The Brighton Academy (TBA) Performing Arts Degree Showcase.
The Brighton Academy (TBA) Musical Theatre Degree Showcase.
John Mackay & Sally Homer, in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present Stewart Lee vs The Man-WulfIn this brand-new show Lee shares his stage with Louie…
‘Beautifully crafted melodies… telling stories behind each tune… light-hearted and humorous… lively interactions with the audience’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
Everyone has baggage, Lee Hudson has quite a bit.
Brand-new comedy musical The Weird Sisters is centered around three wacky witch sisters – Amaranth, Scarlett and Blush.
Lee always wanted to be an astronaut.
Piano wizard Brian and clarinet ace Dick combine to pay tribute to the King of Swing. ‘Fine playing, with some deliciously liquorice-toned clarinet’ (Scotsman).
Alison, Dick and the band welcome you to their Swinging Parisian Café, featuring the music of Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf, Sidney Bechet et al.
A daughter and a drag queen?! Rome Mosaic explores sisterhood and the sibling dynamic – with dance, lipsyncing and good old-fashioned sibling rivalry!
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Lee has absolutely no wish to be up at this time, but he’ll do his best.
Winner of the Untapped Award 2024, Ugly Sisters is a hallucinatory plunge through the circles of sisterhood.
Lifelong goody-two-shoes Titi Lee is breaking all the rules, and you are invited.
Cheryl-Lee Fast invites you on a comedic journey of hypnotic love.
Lee Kyle (‘Glorious’ (iNews.
At four, Otter was so moved by Princess Diana’s death that he wept outside the palace while his father took pictures and laughed.
Inside Chekhov’s masterpiece, Olga, Masha, and Irina are trapped in a cycle of disappointed hopes, heartbreak, and inertia.
Sister Petra and Sister Brenda have grown up in St Elmo’s Convent in Dingle as identical twins but Monsignor Michael has some shocking news for them.
Sister Petra and Sister Brenda have grown up in St Elmo’s Convent in Dingle as identical twins but Monsignor Michael has some shocking news for them.
Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music…
The Institute for Contemporary Theatre, Brighton is proud to introduce the BA (Hons) Performing Arts graduating class of 2024.
The second Culture ConneX collaboration with Black Brighton Market brings you a vibrant artisanal marketplace featuring arts & craft stalls, books, pop up performances and a cultur…
The second Culture ConneX collaboration with Black Brighton Market brings you a vibrant artisanal marketplace featuring arts & craft stalls, books, pop up performances and a cultur…
Twelve women scientists will be bringing their research discoveries to the seaside.
An exploration of Brighton’s identity, through photographs and film, combined with spoken word from Tash Gilbert and dance from Hebe Salmon.
Join ProjectOurs for their debut Brighton Fringe event, which will explore identity, and what it means to find your identity through different communities and personal expression.
This year Brighton Kotlin is taking part in KotlinConf Global 2024, where communities around the world are encouraged to become part of KotlinConf 2024 by hosting their own events.
Stand-up comedian and semi-harmless fanatic Daniel Powell (plus special guest) take a deep dive into the work of the comedian Stewart Lee.
A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2023 Brighton Fringe.
Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be.
Join top magician Danny Lee Grew in his brand new show ‘24K Magic’ featuring magic, illusion, laughs, gasps and sleight of hand sorcery.
Hello R Novices, Nerds, and Nobles! Summer is coming, and so is another instalment of insightful talks to BrightonR! Bring ya friends, we’ll bring the bubbles.
Join us for an exciting meetup event hosted by Brighton Cloud to discover ways to drive your learning and development.
Presenting part 4 of a transnational exhibition series exploring the existence and impact of colonial references ‘hidden in plain sight’ in the built environment across neighbo…
What’s wrong with you and how quickly should you tell new people that come into your life? In this show Lee Hudson brings you into his world and shares his flaws and quirks throu…
You might be visiting Brighton Fringe to escape the conference circuit, but Doggerland throws you straight into an administrative meeting, albeit one hosted in a Hanover living roo…
A short queer history walking tour (90 mins approximately once we start off) of central Brighton locations featuring a small selection of our past local heroes, villains, interesti…
The Brighton Buddhist centre has been offering Meditation, Buddhism and Yoga classes for the last 50 years.
From their humble roots on Instagram Live during the pandemic in 2020, Shxts and Scribbles quickly became a team of individuals with a shared purpose.
Prateek Kohli is a BBC New Comedy Award nominee whose comedy travels through the absurdities of three continents where he has lived and performed.
Experience Brighton Blue, where music, culture and history intertwine in a mesmerizing performance.
Come join us for a fun filled evening of Jazz & Gin at Blossoms Cocktail Bar & Restaurant.
You might not think of combining Coleridge’s The Rime of The Ancient Mariner with Disney’s Moana, but if you do you might have a story that resembles The Tower, a tale of explo…
For May’s meetup, as part of Silicon Brighton’s collab with Fringe, we have something very special lined up - a creative workshop led by Dan Gibson on how to build your very own ch…
*SOLD OUT* These amazing tours happen in May as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Join us for Meetup #5 of the AWS Brighton User Group! Mark Hemsley, Head of Architecture at Rail Delivery Group will be speaking about infrastructure modernisation with AWS Cloud …
The sell-out poetry night, Off The Chest, makes its Brighton premiere at Komedia on 7th May.
Beach Box presents an exciting line up of Sauna Rituals & events, featuring special guests to expertly guide you in a thermal journey.
From some of Britain’s first women doctors to suffragettes, entrepreneurs to entertainers, artists, music-hall stars, and campaigners, Brighton and Hove has always attracted women …
Peter Joannou Brighton’s Singing Barber And The Cool Legends Show .
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black People and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, services and perform to the general public.
Performed Off-Broadway, NYC 2022 Best Male Performer, Brighton Fringe Best New Play (Shortlist), New Writing South “£5000 to keep silent? Those stupid babyish letters!? Father …
“Back by popular demand”.
A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from the Fringe and around Brighton in a late afternoon show full of fun and laughter.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
Following on from it’s success last year, this delightful, funny show returns with a revolving line-up of the best and up-and-coming female comedians from around Brighton and the F…
Thought Eurovision couldn’t get any camper? Join Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they whisk you away on an exploration of the past, present and future of everyone’s favourite so…
A Tale of sex, seduction and survival.
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Despite only being an infant when Margaret Thatcher left office, so not old enough to actually remember the era of Billy-the-Cactus and Lorraine Fontaine for myself, I was still vi…
Peter Cook will show how to create particle flow animations.
A networking opportunity to meet other Brighton Fringe artists and venues who are also taking part for the first time in 2024.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
We live in turbulent and deranged times.
Returning to Leicester Square Theatre after selling out in 2022! After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives, massi…
Returning to Leicester Square Theatre after selling out in 2022! After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives,…
Rediscover the golden age of swing jazz – Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Anita O’Day, Maxine Sullivan, Peggy Lee.
A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.
A show about family, relationships and happiness. Join Lee Hudson as he takes you through his experiences with his affable brand of storytelling bringing them to life.
Su-a Lee is one of Scotland’s most versatile, adventurous, and charismatic cellists.
A show about family, relationships and happiness. Join Lee Hudson as he takes you through his experiences with his affable brand of storytelling bringing them to life.
The SCO’s brilliant classical cellist Su-a Lee is continually reaching beyond the classical genre.
Three Sisters and Them takes Chekhov’s play into the fractured world of today.
An exploration of Dorothy Parker’s life through her writing, including poems and monologues set to music with Joanne Grant, Alison Bishop and Stuart Hope.
70-minute selection of highlights from the current touring show.
This award-winning piano and reeds duo play swing classics, telling the stories behind the music with plenty of banter along the way. ‘Fine playing’ (Scotsman).
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment - French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango, etc.
Join us in The Live Room every Monday in August for our free night of live bands.
How do you summarise a whole life? Is it in the knick knacks and curios we collect? Do the objects we surround ourselves with truly represent who we are inside? And even if you lov…
Many people wish to be famous, successful, or simply stand out from the crowd.
For casual Blondie fans, it might be easy to forget how many hits the genre defying band have had over the decades.
Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare’s Macbeth and then turns it up till the knob comes off.
A silly solve-a-long mystery, this is for anyone who wishes their Agatha Christie murders were packed with a few more puns.
The year is 1943 and famed wit Dorothy Parker sits in her New York apartment, sifting through her works and deciding which will make it into the new anthology ‘The Portable Dorot…
Mix one of cup of Eat, Pray, Love with three tablespoons of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and you’ll get something a little like A Trilogy: bag—, one of three standalone shows …
If you’ve ever been a corporate cog, this is the show for you.
Look into the human face of greed – live acting, visuals and a binaural soundscape that gives you the chills.
Lee Kyle has been a comedian for 14 years and very good for the last few.
Sam Lake wants to be a Daddy.
Are you a little cheeky guy? Interested in the lifestyle? Come and join Freya as she navigates the struggles of trying to remain cheeky when it’s raining trauma.
About the show Each year Creative Youth’s wonderful team of young people head to Brighton Fringe to judge the best theatre and stand-up comedy shows by performers…
An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts.
An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts.
A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2023 Brighton Fringe.
Join us for an exciting behind the scenes look at the film and TV world at the Screen and Film School Brighton’s newest site.
Join us for an exciting behind the scenes look at the film and TV world at Screen and Film School Brighton’s newest site, which is one of the only film lots of its kind on the so…
Viewpoints is an immersive physical theatre training process led by international multidisciplinary creative industry experts - theatre maker Erwin Maas and actor/cinematographer G…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe festival for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in th…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no.
The Brighton Swing Community are back for our annual Fringe afternoons of music and dancing, in one of the festival’s most iconic venues! Our All-Stars band features musicians fro…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
DJ Russ Dewbury brings his iconic Brighton Jazz Rooms Club night to the Spiegeltent for a rip roaring debut! The Jazz Rooms opened in 1987 and ran every weekend for an incredible 2…
As a last minute addition Brighton’s own Suspiciously Elvis performs at the fringe festival bringing his own unique take on the king of Rock and Roll in his glorious Las Vegas ye…
Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be.
Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be.
Fat Goose Goes Brighton is a stand up comedy show featuring international and award winning comedians from around the world.
Fat Goose Goes Brighton is a stand up comedy show featuring international and award winning comedians from around the world.
Within just an hour, SONS recounts the learnings from a lifetime of relationships.
It’s easy to know why we are continually drawn to romcoms: we can't help but fall in love with the simplicity of happy endings.
These amazing tours happen in May as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.
Unplanned, I happen to be writing this review on a train.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Inclusive, radical and hella creative, it’s Brighton’s Big Drag Pageant! The hottest ticket of last year’s Fringe returns for the 2023 ed…
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Saint Michael’s church was established in 1862 but then the building greatly extended some twenty years later.
Saint Michael’s church was established in 1862 but then the building greatly extended some twenty years later.
If you want a taste of what it’s like to be a super spy - or at least the Poundland version - then Sabotage could be the improvised game show for you.
Peter Joannou Brighton’s Singing Barber & The Cool Legends Show, including classic songs by Matt Monro, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Elvis Presley & more direct from h…
Peter Joannou Brighton’s Singing Barber & The Cool Legends Show, including classic songs by Matt Monro, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Elvis Presley & more direct from h…
A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity.
This will be an evening filled with local poets and artists sharing their work, discussing themes of peace and its relationship to environment.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
“Back by popular demand”, Brighton’s most unusual walking tour.
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, and services and perform to the general public, creating equal oppo…
A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity.
Come and hear from SMEG, the most poetic fridge on the fringe! 45 minutes of character comedy, silly poems and the best props you’ll ever see in your life! What’s in the fridge? Ev…
A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, and services and perform to the general public, creating equal oppo…
Redemption Rhymes returns to the local art scene with an exciting new event in support of Brighton Peace and Environment Centre (BPEC).
++Please book 24 hours in advance** For last minute bookings, please check availability and call us on 07783152151 If you want to do something that might be a little bit out of y…
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus present their annual Fringe Festival show - After Dark.
“we’re all human beings.
A revolving line-up of the best and up-and-coming female comedians from Brighton and the Fringe.
++Please book 24 hours in advance** For last minute bookings, please check availability and call us on 07783152151 If you want to do something that might be a little bit out of y…
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Are you ready to party? Are you ready to get out of your comfort zone, wear the best fancy dress and have the time of your life? Then join us for our Brighton Dance Extravaganza, w…
UPDATE: Tickets for tonight’s performance are no longer available through the Fringe Box Office.
A revolving line-up of the best and up-and-coming female comedians from Brighton and the Fringe.
“we’re all human beings.
In an 1838 book Edgar Allan Poe told the story of four men lost at sea.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Freya Parker (Lazy Susan, Mash Report and Jurassic World: Dominion) and Stevie Martin (Starstruck, Breeders, The Now Show) do an hour of comedy between them.
Don’t miss a night of comedy, cabaret and music to celebrate the launch of Brighton Fringe 2023.
Countercultural goons Omar&Lee present their new show ‘Omar&Lee are EVERYMAN’ - a comedic dissection of contemporary masculinity told through sketches, clowning, music, philosophy,…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
An hour of critical thinking on what it means to be a little cheeky guy in a world on fire.
After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives, massive sets and enormous comedy props, Stewart Lee enters the post-pan…
After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives, massive sets and enormous comedy props, Lee enters the post-pandemic er…
After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives, massive sets and enormous comedy props, Stewart Lee enters the post-pan…
Countercultural goons Omar&Lee workshop their way to mature masculinity.
Countercultural goons Omar&Lee workshop their way to mature masculinity.
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
The brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
A century of great jazz tunes from 1922 to 2022 and the stories behind them. From two jazz award winners.
Rediscover the golden age of swing jazz – Ella Fitzgerald; Dinah Washington; Keely Smith; Maxine Sullivan; Peggy Lee.
A tale of three Highland sisters who live in a shack in the woods disconnected from society, each of them with different views on how they should be living their lives.
A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.
After airing nearly 2,000 episodes since it was first broadcast in 2009, Pointless has become a regular family favourite and made a nationwide star out of its intelligent and amiab…
There’s a famous quote from the film The Third Man.
Aidan Goatley is not jealous of Romesh Ranganathan.
Many of us will have known someone like Meg.
Lee never understood why people sometimes thought he was unusual.
Lori Hamilton's retelling of her eventful life is touching and amusing, despite the whirlwind pacing.
An original musical with plenty of spark, Vote Macbeth! aims to present a fresh take on the well-worn story of the Scottish play.
The hopelessly flawed Sugarcoated Sisters unleash their multi-million-hit TikTok personas onto the stage for the first time.
Father Lee has left the confines of your TikTok For You Page and is alive and, well.
Gen Z has arrived.
‘False Prophet’ is the backstory of how an Irish comedian accidentally convinced millions of people across the world into believing that he was a fun, forgiving, and – most imp…
Lee Kyle is an actual giant.
Swept up by the Lionesses’ historic win at the Euros, I booked to see Joseph Parsons: Equaliser.
The premise is simple.
In the last ever performances of this show, Stewart Lee, ‘the world’s greatest living stand-up’ (Times), looks at how the Covid-Brexit era has impacted on the culture war declare…
Let Piscean comedy duo Norris and Parker lure you into their fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, nautical madness.
In this work-in-progress show, Lee enters the post-pandemic era in streamlined stand-up mode.
This personal account from Ian Lynam draws on his own experiences and research to break down the superficial stereotypes, misleading media presentations, and poor psychological pra…
Although the show ended back in 1996, Murder, She Wrote has developed a cultural cachet like few other TV programmes.
On the final day of Brighton Fringe 2022, Brighton Fringe CEO Julian Caddy leads our annual awards ceremony, handing out awards to the best of the festival, as we take the time to …
Lee Miller: Farleys in the 50s When photographer Lee Miller moved to Farleys in Sussex with her husband, painter Roland Penrose in 1949, settling down was most definitely not on t…
Lee Miller: Farleys in the 50s When photographer Lee Miller moved to Farleys in Sussex with her husband, painter Roland Penrose in 1949, settling down was most definitely not on t…
The Summer Shows are a culmination of our talented art, media and design students’ university journey in the form of a large-scale public exhibition.
The Summer Shows are a culmination of our talented art, media and design students’ university journey in the form of a large-scale public exhibition.
Brighton has some amazing trees.
A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2022 Brighton Fringe.
Brighton has some amazing trees.
Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be.
James Dalton explores his time growing up as a performer amongst the people and venues that make up the iconic music city by the sea, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Combining humour, performance poetry and visual moving imagery made up of my personal archive as an artist of nearly 25 years, SEE ME is a multi-media, immersive, (almost) autobiog…
Combining humour, performance poetry and visual moving imagery made up of my personal archive as an artist of nearly 25 years, SEE ME is a multi-media, immersive, (almost) autobiog…
What makes Cinderella the story we know and love today? We know all the familiar beats: a mean stepmother; chores; ugly sisters; a fairy godmother; a ball; a lost shoe; a Prince Ch…
An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts.
An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts.
Learn all about how Children’s Comics are made by creators from The Beano, Star Wars Lego Comic, and Monster Fun!, and former children’s laureate Michael Rosen.
You’ve probably seen showgirls, stunt men, and of course, The Greatest Showman… but have you ever stopped to think about where all the Showwomen are? They’ve certainly always…
Reportedly T S Eliot carried a pocket version of Dante around, and although he could not understand Italian explained that he simply listened to the music of the words.
Reportedly T S Eliot carried a pocket version of Dante around, and although he could not understand Italian explained that he simply listened to the music of the words.
Going to the pub is a British rite of passage, but increasingly pubs are going out of business.
Many British people might celebrate their 18th birthday by having their first legal pint at a pub, but by then Katie O’Brien was already sober.
Two sisters move back to their home town to discover unfinished business lurking around every corner.
Two sisters move back to their home town to discover unfinished business lurking around every corner.
Combining humour, performance poetry and visual moving imagery made up of my personal archive as an artist of nearly 25 years, SEE ME is a multi-media, immersive, (almost) autobiog…
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Brighton Natural Health Centre, the city’s first and only not-for-profit movement centre, is celebrating its 40th birthday and we are going all out! We have pulled together som…
Brighton Natural Health Centre, the city’s first and only not-for-profit movement centre, is celebrating its 40th birthday and we are going all out! We have pulled together som…
You’ve probably heard of Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin and Marlene Dietrich - but what about Anna May Wong? Wong fought against racism, societal expectations and stereotypes to be…
Grubby Little Mitts is an uncomfortable stare, a shriek heard in the background of a dream, the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.
DREAMSCAPE – a concert of sheer escapism with this extraordinary piano quartet.
‘DREAMSCAPE’ is an immersive, breathtakingly beautiful concert of piano, clarinet, cello and violin blending classical, minimalist and cinematic flavours, set to a backdrop of gorg…
The Brighton Swing Community are back for our annual Fringe afternoons of music and dancing, in one of the festival’s most iconic venues! Our All-Stars band features musicians fro…
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in the decaden…
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Mentalism and comedy might be an uncommon combination, but performers Andrew Phoenix and Emma Wesslus prove it’s a worthwhile experiment in this lighthearted hour of tricks and j…
From some of Britain’s first women doctors to suffragettes, entrepreneurs to entertainers, racing drivers, artists, music-hall stars, and campaigners, Brighton & Hove has always at…
From some of Britain’s first women doctors to suffragettes, entrepreneurs to entertainers, racing drivers, artists, music-hall stars, and campaigners, Brighton & Hove has always at…
Who built this town?! Who won your freedoms?! Walk in their footsteps and find out! Brighton & Hove has always been a city of radicals, free-thinkers and libertarians – but also …
The Cool Legends “As I approach The Prime of My Life” as Tony Bennett sang, gee I now know exactly what he meant, because as I ain’t no spring chicken now.
