Everything you want to know

Madam Lola's is an artist-led cabaret club, cocktail bar and late-night club in Kemptown, Brighton. We run a fully produced adult cabaret on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinees, then Mistress, our late-night club, every Friday and Saturday until 2am. The whole venue is also available for private hire, Christmas parties, weddings and filming.

83 St George's Road, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1EF. We're in the heart of Kemptown, Brighton's LGBTQ+ quarter, five minutes from the seafront.

It's the production. We're the only venue in Brighton with a professional aerial, lighting and sound rig run by in-house specialist technicians. Our performers fly over the audience on high-spec motorised winches, manual classic circus lifting systems and one-to-one counterweight harness flying, and we know of no other UK cabaret venue with all three. Add a Grade II listed 1892 building, a speciality cocktail bar and a 2am licence.

Performers, producers and comperes who have worked here over the last two months have repeatedly called it the highest-spec cabaret venue in the UK. Come and decide for yourself: we have over 250 five-star reviews on Google and Tripadvisor.

Madam Lola's was founded by cabaret producers and technicians Luke Trentham Shaw and Josh Gomez. It is artist-led, technician-owned and self-funded: built and run by working performers and production professionals, not investors or a chain.

The people making the decisions are the people who make the shows. Madam Lola's is owned and run by working artists and technicians, which is why the show, the rig and the way performers are treated come first.

Madam Lola's opened in 2026.

Madam Lola's is in the Sassoon Mausoleum, a Grade II listed building dating from 1892. Over the last century it has been a pub, a ballroom and a cabaret venue, and it has been reworked as a performance space with velvet booths, stage-side tables and glass gallery balconies.

The room seats 120 for a show and holds up to 220 standing for a party.

Yes. We're a queer-friendly venue in Kemptown, Brighton's LGBTQ+ quarter, and everyone is welcome.

Over 250 five-star reviews across Google and Tripadvisor.

All three in one night. The cabaret is staged like a theatre show, the cocktail bar serves you at your table, and when the show ends Mistress takes over as our late-night club until 2am on Fridays and Saturdays.

A fully produced adult cabaret: aerial acrobatics, aerial fire, circus, fire performance, live vocals, drag, burlesque, comedy, sideshow and speciality acts. It's choreographed, lit and soundtracked like a theatre show, with the cast working through and above the crowd. Two acts with an interval.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, plus a Saturday matinee every week. Thursday cabaret runs on the second and last Thursday of the month. Times for each date are on Skiddle.

Times are listed on each date on Skiddle. Arrive at doors so you're settled with a drink before the show starts.

The show runs in two acts with an interval. Exact timings are on each date on Skiddle.

No. The cast rotates, with performers from across the UK and internationally, so no two shows are the same.

Yes. Aerial and fire acts are in every show, performed on our professional aerial rig.

Fire acts performed in the air. Very few cabaret venues in the UK can stage it safely; our rig and in-house rigging team mean we can.

Yes. Drag is part of the cabaret, and Mistress, our late-night club, features live drag and performance every Friday and Saturday.

Yes. Burlesque is part of every show, alongside aerial, fire, drag, comedy and live vocals.

The show has adult themes, possible nudity and sexual content. It also includes fire acts, wet acts, strobe and haze. It's strictly 18+.

No. All public shows are strictly 18+, and ID is required.

Occasional late-night editions of the show: the same production, wilder and more debaucherous. Dates are announced on Skiddle.

The cast works through and above the crowd, so you may get up close to the action. You'll never be forced into anything you don't want to do.

Very. Book an intimate table for 2 close to the stage, have cocktails brought to you, and stay on for Mistress on a Friday or Saturday.

Yes. We keep a limited number of single seats for solo guests on every show.

All shows are booked on Skiddle. Groups of 10 or more email reservations@madamlolas.com.

Prices are listed on each date on Skiddle.

Intimate tables close to the stage put you right in the action. Gallery balcony tables upstairs give you a view of the aerial work from above. Booths downstairs are great for groups.

Single seats for solo guests, intimate tables for 2 or 3, and group tables for up to 5 in the booths downstairs or on the gallery balconies upstairs.

Group tables are allocated between the booths and the gallery balconies on the day. If you have access needs or a special occasion, email reservations@madamlolas.com and we'll do our best.

Fridays and Saturdays often do, so book ahead on Skiddle.

We don't run public discount codes. Groups of 10+ get preferential rates with no booking fees by emailing reservations@madamlolas.com, and repeat guests can email us for preferential rates on drinks, tickets and tables while our membership is being built.

