Brighton Fringe 2026

What's on · Friday, 15 May 2026

78 shows are on at Brighton Fringe 2026 on Friday, 15 May 2026. Expect Comedy, Theatre, Exhibitions, Music & Nightlife. Featured venues include Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble, Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT), Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway), Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick. 13 shows are free to attend.

1 Big Oops

Kurt Sterling Comedy (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak

7-7-7

Colin Rayner

▷ Thu 14 May@ The Actors - Theatre

Music & Nightlife

A Kate Bush Cornucopia

Fourth World Promotions (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Ironworks Studios (Studio A)

Acaprov: The Improvised A Cappella Musical

Acaprov (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Tusk Club)

All Aboard

Anand Sankar

▷ Fri 15 May@ Comedy at the Caxton

£8–£10.5018+

Anna Dumitriu: BioArt Transformations

Anna Dumitriu (Website)

▷ Tue 5 May@ The Regency Town House - Basement Annexe

Art Pals at Bottoms Rest

alej ez art (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Bottom's Rest

Big Backstory

Julian Gypens

▷ Fri 15 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak

Binding Agent

Shambles Ensemble (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

Blip Barp: An Alien Love Story

Alicia Queen (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ Cellar Bar @ The Brunswick

Brighton Food Tours

Brighton Food Tours (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ MEET: Outside of St Batholomew's Church

Brighton’s West Pier - Inside and Out - 25 Years of Photography by Steve Boyle and Ian Hughes

▷ Fri 1 May@ West Pier Centre

Cabaret & Variety

Caspar Thomas: The Art of Close-Up Magic (Volume 2)

Caspar Thomas (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak

£12–£14Teen

Cheap Laughs - Best of Brighton

Eat The Donut Comedy

▷ Fri 1 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

Music & Nightlife

Cirque du Piano = 6 hands x 30 fingers / 1 piano

Fringe Classics (Website)

▷ Tue 5 May@ St Paul's Church

£14.50–£19.50Family

Coco The Time-Travelling Tart

Max Norman & 5 Foot Entertainment (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Junk Poets at Caravanserai

Face Vs. Face

Big Weasel Lil Weasel

▷ Fri 15 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

Cabaret & Variety

Felix & Friends

Felix Le Freak (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Junk Poets at Caravanserai

FLIGHT: One Man’s Journey

Pricking Thumbs Theatre

▷ Fri 15 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

Circus Dance & Physical Theatre

Forgive Me

Actors of Dionysus (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Lionhouse

£11.50–£15.50Teen

Geoffrey Mead's Clifton and Montpelier Tour

Geoffrey Mead

▷ Fri 1 May@ MEET: St Nicholas Church Main Door

Geoffrey Mead's London Road Tour

Geoffrey Mead

▷ Fri 1 May@ MEET: St Peter's Church Hall Entrance, York Place

Ghost Walk of the Lanes

Ghost Walk of the Lanes (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ MEET: The Druid's Head

Circus Dance & Physical Theatre

Guru Dudu's Silent Disco Walking Tours

Guru Dudu Productions (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ MEET: New Road (opposite Theatre Royal)

£10–£15Family

Literature & Spoken Word

Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam

Hammer & Tongue Brighton

▷ Fri 15 May@ Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)

History Has No Safe Word

Something Underground (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ St Mary's Church

£12–£15Teen

Home Away From Home: Bridges In Between by Amrita Chandradas

Flo Creative (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ PLUS X Innovation Hub

I Could Run This Country

May and Madden Enterprises

▷ Fri 15 May@ Comedy at the Caxton

I Want To Speak To Your Manager (How I Was Radicalised And Became...Karen)

Holly Hughes

▷ Thu 14 May@ The Actors - Theatre

Iterum Felix - Happy Again

Whistleblower Gallery (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Whistleblower Gallery

Jade Gebbie: The People Pleaser

Jade Gebbie (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

Jane Eyre

Brighton Little Theatre (Website)

▷ Sat 9 May@ Brighton Little Theatre Co.

