Brighton Festival 2017 previews, news and reviews

David Shrigley at Brighton Dome

Q & A: Brighton Festival guest director David Shrigley reflects on the last three weeks
BRIGHTON Festival 2018 draws to a close on Sunday after three packed weeks of culture. Guest director and artist David Shrigley tells WEEKEND about his experience overseeing the event and how the festival has made him feel closer to Brighton

Performers in Brownton Abbey

Brighton Festival 2018: Inside Brownton Abbey, a party like no other

Brighton Festival 2018: Ezra Furman on politics, faith and his siege mentality

The String Quartet's Guide To Sex And Anxiety

Brighton Festival 2018: Miltos Yerolemou on The String Quartet's Guide to Sex and Anxiety

Brighton Festival 2018: Gob Squad explore ageing, beauty and Dorian Gray

Brighton Festival 2018: Get inside the mind of master comic writer John Finnemore

A musician in David Shrigley’s Problem In Brighton

Brighton Festival 2018: David Shrigley's rock panto is a "bag of surprises"

Les Amazones d’Afrique

Brighton Festival 2018: Supergroup Les Amazones d'Afrique want to "change mentalities"

A snapshot from a performance of Lexicon

Brighton Festival 2018: For the performers of Lexicon, circus is a "way of life"

Brighton Festival 2018: Family event Penguins shows that 'homosexuality in wildlife is natural'

A scene from Adam

Brighton Festival 2018: Adam tells extraordinary tale of young trans man

XFRMR, with the Tesla Coil at the centre

Brighton Festival 2018: Visual show XFRMR is electrifying – literally

A work from Brett Goodroad’s Brighton Festival exhibition

Brighton Festival 2018: California-based artist Brett Goodroad set for debut UK show

A dance is thrown into the air during Grand Finale

Brighton Festival 2018: Dance guru Hofesh Shechter captures a world in freefall

Travis Alabanza

Brighton Festival 2018: Travis Alabanza on why "trans people are the lucky ones"

Yomi Sode, who wrote and performs in Coat

Brighton Festival 2018: Yomi Sode vows to tackle "elephant in the room" in his show Coat

The Gabriel family

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, May 28 ★★★★

(I Could Go On Singing) Over the Rainbow, The Spire, May 27 ★★★★

Theo Clinkard's This Bright Field

This Bright Field, Brighton Dome, May 25 ★★★★★

A scene from Depart

Depart, Woodvale Cemetery, until Sunday ★★★★

Storytelling Army

Storytelling Army: empowering tales of everyday life

A scene from Tristan and Yseult

Tristan and Yseult, Theatre Royal Brighton, until Saturday ★★★★★

Adam Buxton's Bug: Bowie Special

Adam Buxton: Bug – David Bowie Special, Brighton Dome, May 23 ★★★★

A History of Britain in 21 Women, Brighton and Hove High School, May 21 ★★★

A History of Britain in 21 Women, Brighton and Hove High School, May 21 ★★★

Gary Younge in conversation with Colin Grant, Brighton and Hove High School, May 20 ★★★★

Poet Holly McNish

An Evening With Picador Poetry, Theatre Royal Brighton, May 19 ★★★★

A scene from Depart

Inside wondrous cemetery show Depart

The Storytelling Army takes place next weekend

Brighton Festival offers budding writers chance to enter competition

Laurie Ogden is one of the performers at Lyrix Organix

Watch some of the best shows at the Brighton Festival from home

Songs for The End of the World

Songs for the End of the World, Theatre Royal Brighton, May 16 ★★★★

Captivating performance gains five star review

Five Short Blasts

Five Short Blasts, Brighton Marina, until May 28 ★★★

Ocean Wisdom, Four Owls and Jam Baxter, Brighton Dome, May 12, ★★★

Shirley Collins

Shirley Collins, Brighton Dome, May 14 ★★★★

This Bright Field

This Bright Field is dance, but not as we know it

Shirley Collins at home in Lewes

Shirley Collins: It was heartbreaking to stop playing music

Shirley Collins, who plays at Brighton Dome on Sunday

‘Cultural treasure’ and folk legend sings praises of Sussex

Guests looking at one of the installations at Jony Easterby’s For the Birds

Walk in the woods is an instant festival favourite (but not everyone is impressed...)

Review: Ali Smith, Brighton and Hove High School, May 9 ★★★★

Review: Collisions, Lighthouse, Brighton, until May 28 ★★★★

Cabaret performer Meow Meow

Meow Meow tells tales of Theatre Royal's past

Jeramee, Hartleby and Ooglemore

Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore, Theatre Royal Brighton, May 8 ★★★★

A scene in For the Birds

Review: For the Birds, secret location, until May 28 ★★★★★

Review: Under the Skin, Brighton Dome, May 7 ★★★★

Review: Kate Tempest opening gig, Brighton Dome, May 6 ★★★★

A quacking display from Downs View School. All photos by Vic Frankowski.

PICTURES: Thousands watch on as Children's Parade marks start of Brighton Festival

Brighton Festival Children's Parade set to bring colour and noise to city streets

Brighton Festival Children's Parade set to bring colour and noise to city streets

The Hiccup Project

The Hiccup Project urge you to embrace vulnerability

No Dogs, No Indians is partly based on historical events

Play explores the lasting impact of colonialism in India

A scene from Handful of People

Handful of People asks: how do we define happiness?

Deborah Frances-White, founder of The Guilty Feminist

Feminism to the fore in hit comedy podcast

Tamara Saulwick, creator of Endings

Death does not have to be the end

Scottish performance artist FK Alexander

An intense encounter with Judy Garland - sort of

George Monbiot, left, and Ewan McLennan

Music the best medicine for social epidemic