We're thrilled to announce INSIDE/OUTSIDE: a collection of world premiere short plays by six emerging and established writers, performed and livestreamed from the Orange Tree Theatre’s auditorium. 

Our annual education project Shakespeare Up Close, which offers secondary school students the opportunity to see Shakespeare’s plays performed, will go ahead this year, taking place online with new abridged productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth made available to schools digitally. The project marks the first Orange Tree Theatre productions in almost a year.

We are looking for 3 emerging writers and 1 emerging dramaturg to join the Orange Tree Writers Collective. 

This support from the Culture Recovery Fund means that the Orange Tree Theatre will survive through until the spring of 2021, ready to re-emerge as the independent producing powerhouse it has become in recent years.

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.”