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A line-up so good, you'd think we were joking!😲

Catch some of the hottest comedians before they head to Edinburgh this August.

Including: Sophie Duker, Paddy Young, Kemah Bob, Celya AB, Rob Copland, Morgan Rees and Tom Towelling!

Southwark Playhouse Elephant | 1-3 and 29-31 July | On sale now 🎟️

Night City main artwork. Three gig economy workers stand in the centre of a busy urban scene.

Undervalued, underpaid and overworked. Welcome to London.

Spanning three intersecting stories, Night City is a modern drama using sharp, dark humour, movement and soundtrack to explore the highs and lows of London's gig workers.

Southwark Playhouse Borough | 9 Sep - 3 Oct | On sale now 🎟️

Kenrex production photo. Jack Holden stands on a chair, stooping to speak into a microphone, his hands raised in a gesture of surrender.

John Patrick Elliott plays guitar and sings, his hair falling in his face as he moves.

Jack Holden stands with a smug expression, his weight sitting on his right hip and his right arm out leaning on a microphone stand.

Jack Holden cowers in a doorway highlighted by blue neon light. Above a microphone hangs down from a wire.

Congratulations to the KENREX team who took home the Olivier Awards for Best Actor (Jack Holden) and Best Sound Design (Giles Thomas) yesterday for their recent run at The Other Palace.

We loved having this production with us in 2025 and are so proud to see how the show has grown.

Manuel Harlan 📸

Slaughterhouse-Five main artwork. A green alien hand with an eye in the centre of the palm is made up of various paper and card textures.

Kurt Vonnegut's classic sci-fi story Slaughterhouse-Five comes to Southwark Playhouse Borough this June, following a double-Offie award-winning run in 2024.

This time-travelling, anti-war story is brought to life through spectacular video design and multi-roling performances.

Tickets on sale now 🎟️

★★★★ LIFELINE @swkplay.bsky.social - Science and song in South London, as wonderful singing illuminates medical #musical - 'unusual, thoughtful and deeply committed', says @garynaylor85.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/life...

Firebird main image. A young woman steps out of a window onto a windowsill in a council tower block. She looks afraid.

Firebird now on sale!

Davies’ drama explores the devastating impact of grooming gangs.

When Tia meets Katie, an unexpected friendship forms. As one of them is drawn into the orbit of an older man, their bond is tested in ways neither of them imagined.

Southwark Playhouse Borough | 9 Jul - 1 Aug

A concrete background with text reading 'Coming up in April'. Show artwork is overlaid for Lifeline, Flyby and Invisible Me.

April show(e̶r̶)s ahead ☔

FLYBY
Love and loneliness collide in this original musical following an astronaut's space logs and the relationship he left behind

Invisible Me
A warm, witty, and big hearted comedy drama about starting over at sixty

Lifeline continues at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

Brixton Calling production photo. Max Runham and Tendai Sitima play guitar back to back. Text overlaid reads: Offies winner, production, design, sound and music.

Kenrex production photo. Jack Holden sits tensely in a chair next to a tape player. Text overlaid reads: Offies winners, sound and music, creation.

Congratulations to the incredible teams behind Brixton Calling and KENREX for their OffWestEnd Award wins last night!

Brixton Calling 🏆
- Production
- Design
- Sound and Music

KENREX 🏆
- Sound and Music
- Creation

Photography by Danny Kaan and Manuel Harlan📸

We absolutely loved having this show with us ❤️

Photography from Southwark Playhouse's Elders Company showcase and Shakespeare for Schools production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Text reads: We're looking for trustees

We're looking for three new trustees to join our board.

If you are passionate about fostering new talent, providing free creative experiences, and cultivating a home for the theatre of tomorrow, we'd love to hear from you.

Applications close on Monday 13 April.

#ArtsJobs

Can't go wrong with Taytos!

A roller coaster wraps around neon lights that read Ride The Cyclone the musical

Genre-defying hit musical, Ride The Cyclone, returns after a sold-out run!

Priority booking for Southwark Playhouse mailing list subscribers: Tue 17 Mar, 11am
(Check your emails tomorrow morning for more details)

General sale: Wed 18 Mar, 11am

Southwark Playhouse Elephant | 19 Jun - 22 Aug

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Jane Eyre Main Artwork. A woman's face in profile, she holds her hands up to her chin and her face is dimly lit. Bold yellow text reads 'Jane Eyre'. The gap in the a is the silhouette of a flame.

John Caird and Paul Gordon's Jane Eyre makes its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse Elephant in August.

Based on Charlotte Brontë's iconic tale, the musical will be co-directed by John Caird and Megan McGinnis, and reimagined with bold new staging.

28 August - 24 October | On sale now 🎟️

The Frogs production photo. Surrounded by boxes, Dionysos (Dan Buckley) and Xanthias (Kevin McHale) cling to each other in fear.

Brixton Calling production photo. Simon Parkes (Max Runham) and Johnny Lawes (Tendai Sitima) jump and dance in front of neon lights.

