Brighton Fringe 2026

What's on · Thursday, 28 May 2026

69 shows are on at Brighton Fringe 2026 on Thursday, 28 May 2026. Expect Comedy, Children & Young People, Theatre, Cabaret & Variety. Featured venues include Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room), Presuming Ed, Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway), Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens. 9 shows are free to attend.

1 Hour to Turn Your Life Around – All Your Problems Solved by Comedians

100 Percent Comedy

▷ Mon 4 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

Children & Young People

101 Ways to Annoy your parents and other really old people

Last Dodo Entertainment (Website)

▷ Sat 23 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

£7–£8Family

Children & Young People

A Puppet Zoo Adventure!

Steph Ventriloquist (Website)

▷ Sun 24 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

£5–£7Family

Music & Nightlife

A tribute to Ozzy - A classical guitar recital

Clockwork Classics (Website)

▷ Thu 21 May@ Brighton Unitarian Church

£10–£13Family

Children & Young People

Adventures: Journey Through Dungeons with Dragons

Donal Vaughan Comedy

▷ Sat 2 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

all my ex-lovers are dead

Spark in the Dark Productions (Website)

▷ Mon 4 May@ Pink Moon

Children & Young People

All Star Circus

Head First Acrobats UK (Website)

▷ Sat 23 May@ Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens

£14–£16Family

Cabaret & Variety

Andrew Frost - Pretending

Andrew Frost (Website)

▷ Mon 11 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

£13–£15Teen

Andrew White - What a Life

Andrew White (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Presuming Ed

Art Pals at Bottoms Rest

alej ez art (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ Bottom's Rest

Ashley Haden: Genocidal Liberal 2, Electric Boogaloo Work In Progress

Ashley Haden (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

Cabaret & Variety

BEAVERHAUSEN

BEAVERHAUSEN

▷ Fri 8 May@ Komedia Studio

Best Of Brighton Comedy

The Branding Needs Work

▷ Thu 7 May@ Comedy at the Caxton

Children & Young People

Bubba Licious

Last Dodo Entertainment (Website)

▷ Fri 22 May@ WundaBarn at The SpiegelGardens

CatGPT: Scratch & Rebuild!

Lentil Industries (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ The Brunswick

Charge Your Belly Forward- a Stand-up Show

Will Hitt

▷ Thu 14 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar

Cabaret & Variety

Circus of Sound

Culture Shift (Website)

▷ Thu 7 May@ The Skep

Crudi Dench: Someone Help Her!

Haus of Dench (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ WundaBarn at The SpiegelGardens

Custard Club

Whole Headache

▷ Sun 24 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

£10–£13Teen

Darryl J Carrington: Tennish

Darryl J Carrington (Website)

▷ Mon 25 May@ Junk Poets at Caravanserai

ExtraOrdinary

Diverge Theatre

▷ Fri 8 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Tusk Club)

Ghost Walk of the Lanes

Ghost Walk of the Lanes (Website)

▷ Fri 1 May@ MEET: The Druid's Head

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

Jonny Woo: Suburbia

JONNY WOO

▷ Tue 26 May@ Ironworks Studios (Studio C)

Cabaret & Variety

Kane & Abel Magicians: Twin Feats

Kane & Abel Magicians (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ WundaBarn at The SpiegelGardens

£10–£14Kids

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Comedy (Website)

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

Leslie Bloom Solves a Murder

Leslie Bloom (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Junk Poets at Caravanserai

Lidl Class

Courtney Cornfield

▷ Wed 27 May@ Comedy at the Caxton

Lollipops

Tricera Collective

▷ Thu 28 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

Children & Young People

Madame Chandelier's Grand Theft Opera

Delea Shand (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Laughing Horse @ a&o Hostel bar (Front Room)

MAN!FEST: A Boy Band Fantasy

OnTheNose Productions (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Wagner Hall Brighton

£10–£12Teen

Nick Elleray: Don't Bring a Smile to a Frown Fight

Nick Elleray (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

Planted

Lolly Waters

▷ Mon 25 May@ The Grounds (PLATF9RM)

Music & Nightlife

Porgy and Bess at BOAT

Chris Coull's 'Porgy and Bess' (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT)