“Back by popular demand”.
Betsy had a plan.
A tale of sex, seduction and survival in the underworld of 1800’s Brighton.
A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
Brighton’s Singing Barber Peter Joannou sings classic songs from The Great American Songbook direct from his barbershop via Facebook Live video stream & from The Golden Window on…
Who built this town?! Who won your freedoms?! Walk in their footsteps and find out! Brighton & Hove has always been a city of radicals, free-thinkers and libertarians – but also …
Come and discover the locations, inspirations and drama behind Graham Greene’s iconic tale of gangland murder, doomed romance and Catholicism.
Come and discover the locations, inspirations and drama behind Graham Greene’s iconic tale of gangland murder, doomed romance and Catholicism.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus presents the mother of all reality shows – ‘Divas!’.
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If you love food and are also a keen chocolate lover, this tour celebrates everything that a foodie soul requires.
Are you ready to party? Are you ready to get out of your comfort zone, wear the best fancy dress and have the time of your life? Then join us for our Brighton Dance Extravaganza, w…
Do you like chocolate and sweets? Are you keen to discover Brighton in a unique way? Join us on this chocolate lovers adventure if you want to do something extraordinary in and aro…
This is not your ordinary tour: dress up (preferably) and join us for an hour of fun, laughter, and craziness.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus presents the mother of all reality shows – ‘Divas!’.
Me? No Pause!From the first medical reference to menopause in the 17th century to menopause management tips with social media influencer Adriana Mole.
Four women find themselves isolated, stuck on a small island during a company team-building weekend.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Through the eyes of three, early twenties, female flatmates we deal with themes of growing up, spirituality, sex, love, hopes, dreams, and friendship, whilst we join them on their …
Can 80 million people ever be wrong? Back in 2003, The Da Vinci Code became a global publishing phenomenon, later branching out into a Hollywood film franchise.
Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team.
STEWART LEESNOWFLAKE / TORNADOAfter a sell-out in 2019 / 2020 and due to popular demand Stewart Lee returns to Leicester Square Theatre.
STEWART LEESNOWFLAKE / TORNADOAfter a sell-out in 2019 / 2020 and due to popular demand Stewart Lee returns to Leicester Square Theatre.
If you’re looking for magical theatre this Christmas, but aren’t keen on booking a pantomime, then Blu & The Magic Web is a musical adventure that is sure to please the who…
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Join us for an afternoon of (socially distanced!) interactive fun, where we’ll be sharing with you all our secrets about how to get organised and style your home.
PICTURE IT! BRIGHTON 2021!After 5 years of award-winning, sell-out shows in London, Golden Girls: A Musical is finally off on it’s long anticipated tour to Brighton!This September …
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Choreographer Janice Parker’s reflective filmic series Small Acts of Hope and Lament, shot in Edinburgh on her iPhone 6.
Choreographer Janice Parker presents her reflective filmic series Small Acts of Hope and Lament, shot in Edinburgh on her iPhone 6.
This modern adaptation of Little Women, set in London 2019, follows the four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy over a weekend, as Jo and Meg go to visit Beth and Amy in their London b…
This modern adaptation of Little Women, set in London 2019, follows the four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy over a weekend, as Jo and Meg go to visit Beth and Amy in their London b…
A modern man-free adaptation of the Chekhov classic.
A modern man-free adaptation of the Chekhov classic.
Daman Bamrah and Lee Hudson are two comedians with fast rising reputations within the UK comedy scene, now looking to split an hour and showcase their longer sets.
Daman Bamrah and Lee Hudson are two comedians with fast rising reputations within the UK comedy scene, now looking to split an hour and showcase their longer sets.
Set in the notorious Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, Sisters of Charity tells the forgotten story of Ireland’s ‘fallen women’ – unmarried mothers who were taken i…
Set in the notorious Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, Sisters of Charity tells the forgotten story of Ireland’s ‘fallen women’ – unmarried mothers who were taken i…
The Grimm Sisters present their marvellous mix of storytelling, comedy & live music. Socially distanced, interactive outdoor theatre - perfect for 2021!
Cult cabaret sensations Bourgeois & Maurice descend on planet earth for two nights at Brighton Spiegeltent! “It’s hard to think of any other act delivering such clever, funny …
Cult cabaret sensations Bourgeois & Maurice descend on planet earth for two nights at Brighton Spiegeltent!“It’s hard to think of any other act delivering such clever, funny an…
SOLD OUT! Join us for the 8pm show live stream on YouTube for free: https://youtu.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus members present a show of solos and duets under the direction of Joe Paxton.
Throughout lockdown, many of us have enjoyed reconnecting with the natural world.
‘DREAMSCAPE’ is an immersive, breathtakingly beautiful concert of piano, clarinet, cello and violin blending classical, minimalist and cinematic flavours, set to a backdrop of gorg…
Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be.
‘Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations-Brighton Edition’ celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey through the music of their idols.
‘Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations-Brighton Edition’ celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey through the music of their idols.
Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
You can’t say that Frills and Spills descends into chaos so much as embraces it from the get-go.
Lee Miller and Fashion: Hand Grenades like Cartier Clips.
Lee Miller and Fashion: Hand Grenades like Cartier Clips.
What connects ABBA and the Portuguese Revolution? Mount Everest and a supermarket in Hove? A stained wall and the genesis of a worldwide retail brand? What’s the story behind a ‘sa…
Brighton has some amazing trees.
What connects ABBA and the Portuguese Revolution? Mount Everest and a supermarket in Hove? A stained wall and the genesis of a worldwide retail brand? What’s the story behind a ‘sa…
An online event, in association with the free digital platform The Ironclad Hub ( https://ironclad-hub.
Brighton’s Singing Barber Peter Joannou sings classic songs from The Great American Songbook direct from his barbershop via Facebook Live video stream & from The Golden Window on…
Take yourself away from the busy seafront streets and you’ll find About the Garden, a charming and quirky production staged in 4 Rigden Road’s garden, in the heart of Hove.
A special virtual tour of Brighton Palace Pier, revealing its amazing history.
Hello Sailor! Fun Sun Seekers! An open-air dance-walk Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party returns to beautiful Brighton with their ‘Super Seaside Special’! It’s the outra…
“Back by popular demand”.
Brighton got their boogie shoes on as they danced around Brighton with Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party under the guidance of our ship's captain Mama Roo and her shipmat…
The V.
It’s been five years since Ellie’s death.
Do you like chocolate and sweets? Are you keen to discover Brighton in a unique way? Join us on this chocolate lovers adventure if you want to do something extraordinary in and aro…
This is not your ordinary tour: dress up (preferably) and join us for an hour of fun, laughter, and craziness.
The smell produced when rain falls on dry ground, usually experienced as being pleasant, is the definition given to the word petrichor by the Cambridge Dictionary.
Do you like chocolate and sweets? Are you keen to discover Brighton in a unique way? Join us on this chocolate lovers adventure if you want to do something extraordinary in and aro…
A special virtual tour of Brighton Palace Pier, revealing its amazing history.
This is not your ordinary tour: dress up (preferably) and join us for an hour of fun, laughter, and craziness.
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Writer and poet Michael Rosen celebrates his 75th birthday at Brighton Festival, sharing stories of his life and work with Hannah Azieb PoolOne of Britain’s best loved writers an…
The beloved children’s author joins us for an online event to talk about past work and her latest novel, The Runaway GirlsJoin the much-loved author Dame Jacqueline Wilson online…
Against the backdrop of night, take a walk through the atmospheric industrial landscape of Shoreham Port and be dazzled by otherworldly sound and light installations.
Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team.
Come and watch our 3rd year Musical Theatre & Performing Arts students perform in their graduating showcase
Come and watch our 3rd year Musical Theatre & Performing Arts students perform in their graduating showcase
The notion of a man becoming particularly attached to a handsome black cat may initially feel a familiar experience, especially as around 3.
A digital production of a new multi-media musical show about historical female scientists and mathematicians whose work was so often unrecognised but who contributed in so many way…
When I first heard that TrueStory Theatre would be back with a one man production of A Christmas Carol I felt in parts excited and uneasy.
Outdoor theatre? In December? Yes, it’s happening! Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) have launched their first ever Christmas programme with a bang as Hansel and Gretel? A Postmod…
What is magic, really? Is it an evil enchantress who can freeze a person in ice? Is it a crow who can talk? Or is it seeing dozens of little faces light up with joy? The Snow Queen…
It’s Halloween evening at the Brighton Open Air Theatre and what better time for a séance? Even if it has to be a socially distance séance – there’s no hand holding or grou…
Beinn Lee are a six-piece band from Uist.
A century of great jazz tunes from 1920 to 2020 from two jazz award winners.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
Dick Lee: clarinet, bass clarinet; Fraser Urquhart: piano; Ed Kelly: bass.
After their mother’s death, two estranged sisters, Jenny, an introvert who cared for their ailing mother, and Jackie, an ambitious socialite who left home at sixteen never to retur…
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date.
Owned by 4 west end performers and with patrons including Sir Matthew Bourne, Stephen Mear, Bill Deamer, Carole Tood and Pearson Casting, The Brighton Academy has now be…
Twice grammy award winner Albert Lee with his band continues to delight audiences with his unique guitar style and soulful voice, delivering a great mixture of Roc…
Twice grammy award winner Albert Lee with his band continues to delight audiences with his unique guitar style and soulful voice, delivering a great mixture of Roc…
It’s embarrassing recalling your teenager years, isn’t it? Awkward crushes, cringe-worthy fashion choices and dramatic mood swings; most of us are very happy to leave those yea…
If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a BIG surprise.
Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior.
We’ve reached the end of the decade and entered the ‘20s again.
