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ARCOLA THEATRE

24 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL
London, E8 3DL

Tarantula
Tarantula
1/8 - 1/25/2025


“Of course – as you’ve no doubt guessed – there’s a big ‘But Then’ moment heading this way…” It’s a sunny, spring day in East ...

The Double Act
The Double Act
1/23 - 2/22/2025


In a crumbling coastal town, a fading comedian is forced to confront his estranged ex-partner – a deranged recluse fixated on their distant heyday—in a ...

As Long As We Are Breathing
As Long As We Are Breathing
1/29 - 3/1/2025


“What colour eyes you have doesn’t matter to me. Does it have to matter to you? We all love to play don’t we?” The world premiere of a ...

As Long As We Are Breathing
As Long As We Are Breathing
1/29 - 3/1/2025


“What colour eyes you have doesn’t matter to me. Does it have to matter to you? We all love to play don’t we?” The world premiere of a ...


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Review: HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS, Arcola Theatre


by Kat Mokrynski - December 16, 2024

Created by Recent Cutbacks, Hold On To Your Butts is a “shot for shot” parody of the iconic Jurassic Park film, with three actors taking on the movie in only seventy minutes (the original film has a runtime of two hours and seven minutes). Jack Baldwin and Laurence Pears take on nearly all of the ch...

Review Roundup: DISTANT MEMORIES OF A NEAR FUTURE at Arcola Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 15, 2024

Acclaimed theatremaker David Head's Edinburgh Fringe hit Distant Memories of the Near Future is making its London premiere at the Arcola Theatre for a three week run. See what the critics are saying and read the reviews......

Review: GIGI & DAR, Arcola Theatre


by Robert Vesty - October 10, 2024

Two young women, Gigi and Dar, are dressed in khaki and clutch machine guns. They are guarding a roadblock and out to kill time. With just six of their 730 days of conscription to go until they can return to Civvy Street, their fantasies about the future (travels, marriage and internships) are begin...

Richard Nelson's CONVERSATIONS IN TUSCULUM to Make London Premiere


by Blair Ingenthron - September 15, 2024

Richard Nelson's (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Lortel Award, Obie Award) 2008 drama 'Conversations in Tusculum' will have two staged workshop performances this September, in preparation of launching a London run....

Review Roundup: THE BAND BACK TOGETHER at Arcola Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 10, 2024

See what the critics are saying about The Band Back Together at Arcola Theatre. Learn more about the production and read the reviews....

Review: MR PUNCH AT THE OPERA, Arcola Theatre


by Franco Milazzo - August 22, 2024

It’s not every show that hands out party poppers as you go in. Aimed at young audiences, Mr Punch At The Opera whips together the iconic hand-puppets with a musical amuse-bouche....

Review: UTØYA, Arcola Theatre


by Gary Naylor - August 18, 2024

With Far Right terrorism and toxic masculinity defacing the summer, this 2015 play's UK premiere could no be more timely...

Review: BANGERS, Arcola Theatre


by Matthew Paluch - July 24, 2024

Bangers, written by Danusia Samal was first performed at the Soho Theatre in 2022, and in Edinburgh in 2023. It returns for a third stint at the Arcola Theatre and one can understand why. ...

Video: Watch a Trailer for SURRENDER at the Arcola Theatre


by Blair Ingenthron - June 30, 2024

Watch a trailer for SURRENDER at the Arcola Theatre in the video here!...

Review: SURRENDER, Arcola Theatre


by Niamh Jones - June 26, 2024

A woman’s story is a valuable thing, the trials of experience typically being viewed as under discussed even within modern literature. Amongst these trials are the very real challenges that come with raising a baby, especially when a single parent....

Past Shows

Women Who Blow On Knots
Women Who Blow On Knots
10/24 - 11/23/2024


Arcola Theatre presents Ece Temelkuran's Women Who Blow On Knots Adapted by  Leyla Nazli Directed by  Lerzan Pamir “What is a revolution if you can’t ...

