STAGE

Rambert

Theatre Royal Brighton, New Road. Performance: 7.30pm. Tickets: from £11.90. Call: 08448 717650

The Argus:

THE touring dance company brings Christopher Bruce’s take on the swinging 60s Rooster back to Theatre Royal Brighton.
The programme also includes the science-inspired The Strange Charm Of Mother Nature and Alexander Whitley’s meta-dance piece Frames. 

 

Benefactors 

New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton. Performance: 7.45pm. Tickets: from £8/£7. Call: 01273 746118 

MICHAEL FRAYN’S satire follows an idealistic architect and his anthropologist wife as they try to look after the world by replacing slum housing with new homes – only for their good intentions to be foiled by their neighbours.

 

The Weir 

Lewes Little Theatre, Lancaster Street, Lewes. From 7:45pm. Tickets: £10/£8. Call: 01273 474826.

Play about locals who swap ghostly stories to impress a visiting stranger, 

 

Therapy

The Marlborough Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton. Performance: 8pm. Tickets £10. Call: 01273 273870

TARA HARLEY has written and directed this new bawdy comedy set in a residential school of self-discovery, where four characters find themselves thrown in a world of new age holistic treatments.

 

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne. Performance: 7.45pm. Tickets: from £15.50. Call: 01323 412000

The Argus:

HAVING already destroyed a murder mystery, Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society turns its attention onto the classic children’s pantomime with a trip to Neverland.  Also at Theatre Royal Brighton Monday, April 20, to Saturday, April 25.  

 

Room On The Broom

Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne. Performances: 10.30am & 1.30pm. Tickets: £12. Call: 01323 412000

The Argus:

A LIVE action version of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much-loved picture book about a witch, her cat, a windy night and a hungry dragon.

 

Anything Goes

Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne. Starts: 7.30pm. Tickets from £26. Call: 01323 412000.

The Argus:

Anything Goes is set in the golden age of travel, during a trans-Atlantic cruise. It follows the trials and tribulations of young Wall Street broker Billy Crocker who falls in love at first sight with a mysterious heiress. 

 

Rabbit in the Headlights

Otherplace at The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton. Starts: 8pm. Tickets: £5/£4. Call: 07800 983 290.

Catch some of the best new and established comics at Brighton’s longest running new-act night. Often hilarious, sometimes bizarre and occasionally mind-blowing!

A night of comedy hosted by local comic Rob Dumbrell. 

 

The Heist by Jo Smith

Ferring Village Hall, Ferring Street, Ferring. Starts: 7:30pm. Tickets: £7.50.

Bored with life and tired of being down on his luck, Eddie Smith gathers his not-so-merry men for one last heist.

If tempers aren’t frayed enough, as the has-beens dust off their stocking masks and plan the raid of a lifetime, a surprise appearance from a skeleton in the cupboard threatens to throw a spanner in the works.  

 

Pasha Kovalev - Life Through Dance

Pavilion Theatre, Marine Parade, Worthing. From: 7:30pm. Tickets: £24. Call: 01903 206206.

An new show starring Pasha and his sensational dancers, which will transport you to the world of ballroom and Latin dance with all its glitter and sequins. 

 

GIGS

 

Courtney Barnett

Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton. Doors 7pm. SOLD OUT. Call: 01273 673311 for returns.

“Put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you” is grunge-inspired Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett’s self-deprecating claim on calling card single Pedestrian At Best, from her debut full-length album Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit. Support from Spring King and Fraser A Gorman.

 

Tigercats

The Joker, Preston Street, Brighton. Starts: 8pm. Tickets: £6. Call: 01273 606312.

AN East London double bill headlined by Fortuna Pop signings Tigercats, whose second album of Hefner-loving indiepop tunes Mysteries came out earlier this year. Support from Fever Dream.

 

Rottingdean Spring Music Festival

Various venues until Sunday, March 29, see rottingdeanarts.org for full programme

HERBIE Flowers, Claire Martin, English Studio Opera and baroque ensemble Red Priest are among the special guests at this year’s musical celebration across Rottingdean.

