Also on this week

Peter Pan

Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne, until Sunday, January 17, various times, from £12.50, 01323 412000

WHILE most of the county’s Christmas pantomimes are packing away the costumes and custard pies, Eastbourne’s Peter Pan is still going strong.

Coronation Street baddie Brian Capron stars as Captain Hook, with Britain’s Got Talent dance duo Twist And Pulse providing comic relief as pirates Swash and Buckle.

Cy Twombly: Quattro Stagioni

De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill, until Sunday, January 10, 10am to 5pm, free, 01424 229111

THE last chance to see the idiosyncratic take on the Four Seasons by a painter who both amazes and bemuses art-lovers across the world.

Cy Twombly’s work was shown alongside Turner and Monet’s later paintings in Liverpool’s Tate Museum in 2012. But his multi-million-dollar-selling canvases are the epitome of the “my kid could do this” criticism often levelled at modern abstract art. A chance to make up your own mind as part of the De La Warr and Project Art Works’ In The Realm Of Others outsider art exhibition at the venue.

Tonight’s Top Story

Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Friday, January 8, 7.30pm, £10,m 0845 2938480

IMPROVISERS The Maydays take inspiration from stories in this very newspaper, and welcome a fellow improv group Blanket Fort to create a series of playful and silly long-form pieces.

Fans of the group can also say goodbye to longtime Maydays performer Jason Blackwater as he moves to pastures new after six years with the company.

Eastbourne Wedding Spectacular

Winter Gardens, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, Saturday, January 9, and Sunday, January 10, 10am, free, 01323 412000

PERFECT for anyone who popped the question over the Christmas break or as the fireworks exploded on New Year – the fifth Eastbourne Wedding Spectacular features wedding services and suppliers to meet whatever fairytale vision of the big day.

Bolshoi Babylon

Various cinemas across Sussex, Sunday, January 10, 3pm, various prices, www.bolshoibabylon.com/

A LOOK behind the scenes of one of the world's best-known ballet companies - whose activities have been dogged by controversy in recent years, including an infamous acid attack on its artistic director.

This one-off live event screening is hosted by Kirsty Wark, who will talk to film-makers Nick Read and Mark Francetti, plus historian Simon Sebag Montefiore and former Royal Opera House Creative Director and Royal Ballet dancer of 30 years, Deborah Bull.

Among those cinemas taking part in the screenings are Kino Teatr, in Norman Road, St Leonards; Kino Rye, in Lion Street, Rye; Duke's At Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton; Cineworld Chichester in Chichester Gate and Cineworld Eastbourne in Sovereign Harbour Retail Park.

New Plays Scratch Night

Rialto, Dyke Road, Brighton, Wednesday, January 13, 8pm, £3, 01273 725230

HELP choose part of Rialto Theatre’s Brighton Fringe 2016 programme as four playwrights produce 15-minute rehearsed reading extracts from their latest works. The audience votes for their favourite of the night, with the winner getting a Fringe slot in May.

Ropetackle Film Club: Pulp Fiction (18)

Ropetackle Arts Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham, Thursday, January 14, 7.30pm, free to film club members, guests £5, 01273 464440

AS Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight screens at (some) cinemas across the county, Ropetackle Film Club offers a chance to see the auteur geek’s 1994 Oscar-winning masterpiece, combining a series of stories from the grimy LA underworld.

Comedy Cooler

Rialto, Dyke Road, Brighton, Thursday, January 14, 8.30pm, £8/£10, 01273 725230

JUICE 107.2 DJ Guy Lloyd comperes a night of new comedy headlined by Dan Fardell. Also on the bill are Zara Louise Preston, Harry Alphadore Ewins, Rob Dumbrel, Michael Mooney and Tim Fusciardi.