David Johnson & John Mackay in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present STEWART LEE: SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO NOW ON SALE - extra dates at Southbank Centre in …
Welcome to The Republic of Biafra, 1967.
Billed as a Halloween cabaret extravaganza, The Haunted Ballroom was a loose mix of disco style party and cabaret acts from renowned London based performers Black Cat Cabaret, who …
David Johnson & John Mackay in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present STEWART LEE: SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO Double-bill of two new 60 minute sets, back to ba…
Everyone hates bastards right? We agree.
David Johnson & John Mackay in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present SNOWFLAKE/TORNADO Work-in-Progress and DVD LAUNCH A run of work-in-progress gigs to …
Direct from Australia, John Rowe brings his sofa-based entertainment show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Nick is 14 years old.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The music of the great Sidney Bechet presented by a sextet of Scotland’s finest traditional jazz players, including Dick on soprano and clarinet and Ali Affleck on vocals.
When so many songs written by men are condescending (Wake Up Little Susie), dangerously demeaning (Blurred Lines) or darn right creepy (Every Breath You Take) towards women, it is …
It might be true that Brandy was first performed in 2010 at South London Theatre, but it’s still impossible not to view this production through the lens of Yorgos Lanthimos’ 20…
If you’re one of the many people who visit the Fringe from far flung parts of the world (hello Londoners daring to go past the M25) it’s easy to forget amongst all the clamour …
Piano wizard Brian and clarinet maestro Dick return for a sixth year with a genial stroll through jazz history, from Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, with anecdotes, banter and plen…
Staging The Winter’s Tale in the middle of the summer might seem to be an unusual choice, but as we huddled in the wind blasted Brighton Open Air Theatre it seemed pathetic falla…
Notes towards a new show from ‘the world’s greatest living stand-up’ (Times).
For the 16th year, this brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their world music mix with virtuoso skill and infectious enjoyment.
Starting your hour of stand up with an audio recording of a very sweet sounding child called Albert introducing you on stage might be considered cheating.
The McTaggart sisters Elsa Jean McTaggart and her youngest sister Miss Irenie Rose present a rare opportunity to hear these two highly acclaimed singers/songwriters/multi-instrumen…
An Evening with Lee Trundle, with Francis Breen: Lee Trundle is cancelled.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
A half-hour from half a man (her father was a man).
A no-holds-barred comedy show starring Will Mars (FOX’s Showtime at The Apollo) and Sarah Lee (Jewish Comedian of the Year finalist 2018).
Lee didn’t have a show this year, he was worried he was going to have to start knowing about politics or something to find something to write about.
You've probably heard plenty of stories about lucky couples who fall in love, get married and live happily-ever-after.
"I could be one of the Boys," New Zealander Chris Parker sings ecstatically at the start of Camp Binch, wearing a shirt and leggings echoing Elaine Stritch's iconic o…
Humble Pi explores the greatest mathematical near-misses and mishaps involving planes, trains and autocorrect.
A charming mixture of mime and music, Woman! Pilot! Pirate? is the endearing tale of Emmy, who believes that Amelia Earhart’s disappearance is nothing more than a conspiracy and …
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
Iconic American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, Maceo Parker is best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960’s as well as George Clinton's&nbs…
1940s Britain – a 19-year-old Northern lass takes to the air in a fighter plane, armed with only a compass.
This is Medea, but not as you know her.
Roller derby is a fast-paced, hard-hitting sport where two teams of badass women compete for points by being the strongest, fastest, and most agile as they race around the track on…
Twelve women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) will be bringing science to the seaside for discussions, debates and demonstrations.
Come and join us for our interactive, free arts event for people of all ages.
Joske, Annelie and Marthe Koning combine storytelling, movement and song to portray the universal dynamic of the family.
“Bodies on the move: on screen and in the street” This event will involve responding collectively to a variety of audio-visual material, exploring movement and migration, shift…
Grant Busé is blessed with classical good looks, musical talent and a flair for making things funny.
“Refugees and migration in anthropological cinema” ‘Travel’ (63 mins).
Lee Miller witnessed with her camera events of WWII, the battles and the lives destroyed in the hope that this horror will not be forgotten.
The Brighton Beach Boys and Psychedelic Love Orchestra recreate The Beatles classic of 1969, ‘Abbey Road’.
Brighton, a townhouse.
Know your Austen from your Auster? Or couldn’t spot a novel from a shovel? You’re both welcome.
On a still springtime evening, there are few better things to do than to take a trip to the Brighton Open Air Theatre.
What happens when a 90-something year old kitschy charlatan and a post-millennial ventriloquist host a British daytime TV show?Lachlan Werner (19-year-old Gaulier graduate) seeks t…
Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre is offering a free meditation on the beach with Buddhist monk, Gen Thekchen.
What’s to be done with the Arts in Brighton? Or Where Are We Now where Are We Now? A discussion at the Spiegeltent on the state of the arts and culture in Brighton and Hove - and w…
How many near death experiences have you had? One audience member in The Birth of Death directed by Yael Karavan claimed 10 or 11, which is as impressive as it is shocking.
How hard is it to say ‘I love you’ when you truly mean it? For Sam, it’s very hard.
‘Timescape’, the Quartet’s new and exciting show for 2019 – a journey into sheer escapism.
Follow in the steps of the Victorians in a stroll along the pier, a pleasure that has been enjoyed by generations.
Ensemble Dance Co, topped off by Sarah Blanc.
This isn’t a show about death, oh no.
Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for a tour of Brighton focusing on 20 objects with links to stories from Greek mythology.
The Brighton Buddhist Centre Open Day is a great opportunity to explore Buddhism and meditation in the heart of Brighton.
The Brighton Beach Boys turn their laser-sharp gaze towards this classic of 70s Rock.
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
At any Fringe you’ll be able to find at least one crooner showcasing some of history’s best show tunes – One Day More, There’s No Business Like Show Business, anything from…
Award-winning Oxford research chemist Peter Rook is a stickler for scientific detail.
An evening of talks and performances exploring our relationship to death & dying.
Styling itself as a 'heartfelt and hilarious musical tribute' to the city of Brighton, All Things Brighton Beautiful utterly triumphs as a celebration of everything we love…
The long-standing Poets v MCs show is back in a new guise.
Come and celebrate life with Sunday Assembly Brighton at our Spiegeltent Special on the theme of ‘Home’, including glorious songs from the Choir With No Name and uplifting stories …
Lee Fields has been making soul and funk anthems since 1969.
Lee Griffiths, household name* and all-round philanthropic hero has given himself the honour of hosting a charity telethon to help those less fortunate.
Kaviraj Singh - Santoor & Voice and Upneet Singh - Tabla Combining musicality with complex rhythm, Kaviraj Singh is emerging as a unique and celebrated talent of the new generatio…
An afternoon of live swing music and dancing with the friendly and welcoming Brighton Lindyhoppers.
Come and discover the locations, inspirations and drama behind Graham Greene’s iconic tale of gangland murder, doomed romance and Catholicism.
Brighton’s singing barber Peter Joannou and The Something For The Weekend Show.
Award-winning, 90 minute city tour.
A tale of sex, seduction and survival in the underworld of 1800’s Brighton.
Join the award-winning V.
Tickets for Dave Chawner: C’est La Vegan apparently went like hot cakes (or should that be like Greggs' vegan sausage rolls?) and as everyone packed into the bijou upstairs r…
The Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus return to the Brighton Fringe festival with their customary wry look at life.
Created to celebrate 20 years of democracy in South Africa, INALA (“abundance of goodwill” in Zulu) returns to London after the sell-out runs at Sadler’s Wells.
An air of timelessness perversely pervades Three Sisters at the Almeida.
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother.
Now in its 8th year and offering BA courses in Musical Theatre and Performing Arts, in collaboration with Bath Spa University.
Now in its 8th year and offering BA courses in Musical Theatre and Performing Arts, in collaboration with Bath Spa University.
He has been very influential in the development and acceptance of dub and reggae music in Jamaica and overseas and has spent decades creating innovative and boundary-stomping recor…
Imagine if women weren’t just stuck playing Juliet and Desdemona and Lady Macbeth over and over again.
An Evening with Lee TrundleAbsurdist Stand-up (not appearing: Lee Trundle) Symphony of WormsA time, space and neurosis traversing comedy show An Evening with Lee …
Duration: Approx 2hrs 20mins More information to follow
Following the huge success of his Channel 4 show The Supervet, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, is delighted to be bringing his first ever live stage show Welcome to My World to major a…
Ring a ring o’ roses, a pocket full of posies…Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water…No matter how many years it’s been since you last sang these nursery r…
Under the bright light of a full moon, we were drawn towards the eerie tower of The Spire, an old deconsecrated Victorian church in Kemptown that is currently playing host to one o…
The packed audience at The Old Market leant in expectantly towards an ordinary looking closed shipping container dominating the stage, oblivious to the surprises enclosed inside.
The Great Pirate Adventure: PAW Patrol Live! All paws on deck! Spin Master entertainment has announced a 2018 UK tour of Paw Patrol Live! 'The Great Pirate Adventure' this …
‘Combined blistering pace with beautifully crafted melodies’ (BroadwayBaby.
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to these questions, this is the event for you! Lea…
Brian Kellock, piano.
Dick: clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, recorder.
Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel are Glasgow born and raised but with deep family roots in the Donegal Gaeltacht.
Ever thought of what Hannah Montana would sound like if she sung on the Alex Jones Show? Or what Britney Spears would sound like if she became a Flat Earth conspiracy theorist? Cou…
Colleen is angry at her peers, angry at her teachers and angry at her brother, Parker, who imagines himself as an undersea explorer in a one-man submersible.
It’s 1968 and the world is about to change.
Have you ever kicked a potato into the sea? Lee Kyle has.
Before The Spice Girls, before The Supremes.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
After a sell-out debut show, innovative sketch duo Sisters are putting you in control of their highly anticipated second hour.
First and foremost, this is not a show for the faint-hearted.
