of events during the seven-day celebration of small music venues around the country, which runs from...

Gary Starr Performs Everything Komedia Sun 16 Dec 2018 8pm https://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton/comedy/garry-starr-performs-everything/ As pitches go, it’s an intriguing one – Garry Starr’s dismissal from the Royal Shakespeare Co. following ‘artistic...

It’s been such a long time since I last ventured inside the 200 year old Theatre Royal located on New Road, Brighton. My last visit was an all encompassing affair, as we were lucky to have secured ourselves on one of the backstage tours of this historic grade II listed building....

Neil Oliver, archaeologist, historian, author and presenter of the TV series ‘Coast’, will be sharing his love of Great Britain with audiences in Brighton later this month. ‘The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places’, which is also the title of his forthcoming...

Art of Attachment is the culmination of a collaborative project between Vincent Dance Theatre and the Brighton Oasis Project (BOP) – a unique substance misuse service working with women and families in Brighton & Hove. Guests will be treated to two new performances...

Bryony Kimmings, the groundbreaking solo artist who famously traced her own sexual history on stage in pursuit of an STI’s origin, is back with her first new show in nearly a decade, I’m A Phoenix, Bitch. The provocatively-titled piece of “theatre-cum-social...

Acclaimed writer and actress Ambreen Razia (Murdered by my Father, BBC Three) brings her hard-hitting drama POT to Brighton next week, showing at Dorothy Stringer school. A story of Britain’s forgotten children, care-leavers adrift and at the mercy of gang culture, the play...