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REVIEW: Sleeping Beauty, Vienna Festival Ballet, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing.

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:21:07 GMT

ILLNESS or injury on tour are a dancer’s working hazard and nightmare. And on Vienna Festival Ballet’s twice-annual nationwide sorties around the British Isles, the current one using only 14 dancers, the odds are raised that either can strike at any time.

Reviews from the Brighton Festival

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:14:49 GMT

Beowulf by Banana Bag and Bodice, Spiegeltent, Brighton Festival

Rod launches new community singing group in Bognor Regis

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:11:18 GMT

A new community group launching in Bognor Regis will be singing for health.

FILM: Beware of Mr Baker (15)

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:45 GMT

Best known for his work with Eric Clapton in Cream and Blind Faith, London-born drummer Ginger Baker famously brought African rhythms back from Nigeria to the West in the 1970s, many years before other musicians.

FILM: The Liability (15)

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:34 GMT

A young man discovers his deadly calling in this darkly comic road trip directed by Craig Viveiros.

FILM: The Great Gatsby 3D (12A)

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:34 GMT

At every great party, there is that inescapable moment when the music stops, the lights go up and all of the imperfections, which have been concealed so deliciously under a cloak of darkness, are suddenly thrown into sharp relief.

FILM: Fast & Furious 6 (12A)

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:33 GMT

Blockbuster sequels are not judged on directorial verve, ingenious plots or award-winning performances, although they certainly help.

Theatre offers affordable tickets

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:12:46 GMT

YOUNG people in the Observer area can make the most of a special deal for 18- to 25-year-olds at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Trevor Nelson among DJ line up at Goodwood

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:24:31 GMT

Big names in the music industry including Rudimental, Trevor Nelson and Groove Armada’s Andy Cato will play are set to play at Goodwood this spring.

GALLERY: Chichester Art Trail in pictures

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:31:24 GMT

Artists around the Chichester area have thrown open their studio doors for an annual arts extravaganza.

REVIEW: Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show, The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, until Saturday, May 18.

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:29:28 GMT

It’s a strange show where the audience delivers all the best lines.

39 Steps to simplicity in Southampton

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:33:28 GMT

The challenge was to put John Buchan’s 1914 spy thriller The 39 Steps on stage with just four actors.

A night at the museum in West Sussex

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:58:58 GMT

HISTORY will be coming alive when local venues take part in a special night at the museum.

Chichester’s major new street art festival could run again in 2014

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:20:51 GMT

The man who transformed blank walls around the city is hoping to run The Chichester Street Art Festival again next year.

Brighton Festival reviews

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:54:45 GMT

Picablo - Presented by Tam Teatromusica at The Old Market

REVIEW: Billingshurst Choral Society, Brighton Festival Fringe

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:44:27 GMT

The Brighton Festival Fringe annually prides itself on varied, unusual and sometimes controversial events. Last Saturday was no exception – a UK Premiere of a musical masterpiece that graphically describes the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis during WW2.

FILM: Star Trek: Into Darkness (12A)

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:40:15 GMT

In the captain’s log from the 1960s TV series, James Tiberius Kirk brazenly split an infinitive as the crew of the Enterprise embarked on a five-year mission “to boldly go where no man has gone before”.

FILM: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (15)

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:39:56 GMT

Adapted from the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a taut drama directed by Mira Nair about a conversation between a Pakistani professor and an American investigative journalist that might in fact be a battle of wits between a terrorist and a CIA operative.

FILM: Mud (12A)

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:39:56 GMT

Following strong performances in Killer Joe, Bernie, Magic Mike and The Paperboy, which garnered several awards, Matthew McConaughey’s renaissance continues with an eye-catching central turn in Jeff Nichols’s tender coming-of-age drama set in rural Arkansas.

FILM: Deadfall (15)

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:39:54 GMT

Set largely during a blizzard along the Michigan-Canadian border, Deadfall sends a chill of disappointment down the spine.