Brighton Dome's Christmas line-up, from organ karaoke to Sara Pascoe

Brighton Dome^{1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11} has put out its Christmas programme. The evening shows below run from 29 November to 20 December across the Concert Hall, the Corn Exchange and the Studio Theatre. The Argus² reported the line-up.

The big nights

• Thursday 10 December: Brighton’s Big Drag Pageant is back in the Concert Hall at 7.15pm, with a horror theme this year. Alfie Ordinary hosts and the contestants include Lydia L’Scabies, Asifa Lahore and Melanin Monroe. The dress code is “Ghouls in Gowns, Gothic Glamoure and Camp Krampus”. Tickets are £15, £22.50 or £32.50, plus a £40 “Pageant Patron” seat close to the stage. It’s 18+ and BSL interpreted.

• Tuesday 15 to Sunday 20 December: Ceilidh the Musical fills the Corn Exchange for a week. A caller and a live band lead the dancing while a family story of love and legacy plays out around the audience. Evening shows are at 7.30pm, with 2.30pm matinees on the Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are £33.50, £38.50 or £43.50.

• Friday 18 December: Organoke returns to the Concert Hall at 7.30pm. Ida Barr leads a mass sing of Christmas hits, backed by a live band and the Concert Hall’s 1936 pipe organ, and in the second half names come out of the “Tombola of Dreams” for solo turns. Tickets are £23.50, or £18.50 for under-26s and low-income concessions.

• Sunday 20 December: Live at Christmas brings David O’Doherty and Sara Pascoe to the Concert Hall at 7.30pm, with Ania Magliano, Bridget Christie and Toussaint Douglass. Amy Gledhill hosts. Tickets are £32 and it’s 16+.

Choirs and carols

The Purcell Singers sing Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols by candlelight in the Corn Exchange on Sunday 29 November at 7.30pm, with the harpist Eleanor Medcalf (£28, £24 concessions). Green Matthews play winter folk songs and carols in Gaudete! in the Studio Theatre on Friday 11 December at 7.30pm (£18, £16 for under-25s).

Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus stage A Merry Murder Mystery, a whodunnit set at a Christmas dinner party, in the Concert Hall on Saturday 12 December at 7.30pm (£10 to £35). Brighton Festival Chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra give their annual Christmas concert on Sunday 13 December at 4pm (£20 to £50). On Tuesday 15 December the Choir with No Name Brighton, which involves people affected by homelessness, holds its Big Christmas Singalong at 7.30pm (£21.50, £11 concessions). Brighton band Arxx are the special guests.

Etsy’s Christmas Fair brings 90 local designers, artists and makers to the Dome on Saturday 5 December.