Celebrating Film In Sussex: A Lowland Cinderella

Ropetackle Arts Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham, Friday, July 31, 7.30pm, £5, 01273 464440

MARKING the launch of a short cinema season of film made in the county, silent romance A Lowland Cinderella was made at Progress Film’s Shoreham Beach Studio. The score comes from Shoreham guitarist Richard Durrant.

Ken Dodd

Pavilion Theatre, Marine Parade, Worthing, Saturday, August 1, 7pm, £21, 01903 206206

Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, Sunday, August 2, 7pm, £20/£22, 01323 412000

PREPARE to give your chuckle muscles a workout as the UK’s longest-serving comic introduces his marathon Happiness Show.

A Little Night Music

Brighton Little Theatre, Clarence Gardens, Saturday, August 1, 7.45pm, 2.30pm matinees, £12.50, 08448 880432

STEPHEN Sondheim’s reworking of Ingmar Bergman’s comedy of manners Smiles Of A Summer Night follows actress Desiree Armfeldt and the men who love her.

Hamlet

Brighton Open Air Theatre, Dyke Road, Sunday, August 2, 2pm, £12/£8, www.brightonopenairtheatre.co.uk

FOLK music meets Shakespeare in this open air retelling of the Danish prince’s tragedy by Folksy Theatre.

Saucy Jack And The Space Pirates

Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Tuesday, August 4, to Sunday, August 9, Tues/Wed 8pm, Thurs to Sat 9pm, Sat and Sun 5pm, from £13.50/£7.50, 0845 2938480

THE outrageous cult musical/murder mystery comes to Brighton. As a serial killer starts to pick off the performers at the cabaret show using a sequinned slingback shoe The Space Vixens launch an investigation.

Alan Carr

Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, Wednesday, August 5, 8pm, £30, 01323 412000

THE stand-up turned chatty man heads back on the road with new show Yap Yap Yap.

Raising Agents

Donnington Parish Hall, Stockbridge Road, Donnington, Chichester, Thursday, August 6, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01243 576701

MIKRON Theatre marks the centenary of the Women’s Institute with a tale set around the fictional Bunnington WI, who see their dwindling membership get a potential leg-up when a PR guru joins them.