Masterfully combining physical comedy, characters and original music, The Travelling Sisters are ‘insane geniuses of sketch comedy’ (GreatScott.
Fran, Jo and Ger live in isolation.
Have you ever kicked a potato into the sea? Lee Kyle has.
You’ve seen him sneaking into places he shouldn’t be, now come and see him where he most definitely should be: live on stage!"In this sort of form Nelso…
Ian is the keyboards player with the HOLLIES and CLANNAD.
From the brisk Siberian winds, in walks The Watcher, a strange man wrapped in a massive coat and carrying a tattered bag.
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, led by the club’s musical director, take to the stage to celebrate two giants of jazz…
Masterfully combining physical comedy, characters, and original music, The Travelling Sisters are 'insane geniuses of sketch comedy' - GreatScott.
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
This cinematic portrait of Brighton, in all its bohemian, and campaigning glory, darts between past present and is set to a sumptuous orchestral score.
LEE NELSON - Tour extended to cover legal fees for Theresa May stunt Due to huge demand, and over-priced lawyers, Lee is extending his smash-h…
LEE NELSON - Tour extended to cover legal fees for Theresa May stunt Due to huge demand, and over-priced lawyers, Lee is extending his smash-h…
I’ve been to more than my fair share of post-show Q&As.
Spiegeltent presents: ‘Brighton Big Drag Pagent’ Kings, Queens, and Inbetweens! Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve.
Last week was the first anniversary of the Manchester bombings.
The UK’s leading female comedy community ‘Funny Women’ host a night of fabulous female comedy talent in Brighton’s best comedy venue, Komedia Brighton, featuring a mix of establi…
Brighton has long been a home for artists, creators and the alternative.
It's 1736, George II is on the throne, witchcraft laws are being appealed and the British Empire was starting to take shape.
You’ve been invited into George Egg’s shed.
Come and join our interactive, free arts event for people of all ages.
Professional development workshops for artists.
Please note, this event is now called ‘Creative Cafe Brighton’. Full details and link to book tickets here: www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/creative-caf%C3%A9-brighton-125548/
The Brighton Beach Boys perform The Beatles ‘White Album’.
Brighton’s lively Open Market played host to the Wordstock festival this Saturday.
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Yes, I’m a millennial.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, Lindy Hop beginners dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
Mix stunning magic, baffling illusions and cheeky comedy with a young, energetic, enthusiastic magician and what do you get? ‘Miraculous Magic’ is a brand-new magical experience fo…
The acclaimed Dilemma Girls present their sparkly walking tour of Brighton, complete with treats and interactive regalia.
The Cascade Coffee Shop is at the centre of a drive to help rehabilitate and reintegrate the homeless population of Brighton through the Cascade Creative Recovery organisation.
Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for a tour of Brighton focusing on 20 (ish) objects with links to stories from Greek mythology.
Death is the only truly universal subject.
If you missed Steve’s Fringe debut ‘Sit Down Stand Up’ last year, you now have the opportunity of missing this brand new show as well! Tales of a life well-lived with possibl…
We meet landlady Liz as she hosts another Historical Night.
Since the very first tales were told around a fire, it has been human nature to enjoy a good story - especially when the story is full of murder, gore and tabloid-friendly salaciou…
An outspoken politician.
It was a balmy Sunday evening at the end of another warm and sunny weekend and many in the audience seem to have to enjoyed the weekend (and perhaps the wine) a bit too much by the…
To mark the 100 year anniversary since women first got the vote, Digital Drama will be running three immersive banner making workshops.
Unique Fair Brighton is a one off opportunity to purchase unique handmade arts and crafts from many talented local artists/makers.
For so long the history books have been written by men and about men, and Royal Pavilion guide Louise Preskett aims to correct this imbalance with a 90 minute amble through Brighto…
Fancy experiencing a taste of the Rio Carnival in the streets of Brighton this month? The Brighton School of Samba can give you just that.
Sunday Assembly is a global network of non-religious gatherings celebrating life through inspirational speakers, fascinating science, thoughtful readings, raucous pop music, peacef…
We’re opening the doors of the Brighton Buddhist Centre! If you’ve ever wondered what goes on here, come along to one of our taster sessions which will give you a flavour of some…
Brighton Film Quartet presents ‘SOUNDSCAPE’, a concert of sheer escapism with this extraordinary piano quartet.
Take an interactive tour of the recently completed Brighton Greenway: a green corridor that cuts through the New England Quarter connecting the North of Brighton with the mainline …
Brighton’s singing barber, Peter Joannou, performs his latest song ‘From Ma Window’, from his first floor shop window in The Lanes in the ‘Something For The Weekend’ show.
Brighton’s number one, award-winning traditional city walking tour.
I have a confession to make.
These amazing tours only happen during Brighton Fringe.
The UK's biggest Foodies Festival returned to Hove Lawns this sunny bank holiday weekend.
The BB Collective presents an innovative exhibition of ethical designers and artists against a backdrop of sustainable living with a beach and beach-waste theme, and introduces way…
Brighton doesn't really need its ego stroking, but a little indulgence now and then can't hurt, which I think is the philosophy the city is built on.
The V.
A long time ago in a venue far, far away.
Exclusive after hours tours of Brighton’s aquarium! A unique opportunity to go off the public route to learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
The launch of Brighton Fringe 2018 at The Warren.
Sometimes, when it comes to suspending our disbelief, we just have to go with the flow.
The Brighton Academy Of Performing Arts presents its 5th MT Graduating year Showcase
The Mosaic Cat (UK) & Emma Knights Productions (SA) Celebrating the life and loves of one of the great jazz singers of the 20th century.
“It’s sweat on your brow that gives life meaning,” says one of the supporting characters in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and it’s fair to say that, on occasions, there’s a …
The Andrews Sisters were America’s most popular singing trio - Patty, Maxine and LaVerne burst onto the entertainment scene in the 1940’s and were known for their close three part …
Aussie siblings Georgia (guitar, keys), Ella (electric cello, bass) & Clara Germein (drums) bring their infectious indie pop songs, signature harmonies, & euphoric live show to the…
‘Life of Stars’ is based on the incredible works of renowned Biennial artist Lindy Lee and the processes and themes behind her work.
Masterfully combining physical comedy, characters, and original music, The Travelling Sisters are ‘insane geniuses of sketch comedy’ (★★★★★ Great Scott).
Tania Savelli, Kat Jade and Melanie Smith take you on a historical journey celebrating the most famous female vocal trio of all time.
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, this is the event for yo…
Classic swing jazz by the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Glenn Miller et al.
Omar & Lee are two countercultural clowns on a mission to enlighten and entertain.
‘It’s not every day that a delicatessen has a boogie named after it, even amid the Fringe, but audiences at Lee and Kellock’s intimately convivial romp through more than a century’…
Anne and Dick with support from their recorded selves – duos, quartets, octets and more.
American comedian Anders Lee brings his hour of stand-up to Edinburgh.
This play is an abridged version of the stage adaptation of late novelist Terry Pratchett’s sixth Discworld book which is in itself a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
It’s just another Sunday morning for the Easy Sister goddesses: ill-advised Jägerbombs, lost tampons and wanking mermaids are behind them.
Young traditional musicians Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel are Glasgow-born and raised with deep family roots in the Donegal Gaeltacht.
Premiered in 1901 in Moscow, The Three Sisters by Chekhov is a play perhaps surprisingly easy to adapt to many different circumstances, as it speaks about characters’ dreams for …
‘From tango to polka, Bulgarian Horo to hot New Orleans jazz – great skill.
Two Irish and eastern European women talk about immigration.
The man who fooled Penn & Teller hits the Edinburgh Festival to assert himself as the pimp among magicians – or so he thinks! With over 20 years of experience as a professional m…
Sometimes, when comedians are interviewed, they talk about how they have a responsibility to talk about the issues.
American comedian Anders Lee brings his hour of stand-up to Edinburgh.
In their Fringe debut comedy hour Sisters hit the ground running with a fast paced, intensely dark and gut bustingly funny show of sketches, skits, and more jokes about live stream…
You’ve seen him sneaking into places he shouldn’t be, now come and see him where he most definitely should be: live on stage with his sensational new show.
New York City, 1943.
Following the Grammy Award nominated success of INALA, a Zulu ballet performed with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sisters Grimm return with the tale of a water spirit from the Amazon Ri…
For 14 years the poets and rappers of Brighton have been locked in an epic struggle.
‘The Funny Women Awards’ are back at Brighton Fringe! ‘The Funny Women Awards’ has left a massive impression on the UK comedy map, with previous winners and finalists including …
Cascade Creative Recovery and Invisible Voices of Brighton and Hove bring to stage a variety of people who represent vulnerable communities in our city.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Comedy sketch show featuring contemporary characters in Brighton and beyond.
46 years in showbiz.
Described as an esoteric St Trinian’s for the queer cabaret generation, Carnesky’s Finishing School has been helping people discover and hone their creative talent since 2010.
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Dementia is everybody’s business so let’s get talking about it.
Soundscape – a concert of sheer escapism with this extraordinary piano quartet.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, beginners Lindy Hop dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Critically acclaimed the world over, and winner of a Drama Desk Award, The Sovremennik’s Three Sisters is widely regarded as one of the seminal versions of Anton Chekhov&rsqu…
Local author and poet Thomas Wolfe presents a night of spoken word, poetry and storytelling from some of Brighton’s best poets.
Before World War One most immigrants to Brighton were French and German speakers from the Continent.
It could not have been a better day to go on a stroll around Brighton.
‘Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Exclusive after hours tours, just on offer as part of the Brighton Fringe in May.
Invisible Voices of Brighton & Hove and Cascade Creative Recovery continues to focus on aspects of the housing crisis in our fair city by the sea.
Brighton’s Singing Barber, Peter Joannou, puts his comb to one side, picks up his microphone and sings those classic beautiful songs from the Great American Songbook made famous by…
A joyously humorous celebration of what it is to be a sister.