The Band Back Together
The Band Back Together
9/4 - 9/27/2024


A new play about growing up, coming home and making noise. The Band Back Together  arrives in London after a spring tour of England and ...

After Sex
After Sex
7/16 - 8/3/2024


Izzy Parriss Productions and Three Sisters Productions are thrilled to present the world premiere of After Sex , a lyrical, charged, erotic two-hander which follows ...

Fabulous Creatures
Fabulous Creatures
5/22 - 6/15/2024


Welcome to the Monstrous Cabaret Club, a place to drown more than your sorrows, where the acts are unreal and the voices to die for! ...

The Book of Grace
The Book of Grace
5/16 - 6/8/2024


Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright  Suzan-Lori Parks ’ visceral family portrait reveals a divided nation.  “Sometimes the alien is right in your own home. Sometimes right in ...

What (is) a Woman
What (is) a Woman
4/23 - 5/4/2024


A new solo musical play with an illuminating script, nine original songs and stunning underscore, What (is) a Woman is a one woman show of ...

When You Pass Over My Tomb


Sergio Blanco  and  Daniel Goldman  return to the Arcola Theatre, after the success of their critically acclaimed OFFIE award winning productions of  Thebes Land  and  ...

Union
Union
7/19 - 12/8/2023


Union is a wildly hilarious odyssey through London, in all its brilliant, booze-soaked yuppified but still punk glory. Just as Saskia fears she is losing ...

Sputnik Sweetheart
Sputnik Sweetheart
10/26 - 11/26/2023


Haruki Murakami’s much loved 1999 novel Sputnik Sweetheart has been adapted for the stage for the first time in history, by none other than Bryony ...

Sputnik Sweetheart
Sputnik Sweetheart
10/26 - 11/26/2023


@arcolatheatre | www.arcolatheattre.com Partly a story of love and loneliness, partly a detective story, Murakami’s novel is brought to stage by Tony Award nominee Bryony ...

Mark Thomas in England & Son
Mark Thomas in England & Son
11/14 - 11/25/2023


Prepare to be taken on a kaleidoscopic odyssey where disaster capitalism, empire, stolen youth and stolen wealth merge into the simple tale of a working-class ...

Turandot
Turandot
8/23 - 8/26/2023


Puccini’s final unfinished opera, Turandot , will be revived at the Arcola this summer in a radical and confronting retelling. Spearheaded by a team of ...

The Mistake
The Mistake
4/18 - 4/22/2023


After a completely sold-out run in January/February, this urgent, award-winning play about the destruction of Hiroshima returns to London’s Arcola Theatre, 18 – 22 April ...

The Mistake
The Mistake
1/31 - 2/4/2023


Written by Michael Mears and directed by Rosamunde Hutt, an urgent, award-winning play about the destruction of Hiroshima transfers from the Edinburgh Fringe to London’s ...

Broken Lad
Broken Lad
10/13 - 11/6/2021


Above a pub in North London, Phil is fighting off panic about his comeback gig. Once a regular stand-up on Saturday night television, Phil’s back ...

The Tango Collective: the piazzolla project


For one night at Grimeborn, The Wild Stage presents a night of music not to dance to, but to inspire, make us dream and take ...

Songs of Resistance


Following a sold-out run at the Barbican Art Gallery and a performance featuring songs from the Weimar Cabarets for Bono and Chris Martin, the cabaret ...

The Game of Love and Chance
The Game of Love and Chance
7/14 - 8/7/2021


Arcolas first production in Arcola Outside is a raucous romantic comedy about sex, class and blessings in disguise.Lady Sylvia might be 58th in line to ...

The Narcissist
The Narcissist
7/5 - 7/11/2021


Behold, the most terrifying, entertaining and unnerving, one man show of all time.5 lessons. Nothing but the truth.In under one hour, your brittle wall of ...

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