The Argus will help judge the best of the Brighton Festival Fringe.
Reporter Miriam Wells will be part of a media panel which will choose winners for the Latest Fringe Stars Awards 2006.
Categories will include Best Open House, Best International Act and Fringe Personality.
Miss Wells and the rest of the panel will see as many shows as possible during May then discuss and vote on who was cream of the crop.
They will have a lot to choose from.
The Festival Fringe, sister to Brighton Festival, is only in its fourth official year but has now overtaken long-established events in Adelaide, Australia and Montreal, Canada, to become the second biggest fringe festival in the world. Only Edinburgh's is larger.
It will present 65 world premieres and 31 UK premieres among more than 500 events in more than 200 venues across Brighton and Hove.
Every type of entertainment, from art exhibitions and sushi-making workshops to traditional theatre and glitzy musicals, will be on offer.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony and party at the Speigeltent to mark the end of the Fringe at the end of the month.
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