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The Haunting, Theatre Royal, Brighton, Monday April 11 until Saturday April 16

9:24am Wednesday 13th April 2011

A simple ghost story needs ambitious or at least imaginative treatment to succeed these days.

John Cooper Clarke, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, April 9

9:19am Wednesday 13th April 2011

A great night began with Hastings-born punk poet Salena Godden offering her quirky take on life, recalling a trip under the pier “where the magic mushrooms make the sea all blood and ink”.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, April 5

11:24am Monday 11th April 2011

Keith Jack, runner-up in TV talent show Any Dream Will Do back in 2007, plays the lead role with a boy-like charm in this spectacular production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Greg Davies, Theatre Royal, Brighton, April 4

11:12am Monday 11th April 2011

Who would have thought a packet of cheeseballs could produce more than an hour’s worth of funny material?

The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, April 6

11:17am Monday 11th April 2011

Bertolt Brecht’s morality play poses the question – who has the greater claim to ownership – the person who creates something or the one that cares for it?

Blackbird, The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, April 7

11:11am Monday 11th April 2011

The Scottish playwright David Harrower’s drama writhes in award-winning, unrelenting emotion along with taut suspense.

The Black Veil, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, March 22 to March 26

10:14am Friday 25th March 2011

The Black Veil, a chilling thriller by John Goodrum based on a short story by Charles Dickens, leads the audience down several blind alleys before revealing all with a clever double twist.

Rambert Dance Company, Theatre Royal Brighton, March 23 to March 26

10:19am Friday 25th March 2011

When Isadora Duncan was asked what her dance was about, she replied that if she could tell you, she wouldn’t have to dance it. Contemporary dance, in a similar vein to modern art, atonal music and 20th century architecture, is an abstraction: a paring down to essentials to allow the imagination free rein and never better demonstrated than by the Rambert Dance Company in Brighton.

Spamalot, Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, March 22 to March 26

9:35am Thursday 24th March 2011

Spamalot, a parody of a spoof, is full of manic fun and far more than just a rip-off of Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, March 16

5:12pm Friday 18th March 2011

Is it a dance? Is it a joke? Is it a girl? No – it’s the Trocks, ballet as you have never seen it, by dancers you are unlikely ever to have met unless you have been lucky enough to catch them on an earlier tour.

Swimming At The Ritz, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, March 15

9:36am Thursday 17th March 2011

The measure of Felicity Dean’s superb performance as socialite Pamela Churchill-Harriman in Swimming At The Ritz was that she evoked sympathy for a women whose extravagance saw her blow 115 million dollars.

Life Of Riley, Theatre Royal Brighton, New Road, until March 19

12:37pm Wednesday 16th March 2011

With a repertoire of 74 plays and a host of stage hits tucked safely under his belt, playwright Alan Ayckbourn needs little introduction.