30 July – 23 August 2025

Step into the strange, funny, and heartbreakingly human world of Clive, the riveting new one-person play by Olivier and BAFTA award-winning playwright Michael Wynne.

6 August – 9 August 2025

First heard in concert with the English Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Woods, this bold adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel follows one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms.

15 August 2025

Arcola Academy welcomes a new cohort of Hackney based creatives aged 18 – 25 to develop, expand, and explore theatre craft and performance skills as a professional pathway.

19 August – 23 August 2025

With its soaring musical score and sensitive lyrics and dialogue, Sense & Sensibility: The Musical invites audiences to live alongside the Dashwood Sisters, their colourful family, friends and even enemies; where people rarely say what they mean, and passions, hidden by society, are realised in song.

26 August – 30 August 2025

Enjoy another unique minimalist production by Marcio da Silva, performed by Ensemble OrQuesta, with the orchestral accompaniment by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble.

27 August – 30 August 2025

It’s absurd. It’s naked (not literally). It’s bloody (literally). It’s about women.

2 September – 6 September 2025

Becoming Tosca, a unique and innovative lyric drama, relocates the action to an unspecific Latin American setting in the second half of the 20th century.

11 September – 11 October 2025

At 15, Sasha was called an art world prodigy. But now he lives in a run-down flat and no one’s even heard of him. What went wrong?

11 September – 11 October 2025

This one woman play is a startling exploration of identity, memory, love, and the lengths it takes someone to free themselves from the web of their past.

7 October – 11 October 2025

Welcome to HMP Ditchfield, where every week a group of prisoners are challenged to write their own plays.

14 October – 18 October 2025

It started with a decision. A scientific breakthrough. A war. A mistake.

17 October – 22 November 2025

A storm is brewing in a quiet Northern Irish farmhouse. The 80s are in full swing, and the past is clawing its way back – ugly, loud, and alive.

19 November – 20 December 2025

Set in a dressing room, two understudies attempt to out-perform the show relay. But as worlds collide and reality warps, can they hold on to themselves?