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Howard Shelley

Review: Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, Brighton Dome, February 11 ★★★★★

Young Felix Mendelssohn couldn’t quite handle the level of applause from the London audience for premiere of his first piano concerto, and felt too shy to return to the platform for a bow.

Michael Collins

Review: Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, January 28 ★★★★★

For many audience members at the Brighton Dome, Michael Collins was the unforgettable young clarinet player who won the first BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1978.
Melvyn Tan

Review: Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra with Melvyn Tan, Brighton Dome, December 3 ★★★★★

Ravel wrote that he wanted his G major piano concerto to be light-hearted and brilliant, like those by Mozart and Saint Saens, and, in the quicksilver fingers of Melvyn Tan, that is exactly what it was.
Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu with BPO conductor Barry Wordsworth

Review: Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, Brighton Dome, October 8 ★★★★★

It takes an artist of rare courage and ability to play the Tchaikovsky B flat Concerto in public.

The cast of Earthquakes in London

Earthquakes in London, Brighton Little Theatre, until September 2 ★★★★★

It is not clear which is worse; the apocalyptic vision of a scorched earth or the total disintegration of a widowed father’s relationship with his three variously dysfunctional daughters.
Mrs Hoover

Review: Mrs Hoover's Fond Farewell, The Old Market, Hove ★★★

Mrs. Hoover is hanging up her floral pinny and finishing the custard crèmes; no longer will Brighton’s leading landlady terrorise guests with bathroom etiquette and rules for pouring tea.
Jane Eyre at BOAT

Review: Jane Eyre, Brighton Open Air Theatre, June 23 ★★★★

Staging Charlotte Bronte’s gothic romance outdoors in a fractured English summer is a risky business; not only must the characters convey the tortured anxieties of forbidden love in the candle-lit shadows and attics of Thornfield Hall, they must compete with cackling seagulls, traffic sirens up Dyke Road and gusting seabreezes.
Proof at New Venture Theatre

Proof, New Venture Theatre, Brighton, until Saturday ★★★★★

The "proof" of the title is plural. The brilliantly crafted play demonstrates almost limitless numbers; there is the mathematical proof which proves Catherine’s ability and the right to be her father’s daughter; there is proof of sibling affection, of passion inspired by discovery and of the instant connection which creates love.
Joanne Clifton in Thoroughly Modern Millie

Review: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Theatre Royal Brighton ★★★

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a thoroughly old-fashioned boy-meets-girl story.

Jools Holland

Jools Holland, Brighton Centre, Saturday, December 17

★★★★