London Boroughs Lambeth Fringe 2026
Venues across the London Borough of Lambeth, London · Organized by The Bread & Roses Theatre
- Dates
- Sep 24, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026
- Format
- In person
- Where
- Venues across the London Borough of Lambeth, London
- Organizer
- The Bread & Roses Theatre
Edinburgh in August costs a fortune and requires a train. Lambeth in autumn requires the Northern line.
Lambeth Fringe 2026 dates
24 September to 25 October 2026 — five weeks, across venues in the London Borough of Lambeth.
Who runs Lambeth Fringe
The team at The Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham, who have run it yearly since 2015 and expanded it across multiple venues in 2024.
The shape of it
Theatre, comedy, cabaret, music and family work, staged in small rooms rather than in one festival site — theatres, pubs and chapels around the borough. Named supporters and associated venues include the Bread & Roses Pub, St John's Waterloo, The Bridge at Waterloo, This is Clapham, Brixton BID and We Are Waterloo.
Its stated remit
The festival is open to all, with an explicit remit to platform the work of women, LGBTQ+, global-majority and working-class artists.
Also in Lambeth this October
Two other things in or beside the borough while the fringe is on. From 17 October the London Dungeon, at County Hall, runs its Halloween show, Curse of the Mummy. And across Waterloo Bridge, 1-54 fills three wings of Somerset House with contemporary African art from 15 to 18 October.
A fringe spread across a borough rather than gathered on one site rewards a different sort of planning: two shows in an evening is comfortable if they share a venue and rather ambitious if one is in Waterloo and the other in Clapham, since the connection is a bus more often than a tube. The rooms are small — Bread & Roses seats around fifty — so a well-reviewed show can sell out inside a week, which is not something Edinburgh-hardened audiences expect from a fringe. And do look at the church venues. St John's Waterloo is an unusually fine room for music, and a chapel acoustic flatters a small ensemble in a way a pub back room does not.
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