Zainab Hasan and Sarah Lam will appear in the UK premiere of Michele Lee's play RICE, directed by Matthew Xia. Our co-production with ATC previews from 9 October 2021 and will also be live-streamed on 4 & 5 November. 

We're excited to announce the cast of Athol Fugard’s Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act. JMK Award Winner Diane Page directs Scarlett Brookes, Richard Sutton and Shaq Taylor.

Playwright Bryony Lavery talks to OT Literary Associate Guy Jones about her 2004 play Last Easter, which receives its London premiere at the OT from 3 July.

Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Peter Caulfield, Jodie Jacobs and Ellie Piercy will appear in the London premiere of Last Easter directed by Tinuke Craig. Previewing from 3 July, it will also be streamed live via OT on Screen on 22 and 23 July.

Diane Page is the winner of this year’s JMK Award with her production of Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard about a interracial relationship under threat in Apartheid South Africa. This OT production - in association with the JMK Award - is part of our Recovery Season, previewing from 28 August. It will also be streamed live via OT On Screen on 23 and 24 September.

Alex Bhat, Joe Bolland, Jordan Mifsúd, Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Hara Yannas will appear in the two short plays that make up SHAW SHORTS - How He Lied to Her Husband and Overruled. Our first plays to reopen the theatre to in person audiences from 22 May, they're directed by Artistic Director Paul Miller, following his hugely successful rediscoveries of Shaw's early plays Candida, Misalliance, The Philanderer and Widowers' Houses.

We're excited to announce that the Orange Tree will reopen from 22 May with The Recovery Season comprising five productions. This will be the first time audiences have been to the OT for over 14 months.

Following the huge success of INSIDE watched by audiences around the world, we're excited to announce the cast for OUTSIDE, live-streaming direct from the Orange Tree auditorium into your living room next week from 15-17 April. 

OUTSIDE is a triple bill of new short plays by Sonali Bhattacharyya, Zoe Cooper and Kalungi Ssebandeke.

As I write, the Orange Tree has been closed for a year. It’s time to switch the lights back on. Inside/Outside will be the first time we have told stories here since March 2020.

It feels important that we reopen with new plays – by writers who have been an important part of the Orange Tree’s story over the last few years, and to new writers who we are excited to introduce to audiences. I’ve been thinking back to how these playwrights came into our lives. Together, they tell a story about how the Orange Tree has made its name as a home for new plays.

We're excited to announce the cast for our very first livestreamed show direct from the Orange Tree auditorium into your living room next week from 25 - 27 March.

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.