3+ hour, 38+ min ago  (548+ words) scenemag. co. uk Elton, Reimagined: Jess Robinson brings her joyous Cabinet of Voices to Old Market Elton Reimagined offers a celebration of an icon, mediated through other icons, performed by a woman at the absolute top of her game. In…...

5+ day, 28+ min ago  (415+ words) When performer and writer Linus Karp was struck across the head with an umbrella while walking hand-in-hand with his partner through Soho, London, in July 2024, it was an act of violence that would leave a lasting mark far beyond the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (245+ words) Tom Read Wilson has praised actor and musician Martin Kemp for embracing Polari, the once-secret language historically used by Britain's gay community. The Celebs Go Dating star described Kemp as "very special" after hearing him use the coded slang, which…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (103+ words) The jokes land. The audience leaves happy. The show earns its huge applause completely. And yet. When we file out into the Brighton night, we leave Crudi behind, alone, in a big empty tent, the lights dimming around her. She…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (186+ words) As an exercise in mapping intersections, queerness, Blackness, brotherhood, class, identity - Twins is a fascinating and often delightful hour. Standing on a stage beside the person who shares your DNA and saying look how differently we turned out is the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (225+ words) The most fun you can have in ninety minutes with five demigods and a row of strangers who are all thinking exactly the same thing you are. The nuns scene, yes, there are nuns, keep up, tips the whole glorious…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (140+ words) The insistence that the most honest art is made not in spite of pain but sometimes, gloriously, because of it. Take someone you adore. Prepare to be bound, beaten and thoroughly delighted. Pain, it turns out, is merely the raw…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago  (165+ words) Mark Daniels delivers queer comedy with genuine texture. That's Terrifying, Can We Brunch Now? is sharp, warm, emotionally intelligent stand-up that understands queer life beyond easy stereotypes. Daniels is camp, but in the purest sense, camp as instinct rather than…...

1+ mon, 19+ hour ago  (950+ words) There is something special about comedy in Brighton. Maybe it is the city itself - playful, unpredictable, proudly different. Or maybe it is the people behind the scenes making sure everyone has a seat at the table. When I headed down…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (393+ words) Bonkers, bawdy, and thoroughly Scottish, classic Brighton Fringe at its most gloriously unhinged. Christine Weir, Cameron Robertson, Shahrukh Mubashir | Dir. Clare Stopford Scotland's national bard was a serial lover, a Church-baiter, a man who looked polite society dead in the…...