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🎟️ Our 26/27 season is now OPEN!
Unforgettable classics, captivating new productions, and a brand-new concert series featuring world-class classical musicians, all in the heart of Richmond 🌿🎶
Explore the season & ticket offers on our website!
🎭 A space to play, experiment, and create.
Acting Lab: Devised Theatre is a six-week course for anyone 18+.
No experience needed!
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What will you create?
💥 Meet the panellists for our Under 30 Night!
Join the cast & creative team behind a small and quiet light on Fri 2 Oct for a post-show talk about the rehearsal & creative process. £20 gets you the show, a free drink & a place on the panel!
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💡 Join us for our next Saturday Seminar
🎙️ Featuring author Shrabani Basu & Assistant Director Amy Crighton. Explore the life of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan and the story behind a small and quiet light in this special discussion!
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❄️ Meet the full cast of Cranford!
Our newly announced Christmas show, written by Lin Coughlan and Shaun McKenna, co-created and directed by Josh Roche, runs 3 Nov–16 Jan.
🎟️ Tickets are selling fast 👉 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/what…
🥂 We're thrilled to share that OT Artistic Director @littler_tom has been nominated for Best Director at the @uk_theatre Awards for Love's Labour's Lost & Much Ado About Nothing this summer, co-produced with GSC.
💙 Wishing Tom the very best of luck, as we all cheer you on!
The nominees for Best Director are:
Abigail Graham for Living
Emma Jordan for The Human Voice
Tom Littler for Love’s Labour’s Lost & Much Ado About Nothing
#UKTAwards
ALT Best Director
Abigail Graham
Living
a Sheffield Theatres production
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Emma Jordan
The Human Voice
a Prime Cut Productions production at Lyric Theatre Belfast
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Tom Littler
Love’s Labour’s Lost & Much Ado About Nothing
a Guildford Shakespeare Company & Orange Tree Theatre co-production
🎻 We’re delighted to launch OT Music with our friends at St Mary Magdalene, Richmond, kicking off our 2026–27 season with the world-renowned Fidelio Trio!
🎟️ Priority booking is open; general booking opens Wednesday at midday.
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Hear from the cast & creatives of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral as rehearsals begin! Starring David Suchet, this gripping thriller is sold out. Join us as a member and get access to final ticket releases & the waiting list!
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📅 12 Oct–7 Nov
📸 T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral began rehearsals this morning, and we were delighted to welcome Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, to discuss the history and power of Eliot’s thrilling masterpiece.
🎟️ All tickets are currently sold out in Richmond - OT Members enjoy priority access to our waitlist.
📍 After the show closes in Richmond, catch in at @TheatreRBath from 10–21 November.
📣 Introducing the full programming for our 2026/27 season!
📅 Priority booking for our new productions starts this Thursday, with general booking opening at midday on Wed 16 Sep 🕛
Learn more about what's coming up 👉 orangetreetheatre.co.uk/abou…
A warm welcome to playwright Cordelia Lynn to the OT! 🍊
We’re delighted to welcome Cordelia as one of four recipients of the 2026 Playwrights ’73 Award. Over the next 18 months, we’ll support her as she develops a new play. ✍️
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💡 Your first look at a small and quiet light
Stephanie Street's new play is based on the extraordinarily courageous life of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan and will be running at the OT from 21 September to 24 October.
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THE RIVALS is now streaming! 🍸
Starring Patricia Hodge & Robert Bathurst, our sold-out Christmas production last year is now available via OT On Screen for just £15. Watch anytime and as many times as you like until Friday 🍊
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Murder in the Cathedral is currently sold out, but there’s still a chance to see David Suchet as Thomas Becket in T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece at St John the Divine ⛪️
Learn more about how to get tickets 👇
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Congratulations to this year’s incredible Best Performer in a Play nominees, sponsored by @EncoreEMEA at The Stage Debut Awards 2026, in association with @netflix
✨Robert Aramayo for Guess How Much I Love You at @royalcourt
✨@zoe_armer for The Virgins at @sohotheatre
✨Noah Jupe for Romeo and Juliet at @HPinterTheatre
✨Assa Kanouté for Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe
✨Erin Kellyman for Evening All Afternoon at Donmar Warehouse
✨Dylan Malyn for To Kill a Mockingbird at Leeds Playhouse and on tour
✨Ruaridh Mollica for Clarkston at @traftheatre
✨Amber van der Brugge for Vincent in Brixton at @orangetreethtr
🎭 OT Labs return this autumn!
Two new courses on Wednesday evenings. Open to anyone 18+ interested in approaching theatre-making through a variety of practitioners’ techniques!
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Simply brilliant @OrangeTreeThtr production of Loves Labour's Lost last night outdoors. Everything: venue, weather, stage/staging, production, costumes, most of all acting quite superb. Get along to see if you can
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