Shows at Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)

A A Milne's Winnie the Pooh

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
28th - 31st May 2025

Join us, as the Hundred Acre Wood comes to BOAT.

Impromptu Shakespeare

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
19th May 2024 - 25th May 2025

Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.

The Mushroom Show

There’s a secret kingdom full of mysteries.

PERIOD.

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
22nd May 2025

Join Alice Chapman and Aklisa Kociu for a multidisciplinary performance that shines a spotlight on periods conditions like endometriosis and hypothalamic amenorrhea.

The Period Project

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
22nd May 2025

Join Alice Chapman and Aklisa Kociu for a multidisciplinary performance that shines a spotlight on periods conditions like endometriosis and hypothalamic amenorrhea.

Puss in Boots

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
11th - 11th May 2025

The Let’s All Dance Ballet Company is back with this brand new version of Puss in Boots about a friendship between a magical cat and a young man with a talent for music.

Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
29th May 2024 - 9th May 2025

For the third year running, legendary poetry slam, Hammer & Tongue Brighton, bring their epic grand final to Brighton Open Air Theatre! Finalists will come equipped with their un…

The Man who was Thursday

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★★★★
Roger Kay
Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) / The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
19th May, 2025

Identity confusion sits at the heart of this re-telling of G.

THE GREAT BALDINI'S MAGIC CABARET

Legendary magician the Great Baldini (the emperor of illusion, the prince of prestidigitation, the maharajah of mystery) presents a cabaret of magical illusions – from his first …

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
3rd - 3rd May 2025

Mesdames and Messieurs, may I take your tickets please? Pinch Punch welcome you aboard their hilarious and exciting show, Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, a fully…

Idle Women

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
30th May 2024

Idle Women is a musical based on the lives of women who worked on canal boats in World War Two.

Idle Women

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
30th May 2024

Idle Women is a musical based on the lives of women who worked on canal boats in World War Two.

Hammer and Tongue

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
29th May 2023 - 29th May 2024

Hammer and Tongue is a nationwide family of slam poets and spoken word artists.

Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
29th May 2024

For the third year running, legendary poetry slam, Hammer & Tongue Brighton, bring their epic grand final to Brighton Open Air Theatre! Finalists will come equipped with their un…

LOVE LABOURS WON & SWEET LOVE ADIEU

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
23rd - 25th May 2024

AWARD-WINNING VERSE COMEDY DOUBLE BILL! Rogue Shakespeare® present a unique double bill: 1.

LOVE LABOURS WON & SWEET LOVE ADIEU

If Shakespeare were alive today, he would very likely have a lot to say about the state of the world currently.

Impromptu Shakespeare

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
14th May 2023 - 19th May 2024

Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.

Blue Blood or How to Kill Your Way to the Top

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
15th May 2024

A deliciously dark comedy.

Blue Blood or How to Kill Your Way to the Top

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) / Ironworks Studios
15th May 2023 - 15th May 2024

Blue Blood is the extraordinary story of the scandalous adventures of outcast Gabriel Jones as he murders his way through the illustrious Gascoyne family on his way to claiming a d…

Goldilocks

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
12th - 12th May 2024

Join Goldilocks, the girl with the lovely locks and her jar of magical honey, as she befriends a family of bears and teaches everyone the value of sharing.

Goldilocks

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
12th - 12th May 2024

Join Goldilocks, the girl with the lovely locks and her jar of magical honey, as she befriends a family of bears and teaches everyone the value of sharing.

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
11th May 2024 - 3rd May 2025

Mesdames and Messieurs, may I take your tickets please? Pinch Punch welcome you aboard their hilarious and exciting show, Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, a fully…

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
11th - 11th May 2024

Mesdames and Messieurs, may I take your tickets please? Pinch Punch welcome you aboard their hilarious and exciting show, Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, a fully…

Emotion in Motion

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) / Brighton Unitarian Church
5th May - 2nd Jun 2024

Prepare to be captivated by the enchanting world of EMOTION IN MOTION, a spectacular showcase of circus acts, dance, and live percussionists brought to you by ARCANIC.

Emotion in Motion

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) / Brighton Unitarian Church
5th May - 2nd Jun 2024

SUPPORT THE BRIGHTON CIRCUS COMMUNITY Join Arcanic Events for a showcase of awe-inspiring Circus acts! By joining our show you will be supporting the Brighton Circus Community - …

Hammer and Tongue

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
18th May 2022 - 29th May 2023

Hammer and Tongue bring a special edition of their infamous Slam poetry contest to Brighton Fringe with ‘The Open Air Poetry Slam’! With critically acclaimed award-winning headline…

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
21st May 2023

Mesdames and Messieurs, may I take your tickets please? Pinch Punch welcome you aboard Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, a totally improvised, totally outrageous m…

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
21st May 2023

Mesdames and Messieurs, may I take your tickets please? Pinch Punch welcome you aboard Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, a totally improvised, totally outrageous m…

The Princess & the Frog

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
20th - 20th May 2023

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess.

The Princess & the Frog

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
20th - 20th May 2023

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess.

Impromptu Shakespeare

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
14th May 2023

Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.

Lionhouse Cabaret

An evening of comedy and music hosted by Actors of Dionysus, showcasing wonderful local Brighton talent! Featuring the fabulous comedy duo Dyball & Kerr – Lionhouse Cabaret retur…

The Fight

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
2nd Jun 2022

“Friends, have you ever seen a fight? If not, you have a pleasure to come.

Paradise Rocks!

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
28th - 28th May 2022

“Quite simply the most all-round entertaining show I have had the pleasure to see.

Murder on the Improvised Express

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
26th May 2022

Mesdames and Messieurs, may I take your tickets, please? This summer, let comedy improvisation company, Pinch Punch, welcome you aboard their exciting new show, ‘Murder on The Imp…

In One Eye, Out the Other

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
25th May 2022

Acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, “outstanding physical and comedic performer” (The Scotsman), brings you his weird and wonderful part theatre, part stand-up comedy show, ‘I…

Team Buja

The majority of Burundian people have been enduring the aftermaths of the past civil wars that left many orphans, widowers, handicaps, in misery etc.

The Princess and the Pea

When a young Prince is in search of a bride, his mother, The Queen, is on the lookout for a real Princess.

Tiresias

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
20th May 2022

Tiresias may be blind, but they have seen more than you or I had we lived six lifetimes.

You're Bard

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
19th May 2022

Shakespeare like you’ve never seen Four actors.

Superstition Mountain

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
13th - 14th May 2022

The three Gunwallow brothers from St Day are in a bit of bother.

Bonny & Read

Anne Bonny and Mary Read were two formidable women in history, who took to the high seas as pirates.

Bonny & Read

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Brighton Fringe
Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)
11th May 2022

“Our voyage isn’t for the faint-hearted” Based on Daniel Defoe’s account of the trials of Captain Rackham and his private crew in Jamaica in 1720, history meets myth in this real-…