Femi Elufowoju

Experience the UK premiere of the intense family drama THE BOOK OF GRACE at Arcola Theatre. This riveting play explores complex family dynamics and promises to leave audiences captivated.

Arcola Theatre has announced the new shows in their 2023/24 Autumn/Winter season. Audiences can expect a range of new and re-discovered work from a diverse mix of UK and international writers. Learn more about the full lineup of shows here!

ETT (English Touring Theatre) has announced their new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and further programming for 2023.

Er galt als bester Fechter Europas, war Offizier, Geigenvirtuose, Dirigent und Komponist: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Dem Sohn eines französischen Plantagenbesitzers auf Guadeloupe und einer senegalesischen Sklavin gelang es trotz zahlreicher Widerstände, die gesellschaftlichen Rassenschranken zu durchbrechen und in Frankreich zum gefeierten Star der Musikwelt des Ancien Regime aufzusteigen.

The Anonymous Lover is coming to Theater St.Gallen in September. Learn more about the production here!

tiata fahodzi, the UK’s leading British African heritage contemporary theatre company, today announces a new season of creative initiatives, appointments and productions designed to support and invest in the future of Black British artists, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. 

Opera North today announces its 2021/22 season with five new productions opening at the Leeds Grand Theatre before touring to theatres and concert halls across the North of England.

Soho Theatre's re-opening of the former Granada/EMD in Walthamstow takes a stride forward with the appointment of key posts: Jessica Draper in the newly created role of Head of Creative Engagement, and the new Co-Chairs of the board for the revitalised venue, Olivier Award-winning performer and Waltham Forest resident Alessandro Babalola and the Royal Court's Executive Director Lucy Davies.

This January, as part of a partnership with Newham Council, Stratford Circus Arts Centre is to offer every Year 6 student in the borough the chance to see Inua Ellams' stage adaptation of The Little Prince free of charge. Inua Ellams' fourth show, the critically acclaimed Barber Shop Chronicles, sold out at the National Theatre, where his adaptation of Chekov's Three Sisters, recently opened. The Little Prince which will be produced by Fuel and directed by Femi Elufowoju jr, promises to be a radical afro-futurist reimagining of the classic French children's story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Fuel's first commission for 2020 is Inua Ellams' first work for children: a radical afro-futurist reimagining of the classic French children's story The Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry. Broken down in the Sahara Desert, desperate to repair her plane, a pilot meets an extraordinary Prince. They quickly form a friendship and the pilot re-discovers the power of imagination, the importance of small efforts, and the meaning of friendship. Directed by Femi Elufowoju Jr with design by Miriam Nabarro and music by Cassie Kinoshi, the show will open at Stratford Circus Arts Centre as part of a programme supported by Newham Council to give every year 6 pupil in the borough the opportunity to see a new piece of theatre for free. The Little Prince is a Fuel production in association with English Touring Theatre, co-commissioned by Fuel, Stratford Circus Arts Centre, ASU Gammage, Z-arts, The Albany, Warwick Arts Centre and Future Arts Centres. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and the Garrick Trust.

Tennessee Williams's first success The Glass Menagerie lands at Arcola Theatre in an exciting and tremendously thought-provoking production directed by Femi Elufowoju jr. It's 1937 in St Louis. Amanda Wingfield's (Lesley Ewen) hopes that her two children will lead a more stable life than hers grapple with their own sense of individuality. While their mother lives in a past made of suitors and debutantes worrying about the future of her unmarried daughter Laura (Naima Swaleh) - a shy and scarred young woman who spends her days polishing her glass trinkets - Tom (Michael Abubakar) desperately wants to break free from his dead-end job at a shoe warehouse.

Bili (Kemi Durosinmi) is introducing her boyfriend Brian (Tyler Fayose) to her sisters Rafi (Elizabeth Ita) and Ami (played by Estella Daniels on book due to Emmanuella Cole's being ill on press night). When their mother Wura (Ellen Thomas) decides to crash their dinner party unannounced, the reason why she's unaware of Brian's involvement with her daughter comes to the surface and unearths a series of deep-rooted family issues.

The cast for Femi Elufowoju jr's production of The Glass Menagerie is confirmed as Michael Abubakar as Tom Wingfield, Lesley Ewen as Amanda Wingfield, Charlie Maher as Jim O'Connor and, in her debut performance, Naima Swaleh as Laura Wingfield.

It was announced today, 28th March, that the cast for Guardian and BuzzFeed journalist Bim Adewunmi's debut play, Hoard at Arcola Theatre will include Ellen Thomas (EastEnders),Emmanuella Cole (National Theatre's An Octoroon), Kemi Durosinmi (Arcola Theatre's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives), Tyler Furose (The Globe's Much Ado About Nothing), andElizabeth Ita (The Favourite).

Arcola Theatre has announced its Studio 2 Summer Season with three new plays being performed in the theatre's 100 seat studio.

In celebration of International Women's Day, emerging artist Ayo-Dele Edwards will perform the premiere of her one-woman musical drama Becoming, an autobiographical story spanning south west Nigeria to south east London, about how everything that has come before us shapes the person we come to be.

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives comes to the Arcola from Thursday 7 June until 21 July.

Joining the Arcola's exciting and empowering production of Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Patrice Naiambana (Barbershop Chronicles, National Theatre; The Caretaker, Bristol Old Vic), Jumoke Fashola (Inspirit, BBC Radio London's Sunday Breakfast Show; Dirty Little Secrets, London Festival of Cabaret), Christina Oshunniyi (Ife, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Africa Center; One Session, First Star Studios), Layo-Christina Akinlude (The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare's Globe; The Cane, Bush Theatre), and Marcy Dolapo Oni (Iya-Ile, Soho Theatre; The Marcy Project, OHTV) will appear as Baba Segi and his wives.

Following his celebrated performances as Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC Associate Artist Greg Hicks takes on the role of the tyrant king Richard in Shakespeare's RICHARD III, opening tonight 15 May at the Arcola Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Greg Hicks is returning to Shakespeare after many years to play the one major character left - RICHARD III. Arcola's thrilling new production of Shakespeare's RICHARD III, starring RSC Associate Artist Greg Hicks and directed by Artistic Director Mehmet Ergen, begins previews on 11 May. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!