Opera for the Community Continues!
It’s an exciting and busy season – and year – ahead, for Barefoot Opera. Hot on the heels of a sold out performance of just one act of a new ‘people’s opera' – Bloom Britannia – earlier this year at…
A Billion Ways – the Musical about Climate Change – to be Premiered in Hastings.
Press Release provided by the brand new musical on climate change will open in Hastings this month at the Kino-Teatr, featuring an impressive cast of local talent. Script writer Sally Holloway says she wanted to write a “feel-good” musical about…
Beloved Clara – A Tale of Love And Loss
Press Release from Hastings International Piano Concerto CompetitionSunday 10 November 3pmSt Mary in the Castle, HastingsAward-winning British actors Lesley Sharp and Sir Simon Russell Beale with pianist Lucy Parham. The story of the intense relationships between Robert Schumann, his wife…
Celebrate Hastings’ volunteers at Electric Palace cinema this Volunteers Week
This is a press release from Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings. The Electric Palace cinema in Hastings Old Town is hosting a special event during Volunteers Week (1-7 June) to celebrate its dedicated and passionate army of volunteers who man the…
A Look at La Traviata with Opera South East
Opera South East are performing Verdi's La Traviata this weekend (April 12th-13th)with the Sussex Concert Orchestra at Hastings White Rock Theatre. The Director is Fraser Grant and the Conductor is Kenneth Roberts. Director's Notes on Plot and MeaningThe basic premise…
Streets of Battle back for 2018
The festival of Sussex street art will return to the heart of Battle this Saturday, 28th April. Loved by all ages, Streets of Battle has charmed visitors to Battle's High Street and Abbey Green since 2016. Watch out for uproarious…
It really is Time2Dance
Academy Time 2 Dance reached its 16th birthday at the White Rock, this February. It’s a huge, three-day dance extravaganza involving over 870 students, from 32 schools and numerous community groups around Hastings and Rother. This mind-bendingly complicated feat has…
Morgan Creative Bring Philip McDonagh’s Crime and Punishment to Kino-teatr, 1–5 November 2017.
Morgan Creative Preview by Simone Witney Everything points to this being a hugely exciting performance. Luke Morgan reads Crime and Punishment every January and his passion is clearly shared by the rest of the cast. Together with Yvette Pique, the…
Highly Inflammable – Poly Styrene in Hastings, by Cheryl White
Marianne Elliot-Said, AKA Poly Styrene by artist Paul Quinnell A play inspired by Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex is coming to St Mary in the Castle in June. Here Cheryl White, who wrote Highly Inflammable, tells us how this punk…