Brighton Fringe 2026

What's on · Tuesday, 19 May 2026

45 shows are on at Brighton Fringe 2026 on Tuesday, 19 May 2026. Expect Comedy, Theatre, Exhibitions, Circus Dance & Physical Theatre. Featured venues include The Lantern @ ACT, The Actors - Theatre, Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room), Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble. 10 shows are free to attend.

1816

Dionaea Theatres (Website)

▷ Mon 18 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

£10–£14Teen

A Letter To My Parents

Henning Nilsen (Website)

▷ Mon 18 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

Art Pals at Bottoms Rest

alej ez art (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Bottom's Rest

Ben Pope: Work in Progress

Ben Pope (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar

£6–£7.5018+

Borderline

Flux Theatre

▷ Sun 17 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

Literature & Spoken Word

Carousel's Pop-Up Poets

Carousel (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ WundaBarn at The SpiegelGardens

Circus Dance & Physical Theatre

Darling

Pivot Point Circus (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens

£10–£14Family

DENTATA

Julia VanderVeen (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ The Actors - Theatre

GET BETTER

Mads Noddings

▷ Tue 19 May@ The Actors - Theatre

Circus Dance & Physical Theatre

GODZ

Head First Acrobats (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens

Home Away From Home: Bridges In Between by Amrita Chandradas

Flo Creative (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ PLUS X Innovation Hub

Iterum Felix - Happy Again

Whistleblower Gallery (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Whistleblower Gallery

Katie-Rose Petley: Dirty B*tch

Katie-Rose Petley

▷ Mon 18 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Comedy (Website)

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

Miss Havisham's Clothes Swap

Helen Tennison Performance (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Lionhouse

£10–£12Teen

Monologue!

Clidook Theatre

▷ Mon 18 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

Music & Nightlife

Organ Music at St Barts

Brighton and District Organists Association (Website)

▷ Tue 5 May@ St Bartholomew's Church

Cabaret & Variety

Oscar Leonard: Help, I'm Psychic!

Oscar Leonard (Website)

▷ Mon 18 May@ Upstairs @ The Colly

Piran Armes is a Bit Weird (Work in Progress)

Piran Armes

▷ Tue 19 May@ Presuming Ed

RPJ: Role Playing James

James Bennison

▷ Mon 18 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Tusk Club)

Sam Coade: Control Freak (Work In Progress)

Sam Coade

▷ Sun 17 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

Sound of Silence

Silent Productions

▷ Mon 18 May@ Wagner Hall Brighton

Spirited Away Ghibli Taste & Tales

Blossoms Cocktail Bar (Website)

▷ Mon 4 May@ Blossoms Brighton

The Best of Brighton Fringe Compilation Show

Eds Comedy Club

▷ Fri 1 May@ Presuming Ed

The Coffee Machine is Broken

Vitruvian Theatre

▷ Tue 19 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

Jonathan Sidgwick

▷ Mon 4 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak

£10–£12Kids

The Illustrious Reign of King Louis XIX (In its entirety)

House of The Onion

▷ Tue 19 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak

Cabaret & Variety

The Lady Boys of Bangkok

Exchange Events Ltd (Website)

▷ Sat 9 May@ Sabai Pavilion

£17.50–£2818+

The Queen, Shakespeare and Me

Carole Shaw & Queen Enterprises (Website)

▷ Mon 18 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar

The Summer Palace

Hatmolester Productions (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

The Winner Rolls It All

STAUNCH Theatre

▷ Wed 13 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

£12.50–£1416+

Tom Hutchinson - Maintaining The Dream (Work in Progress)

Tom Hutchinson (Website)

▷ Mon 18 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

WENCH

Felix Le Freak (Website)

▷ Mon 11 May@ Ironworks Studios (Studio C)

Will Owen: Looking Fab At Fifty

AEG Presents (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Komedia Studio

Zoe Thorne: Gold Top

Laughing Horse Festivals

▷ Fri 8 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

INTO THE PIT

AK Golding

▷ Tue 19 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Squeak

SLAY

Gobby Girl Productions (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ The Actors - Theatre

£6–£7.50Teen

Pear

Pear (Website)

▷ Wed 13 May@ Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

£9.99–£12Teen

Cowpokes in a Bunkhouse

Oblique Theatre (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ The Rossi Bar

Struan Logan: Chaotic Good

Stroodling Stories

▷ Tue 19 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Caroline McEvoy: RAGIN’ (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Caroline McEvoy (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Losing the Plot(kin)

The Plotkins (Website)

▷ Tue 19 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Little Lord Fondleroy

Jordana Belaiche

▷ Tue 19 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

Chemistry

Special Someone Productions

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

Sherlock Holmes vs Arsène Lupin: A Drag Crime Caper

The Department of Ulterior Motives

▷ Sat 16 May@ Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)

£12–£15Teen