Brighton’s most popular 90 minute traditional city walking tour.
The Brighton School of Samba is the city’s first and only traditional Samba School.
Fresh from a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, Beasts bring their critically acclaimed comedy extravaganza to Brighton.
I Charleston Brighton Speakeasy is back with a bang! The Charleston girls will take you through the A-Z of ’20s dance with a twist of jazz and a dash of electro-swing.
These amazing tours only happen during Brighton Fringe.
In the era of Serial, Making a Murderer and Casting JonBenet, it can be easy to forget that the public’s taste for true crime is not a particularly modern phenomenon.
An eclectic array of work from a local arts collective exploring some of the many faces of the city.
We’re opening the doors of Brighton Buddhist Centre! If you’ve ever wondered what goes on, come along and have a look around.
Award-nominated sell-out hit HIP returns as an immersive journey through the streets of 1970s Brighton.
A fact-filled walk celebrating our unique city.
The V.
They move among you unseen.
Come and celebrate the launch of Brighton Fringe at The Warren. Help us start the 2017 Festival with a bang!
Join us at Foodies Festival, the largest food and drink festival in the UK, returning to Hove Lawns this summer on the bank holiday weekend of April 29th - May 1st.
Join West End Actor, Harry Kit Lee for a personal journey through song.
A darkly comic and dangerously dreamlike tale of past and present history colliding.
These three Glaswegian sisters have their family roots deeply embedded in County Donegal in north-west Ireland.
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these ques…
In the sleepy town of Pickford in 1949 three sisters are bored of their post-war existences and want to start living.
The classics of swing jazz swung by this fabulous band.
After a sell-out concert last year SONIC return with saxophonist Paul Towndrow and trumpeter Ryan Quigley to perform Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown’s stunning albums from the …
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Brian and Dick take you on a jazz odyssey through the decades, floating like butterflies and swinging like bees.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment – French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango etc.
The classics of swing jazz swung by this great band.
Fresh from the final of the Leicester Square Theatre Sketch-Off 2016, performers, sisters, and dare we say it, friends – Christy White-Spunner and Mark Jones bring their highly a…
After four years writing and performing twelve half hours of stand up for his TV show, this is work in progress towards Stewart’s first brand new full-length live show since the aw…
Witness the inner workings of the idiot as Omar & Lee invite you on an anarchic voyage through their minds, pushing their sanity and friendship to the limits.
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Dark humour isn’t in short supply this Fringe - in case you hadn’t noticed, celebrity and political news of late has had a tangible effect on performers.
With wild eyes and a wicked flavour of comedy, Australian trio The Travelling Sisters serve up a gang of tragically charming misfits.
With wild eyes and a wicked flavour of comedy, Australian trio The Travelling Sisters serve up a gang of tragically charming misfits.
An unique opportunity to hear some of the best young musicians from the Gaza Music School, part of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music.
The 2nd year of BIF: The Brighton Illustration Fair.
Brighton Beach Boys with the Psychedelic Love Orchestra present Pet Sounds vs Sgt Pepper.
An intensive, three-day urban sketching on-location workshop, led by world class sketchers, Isabel Carmona, Swasky and Rolf Schroeter.
Two battles in one: first the poets from the two great festival cities join to take on a united team of rappers.
In this lecture, Danny Dorling considers how the UK, one of the 25 richest countries in the world, has become one of the most unequal and is on course to win the ‘global race’ to b…
Fresh air, amazing sea views, forgotten histories, architecture and aquatic entertainment.
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Brighton & Hove is a city of contrasts.
Brighton and Hove Organic Gardeners, together with Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, will host an organic plant sale in Preston Park.
Join Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, beginners Lindy Hop dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
If you’ve ever struggled to catch a flight while clumsily carrying too many suitcases and bags, there’s lots to smile at here.
One day photography competition.
Brighton Swing Choir is a brand new community choir specialising in music from the swing era and beyond.
The Brighton Showcase hosts the best in new and up-and-coming local talent every Wednesday evening at award-winning venue, The Brunswick.
A unique opportunity to go off the public route and learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
‘The Synagogues of Great Britain’: Dr Sharman Kadish is the Director of Jewish Heritage UK and a research fellow and lecturer at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of …
Now in their second year at the Brighton Fringe, Lamb Comedy Productions present an evening of selected highlights, delivered by acts from across their programme.
Each city has its own character which is imprinted on the visual memories of its residents.
Pull on your spats and tassels and learn to Charleston like it’s 1929.
‘Brighton looks like a town helping the police with their enquiries’ quotes our white-coated guide at the top of the stairs in Brighton Town hall and raises a laugh as she intro…
Inspired by the new democratic movements at home and abroad, this is a day of creative engagement aiming to develop a vision on how democracy can be extended, enriched and made fit…
Join Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they explore their dark side.
These amazing tours only happen during Brighton Fringe.
Wilful princesses, Music Hall stars, headstrong courtesans, acrobats, entrepreneurs - Brighton has always attracted women who dare to do things differently.
A walk celebrating all that’s unique, and a little bit weird, about Brighton.
Brighton’s No.
In an exciting new collaboration, the My Brighton hotel works with Artfinder, the global marketplace for original art, to create a live art spectacular - transforming the hotel’s…
“A fascinating stroll through the city’s association with the occult, packed with detail and entertainingly dodgy conjecture” **** (The Argus).
Brighton’s rich cinema history rediscovered on this acclaimed 90 minute tour.
Brighton’s Singing Barber Peter Joannou will be entertaining you from his upstairs window in The Lanes with his show ‘Next Please!’ Specialising in The Great American Songbook.
Enjoy a taste-bud-tickling day out at the UK’s biggest celebration of food and drink.
He headlined Glastonbury with Kanye West and bribed Sepp Blatter at FIFA’s headquarters.
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
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Brian Kellock, piano, and Dick Lee, reeds and recorder.
Fresh from headlining Glastonbury with Kanye West and bribing Sepp Blatter at FIFA’s headquarters, Lee Nelson returns to the place where it all started.
Sell-out 2010-2014.
Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered yes to these questions,…
Award-winning maths comedian and Rubik’s cube world record holder Matt Parker is once more forming a maths + comedy venn diagram with lively stand-up and mind-boggling maths.
***** (BroadwayBaby.
Jimmy Shand to Johnny Dodds, a virtuoso mix of music unfolds before you: French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan.
Dick Lee: clarinets, recorder.
For 20 years Alastair has taught salsa dance.
New material in preparation for the next series of BBC Two’s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
With wild eyes and a wicked flavour of comedy, Australian trio The Travelling Sisters serve up a bevy of tragically charming characters.
With wild eyes and a wicked flavour of comedy, Australian trio The Travelling Sisters serve up a bevy of tragically charming characters.
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
In a world where debt, identity crisis and prejudice are factors towards the term ‘Broken Britain’, it is more difficult than ever for young people to succeed.
Whenever you’re waiting for your next train on the platform, do you imagine yourself having a connection with the person standing next to you? Do you imagine having any common gr…
It’s less than a year to go until TV screens will be fixed on the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
He’s back.
A cabaret full of birds falling in love with each other? Embrace the madness if you will, and your heart will certainly be warmed by Robert J.
Smooth Faced Gentlemen have subverted the original performance conditions of Shakespeare’s plays, which were all-male productions, and have tackled his bloodiest tragedy, Titus A…
Only in Edinburgh could you start your morning off having breakfast while watching some theatre.
In her one-woman play, Portrait, Racheal Ofori fuses poetry, music and monologues as she gives her take on the perception of role models and cultural stereotypes with black women i…
What I remember most strongly from Richard Parker, a 2011 dark comedy from playwright Owen Thomas, was the heat.
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Great British Bake Off – what’s not to love? Cake, puns galore and HRH Mary Berry showing her soft spot for gin.
Edinburgh is a hotbed of street performance, pushy flyerers and hill-related exhaustion at this time of year.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
The official awards ceremony to mark the end of Brighton Fringe 2015, with free flowing entertainment and mercifully short acceptance speeches.
After the gargantuan battle of Brighton’s finest at the 12th Annual Poets v MCs, Brighton takes on the best that the Mother City has to offer.
2 day Illustration Fair across 2 floors featuring talks, workshops, screenings, zines, prints, comics, small press, art, and more. An ideal finish to the Brighton Fringe.
For one week in May, poets from South Africa, Beirut and the UK will come together in London for a series of collaborations and performances on the theme of ‘home’.
The University of Brighton is hosting a one-day event on place-based arts and how location can provide diverse and rich triggers for writing and other arts based practices.
The Brighton University Drama Society proudly present Terry Pratchett’s ‘Wyrd Sisters’ (adapted for stage by Stephen Briggs).
Back for the third year as part of B.
I didn’t know what to expect upon my arrival at the Dolphin Leisure Centre.
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
Now in its third year, BITE brings together the verbal talent of Brighton and Hove’s 13 - 19 year old poets and rappers, battling for the supremacy of their style of spoken word.
Meet David Marks, the architect behind Brighton’s most innovative project, and learn why the team behind the London Eye chose the West Pier site to build such an iconic, modern …
From 10am - Exhibition of photographs by Palestinian children.
Brighton Pub Plays are short 5-10 minute plays.
Join the Brighton Swing Community for a special Fringe afternoon of swing music and dancing with a live swing band, DJs, beginners Lindy Hop dance class, Charleston dancers and a d…
Towards A Theatrical Cinema An active workshop with plenty of emphasis and focus on led experimentation.
Top musicians and beautiful compositions.
Brighton Historicycles is a tour into the murky world of Brighton seafront’s underbelly.
Phase 1: Investigation Take part in design activities, they will enable you to map your own perception of Brighton through experiential activities utilising the senses.
You like avant garde performance if it’s good, you like variety if its good.
