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From art exhibitions and theatre to music, literature and creative movements, this category explores the people, places and ideas shaping Brighton’s cultural life — celebrating both grassroots creativity and headline events across the city.

Theatre Royal Brighton - 30th September - 4th October 2025 4 stars The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical brings Rick Riordan’s modern mythos to the stage with a vibrant, youthful energy. The story follows Percy Jackson, a seemingly ordinary teenager whose life is upended when he discovers he’s a demigod....
BRIGHTON WELLNESS FESTIVAL COMES TO TOWN THIS WEEK on -Saturday 4th October 2025 | Platf9rm, Hove, BN3 2AF Brighton Wellness Festival (BWF), the UK’s newest celebration of radical, inclusive wellbeing, is proud to announce The BWF Summit — a flagship programme for wellness professionals, changemakers and curious minds exploring the future of wellbeing....
Self-professed prick and star of Taskmaster Rosie Jones is heading back out on the road with her brand-new stand-up show I Can’t Tell What She’s Saying, where she’ll be talking about the big stuff: being single, the pressures of representing huge sections of the population, and gravy. Oh, and boobs....
Amber Davies to be PLAYING THEATRE ROYAL BRIGHTON   TUE 15 DEC 2026 - SAT 2 JAN 2027   Producers ROYO and Curve are delighted to announce Amber Davies* as Elle Woods in the brand-new Made at Curve production of the West End and Broadway smash-hit musical comedy LEGALLY BLONDE THE...
The Times has described the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist as “revenge of the middle-aged author”“. If the phrase sounds derogatory, it isn’t meant that way: the review also describes the shortlist as "novels for grown-ups”, with the prize privileging “maturity over novelty” and supporting “unpretentious, old-fashioned literary fiction”. This is...
The UK’s new digital ID card scheme, announced by Keir Starmer on September 26, has two big questions swirling around it. Is it a solution to illegal immigration? And will it give the government too much power to monitor people? These questions are likely to dominate discussion and debate for...
After a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, award-winning Brighton artist and philanthropist Victoria Melody brings her latest show Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak home – opening next week at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange on 4th October before heading out on a national tour.  The show’s story is rooted in Brighton. It began...
Headsets at the ready, Dreamy Place, the arts festival celebrating creative technologies and collective experience, returns this October with six days of exhibitions, performances and events across Brighton & Hove. Designed to engage curious minds of all ages, and including mixed reality, games, dance, and music, the festival harnesses tech and...
THE REPAIR SHOP IS STEPPING OUT OF THE BARN AND ONTO THE EASTBOURNE STAGE – LIVE! SECRETS FROM THE BARN Join much-loved repairs experts Steve Fletcher, Suzie Fletcher, Will Kirk and Kirsten Ramsay as The Repair Shop steps out of the barn and onto the Congress Theatre stage, 18 October for one glorious afternoon only, presenting The...
A special gala concert at Cadogan Hall, London, on Monday 20 October will celebrate 90 years of Friends of the Royal Marsden, Chelsea. The unique event will take the audience on a journey of music and reflection in honour of the award-winning charity's history, from the formation of the Ladies' Association in 1935 to...