Book cabaret tickets in advance on Skiddle. For Mistress, you can pay on the door, subject to capacity.

Doors close 45 minutes after opening. Late arrivals are admitted only at a suitable break in the show, and reserved tables are held until the interval.

Membership is coming soon. Join the interest list on our membership page.

Email reservations@madamlolas.com and we'll help you put together a night out for someone special.

Yes. Madam Lola's runs a Saturday matinee every week: the same full cabaret show as the evenings, with the same cast and spectacle, and cocktails served to your table.

The Saturday matinee has replaced our bottomless brunch. It's the full evening show in the afternoon, with cocktails served to your table.

It's made for hens. Book a Saturday matinee or an evening show with booths and balcony tables, cocktails to the table, and on Fridays and Saturdays carry on at Mistress until 2am.

Yes. Group booths, table cocktail service and a show with aerial, fire, drag and burlesque, then Mistress until 2am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Groups of up to 5 book a group table on Skiddle. Groups of 10 or more email reservations@madamlolas.com for preferential rates and no booking fees.

Yes. A gallery balcony seats 25 to 30 guests with private table service. Email reservations@madamlolas.com.

Yes. Book a show, add a booth at Mistress for 5, or for a bigger birthday ask about a private balcony or exclusive hire at reservations@madamlolas.com.

A Friday or Saturday at Madam Lola's: the show, cocktails to your table, then Mistress until 2am. Groups of 10+ email reservations@madamlolas.com.

Mistress is Madam Lola's late-night cocktail bar and club: dancing, dirty-disco and debauchery. DJs play club classics, disco and house, with live drag and cabaret from female, queer and alternative artists, signature cocktails and dancing until the early hours. More on the Mistress page.

Every Friday and Saturday from 10pm until 2am, and until 5am for special events.

Free if you're at the Friday or Saturday evening cabaret. Otherwise there's a limited number of free tickets for the first 30 on Skiddle (arrive before 11pm), £15 in advance online, or £20 on the door subject to capacity.

Yes. Friday and Saturday evening show guests stay on for Mistress free of charge, with no extra ticket needed.

Yes. There are only 10 private booths a night, each for 5 guests, with entry for all 5 and bottles brought to your table. Book on Skiddle and arrive before midnight or the booth is released.

Dress like you're going somewhere worth going: smart, sexy, expressive. No sportswear.

It's just Mistress.

Yes. Strictly 18+, ID required.

Mistress at Madam Lola's, 83 St George's Road, every Friday and Saturday from 10pm until 2am.

Yes. Mistress at Madam Lola's has live drag and performance every Friday and Saturday until 2am.

DJs playing club classics, disco and house.

Lola's Lounge has grown up into Mistress, our late-night club every Friday and Saturday.

The Hot Flush, our female-led comedy and variety night, on the first Thursday of every month, and Madam Lola's cabaret on the second and last Thursday.

A female-led comedy and variety night: stand-up, musical comedy, cabaret and variety acts, with a fresh line-up every month. No blokes on the line-up, everyone welcome in the audience. More on The Hot Flush page.

The first Thursday of every month. Book on Skiddle.

Yes. The Hot Flush at Madam Lola's, on the first Thursday of every month.

Heartbreakers are partners of Madam Lola's who bring their events to the venue every few months, including Twinks Big Brother.

Madam Lola's runs cabaret and comedy twice a month on Thursdays. See all dates on Skiddle.

Yes. Cocktails and drinks are served to your table throughout the show by QR code ordering.

A cocktail team whose members came from The Box in London and launched Babel in Brighton, with a speciality cocktail list you won't find anywhere else in the city.

Yes, the bar serves soft drinks alongside the cocktail list.

Yes. Hosted bar tabs and drinks packages are available for groups and private events, from £35 per guest.

Yes. For private events the bar team builds a bespoke cocktail list with a signature serve made just for you.

Yes, for 10 to 220 guests. Small groups join a Friday or Saturday show with reserved tables, bigger teams take a gallery balcony or the full downstairs, and whole companies take exclusive hire with a private show and party until 2am. See Christmas parties.

Groups of 10+ join a show at preferential rates with no booking fees. Exclusive show hire starts from £8,800 for 80 guests including a hosted bar tab, and weeknight venue hire starts from £1,000.

Yes. Groups of 10 or more book directly with us at preferential rates and no booking fees. Email reservations@madamlolas.com.

Yes. Madam Lola's runs Christmas cabaret shows through December. Book on Skiddle.

December books up fast, Fridays and Saturdays first. Email reservations@madamlolas.com with your dates.

