Culture

Opera live in Hastings

Thomasin Trezise - best classical music discovery for a long time, especially opera

Let’s go to the movies!

Downton’s Hugh Bonneville rises even further up the social scale, playing Lord Mountbatten in Viceroy’s House, a lavish historical drama set in 1947 during Indian independence

A comedy of errors

When is a joke not a joke? When you just use your audience as bait

Entranced by piano concertos

Hastings piano competition finds a winner

A sense of place

We are all influenced by where we grew up, and where we live - a South African writer tells how she draws her sense of place from three continents

Jazz day for the Music Well

Arabella Anwar raised money for the Music Well by organising a gathering of talented musicians at the Grapevine

Remarkable Rye-cital

The first in a new series of classical music concerts is brought to Rye by Alasdair Kitchen, the talented pianist, opera producer and theatre director

Film Club presents Chocolat

Rye Film Club presents Chocolat - the true story of Rafael Padilla, a former Cuban slave who finds unexpected success in belle epoque Paris as a circus clown

Two days of classical gems

Classical music lifted our reporter's spirits – twice in one week

Paris in Sussex

A new musical with plenty of talent from Rye and elsewhere in Sussex is coming to St Leonard's

Let’s go to the movies!

Oscar winner Moonlight arrives this week with its haunting tale of a young man's search to find himself.

Comedy gold comes to town

The theatre at the Rye Creative Centre is really hotting up with regular new shows and events to suit all tastes

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