Sat 3–Mon 26 May 2025

Brighton Festival

Guest Director 2025
Anoushka Shankar

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Brighton Festival Exclusives, Premieres and Commissions

Classical Music

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus

Thu 22 May
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
From £10
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Dance
A group of dancers lunge forward and throw their arms backwards, intense blue lighting surrounds them

Theatre of Dreams

Hofesh Shechter Company
Sat 3 - Sun 4 May
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
From £15
Dance
A dancer wearing all black strikes a powerful move, staring straight at the camera

AYNA

CEYDA TANC DANCE
Fri 9 - Sat 10 May
The Arch
From £15
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Theatre

Hamlet

9 - 11 May 2025

A 'joyous, playful and defiant' reimagining

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Highlights and Hidden Gems

Music

The Official Brighton Festival Closing Party

Presented by Anoushka Shankar & Nerm
Sun 25 - Mon 26 May
Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
From £15
Music
Ahad Elley aka Ahadadream looks down left, a golden and purple light spots on his face

Ahadadream

+ Friends
Sat 3 - Sun 4 May
The Old Market
From £15
Accessible Events
Spoken Word
Three spoken word artists in various poses

Status Flo

AFLO. the poet, Kid Anansi & Merki
Mon 19 May
Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
From £5
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Aditya Prakash plays a double-headed drum, alarge projection of his face behind him
Theatre

ROOM-i-Nation

21 - 23 May 2025

Aditya Prakash

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Events from overseas

Music
Aruna Sairam and Ganavya

Aruna Sairam & Ganavya

Mon 12 May
Theatre Royal Brighton
From £20
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Circus
A group of acrobats in black unitards have thrown another acrobat high in the air, the are standing below him, with their arms raised, ready to catch him

Humans 2.0

Circa (Australia)
Tue 20 - Sat 24 May
Theatre Royal Brighton
From £10
Dance
A woman performing classical Indian dance

Jwala (Rising Flame)

Mythili Prakash
Mon 5 - Tue 6 May
Theatre Royal Brighton
From £15
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Theatre
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North by Northwest

Wise Children | Emma Rice
Wed 14 - Sat 17 May
Theatre Royal Brighton
From £15
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Classical Music
Ravi Shankar and Phillip Glass sat against a blue background

Passages

Anoushka Shankar, Britten Sinfonia
Fri 9 May
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
From £15
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Music
Helen Anahita Wilson and Shahbaz Hussain pose on the street against a beige crumbling wall

Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson

Tue 20 May
Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
From £15
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Family Friendly

Family
An image of a city made out of paper houses

Future City: Brighton 2125

Presented by Playmakes
Sat 24 May
Brighton Dome Corn Exchange
From £8
Family
Prancer the Dancer wearing a colourful costume with a cape

Prancer the Dancer's DanceDanceDiscoPartyFunShow

Sun 25 May
Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
From £10
Young Readers
A blue book cover with Shakespeare characters drawn on the front

Pocket Shakespeare

Chris Riddell & Michael Rosen
Sun 18 May
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
From £10
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News from the Festival

Brighton Festival 2025 dance and circus highlights celebrate exceptional companies and choreographers from across the world

Our dance and circus programme features ground-breaking global choreographers and companies, including thrilling co-commission Theatre of Dreams from…

Classical music highlights at Brighton Festival 2025 span centuries and generations

Our breath-taking classical programme sees our Guest Director, Grammy-nominated Anoushka Shankar, perform her father Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass’ album…

Brighton Festival joins the Big Give 2025 campaign to raise funding for free events programme

Today marks the launch of our Big Give fundraising campaign which will raise money towards free to attend events during this year’s Brighton Festival,…
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