Brighton in the quarter century before 1914 was the place to be! We shall walk along the promenade looking at cutting edge Brighton of the time and talking about how electricity h…
Robert Edwards regales, reading from the books - four poetry, two journals - published under his Burble imprint, featuring the pedlar diaries and a revised, newly-illustrated editi…
Fresh air, amazing sea views, lovely stories, forgotten histories, seaside architecture and aquatic entertainment.
A social history of Streamline Taxis from 1936 to the present day.
Discover some of Brighton’s secular heroes and heroines with Valerie Mainstone, local historian and Chair of Brighton Secular Humanists.
A brazilliant show case of hot carnival rhythms and much more! Colourful costumes plus beautiful and fast dance moves to sweep you off your feet! This is a samba dance school based…
Wilful princesses, music-hall stars, headstrong courtesans, acrobats and entrepreneurs.
These amazing tours only happen during Brighton Fringe.
Brighton’s No.
Discover what the Illuminati do not want you to know.
Brighton’s most legendary walking tour introduces you to an intriguing labyrinth of hidden byways, some unfamiliar even to local residents.
Foodies Festival returns to Brighton’s Hove Lawns for another fun Bank Holiday weekend.
A series of six month exposure photos of iconic Brighton & Hove landmarks by local artist Nick Sayers.
Next Please! You Choose His Song!! He Chooses Your Style! Peter Joannou, Brighton’s Singing Barber, will be singing and styling from his window on The Lanes.
What connects Abba and a revolution? Mt Everest and Hove? A stained wall and a worldwide brand? What’s the story behind a same-sex wedding in 1923.
Friday 1 May and Saturday 2 May Graphic Brighton and Myriad Editions present an evening and day of graphic novelists and comic creators who all ‘draw in the margins’, their wo…
Guns! Gags! Gizmos! Be shaken, stirred and seduced by the heady cocktail that is the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they go back to the Bond Age.
Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters focuses on three refined and cultured young women—Olga, Maria and Irina—forced to relocate to a rural province because of their father’s work…
Until a few weeks ago, Mr.
Dick Lee’s commission for this year’s Commonwealth Games, a suite for jazz quintet using musical ideas from around the Commonwealth, with words from Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin.
Meet Leila and Lee.
Are you ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Do you have a new piece of work to showcase to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to either of these, this …
Are you ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Do you have a new piece of work to showcase to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to either of these, this …
The Waste Land Sisters fuses Chekhov’s The Three Sisters with T.
Stag Lee is going nowhere.
With the fresh vitality they brought to the folk scene as whippersnappers, Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley are still one of the hottest, most assured duos on the international tradition…
Scotland-based four-piece group The Bevvy Sisters (not all sisters, or even all women) enthrall and amaze as they bring us their unique stamp on Americana classics and their own so…
Dick and Brian return with another series of eight shows: informative chat, anecdotes, jokes and brilliant live jazz.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform a highly enjoyable eclectic mix.
‘Remains one of the best stand-ups in the country’ **** (Metro).
Classic swing: Goodman, Ellington, Miller et al.
Brydie Lee Kennedy is not short on life experience.
The Wau Wau Sisters’ shows are so smart, sacrilegious and saucy they have brought the crazy, so-called ‘religious’ protestors out of their hovels to ruin everyone’s fun and iss…
Lee Griffiths: Post-Traumatic Sketch Disorder lays out the comic’s psyche by following Freud (just about) through funny family hang-ups by way of kid’s books, cock lengths and cr…
The Faculty of Arts Graduate Show opens to the public from 7 - 15 June at the University of Brighton, where 15,000 visitors are expected to view an inspiring showcase of work by mo…
A must for live music fans of all ages, this is your chance to catch the next generation of Brighton & Hove musicians live on stage! This Rockit! Brighton showcase will feature you…
Brighton Fashion Week Launch followed by Showtime with Cabaret Boheme. See websites for more details: www.brightonspiegeltent.com www.brightonfashionweek.com
Discover a world of street art live at the Brighton Fringe finale! A collaboration of Fringe & Youth Group performances and top named artists from artrepublic, working with Tarner …
For Brighton Fringe 2014, Neon Workshops are bringing their mobile facility down to host a weekend of workshops.
Brighton University are proud to present their final year product designers in this years Brighton Fringe.
Brighton Writes presents a series of literary events, including: (8 May) ‘Competitions and the Journey to Publication’ - a salon to discuss the role of competitions in writers�…
Brighton Writes presents a series of literary events, including: (daytime) flash fiction writing workshop ‘A Story in a Day’, with Linda McVeigh, winner of the Asham Award in 2…
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
Welcome to the cutting edge of word.
Brighton to Palestine with ♥ Love Brighton and Palestinian Artists Together فناني برايتون و فلسطين معا A sparkling evening of music and performance art b…
Brydie has made mistakes.
No more than 10 minutes each, Brighton Pub Plays are actually performed in the bar area of pubs.
A fascinating and exciting collection of artwork created by Brighton YMCA residents.
Come along to a fun and friendly Plantswap and exchange of anything horticultural.
1820: Having left St Mary’s Home for Penitent Women, Betsy’s engaged by town knobs, to “keep” developer Thomas Kemp’s house.
The BSMS Medic Revue is back again after 7 sell-out years with a brand new show! This comedy performance encompasses medical humour in the form of sketches, live music and videos, …
A photography competition with a twist: you have 12 hours to take 12 photos on 12 given topics.
Discover roller derby: a fast-paced, full-contact sport played on roller skates.
Brighton’s creativity and influence has spread far and wide.
What do you love about Brighton Fringe? What could be improved? How could the Brighton Fringe team help you now and in the future? Come along and talk to us!
The Great Escape and Brighton Spiegeltent present Made in Brighton’s welcome party.
The tour, led by two hapless guides, focuses on the more eccentric characters who have lived and worked in Brighton and explores the nature of eccentricity itself.
Wilful princesses, Music Hall stars, headstrong courtesans, entrepreneurs, Brighton has always attracted women who dare do things differently.
Visit another world! Explore history,nature and art,strolling through the Woodvale and Extra-Mural Cemeteries.
Sunday Assembly is a global network of super people who want to make the most of this one life we know we have.
Visit another world! Explore history, nature and art: spectacular memorials in dramatic landscaped parkland, with a cast of remarkable characters from Brighton’s past.
These amazing tours only happen during Brighton Fringe.
Brighton’s most imaginative tour.
Gulliver’s Hotel in Kemp Town are exhibiting Fine Art by Terry Horton, consisting of approximately thirteen Oil Paintings.
Paintings and prints of the most colourful and eccentric parts of Brighton (including illustrations for a pub series in Viva Brighton) by the 2012 Brighton Fringe Visual Arts Prize…
Brighton’s most legendary walking tour introduces you to an intriguing labyrinth of hidden byways, some unfamiliar even to local residents.
I can’t stop grinning as I leave the church.
We consider Brighton as a place where it is possible to break free from the constraints of a restrictive society, gain a healthy constitution, a good education and stage your own d…
Historically and visually interesting city centre pub walk. Not a dedicated pub crawl but we will sample a couple en route. Drinks not included. Over 18s only please.
Brighton’s Window is a unique platform for vocalists, pianists and great musicians.
What connects Abba & the Portuguese Revolution? Mount Everest and a Hove supermarket? A stained wall and the genesis of a global brand? What’s the story behind a same-sex wedding i…
The Southern Water Brighton Sewer Tour offers the unique experience of visiting a working sewer that deals with millions of litres of waste every day.
Explore hidden Brighton on this 90 minute walking tour of Brighton’s fascinating old town.
Our guided tours take you to all the best places that Brighton has to offer.
In a backwater town in rural Russia, the Prozorov sisters contend with mind-numbing boredom by aspiring to a return to city life in Moscow.
Come and find out about participating in Brighton Fringe, England’s largest arts festival.
Lee Nelson’s show begins with a tongue-in-cheek video montage of all his achievements: Lee Nelson has his own show, hosted Live at the Apollo and competed in Let’s Dance for Co…
Reedsman and raconteur Dick Lee team up with acclaimed pianist Brian Kellock to present a vivid account of the story of jazz, illustrated with plenty of sparkling musical examples.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their eclectic worldwide musical mix and also pay tribute to the giants of British Trad jazz: Ball, Barber and Bilk.
This accordion and clarinet duo based in Edinburgh gave a showcase of different music styles from around the world.
‘Betraying the original spirit of the Fringe, Stewart Lee bans critics saying that the show, for which punters still have to pay, is merely “work in progress”’ (David Lister,…
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
Evil forces and billionaire agendas have won the day while filling our heads with iPhone ecstasy.
Creator of C4’s Celebrity Bedlam, Lee’s hilarious new stand up show is a timely blitz on the world of twitter celebs with all the fame, but no shame… ‘Fantastic’ (Viz Comic).
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
Any show at the Fringe that has an audience carries an inherent risk – that said audience will contain drunks, crazy people or some slurred combination of both.
Walking through the opulent interior of the Brunswick Town hall, we head for the police cells.
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters has an interesting premise.
When someone tells you their new musical is about the life of Kennedy’s killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, it’s practically impossible not to draw comparisons with Sondheim’s Assassins.
An am-dram production in a church hall, this show comes from another world entirely to even the worst of fringe shows: a world where a serviceable witch’s hat can be made from a …
Tim Lee’s stand-up show is based around the premise that he was about to become a scientist but then, after receiving his PhD, decided to become a comedian.
A terrible crime sends Leila and Lee running into the Scottish highlands.
Apollo/Dionysus (Parts I, II & II) is a highly thoughtful play that hurls an audience headlong into a discussion of how we should live our lives.
Starting with a school-girl strip routine that ends in crucifixion, The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper continues at a strapping pace, moving from Southern Country Singers to Hippy-c…
This four day long exhibition put on by the Sussex Free Tibet society celebrates the fascinating culture of Tibet, but simultaneously exposes the harsh reality of what the Tibetans…
Anton Chekhov’s 1901 chilly Russian masterpiece Three Sisters has inspired many a playwright for over a century – and Lifelike Theatre’s writer/director Ben Clare is no excep…
Stewart Lee’s 2012 show had already had quite an airing before it came to The Assembly Rooms for the Fringe.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Not knowing what to expect from The Wrigley Sisters was the best way to experience their show.