£17–£19.50Teen

RPJ: Role Playing James

James Bennison

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

Ruby's Glowup- Drag Makeup Tutorial Workshop

Rubella Vaxine (Website)

▷ Wed 27 May@ North Laine Brewhouse

Scary Mary

Friday's Child Productions

▷ Thu 28 May@ The Actors - Theatre

Children & Young People

Sing, Sign and Sensory

Effectus Theatre (Website)

▷ Tue 26 May@ St Mary's Church Hall

£12.50–£15Family

Cabaret & Variety

Sing-a-Long-a-Musical

Lucy Pickering

▷ Thu 28 May@ Ironworks Studios (Studio A)

£12–£16Teen

SNAILS OF THE UNEXPECTED

Chaos Theory

▷ Thu 28 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Hideaway)

Something! Sometime! Someone!

Rushali (Website)

▷ Fri 22 May@ Grania Dean Studio (Lantern Theatre @ ACT)

The Best of Brighton Fringe Compilation Show

Eds Comedy Club

▷ Fri 1 May@ Presuming Ed

Children & Young People

The Giant Balloon Show

Dizzy O'Dare (Website)

▷ Sat 2 May@ Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens

£7–£9Family

Cabaret & Variety

The Lady Boys of Bangkok

Exchange Events Ltd (Website)

▷ Sat 9 May@ Sabai Pavilion

£17.50–£2818+

The Pun Liner Show

David Spillman (Website)

▷ Mon 4 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar

Music & Nightlife

Town of Cats / Binbag Wisdom / Brassic Parp

Town of Cats (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Klub Kaput at Caravanserai

Verity Sharpe: Landlord's Wet Dream

Verity Sharpe

▷ Thu 28 May@ The Actors - Theatre

Vibrate

Vibrate_the_show (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Komedia Studio

Vladimir McTavish: 2026 (Work In Progress)

Vladimir McTavish

▷ Thu 28 May@ Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar

Cabaret & Variety

W*NKERS

W*NKERS (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ The Actors - Theatre

Will Davies: Heroic Scale (Work In Progress)

Will Davies

▷ Wed 27 May@ Presuming Ed

Witchcraft & Magic Tour

Strange Strolls (Website)

▷ Fri 8 May@ MEET: Outside The Walrus

Wrap Party

You Guys Productions (Website)

▷ Wed 27 May@ The Lantern @ ACT

Children & Young People

Darryl J Carrington: Out of the Box

Darryl J Carrington (Website)

▷ Sat 23 May@ WundaBarn at The SpiegelGardens

Globe Rotter (Work in Progress)

Court Jesters' Roadshow

▷ Sun 10 May@ Presuming Ed

Around Asia in 7 Dishes

Blossoms Cocktail Bar (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Blossoms Brighton

Cabaret & Variety

Ghost Songs To Die For with Madame Isolde

Most Curious Productions (Website)

▷ Thu 14 May@ Upstairs @ The Colly

Children & Young People

Feast & Fable | A story-cookalong

Woodfire Camping x Tale & Hitch (Website)

▷ Sun 24 May@ Under the Archway at Caravanserai (Outdoor Stage)

£11–£14Family

Cabaret & Variety

Bom-Binge

Bom-Bane's (Website)

▷ Sat 2 May@ Bom-Bane's Music Cafe

£10–£40Kids

This is Philosophy

UGLI Theatre Co (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Junk Poets at Caravanserai

As the Winds and Waters Are

Zealous Bee Theatre (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ BN1 Arts Centre CIC

Police Cops: The Original

Police Cops (Website)

▷ Thu 7 May@ Spiegeltent at the SpiegelGardens

£15.50–£17Teen

My Name is Spring Day and Other Stupid Facts

Spring Day (Website)

▷ Thu 28 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

£5–£7.5018+

CK Nath: A Bit of Foreign Stuff (Work In Progress)

CK Nath

▷ Fri 8 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)

The SMALL Stuff

Daniel Tizon (Website)

▷ Tue 26 May@ Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick

Literature & Spoken Word

International Poetry Festival

The Institute for Experimental Arts (Website)

▷ Wed 27 May@ Presuming Ed