The Best of the Festival

Explore the best of Brighton Festival and what's coming up

A circle of red chairs on a pebbly beach in front of the west pier

Our 60th edition: Brighton Festival 2026 is here!

We’re thrilled to share the programme for the 60th edition of Brighton Festival. This May marks a momentous milestone: not only are we celebrating six decades of world-class performance here in Brighton, but it is also the 40th edition of the Children’s…

Read more

Read the Brochure

Candlelight installation by Brighton beach surrounded by onlookers.

Our History

Take a look back over the past 60 years of Brighton Festival...

Browse our Archive

Brighton Festival Exclusives, Premieres and Commissions

Theatre
Picture of a silhouette against a cityscape

KlangHaus: Last Haus on Earth

KlangHaus
Sat 2 - Sat 23 May
Brighton Dome Anita's Room
Tickets £25.50
Selling Fast
Music
Black and white photo of the Patti Smith Quartet. Left to right there's a short bald man wearing baggy trousers and a long shirt, an older man with grey hair wearing a shirt and jeans, an older lady with long curly grey hair wearing patterened trousers and a black blazer, and a tall younger man with a beard wearing a baseball cap, shirt and casual trousers

Patti Smith Quartet

Tue 12 May
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
From £50
Music
On the left stands Sampa The Great, a young Black lady with long braided hair standing tall and wearing a black robe, holding a wooden staff. On the right is W.IT.C.H., five men wearing clothes covered in tribal prints

Zamrock Allstars: Sampa The Great x W.I.T.C.H.

Sat 9 May
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
From £25
More Exclusives & Premieres

Events from overseas

Music
Beverly Glenn Copeland, a Black transgender man with short curly gray hair stands sideways on looking to the ceiling in front of a blue black drop

Beverly Glenn-Copeland

With F*Choir
Fri 1 May
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
From £25
Free Events
Visual Art
A man and a woman stand in front of there large artworks

A Timeline of Infinite Skies

Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic | Panama/Serbia
Sat 2 May - Sun 28 Jun
Phoenix Art Space
Music
Four men sit cross-legged on the floor surrounded by pianos of various sizes. They're looking up towards the camera

KNEEBODY

+ New Generation Jazz Futures
Sat 2 May
Brighton Dome Studio Theatre
From £15
See more from over seas

News from the Festival

Our 60th edition: Brighton Festival 2026 is here!

We’re thrilled to share the programme for the 60th edition of Brighton Festival. This May marks a momentous milestone: not only are we celebrating…
A group of children stand on stage. One of them wears fake glasses and is being projected live onto a screen also on the stage. Two of them are dressed as ghosts with sheets over their heads, and another is about to climb a ladder. They are all having fun.

Time Keeps The Drummer - Young Participant Call Out

In May 2026, Brighton Festival and the award-winning theatre company Fevered Sleep will be working together on a unique project and we need a cast

Brighton Festival Children’s Parade celebrates 40 years and announces theme for 2026

Brighton Festival has announced that the theme for the Children’s Parade next May will be Read all about it!
Read all news