Theatre and Comedy

Henry James’s famous ghost story Turn of the Screw has been given a new twist in Tim Luscombe’s stage adaptation for four actors.

South East Dance is to host Undisciplined, Brighton’s new micro-festival celebrating experimental and thought-provoking contemporary performance across the city from April 18-20.

Following a sold-out run at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory and two critically-acclaimed West End runs, David Baddiel takes his Olivier-nominated one-man show to theatres nationwide, including the Pavilion Theatre, Worthing on Thursday, April 26.

Watch out! The cabbage-crunching criminal mastermind Gangsta Granny is bearing down on Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre (April 20-22).

After loving every second of Fiddler on the Roof last summer, Tracy-Ann Oberman is back on the CFT stage once again in this year’s season opener, Noël Coward’s Present Laughter (April 20-May 12).

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Littlehampton GP Tim Kimber takes to the stage with his own company TJ Productions in a revival of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at Bognor’s Regis Centre from April 11-14.

The department of English, creative writing, history and politics at the University of Chichester is hosting a celebration of two new titles from Waterloo Press on Monday, April 16, 4-5pm, Room L04, Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester.

Having entertained the nation for more than 40 years, poet Pam Ayres returns to Worthing as part of her latest tour (Pavilion Theatre, Sunday, April 15).

It wasn’t a play she knew, but Carrie Allen found herself immediately drawn to it.

Micki Darbyshire makes her return to the stage in Littlehampton, three and a half years after suffering a stroke.

Following a successful 2017 season, the Musical Theatre Performance Company at the University of Chichester presents Little Women, staged by the same team that produced sell-out productions of Legally Blonde and Parade last year.

Gloriator reveals just what happens when a glamorous French actress and her hapless assistant stage their version of Hollywood blockbuster Gladiator.

Julian Caddy, managing director of Brighton Fringe, says he is reasonably confident he and his team can raise £20,000 in time for the start of this year’s festival (May 4-June 3).

Shoreham’s Ropetackle is losing a volunteer who has served it from the very start.

Helen Morris directs her own play as part of a triple bill of one-act comedies coming up from the West Wittering Players (April 18-21, 7.30pm, West Wittering Memorial Hall; tickets 01243 513110).