Following its move to a digital arena last year, England’s largest arts festival Brighton Fringe returns with the most exciting and unusual cabaret, circus and comedy, dance, drama and drag from 28 May-27 June 2021, in a hybrid event of both live and digital shows.

More than 330 events have already been lined up with a mix of in-person shows and digital productions to explore as part of this year’s amazing programme – and there’s more yet to come.

An unmissable feature of the comedy landscape for five decades, Arthur Smith will be heading to the coast this summer. Marcel Lucont, the flâneur, raconteur, bon-viveur, will be back with his dead-pan stand-up. After two sell-out runs at Brighton Fringe in 2018 and 2019, Circus Abyssinia are back with a heart-stopping show. A mixed bill of stand-up and sketch comedians, The LOL Word will present an unmissable hour of the queerest comedy. Bent Double is a gay-friendly, irreverent night of fun and frolics hosted by the brilliant Zoe Lyons. Sara Barron has also got a whole new selection of jokes and stories about motherhood, fatherhood, therapists, fallings out, and gettings together. The Wardrobe Ensemble and The Wardrobe Theatre will bring their critically acclaimed two-woman retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, to Brighton this summer.

Brighton Fringe CEO, Julian Caddy, said: “I am delighted that after an incredibly difficult year  we are now launching ticket sales for Brighton Fringe 2021. Putting together Brighton Fringe is a  massive undertaking, especially with the challenges that we have all faced during the pandemic, so I  would like to pay tribute to the participants, venues and producers for their passion, dedication and  resilience. It is thanks to you that there is any point in having a Brighton Fringe. 

“We may well put on the largest arts festival in England and provide the year-round resources that we  do, but we are far from being the largest arts organisation. Brighton Fringe is a super network of  networks. It is the stories we tell, the experiences we have, the recommendations that we make. We  can’t wait to welcome back audiences and artists safely to the city to create new connections and  celebrate Fringe, safely, with us this year.”

To view the full line-up, please click here.