The Arsonists

New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton, Friday, June 19, to Saturday, June 27, 7.45pm (not Sun/Mon), 2.30pm Sun, £8/£7, 01273 746118

MAX Frisch’s 1953 black comedy follows a businessman Biedermann who doesn’t believe he could ever be taken in by the group of conmen arsonists attacking his town. But before long he has a group storing petrol in his attic and demanding matches.

Mitch Benn

Ropetackle Arts Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham, Friday, June 19, 8pm, £13, 01273 464440

THE Now Show’s resident musical comedian Mitch Benn debunks myths and nonsense by extolling an evidence-based approach to life in latest satirical performance Don’t Believe A Word.

Moonshine’s Entirely Necessary Adventure

Dukebox, The Iron Duke, Waterloo Street, Hove, Saturday, June 20, 12.30pm and 3pm, £5/£4, www.dukeboxtheatre.com

EMERGING London theatre company Magic Maverick perform a family friendly show following a girl with silver skin on a quest through a land of fairy tales.

The Big Tea Party

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Sunday, June 21, 3pm, £7, 01273 709709

A CELEBRATION of how different cultures engage in tea-drinking traditions led by Irene Mensah.

Murder In The Park: Stone Cold Murder

Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne, Tuesday, June 23, to Saturday, June 27, 7.45pm, 2.30pm matinees Wed and Sat, from £14.50, 01323 412000

TALKING Scarlet’s annual summer crime season kicks off with James Cawood’s wintry thriller set in a Lake District country house whose new owners welcome a lost climber.

Daisy Pulls It Off

The Barn, Southwick Street, Southwick, Wednesday, June 24, to Saturday, June 27, 7.45pm, £11, 01273 597094

WICK Theatre stages the West End hit parody of the classic girls’ adventure story, as Daisy Meredith struggles to be accepted and searches for treasure in a stuffy 1920s boarding school.