Our Channel 4 Playwright in Residence Ross Willis picks a play to read during lockdown.

We made the heartbreaking decision to close the Orange Tree nearly two weeks ago. In the meantime the world has become an unpredictable place, but we look to the future with hope and we can’t wait to be welcoming you through our doors again. The journey will be tough, but together we can make it.

Along with other theatres, and in the interest of the health and welfare of everyone who comes through the Orange Tree’s doors, we have made the difficult decision to cancel all OT performances until further notice.

Dickie Beau, Jodie Jacobs, Claire Lams and Ellie Piercy will appear in the London premiere of Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter, directed by Tinuke Craig.

In Josh Azouz's funny and touching play The Mikvah Project (playing 28 February - 28 March 2020), Eitan and Avi meet at the Mikvah to take part in the Jewish ritual of submerging in the water. But what is a mikvah?

Alex Waldmann (Julius Caesar, All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It and Hamlet at the RSC) and Josh Zaré (Every Day I Make Greatness Happen at Hampstead Theatre) The Mikvah Project, directed by Georgia Green, returning to the Orange Tree Theatre following its hugely successful limited run in the OT’s 2019 Directors’ Festival. Don't miss out on £15 tickets - BOOK NOW!

“Love,” the great photographer Diane Arbus once said, “involves a peculiar, un-fathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”

ANNOUNCING OUR NEW SEASON, INCLUDING PLAYS BY LUCY PREBBLE, JOSH AZOUZ, BRYONY LAVERY, TERENCE RATTIGAN, AND MARIVAUX TRANSLATED BY MARTIN CRIMP. HIT INTERNATIONAL PLAY AMSTERDAM WILL ALSO BE STREAMED ONLINE AND TOUR NATIONALLY.

Martin Hutson, Claire Lams, Sarah Middleton, Kwaku Mills, Joseph Potter and Michael Simkins will appear in Artistic Director Paul Miller’s rare revival of Bernard Shaw’s early comedy CANDIDA, previewing from 22 November. It follows Paul's acclaimed productions of Shaw’s Misalliance, The Philanderer and Widowers’ Houses at the OT.  

Journalist Deborah Linton on Maya Arad Yasur's play Amsterdam

When Matthew Xia first spoke to me about Amsterdam, it was clear that while this is a play triggered by Europe then, it is overwhelmingly a piece for Europe now. 

Full cast is today announced for AMSTERDAM, which previews from 6 September with tickets from £15. Matthew Xia directs Dan Abelson, Fiston Barek, Michal Horowicz and Hara Yannas will appear in this strikingly audacious thriller, which awakens unsettling feelings of collective identity, foreignness and alienation by Israeli playwright Maya Arad Yasur. The play won the Jury Prize at Stueckemarkt 2018, held as part of Berliner Festpiele’s Theater Treffen. Matthew Xia (Blood Knot) returns to the OT to direct, in his first production as Artistic Director of ATC, in a co-production between them, the OT and Theatre Royal Plymouth. It will embark upon a UK tour from February to May 2020.