Best of luck to the incredible teams behind Brixton Calling and The Frogs, who are both nominated for Best Studio Production at tonight's WhatsOnStage awards.

We loved having these shows with us for their runs at Southwark Playhouse Borough.

Photography by Pamela Raith and Danny Kaan 📸

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky main artwork. A Victorian-style street lamp is fully lit at dawn in a London street against an autumn starlit sky with faint clouds.

Simon Reade's new stage adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's classic novel, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, comes to Southwark Playhouse Borough this September.

This epic tale follows three lonely Londoners looking for connection in the smoky, sprawling streets of 1920s Jazz Age London.

A concrete background with text reading 'Coming up in February'. Show artwork is overlaid for Ballad Lines, It Walks Around The House At Night, Children of the Night, and Lifeline

From "sangs" to scares to science, March has you covered.

Ballad Lines enters its final weeks

It Walks Around The House At Night
Part ghost story, part psychological thriller

Children of the Night
A clubland coming-of-age story

Lifeline
A folk musical about ordinary people's extraordinary feats

Thanks for visiting!

The Last Man is now on sale!

A virus spreads across the globe. Cities fall silent. The undead roam.

Armed with supplies to last a year, one survivor locks himself inside bunker B-103 to wait it out. But as isolation begins to warp his sense of reality, survival itself starts to feel dangerous.

At 08:06 GMT this morning a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway. Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were present or injured. We can confirm that both of our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening. Our thoughts are with those injured in the collision and we wish them speedy recoveries.

At 08:06 GMT a bus hit into the window frontage of Southwark Playhouse Borough after a collision on Newington Causeway.

Our venue was closed at the time and no members of Southwark Playhouse staff were injured.

We can confirm that our venues will be open and operating as normal this evening.

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As a charity with no regular public funding, your feedback helps us to pitch for future funding and make improvements across our spaces.

Please help us by completing this short survey - with the chance to win a £100 restaurant gift card.

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Congratulations to all the artists and creatives who recieved an OffWestEnd Award nomination for their production runs at Southwark Playhouse yesterday including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Brixton Calling, KENREX and The White Chip.

Invisible Me main artwork. A dreamlike scene shows three human silhouettes against a hazy purple background. The central figure is dancing wearing a gingham tabard, another wears a leather jacket and the final figure holds a phone.

When sixty is just the beginning…

Invisible Me is a big hearted comedy drama about romance, second chances, and discovering that it’s never too late to start again.

Southwark Playhouse Borough | 8 April - 2 May | Tickets on sale now!

A concrete background with text reading 'Coming up in February'. Show artwork is overlaid for Miles, Beautiful Little Fool and Ballad Lines.

It's Valen-time you went to the theatre 💕

Coming up in February:

MILES.
A bold theatrical work inspired by the life and legacy of Miles Davis

Beautiful Little Fool continues until 28 February and Ballad Lines continues until 21 March.

The Wasp main artwork. A yellow background with a dark pencil sketch of a wasp's body.

Two former schoolmates. One café. One bag of cash... and a proposition that changes everything.

Greenwich Theatre Productions presents The Wasp, a twisting thriller from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm ('Emilia').

Southwark Playhouse Borough | 6 - 30 May | On sale now!

Promotional artwork for Flyby a new musical, showing a woman (Poppy Gilbert) and a man (Stuart Thompson) in an intimate moment, faces close, against a soft sky background.

New contemporary musical, FLYBY, to make its world premiere!

By Theo Jamieson
Directed by Adam Lenson
Starring Poppy Gilbert and Stuart Thompson

Southwark Playhouse Borough | 3 April - 16 May | Tickets on sale now 🎟️

It Walks Around the House At Night Main artwork. Silhouette of man standing in front of a red spooky manor house.

Award-winning company @thickskintheatre.bsky.social return to London with It Walks Around The House At Night, a chilling new play by Tim Foley.

An actor takes a job playing a ghost but soon uncovers something far more sinister.

An atmospheric, edge-of-your-seat experience.

4-28 Mar | On sale now

Show artwork for upcoming shows at Southwark Playhouse: Beautiful Little Fool, Ballad Lines, The Jonathan Larson Project, Children of the Night, Redcliffe and Lifeline. Text reads: Competition, win 2 free tickets to every Southwark Playhouse show for a year.

We're gifting one lucky mailing list subscriber two free tickets to every Southwark Playhouse show for a year from February 2026.

The winner will be selected randomly on Monday 26 January and must respond to communications within 7 days of being contacted to redeem.

Sign up via our website.

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Making my resolution for 2026 to watch more theatre...

Coming up:

The Olive Boy
A comedy about grief and growing up

Beautiful Little Fool
Michael Grief directs this musical re-imagining of the lives of Zelda and F.Scott Fitzgerald

Ballad Lines
A new folk musical about the stories we carry

For those who haven’t made it to the fairground yet, this one’s for you!

Take a first look at the world, cast, and story of Ride the Cyclone.

Ride The Cyclone | Southwark Playhouse Elephant | Until 10 January