Jamie Eastlake News

Screen stars have joined the cast of the hit production Gerry & Sewell as it makes its West End debut with a two-week run at the Aldwych Theatre. Learn more here!

Above buzzy tapas bar Laurels Whitley Bay, Laurels Theatre is a wee place to tell big stories and where everyone on the NE coast will be going to see the most exciting work before it breaks the big time. Partnered with the amazing tapas and bar downstairs, this venue offers a chilled out accessible space to bring live theatre, visual arts and comedy together.

Production costs, accommodation costs, leaflet printing, advertising, travel, food, drink, living costs. Edinburgh is horrifically expensive. So many working-class souls who would dare to take the next step find the door closed, find themselves priced out of opportunity. It leaves them stuck looking at the Fringe from a distance. 

Theatre N16 strive to support artists who are without the luxury of personal backing or funding. This summer CATAPULT- a new mentoring scheme, giving six companies the opportunity to preview new shows and meet industry programmers and producers seeks to further these aims. This exciting new scheme will run alongside FIRST CREDIT, a yearly in-house production cast exclusively with new actors, and WOLAB, a free programme to get actor writers onto the stage with the support of industry leaders.

In the final show at Theatre N16's Balham home at the Bedford pub, Tim Crowther's first full-length play about dealing with grief, 'tis unmanly grief, looks into the big messages of how men don't speak about their emotions and the important role women play in the world.

In the final show at Theatre N16's Balham home at the Bedford pub, Tim Crowther's first full-length play about dealing with grief, 'tis unmanly grief, looks into the big messages of how men don't speak about their emotions and the important role women play in the world.

After over 178 productions and over 28,000 audience members through the door since moving to the Bedford in 2015, Theatre N16 is looking for a new home from December 2017.

In his first season as artistic director of Theatre N16, Scott Ellis presents a slew of new writing.

Theatre N16 is proud to announce the appointment of Scott Ellis as the new artistic director of Theatre N16, as current artistic director Jamie Eastlake takes over the executive directorship of the theatre. This handover takes effect from April 3rd 2017.

With the aftermath of Brexit and the clear manipulation of the white working class for political gain, Theatre N16 are delighted to produce Simon Stephens Yuletide treat, CHRISTMAS, directed by Theatre N16 artistic director Jamie Eastlake and associate director Sarah Chapleo, and starring Jack Bence (Sherlock, Misfits, Bad Education).

Our new season this Autumn brings back favourite companies and shows from last year, as well as introducing new companies to a London theatre audience. We're also proud to offer more shows in the Bedford's 200 seat Globe space.

After a hugely successful run at Theatre N16, artistic director Jamie Eastlake's production of Luke Barnes' football play Bottleneck comes to the Old Red Lion for a short engagement at the beginning of the UEFA Euro 2016.

?Writer and filmmaker Gary Thomas has just completed a run of his play 'Hidden' at Theatre N16 at the Bedford pub in Balham, south London.  Gary received a grant earlier this year from Wandsworth Arts Fringe to put on his show, a very personal one-man play about mental health issues. The show got good reviews from those who attended the four performances, with Jamie Eastlake, Artistic Director at Theatre N16, saying it was "brutally brilliant", and called for it to be seen by a wider audience.

FRANK SUMATRA will run May 9th - May 18th, 8.45pm at Theatre N16. Press Night is slated for May 9th 2016, 8.45pm.

Theatre N16 presents YOUR EVER LOVING, April 18th - May 5th 2016, Theatre N16; Press Night: April 20th 2016, 7.30pm

This Spring/Summer, Theatre N16 will be producing 3 inhouse productions: in April, artistic director Jamie Eastlake will be directing Martin McNamara's new drama about the Guildford Four Your Ever Loving, followed in May by The Killing of Charles Bravo, an exclusive site-specific performance about a real-life murder that happened in Balham, where the theatre is based. Finally, in June, Chris Hislop will be directing a new production of Howard Barker's Gertrude, co-produced by LWL Investments and Entertainment Ltd.

Following a successful and ambitious opening season in May 2015, Theatre N16 is returning - but it's moved south, now residing at The Bedford Pub in Balham. This autumn season's diverse and trailblazing programme is designed to bring its audience cutting-edge fringe performances of new writing, opera-play reductions, and lesser-known gems, spanning the genres of opera, theatre, and dance, and providing creative opportunities to those specialising in a wide variety of creative disciplines.