Mademoiselle Y, New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton, July 8

7:55pm Thursday 9th July 2009

Strindberg’s The Stronger is a single-scene drama in miniature, but the New Venture team creatively amplified the text by teaming the play with music inspired by its emotional dynamics and a dance piece exploring the voice of its silent character.

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Evita, Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, until July 19

4:52pm Tuesday 7th July 2009

Evita provides an astonishing mix of passion, power and pathos as we see the adoration and contempt for one of the world’s most controversial women.

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Rusalka, Glyndebourne, near Lewes, until August 28

4:48pm Monday 6th July 2009

With a reputation for embracing the dark edge of fantasy, director Melly Still’s first foray into opera with Dvorak’s Rusalka – a Little Mermaid-esque tale of a water sprite who falls in love with a human prince – was always going to be more Grimm than Disney.

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Deceptions, Theatre Royal, Brighton, until July 4

2:33pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

“Everything you say is relevant,” says psychiatrist Julia Smythe (Michelle Collins) as she settles new client Adrian Wainwright (Rupert Hill) into the couch in her sterile-looking office.

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The House Of Special Purpose, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, until August 22

5:06pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

The House of Special Purpose was where Tsar Nicholas, his wife and five children were imprisoned and finally slaughtered in the basement.

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Simon Munnery, Upstairs At Three and Ten, Brighton, July 2

5:05pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Simon Munnery is a comic who delights in turning sacred cows into hamburgers. Not in a gratuitous or malicious way – but if, for example, he thinks John Lennon’s Imagine lyrics are ridiculous, he won’t hold back in saying so. And in fact, when he detailed with hilarious pedantry the issues he has with that song, you couldn’t help agreeing.

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Richard Herring: Hitler’s Moustache, Upstairs At Three And Ten, Brighton, June 30

3:32pm Wednesday 1st July 2009

“It's funny how you get more right-wing as you get older,”

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The War Of The Worlds 30th Anniversary Tour, Brighton Centre, Brighton, June 27

3:06pm Monday 29th June 2009

The Martians’ signature tune boomed out as the news broke that a metal capsule had crashed down on Horsell Common and was zapping a hysterical crowd.

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Oklahoma!, Chichester Festival Theatre, until August 29

7:22pm Thursday 25th June 2009

With any production by director John Doyle, clever innovation can be expected as well as a little controversy – in Oklahoma! there is both.

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The Maids/Deathwatch, New Venture Theatre, Brighton, until June 27

5:08pm Monday 22nd June 2009

Having spent much of his early life in French penal institutions, Jean Genet turned to writing plays with the intention that “the audience and the players should unite to share a transforming experience”.

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Mark Thomas, Komedia, Brighton, June 16

5:46pm Thursday 18th June 2009

“Doingmore with less” has become a mantra among credit-crunched capitalists, so it’s surprising to find comedian and self- proclaimed libertarian anarchist Mark Thomas has joined the chant.

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