ARCOLA THEATRE

In the comedy world, where controversy is king, when does the joke stop being funny? A controversial comedian. A money hungry manager. A dirty, dangerous ...

It’s 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism and Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He’s a bad boy with a good ...

“What colour eyes you have doesn’t matter to me. Does it have to matter to you? We all love to play don’t we?” The world premiere of a ...

In a crumbling coastal town, a fading comedian is forced to confront his estranged ex-partner – a deranged recluse fixated on their distant heyday—in a ...

“Of course – as you’ve no doubt guessed – there’s a big ‘But Then’ moment heading this way…” It’s a sunny, spring day in East ...

Arcola Theatre presents Ece Temelkuran's Women Who Blow On Knots Adapted by  Leyla Nazli Directed by  Lerzan Pamir “What is a revolution if you can’t ...

A new play about growing up, coming home and making noise. The Band Back Together  arrives in London after a spring tour of England and ...

Welcome to the Monstrous Cabaret Club, a place to drown more than your sorrows, where the acts are unreal and the voices to die for! ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright  Suzan-Lori Parks ’ visceral family portrait reveals a divided nation.  “Sometimes the alien is right in your own home. Sometimes right in ...

Sergio Blanco  and  Daniel Goldman  return to the Arcola Theatre, after the success of their critically acclaimed OFFIE award winning productions of  Thebes Land  and  ...

Haruki Murakami’s much loved 1999 novel Sputnik Sweetheart has been adapted for the stage for the first time in history, by none other than Bryony ...

@arcolatheatre | www.arcolatheattre.com Partly a story of love and loneliness, partly a detective story, Murakami’s novel is brought to stage by Tony Award nominee Bryony ...

After a completely sold-out run in January/February, this urgent, award-winning play about the destruction of Hiroshima returns to London’s Arcola Theatre, 18 – 22 April ...

Written by Michael Mears and directed by Rosamunde Hutt, an urgent, award-winning play about the destruction of Hiroshima transfers from the Edinburgh Fringe to London’s ...

Above a pub in North London, Phil is fighting off panic about his comeback gig. Once a regular stand-up on Saturday night television, Phil’s back ...

For one night at Grimeborn, The Wild Stage presents a night of music not to dance to, but to inspire, make us dream and take ...

Following a sold-out run at the Barbican Art Gallery and a performance featuring songs from the Weimar Cabarets for Bono and Chris Martin, the cabaret ...

Arcolas first production in Arcola Outside is a raucous romantic comedy about sex, class and blessings in disguise.Lady Sylvia might be 58th in line to ...

Behold, the most terrifying, entertaining and unnerving, one man show of all time.5 lessons. Nothing but the truth.In under one hour, your brittle wall of ...