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Masculine Fear of Feminine Power – Macbeth
In this classic tale of greed and guilt, Flabbergast’s Macbeth fuses a rigorous and respectful approach to text and storytelling to bring a magical, lucid interpretation of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy to…
At Last – Sherlock Holmes Comes to Hastings
SAM WESTERBY Doctor Who time lord Colin Baker and The Archers performer Terry Molloy star in the Sherlock Holmes radio play The Sign of Four at White Rock Theatre on April…
A Town Explores a Book – Ten Year Celebration
GAIL BORROW The book choice for 2026 is a lively little book chosen by the voluntary committee which raises festival ;John Agard’s My Name is BOOK, illustrated by Neil Packer, is…
Jack In The Green wins Lottery Award
Hastings Traditional Jack in the Green is delighted to have been awarded £30,000 through Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants. This will cover many of the costs of staging the…
Not Last Orders Yet
GEOFF MARTIN Fear Of Last Orders erupted onto the Hastings live music scene with all the subtlety of a bar stool lobbed through a window at 2am, at a lock-in…
Comedy Festival Line-Up Complete
Established in 2015 and independently run by friends Chris Young and Jake Alexander, the Hastings Comedy Festival has grown to attract some of the UK and the world’s biggest comedians.…
Art for Summer
Women’s Art The current show at Barnaby’s Lounge in Robertson Street is Gaining Ground, an all-women’s art show curated by Louise Whitham, who says “This show feels like each work…
Deconstructed traditional folk– the Smallpipe
Scottish folk star Malin Lewis brings a new solo project to The Stade Hall in Hastings on Saturday 21 March. In a trailblazing new solo work, Malin deep dives into a hypnotic…
A Triumph for Music and Humanity
VICTORIA KINGHAM Matthew AndrewsRyan Zhu, 2026 winner Hastings International Piano competition had sponsorship to offer free places in the early stages for everyone who wanted to wander in off the…
Being Ola at The Electric Palace
The documentary Being Ola, the second feature film from Award winning Norwegian filmmaker Ragnhild Nøst Bergem, is set to release in UK and Irish cinemas on 3 April; it previews…
Witching It Up at the Carlisle
A Hastings all-women promotions company is launching a new live music night to bring more oestrogen-fuelled rock and metal bands to the town. The Coven Club at The Carlisle Rock…
Zalktis
JUSTIN MORENO The beautiful, gold-collared natrix natrix is a symbol of power and prosperity. Snakes are often reviled, but in Baltic lore, the presence of a grass snake or zalktis…
Love a Market and DJ Nights too
The restoration and adaptation of St Leonards Church – the one that stands on a little hill at the end of Pevensey Road – has occupied Chris Love and Jamie…
Open Odyssey
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING Something groundbreaking is happening at Hastings Contemporary. They are about to put on their first ever Open Exhibition. The gallery took the very brave step…
Another Spectacular Interview
In April there will be a rehearsed public reading of Lindsay Jayne’s absurdist debut play, A Spectacular Interview. The play is a critical, comical send-up of the ‘spectacularly’ appalling mess…
Locally Sourced Jazz Album
Local multi-talented musician, artist and photographer Greg Heath has produced (and in the case of one tune, co-written) a fine album of unashamedly nostalgic jazz rock, Point Nemo, by the…
Arnold Rimmer Comes to Comic Con
The White Rock Theatre has announced that Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf – those were the days)is the first confirmed celebrity guest for this year’s Hastings Comic Con, which returns…
Choral Music for Easter
Hastings Philharmonic Choir will perform a programme of beautiful choral masterpieces: Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Brahms’ Schicksalslied (‘Song of Destiny’),accompanied by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marcio da Silva.…
Big Sexy Catharsis
OLIVER SPEER “I’ve killed so many men, but I saved one,” Lydia Lunch says as she puts an arm around me to pose for a photograph at The Piper. She’s…
Wish You Were Here?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING There is something both alluring and rather sad about the English seaside. Somehow the seaside is full of the promise of naughtiness and fun, and…
