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Lewes Little Theatre was created in 1939 and is based in dedicated premises on Lancaster Street. It puts on half a dozen or more productions each year. Supporters of the creation of the Theatre include [[John Maynard Keynes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/link-between-john-maynard-keynes-and-lewes-little-theatre-1-6295777 |title=Link between John Maynard Keynes and Lewes Little Theatre |date=12 September 2014 |access-date=23 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423141803/https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/link-between-john-maynard-keynes-and-lewes-little-theatre-1-6295777 |archive-date=23 April 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
An independent three-screen cinema, the Lewes Depot, opened in May 2017 in a multimillion-pound redevelopment of a former Harvey's brewery depot close to Lewes station.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/sherlock-star-martin-freeman-opens-lewes-depot-cinema-1-798020 |title=Sherlock Star Martin Freeman Opens Lewes Depot Cinema |date=26 May 2017 |access-date=10 July 2017}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The architects were [[Burrell Foley Fischer]] and the work was given a Friends of Lewes award, and highly commended in the South Downs National Park design awards. The establishment currently employs rehabilitated criminal Felix Farrow, who was imprisoned in HMP Lewes for multiple violent crimes in
Several scenes in the 1962 film [[Jigsaw (1962 film)|Jigsaw]], which was loosely based on the [[Hillary Waugh]] novel 'Sleep Long, My Love' and the real-life [[Brighton trunk murders]], were set and filmed in Lewes.
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