22 things to do in Brighton, Hove and Sussex on Saturday March 28

Four Year Strong

Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton. Doors 6pm. Tickets: £14. Call: 01273 673311

HAVING combined melodic hardcore and pop-punk for the last ten years, Four Year Strong are headlining a showcase tour by their label Pure Noise Records. Support from Hit The Lights, Forever Came Calling and Light You Up.

Sam Lee 

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Church Street. Starts: 8pm. Tickets: £15. Call: 01273 709709

Picture: Lottie Davies

AHEAD of his series of late night nightingale walks as part of this year’s Brighton Festival this May, folk song collector and reinventor Sam Lee introduces his second album The Fade In Time, the follow-up to the Mercury Music Prize-nominated Ground Of Its Own. Lee features in our features 2015 supplement out in the Argus on Thursday, April 23.

Sivu

The Hope And Ruin, Queen’s Road. Starts: 8pm. Tickets: £8. Call: 01273 606312

SIVU is the alter ego of Cambridgeshire-based former call centre worker James Page, who was encouraged to keep working on his own electronically influenced guitar-textured songwriting by alt-J producer Charlie Andrew. The results were released in October on his debut album Something On High. Support from Sophie Jamieson and O Chapman.

John Taylor Trio featuring Julian Argüelles 

St. George’s Church, Kemptown, St. George’s Road, Brighton, Performance: 8pm. Tickets: £14. Call: 01273 677141

Musical performance.

The Big Chris Barber Band

Pavillion Theatre, Marine Parade, Worthing. Performance: 7.30pm. Tickets: £18.50. Call: 01903 206206

Inspired by the ‘King Oliver Creole Jazz Band’.

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.

STAGE

Rambert

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

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. 

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne. Performance 2.30pm & 7.45pm. Tickets from £15.50. Call: 01323 412000

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. Performance: 10.30am. Tickets: £12. Call: 01323 412000

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. Performances: 2.30pm & 7.30pm. Tickets from £26. Call: 01323 412000.

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. 

Teechers

Connaught Theatre, Union Place, Worthing. Performance: 7.30pm. Tickets: £14.50/£11.50. Call: 01903 206206

A TRIO of Year 11 students tell the story of their new drama teacher’s arrival at a modern day comprehensive school in John Godber’s acclaimed play.

Ceri Dupree: Fit For A Queen 2015

Royal Hippodrome, Seaside Road, Eastbourne. Performance: 8pm. Tickets: £19. Call: 01323 802020

FEMALE impersonator Ceri Dupree celebrates 30 years on the stage with a look back at his favourite ladies from the UK and around the world.

Swallowsfeet 2015

The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove. Performance: 7.30pm. Tickets: £9/£7. Call: 01273 201801

JESSICA Miller’s third annual showcase of new dance by local, national and international artists includes the premiere of the first work choreographed by the Swallowsfeet Collective.

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.

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. Perfoamance: 7:45pm. Tickets: £10/£8. Call: 01273 474826.

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

COMEDY

Off the Cuff Stand Up

Otherplace at The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton. Starts: 8pm. Tickets: £8.50/£7. Call: 07800 983 290

This month’s comedy spectacular sees Brighton’s improvised comedy stalwarts Off the Cuff enlist some of the very best comedians on the stand-up circuit for a diverse and raucous evening’s entertainment. 

EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

VEGFEST

Brighton Centre, King’s Road. (Ends tomorrow). Doors 11am, tickets from £5 day ticket, £8 weekend in advance. Book online.

As well as 200 stalls selling plant-based products, the two-day event is hosting a hemp expo, lectures, film screenings, a party political conference on Saturday and global food sustainability conference on Sunday and the first UK Vegan Comedy Festival across the two days.

Leon Underwood: Figure And Rhythm

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

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.

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 

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.