Heather Peace

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Church Street, Friday, October 31, doors 7pm, £23.50, 01273 709709.

Former Waterloo Road actress Heather Peace takes her second solo album The Thin Line on the road, having quit the school drama to focus on her music career.

 

Sikes And Nancy

Connaught Theatre, Union Place, Worthing, Friday, October 31, 7.30pm, £14.50, 01903 206206.

James Swanton recreates Charles Dickens’s notorious public reading which the author toured up and down the country.

Sikes And Nancy is a bloodthirsty account of Nancy’s grisly murder by the brutal Bill Sikes at the climax of Oliver Twist.

 

Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook

Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne, Friday, October 31, doors 7.30pm, £27, 0333 666 3366.

Ahead of their first UK tour as a duo for 20 years Squeeze songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook play a warm-up of their new acoustic The At Odds Couple show.

 

Hay Fever

New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton, Friday, October 31, to Saturday, November 8, 7.45pm (not Sun or Mon), 2.30pm matinee Sun, from £8, 01273 746118.

New Venture’s Gerry McCrudden directs Noel Coward’s tale of the eccentric Bliss family, and the ordeal their unsuspecting guests go through over one weekend.

 

The South

Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton, Saturday, November 1, doors 7pm, £20, 01273 673311.

Original vocalist for The Beautiful South Dave Hemingway joins forces with latter-day singer Alison Wheeler and touring band members to recreate the Hull favourites’ back catalogue and the self-penned songs collected on the album Sweet Refrains.

 

Peter And The Wolf

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Saturday, November 1, 11.30am and 2.30pm, £7, 01273 709709.

Chamber House Winds join forces with narrator Jonathan Butcher for Prokofiev’s children’s favourite, aimed at introducing youngsters to classical music.

 

Pink Martini

Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Church Street, Saturday, November 1, 8pm, from £25.50, 01273 709709.

Cult purveyors of cocktail party tunes and multi-lingual romantic songs Pink Martini have teamed up with arguably the world’s most famous singing family The von Trapps for their latest UK tour.

 

Brighton Early Music Festival: Bach’s Secret Addiction

The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Sunday, November 2, 11.30am, 2pm and 4.30pm, £12/£10. Visit bremf.org.uk

The Little Baroque Company recreate an 18th century coffee house to perform Bach’s comic cantata based around a woman who refuses to give up her favourite hot drink.

 

Rhodes

Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Middle Street, Brighton, Sunday, November 2, doors 7.30pm, £8, 01273 606312.

Following the release of debut EP Raise Your Love last October Rhodes received airplay on XFM and sup¬ port slots with Laura Marling, Nick Mulvey and Rufus Wainwright. Latest EP Morning has just been released. Support Sam Jordan.

 

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Church Street, Sunday, November 2, 2.45pm, from £11, 01273 709709.

THIS month’s programme features Elgar’s Enigma Variations, Schubert’s March Militaire, Hubert Parry’s I Was Glad and Blest Pair Of Sirens, plus Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto with guest soloist Nicholas Daniel.