Yes. Venue hire runs Sunday to Thursday from £1,000, and show hire is available any night.

Yes. The whole venue is available for exclusive hire, with or without a private show. Prices, a 3D tour and the enquiry form are on our private hire page.

Venue hire from £1,000 (Sunday to Thursday), show hire from £8,800 for 80 guests with a hosted bar tab included, daytime hire from £750 and film and photo hire from £375.

Show hire gives you exclusive use plus our full production cabaret, cast, crew, bar team and a hosted bar tab, any night. Venue hire gives you the room, the team and the bar to build your own night, Sunday to Thursday.

Yes. Weddings, receptions, handfastings, vow renewals, engagement parties and the party after, with optional private cabaret and aerial performance.

Yes. Email reservations@madamlolas.com and we'll shape the ceremony and celebration with you.

Yes. Office parties, product launches, brand activations and awards, with a Martin Audio sound system, a projector and TV screen for speeches, and our performers for the big reveal.

Yes. External caterers are welcome.

We're licensed until 2am.

Yes. Aerialists, fire, drag, burlesque and circus, from a single aerial reveal to a full show built around your brief.

Under-18s are allowed at private daytime events until 8pm. All public shows and Mistress are strictly 18+.

Yes. Take the 3D tour on our private hire page or email reservations@madamlolas.com to book a site visit.

Final numbers and payment are due 14 days before your event. Flat rates, no post-event reconciliation.

Madam Lola's is a Grade II listed 1892 venue in Kemptown with a professional aerial rig, a performer flying system, a speciality cocktail bar and a 2am licence, available with or without a private show.

Yes. Film, TV, music videos and photography, Sunday to Thursday, from £375. Photography by the half or full day, filming by the day, prep and wrap days at half rate.

It's one of the most distinctive: an 1892 Grade II listed Belle Époque interior with velvet booths, glass balconies, red curtains, neon and a custom stage, plus street-level load-in and a back-of-house unit base.

Yes. Musicians including Ren (Ren Makes Music) have filmed with us. The stage, neon, booths and aerial rig give you a dozen looks in one room.

Yes. Many of our team have worked behind and in front of the camera, and co-founder Luke Trentham Shaw grew up in a film family and worked at Pinewood Studios from a young age.

Yes. Our cast of aerialists and fire performers can be booked for your production.

Yes. Ask us about community rates. We look after our own.

Email reservations@madamlolas.com with your dates, crew size and what you need.

A professional 5.5m aerial rig and lighting truss, high-spec motorised performer flying winches, manual classic circus lifting systems and one-to-one counterweight harness flying.

We know of no other UK cabaret venue with motorised flying, manual circus lifting and counterweight harness systems under one roof, and no other Brighton venue with a professional aerial, lighting and sound rig run by in-house specialist technicians.

The rig sits 5.5m from the floor, and the aerial point is 4.5m from the stage. The main room is 7.5m high.

Our in-house specialist technicians and an IRATA-qualified rigger, with sister company Secret Productions, whose team's credits include The Greatest Showman and the Brit Awards.

A classic theatre and circus technique where a performer in a harness is flown by a team working against a matched counterweight, giving smooth, human-controlled flight. It sits alongside our motorised winches and manual circus lifting systems.

A Martin Audio club and dinner sound system with an Allen and Heath digital mixer.

ChamSys lighting control with Robe moving beams, LED bars and full cabaret and club lighting rigs.

It's a custom circular stage with a hidden retractable spinning pole.

Madam Lola's sister company: a specialist aerial rigging and circus performance company based at the venue, supplying rigging, performer flying, winches, aerial and fire acts and technical production for events, film, TV and theatre. secretproductions.co.uk

Yes, through Secret Productions, which provides specialist rigging, winches and performer flying for events, film and theatre.

About a 10 minute taxi or a 20 minute walk from Brighton station, and around an hour by train from London Victoria.

There is street parking nearby. The nearest Blue Badge bays are on St George's Road at Abbey Road, about 100m away.

Entry is step-free via a small ramp and the performance space is step-free and wheelchair accessible, with reservable tables near the stage. The ground floor toilets are not wheelchair accessible. Email reservations@madamlolas.com before booking so we can plan around your needs.

Dress like you're going somewhere worth going: smart, sexy, expressive. No sportswear.

Yes. All public shows and Mistress are strictly 18+, and ID is required.

Yes. Shows use strobe lighting and haze.

Shows are photographed and filmed for promotion, so you may appear in our photos and videos.

Email reservations@madamlolas.com for bookings, groups, Christmas parties and private hire, or use the form on our contact page.

Every date is on Skiddle.

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