Reflections on Fat Tuesday
JOEL CHESHIRE & HARRY HAWKINS FRIDAY ‘Unconvention’ kicked off Fat Tuesday: a one-day grassroots music conference held at the White Rock Theatre Studio. This brought together musicians, industry professionals, promoters, educators…
Convivial Pursuit
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING When you walk into what appears to be a cheese and wine shop, you don’t really expect it to be also a rather bijou little…
Wake Up & Feelthe Colour
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING There is a particularly vibrant exhibition coming up at Unit 2 on London Road. The show is entitled Wake Up &. The artist is Sophie…
Forty Shades of Clay
HELEN MURPHY and NICK PELLING Recently, the ceramicist Liz Emtage passed a significant double milestone in her life-long creative career: her studio-shop has now been open on King’s Road for…
The Beat Goes On
HELEN MURPHY AND NICK PELLING On 20 February, the polyrhythms of Afro-beat are coming to the Kino-teatr, in the form of the band Samaki. The band has a jazz-infused style…
Put the Kettle on, Grab a Biscuit and Pop on the TV
TOBY BULA-EDGE I like to imagine that when John Logie Baird invented the television exactly a century ago, it was a bit like Frankenstein and his monster – in a…
Sonics Boom
TOBY BULA-EDGE Emanating from French’s on 14 and 15 February will be a selection of unusual and surprising sounds. That is, very different noises to those that normally exude from…
Another Rousing Chorus, You Idiots!
HARRY HAWKINS catches up with some FAT TUESDAY musicians Fat Tuesday CICEse & the Vouduu People To whet your appetite for the town’s forthcoming Fat Tuesday festivities (the 16th such…
Going Wild at The Carlisle
JOEL CHESHIRE The Carlisle played host to a lively charity fundraising gig on the evening of 17 January, showcasing five local bands in a celebration of grassroots rock in ;The…
What’s The Story?
The Stables theatre is hosting an intriguing photography exhibition throughout February. Gary Willis brings us a series of images which hope to provoke a reaction; a sense of – what…
Alexander Wolfe, Life, and the Universe
VICTORIA KINGHAM Wolfe has that gift of good songwriters: an ability to make lyrics sound like conversation, and vice-versa. I’m not sure that it’s a technique you can learn, but…
When Love Gets Tough
Anja Petitto is an extraordinary woman, and so was her beloved mother, Tuula. Anja has spent the past four years working hard to set up the brilliant independent record shop,…
All Kinds of Everything
NICK PELLING and HELEN MURPHY It’s not unusual for galleries to have a café or for restaurants to chuck some quirky art on the walls, but at the Kino-teatr on…
Red Rhymes for Valentines
NICK PELLING and HELEN MURPHY Henry Normal, Janine Booth and Attila the Stockbroker are setting out on a tour of various Sussex seaside venues, bringing radical and left-inclined lines to…
Music for Midwinter
The much-anticipated Music For Midwinter festival is on its way and tickets are flying out the door. The festival is being put on by Sounds St Leonards, an organisation set up by…
Helena Wojtczak and the Women Sussex Forgot
If you browse the local history sections of any local bookshop, you will inevitably stumble across the name Helena Wojtczak. A recently-elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Helena has…
Jack and the Beanstalk
FIONA MCGARRY My eight-year-old granddaughter and I went to Jack and the Beanstalk at The White Rock Theatre last Thursday. We arrived slightly frazzled (with Grandpa in tow) straight from the…
Music of the Sphere(s)
VICTORIA KINGHAM Robert Mitchell inhabits a musical sphere which John Fordham, writing in The Guardian 14 years ago, called ‘private’. His albums from 2008 onwards corroborate this view in several…
Dancing to the Music of Time
VERA BELL The current St Leonards Concerts season ended on 4 December with an extraordinary performance by five exceptional players. Who knew that the back room at the Horse and…
Philharmonic Christmas
CHRISTOPHER CORMACK This year, Hastings Philharmonic has given us three options for Christmas celebrations with their quality ; The first Advent Concert took place on 6 December, and celebrated 20th…