£13–£14Teen

Music & Nightlife

Jazz at St Andrews, Hove - Celebrating Miles Davis' centenary

Jazz At St Andrews (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ St Andrews Church, Hove

£12–£20Teen

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Comedy (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Tusk Club)

LJ DA FUNK in... Horny Organic Farmer Lady Shuffle

LJ DA FUNK / Laughing Horse

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar

Maddie HW: Gaylord

Maddie HW (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ The Actors - Theatre

Murder at the Manor

Murderers Anonymous (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Wagner Hall Brighton

Off With Your Head

Bowtie Productions

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

Music & Nightlife

Old School Indie

Old School Indie (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens

On Voids

Delilah Sykes (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ 35 North

Open Studios 2026

Phoenix Art Space (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Phoenix Art Space

Music & Nightlife

Piano Concertos by Candlelight: Rachmaninoff 2 (feat. Candlelight Orchestra)

Fringe Classics (Website)

▷ Fri 8 May@ St Paul's Church

£14.50–£19.50Family

Music & Nightlife

Rhapsody in Blue - Jazz Sessions by Candlelight

Fringe Classics (Website)

▷ Tue 5 May@ St Paul's Church

£14.50–£19.50Teen

Sammy Stitches x M.A.S-Boutique: Hooked & Worn

Sammy Stitches UK X M.A.S-Boutique (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Sammystitches Open House

Saul Henry: Church of Saulentology

Saul Henry (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Pip

Sex & The Sewer

Lydia L'Scabies

▷ Fri 15 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

Shadow Light: Songs My Brother Taught Me / Exhibition

Shiny Pin Productions Ltd (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Phoenix Art Space

Shaggers

Art of Comedy (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

Shakespeare’s Lost

Brighton Shakespeare

▷ Fri 15 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

£13.50–£14.5016+

Tez Ilyas: Work In Progress

UTC Live Ltd (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

The Asian Comedy Showcase

Bowtie Productions (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

The Comedy Centre Showcase

The Comedy Centre

▷ Fri 15 May@ Comedy at the Caxton

THE DANCE OF TIME (a black comedy about life and death)

Timothy Coakley

▷ Fri 15 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

Cabaret & Variety

The Doris Show

Doris Daydream (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

£12–£15Teen

The History of Electronic Music

HistoryOfElectronic.com (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Pip

Cabaret & Variety

The Lady Boys of Bangkok

Exchange Events Ltd (Website)

▷ Sat 9 May@ Sabai Pavilion

£17.50–£2818+

The Winner Rolls It All

STAUNCH Theatre

▷ Wed 13 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

£12.50–£1416+

Theatre of Wholiness

Theatre of Wholiness

▷ Thu 14 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

Trauma: An Exhibition

Broken Glass (Website)

▷ Tue 12 May@ Mid Street Lab

Twins - A Split Bill

The Ali Twins

▷ Thu 14 May@ The Southern Belle

Vibrations from Mars

Gaylien de Mars

▷ Sun 3 May@ Flow State Hove

£10–£15Teen

Witchcraft & Magic Tour

Strange Strolls (Website)

▷ Fri 8 May@ MEET: Outside The Walrus

The Covetousness

Jingkun Chinese Arts (Website)

▷ Fri 8 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

£10–£12Family

Fasted

Boarder Control

▷ Thu 14 May@ St Mary's Church Hall

Music & Nightlife

Global Local x Permit Room present Going South: a Celebration of South Asian Fusion

Global Local Festival (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Klub Kaput at Caravanserai

Mr Boy: The Beauty Contest for Boys

Hooray!

▷ Tue 12 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Pip

Pear

Pear (Website)

▷ Wed 13 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

£9.99–£12Teen

Music & Nightlife

GLOBAL LOCAL & BLXK MAYO PRESENT A CELEBRATION OF BLACK ALTERNATIVE EXPRESSION AND CREATIVITY

BLXK MAYO

▷ Fri 15 May@ Klub Kaput at Caravanserai

For The Record

Salt Air Stories

▷ Sun 10 May@ Junk Poets at Caravanserai

Police Cops: The Original

Police Cops (Website)

▷ Thu 7 May@ Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens

£15.50–£17Teen

Phil Green: Stripped

Phil Green (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Sam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage (Work In Progress)

BIGHEAD Comedy (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Ask A Stripper: Pulling Back The G-String

Ask A Stripper

▷ Fri 1 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

Abbie Murphy: Garage Girl (Work In Progress)

Abbie Murphy (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Phil Kay

Phil Kay

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Wheel of Failure

Artist's Workshop (Website)

▷ Fri 15 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar

Chemistry

Special Someone Productions

▷ Fri 15 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

Cabaret & Variety

Mile Die Club

Pier Pressure (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ The Pod - Brighton i360