Harlow Playhouse News

The award-winning production of Wreckage is now open at London's Turbine Theatre following a successful run at Edinburgh's Summerhall as part of this year's Fringe Festival.

Blackeyed Theatre has announced the cast for the world premiere UK Tour of Teechers Leavers '22.

All new character photos have been released for Wreckage, which will be heading to London in January 2023. 

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Katherine Stockton's play Colloquium is coming to The Culture Palace and The Etcetera Theatre this November.

This Christmas you are cordially invited to the Harlow Ball as the Harlow Playhouse hosts everybody's favourite pantomime – Cinderella - running from Thursday 1st December to Sunday 8th January 2023.

In bold and brave choreographer Rhiannon Faith's newly staged show DROWNTOWN, six strangers, weighed down by individual darkness, come to a deprived coastal land. Seemingly abandoned, there is no one to help but themselves.

FAME WHORE premieres at the Kings Head Theatre, Islington from 5th – 29th October 2022 before embarking on a small East Anglian tour.

Harlow Playhouse has announced that Wreckage will be heading to London in January 2023. The award-winning production of Wreckage will open at London's Turbine Theatre on Thursday 5th January 2023 following a successful run at Edinburgh's Summerhall as part of this year's Fringe Festival.

Artistic Director Mark Ravenhill and the whole team at the King’s Head Theatre have announced details of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!, the summer season of writer/performer plays running in rep from 2 August to 10 September.

Harlow Playhouse has announced that they will be producing a brand-new LGBTQ+ drama Wreckage. Written by Tom Ratcliffe and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE, Wreckage will be taking part in this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing at Venue 26, Summerhall.

After a sell-out, five-star run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 and worldwide touring dates, demand in the UK has been so great that new dates have been added to the UK tour of The Black Blues Brothers. 

Get a first look at  for Waleed Akhtar’s debut play Kabul Goes Pop; Music Television Afghanistan which opens on 18th May at Brixton House, with previews from 11th May.

All new rehearsal shots have been released for Patricia Gets Ready (for a date with the man that used to hit her), which is touring the UK until 27th May. 

Brixton House, in a co-production with HighTide, in association with the Mercury Theatre Colchester, today announces full cast for Waleed Akhtar's debut play Kabul Goes Pop; Music Television Afghanistan which opens on 18th May with previews from 11th May. The production will then tour to Harlow Playhouse (8 June), Mercury Theatre Colchester (15-18 June) and New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich (20 June).

What would you do if the whole world was singing along to a song about the worst night of your life? DONOTALIGHT in association with Harlow Playhouse Trust, supported by Arts Council England, presents I Know I Know I Know by Flora Wilson Brown at the Southwark Playhouse, 6 - 16 April, 2022. 

Based on writer Martha Watson Allpress’ own experiences in an abusive relationship, this production shines a delicate light on the realities of domestic abuse and those who experience it. It is skilfully brought to life by Angelina Chudi.

DONOTALIGHT in association with Harlow Playhouse Trust, supported by Arts Council England, presents I Know I Know I Knowby Flora Wilson Brown, Southwark Playhouse, 6 - 16 April, 2022.

This yellow brick road adventure opens at the Harlow Playhouse on 1st April before heading on a nineteen-date tour to Ely, Thurrock, Wellingborough, Kettering, Portsmouth, Camberley, Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Stourport-on-Severn, Northwich, Radlett, Southport, Birmingham, Bridlington, Redhill, Lowestoft, Basildon and will close Albany Theatre, Coventry on Sunday 5th June 2022.

The most famous Gothic horror story of all time Dracula is coming to the Harlow Playhouse on Thursday 17th March 2020. Adapted and performed by TV and West End star James Gaddas, best known for his roles in Coronation Street, Bad Girls, Doctors and Emmerdale, Dracula questions “Are some things – better left buried?!”