Theatre and Comedy

NT Live will broadcast the Chichester Festival Theatre production of King Lear with Ian McKellen live from the West End to cinemas nationwide and internationally on September 27.

Public booking has now opened for this year’s Steyning Festival.

Music Theatre 2000 offer Lights, Camera… Wonderland! as a sequel to their highly-successful productions of Wonderland (2013), Return 2 Wonderland (2015) and Once Upon a Wonderland (2016).

Poet Mandy Pannett is the guest at Chichester’s New Park Centre for the latest Open Mic Poetry session on Wednesday, May 2.

Audiences are loving it, says Tessa Peake-Jones. They come expecting one thing, which they get. But they also get something else.

Worthing Musical Comedy Society are promising something fresh and vibrant with their production of Meet Me in St Louis in Worthing’s Connaught Theatre from May 1-5.

Magician and 2016 Britain’s Got Talent winner Richard Jones sees his future in the army for quite some time yet.

By Phil Hewitt, Festival of Chichester chairman

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.

If you can’t help wondering whether there is something slightly inappropriate about adding the words “The Musical” to the word “Titanic”, this monumental Mayflower co-production offers the perfect riposte.

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.