Now making its third appearance on Hove Lawns, the Foodies Festival is steadily becoming an established name on the Fringe circuit.
The Ugly Sisters should not work.
Welsh-born playwright Owen Thomas’ newest play, Richard Parker, explores coincidence – is our life really a series of coincidences, or are they just products of us over-analysi…
One problem that I find with comedy is making sure that everyone’s tastes are catered to.
Visiting the theatre to watch a piece advertised as ‘the unstageable play’, youre about to see either a well-thought-out staging of a lost classic or an arrogant ensemble perform…
The Poozies’ music is delightful enough as it is, but there were a few extra hands on deck for the Celtic folk band’s return to The Queen’s Hall: internationally travelled and re…
As both a successful actor and biographer, Ian Kelly possesses the charm and expertise required to be a good lecturer.
Sometimes music does more than simply entertain you – sometimes it grabs you by the scruff of the neck and makes you sit up and listen.
Brighton’s Extraordinary Mystical Heritage Tour only partially lived up to its name.
What makes Brighton so special? It’s not just its funky shops and the beach.
As Brighton and Hove leaves lockdown and enters Tier 2, socially distanced live performances are back on the cards.
COVID-19 has severely disrupted the entire industry.
Since the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis has caused the world to shut down, the theatre industry has gone dark, at least at first sight.
In this Valentine's Special we talk to comedian Matt Hoss about what would be on his Valentine's playlist, how to book a tour after Edinburgh Fringe and what to get a vegan for Val...
Comedian Catherine Bohart, star of 8 out of 10 Cats and The Mash Report, talks to us about ways to keep smiling despite the news, how to make your run at Edinburgh Fringe a success...
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
After a year of excellent shows, picking the winner was harder than ever.
There’s been disco-dancing to Madonna in an old church, vegan based stand up in a room above a pub, incredible acrobatics, hilarious cabaret songs about near-death experiences an...
Today theSpaceUK announces its 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Season with over 400 shows and the biggest new-writing programme at the Fringe.
There have been some stellar hits and some definite misses, but with some five star performances just starting their runs it could be that your favourite show of Brighton Fringe 2...
That’s right, we’re already coming towards the halfway point of Brighton Fringe.
Alternative and experimental performances have always been at the heart of Fringe, but is there still space for something a little more unpredictable? Enter Harry Clayton-Wright.
From dark comedies, to sci-fi authors, to an uncooked lump of dough, Brighton Fringe certainly offers surprises for everyone as we head into this second weekend.
The Old Market are excited to announce that they have managed to raise £1,057 for Brighton Women’s Centre throughout their Reigning Women season.
After taking on a LOT of research to create their new cabaret show, What Doesn’t Kill You [blah blah] Stronger, Tyler and Erin have discovered some tips on how to survive some pr...
Welcome to Brighton Fringe 2019! We’re ready to welcome back old favourites, discover new talent and generally have a jolly good time.
This week culminates in International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March and The Old Market’s fiery mini-season, Reigning Women, has never seemed so relevant.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
If you’re not a performer, it can be impossible to imagine how anyone is able to get up on stage and entertain.
The Warren will be relocating for Brighton Fringe 2019 to a brand new venue in the heart of the city
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
Just like that, we approach the final weekend of Brighton Fringe.
The Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is a pop-up museum, running for one week only, as part of The Spire’s secret Fringe programme.
Despite the costs many performers experience putting on a production there are plenty who use the platform provided to them to fundraise or raise awareness for a cause close to the...
Serena Flynn might only reveal her darkest secrets after lots of gin, but her on-stage alter ego Prune is grotesque, fragile and ready to bear all.
May is marvellous.
You've probably walked the circumference of the globe the amount of times you've been up and down the pier.
Do you ever find yourself singing The Bare Necessities? Or breathily repeating David Attenborough’s iconic narration? If so, the Ensonglopedia of Animals is the show for you.
We're almost mid-way through the Fringe and it seems like there are more shows than ever to pick from.
After the glorious sunshine of the opening weekend, you might be forgiven for thinking that the fun might be over.
Caitlin is a one-woman play by Mike Kenny about Dylan Thomas and his wife's tempestuous life together, written entirely from her point of view.
The relationship between poetry and alcohol is renowned and Joseph J Clark continues in this tradition with his show, Drunk With A Pen (Sweet Werks 2, 5th-13th May, 19:00).
Do you always listen out for the screeching sound of the TARDIS? Have you dreamed of captaining the Enterprise to boldly go where no one has gone before? Does other people’s lack...
It’s the bank holiday and you’re ready for the long weekend – but what to do? Read on to discover how to kick-start your weekend with comedy, beer, parties and Julie Andrews.
The Warren once again joined with Brighton Fringe to celebrate the opening of Brighton Fringe 2018 with a fantastic free firework display on Thursday 3rd May.
Know your camembert from your comté? Your seitan from your soy? If you serve your steak on a Himalayan salt block or enjoy covering your chargrilled cauliflower with chermoula the...
As one of the heavy hitters at Brighton Fringe, Sweet Venues have announced they doubling their number of spaces in 2018 with two new venues.
Another stellar year of entertainment at Brighton Fringe has once again made choosing the winner of the coveted Broadway Bobby incredibly difficult.
May Bank Holiday weekend can only mean one thing; Brighton Fringe is almost upon us.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Renowned for its comedy, Brighton Fringe is the perfect time to discover brand new talents. Here’s our guide to stand-ups you’d be totally crazy to miss.
Last week saw 10 shows that will be selling out shortly, this week brings 10 shows that might be currently flying under the radar, but not for very much longer.
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Are you excited about Brighton Fringe yet? We are! And with 988 Brighton Fringe shows and events now listed on Broadway Baby you've found the right place for the best coverage of t...
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
Comedy from Jerry Sadowitz, mime from Trygve Wakensha and music from U.
Tired of having to wait a full year to get that Eurovision vibe? Then you’ll love Eurobeat, a comedy musical where European countries - including Vatican City - compete for your ...
Iona Lee was born in Edinburgh and brought up in East Lothian.
Groomed, a powerful play about child abuse written and performed by Patrick Sandford ex-artistic director of Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, swept the board at the Brighton Fring...
After hundreds of shows, thousands of performers and a month of the most exciting shows from around the corner and around the world, Brighton Fringe is almost over.
It’s the halfway point for Brighton Fringe and there are still hundreds of shows left to see.
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With their award-winning show opening this weekend at The Warren's Main Stage, we've been talking to Artistic Director Karis Halsall to find out what HYSTERICAL is all about
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up those lacy stockings and take a sneak peek into the debaucherous and downright entertaining world of Brighton Fringe cabaret and circus.
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
After months of waiting, Brighton Fringe opened its doors last night with the launches of three major venues.
A protégé of David Hoyle and Dickie Beau, Alfie Ordinary is about to dive in head first with his inaugural solo performance Help! I think I Might Be Fabulous.
If the new i360 on Brighton seafront has inspired you to raise your gaze or you’re suddenly feeling the need to quit your job and run away with the circus, then it's time to ch...
We are Shea and Nora! Two Canadian gals who fell into deep creative love in France at Ecole Philippe Gaulier.
Working 9 to 5 is no way to make a living for Lucy, a disillusioned officer worker from London.
As puppetry becomes ever more popular with Fringe goers around the world, we decided to speak to London-based Theatre Temoin to find out more about their gritty tale of trouble and...
Back to inhabit the grounds of St Peter’s church, this festival within a festival will play host to a whopping 162 shows this Fringe and here at Broadway Baby we are completely s...
This year marks the dawn of Republic.
Brighton Fringe’s month long arts festival kicks off this Friday, 6 May, with several unmissable shows and a spectacular fireworks display at The Warren.
With close to 300 different comedy shows at the Brighton Fringe, you might find yourself a bit over-whelmed by the choice.
Back again with two new spaces at the Waterfront Hotel on King’s Road, Sweet Venues promises a line-up of scintillating theatre, eye watering comedy, risqué cabaret and more liv...
It’s the second year for the Rialto Theatre at the Brighton Fringe but it’s already gaining a reputation as a home for local talent.
Don’t let the performers have all the fun this Fringe! If you want to join in on the action Brighton Fringe has an excellent line-up of workshops, from creative to family-fun.
Need something to keep the kids occupied this half-term? Looking for shows that suit parents and kids alike? We’ve trawled Brighton Fringe and discovered some perfect shows for 4...
Hundreds of shows, thousands of performers and one unique city.
To celebrate the opening of its biggest ever festival, Brighton Fringe has joined forces with The Warren to kick things off with a bang by laying on its first ever fireworks displa...
Broadway Baby, one of the longest-established theatre sites on the internet, has named Bethan Troakes as its Brighton Editor.
Expectantly waiting for the Brighton Fringe? Then we’ve got the perfect antidote.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Comedy from Max and Ivan, music from Cassetteboy and DJ Rubbish, cabaret from Le Gateau Chocolate and world premieres galore are among the many highlights at the 2016 Brighton Frin...
Brighton Fringe is asking people in Sussex to give the gift of joy this Christmas by helping the Fringe put on its first ever opening night parade.
If you have never dipped your toe in the Fringe waters as a performer, now is your chance to take part in England’s largest arts festival
BBC Slam champion David Lee Morgan is Building God at the Banshee Labyrinth this Fringe with a show about the great revolutions of history.
If you're taking a show to Brighton Fringe this year you want some free advertising, don't you? Sure you do.
England's largest mixed-arts festival, the Brighton Fringe, has launched its online programme.
Broadway Baby Publisher, Pete Shaw, offers a comprehensive guide to marketing your show at the Brighton Fringe with tips on budgets, creating a press release, social media and bran...