Forthcoming

  • strange interlude poster

    Strange Interlude

    Anne-Marie Duff plays Nina in Eugene O’Neill’s audacious epic - one of the great masterpieces of American theatre.

    From 28 May

  • The Amen Corner - Marianne Jean-Baptiste

    The Amen Corner

    Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays uncompromising pastor Margaret in James Baldwin's 1965 play, with a gospel choir giving full voice on the Olivier stage. Travelex £12 Tickets available.

    From 4 June

  • What Are They Like - two pairs of feet in cardboard cut-out cartoon shoes

    What Are They Like?

    Adolescence is a rough ride.You've got existential angst, mood swings, fashion fiascos, terrifying physical changes, never enough money... And that's just the parents. How well do you know yours?

    Connections 2013

  • Mobile Phone figure with carboard box head and giant cardboard cut-out mobile

    Mobile Phone Show

    A communication cacophony, a fully charged up chorus line of chaos in a rhapsody of rap, text, tweet and gabble.

    Connections 2013

  • Liola poster image

    Liolà

    Tanya Ronder’s new version of Pirandello's play is performed by an Irish cast and gypsy musicians. It’s unexpected, funny and touching. Travelex £12 Tickets available.

    From 31 July

  • Emil and the Detectives poster

    Emil and the Detectives

    A classic tale of a boy learning to rely on himself – and on his new friends – in 1920s Berlin: a place full of surprises and danger, where everything moves at the speed of your imagination.

    From November

Currently Playing

  • Children of the Sun laboratory scene

    Children of the Sun

    Howard Davies' critically-acclaimed new production of the explosive Russian classic by Maxim Gorky, adapted by Andrew Upton. Travelex £12 Tickets available.

    To 14 July

  • Othello poster image

    Othello

    Adrian Lester, last seen at the National as Henry V, takes the title role, playing opposite Rory Kinnear as Iago

    Now playing

Other venues

The Shed

  • Bullet Catch Poster Image

    Bullet Catch

    ★★★★‘Combines the thrills of a high-grade magic show with a profound theatrical meditation on free-will’ Daily Telegraph

    21 May - 1 June 2013

  • Mission Drift poster image

    Mission Drift

    created by The TEAM in collaboration with Heather Christian and Sarah Gancher directed by Rachel Chavkinmusic by Heather Christian

    5 - 28 June 2013

  • Forty-five Minutes figure with carboard box head

    Forty-Five Minutes

    The deadline was wrong so now there’s forty-five minutes till the bell goes and the UCAS forms must be sent and futures secured.

    Connections 2013

  • Tomorrow I'll Be Happy figure with carboard box head and cardboard cut-out crisp packet

    Tomorrow I'll be Happy

    When a stranger comes to a crumbling seaside town looking for his friend Darren, he discovers that he was killed in a homophobic hate crime.

    Connections 2013

  • Ailie and the Alien carboard cut-out features on a figure

    Ailie and the Alien

    Ailie is a human and things have been going wrong for her for a while now. Finn is an alien who has crash landed on earth. When Finn take a shine to Ailie things suddenly start going right in her...

    Connections 2013

  • Don't Feed the Animals figure with carboard box head, crop and cardboard cut-out elephant on a chair

    Don't Feed the Animals

    Sparks Circus is on its way down. The owners have been forced to sell their star attraction Tiny the elephant and a rival circus is poaching their artistes.

    Connections 2013

  • We Lost Elijah figure with carboard box head lying next to a cardboard cut-out TV

    We Lost Elijah

    Elijah’s older brother and two friends were charged with getting him home safely while the riots were raging. Somehow, somewhere on route, something happened and they didn’t make it home together.

    Connections 2013

  • The Guffin figure with carboard box head and giant cardboard cut-out key

    The Guffin

    Four young people hanging out in a derelict house find a strange object; it's the Guffin.  Touch it and your life is changed forever. 

    Connections 2013

  • I'm Spiling My Heart Out Here figure with carboard box head, revalling a cardboard heart under his cardigan

    I'm Spilling my Heart out Here

    It’s the daily scramble across no-man’s-land: you flinch as you pass those even more clueless than you strewn from the barbed wire of exams, first dates… but hell’s ok if you stick together.

    Connections 2013

  • Soundclash figure with carboard box head and cardboard cut-out musical notes

    Soundclash

    A bunch of mates have been challenged to put together a reggae sound system...None of them have the money or the equipment. But they do know a little kid whose dad used to be a DJ.

    Connections 2013

  • The Grandfathers

    The Grandfathers

    Following eight boys from training camp to the battlefields of an unknown war, The Grandfathers, first seen in NT Connections 2012, is a visceral theatrical event.

    From 9 - 13 July

  • The Hush

    The Hush

    Matthew Herbert - composer, DJ and electronic music pioneer - creates a unique aural adventure investigating the emotions and politics of sound with wit and theatrical imagination.

    From 17 Jul - 3 Aug

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    A swift, contemporary celebration of Shakespeare’s much loved drama, bringing Romeo and Juliet to life for a new generation - for families with children aged 8 years and over.

    From 24 July

  • Home - doormat with shoes

    Home

    Documentary theatre meets beatboxing and R&B as a team of musicians and actors tell the stories of the young Londoners who don’t get heard.

    From 7 Aug - 7 Sep