 

We Bop Choir

Emporium, London Road, Brighton. From 8pm. Tickets: Free. 

Enjoy the close harmonies, rhythm and soul of Brighton’s all-female a cappella choir. Using only their voices they will perform two sets of well-loved pop and gospel songs.  

 

Spring concert

Town Hall, Fisher Street, Lewes. From: 7:30pm. Tickets: £10. Call: 01273 561736.

Lewes Concert Orchestra give their spring concert in Lewes Town Hall featuring Copland – 4 Dance episodes from ‘Rodeo’, Jacob – Horn Concerto - soloist Jonathan Farey and Vaughan-Williams – Symphony No. 2.

 

Nicholas Yonge Society

South Downs College, Cliffe Building, Mountfield Road, Lewes. From: 7:45pm. Tickets: £15. Call: 01273 472227.

Callino String Quartet, formed in Ireland but now playing worldwide, will perform quartets by Ravel and Mozart plus Dutilleux’s haunting Ainsi la nuit. 

 

KAMMERPHILHARMONIE EUROPA

St. Margaret’s Church, The Green, Rottingdean. From: 7:30pm. Tickets: £15. Tickets: 01273 300894.

A welcome return visit from this excellent German Chamber Orchestra. Violin and trumpet soloists and music by Vivaldi, Hummel, Bach, Mozart, Borodin, Holst. 

 

Dave Newton Trio

The Verdict, Edward Street, Brighton. From: 8:30pm. Tickets: £12. Call: 01273 674847.

Dave Newton, voted best jazz pianist for 13th time in British Jazz Awards, 2014, with Tom Farmer (bass), Steve Brown (drums). 

 

InBrighton Live at the Marwood – With Das Fenster, Alastair Gray

Marwood Cafe, Ship Street, Brighton. Tickets: £4. From: 8:30pm. Call: 01273 382063.

Darkly uplifting dream pop from underground Brighton sensations. 

 

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

Leon Underwood: Figure And Rhythm

Pallant House Gallery, North Pallant, Chichester. From 10am to 5pm. Entry from £8.50. Call 01243 774557.

The Argus:

PAINTINGS, etchings, wood engravings and sculptures feature in the first major museum retrospective for 40 years of British artist Leon Underwood.

Underwood, who died in 1975, has been described as the precursor of modern sculpture in Britain. This exhibition, with one painting pictured inset, explores his non-Western art influences and his creation of the Brook Green School Of Drawing whose pupils included Henry Moore and Eileen Agar.

 

John McKean: The Impossibility Of Truly Seeing What Is In Front Of The Eyes

House Of Friendship, High Street, Lewes. From 9.30am to 1pm. Entry free. Call 01273 476469.

The Argus:

BRIGHTON-BASED photographer John McKean captures images which make you look twice, in an exhibition based around optical illusions rather than post-production trickery.

 

Dean Zeus Colman: Pills 

Prescription Art Gallery, Beaconsfield Parade, Brighton. Open: Check website. It's FREE. www.prescriptionart.com 

The Argus: FORMER street artist Zeus has drawn on his memories of growing up during the 1980s explosion of club culture for his new exhibition of hand-sculpted over-sized ecstasy pills made from plaster and printed with their own authentic branding.

“I was fascinated by how despite being illegal, branded culture was so integral to this scene – with logos of every type identifying the different pills available,” he says.

“In the same way that people have favourite sweets growing up, people looked for their preferred brand of tablets for their night out.”

 

Three Dimensions 

Ink_d, North Road, Brighton. Open: 10am to 6pm. It's FREE. Call: 01273 645299 

BRIGHTON’s Ink_d art gallery is celebrating all things 3D ranging from ceramics to sculpture in a new group show, featuring contributions from Matt Smith, Dan Baldwin, Paul Scott, Gilles Buxton, Maria Rivans, Petro, Andy Doig and Graham Carter.