London

London

• Actors Touring Company (ATC)

  Actors Touring Company produces and tours innovative contemporary work from the international repertoire and collaborates with emerging theatre and comedy writers, designers and choreographers both in the UK and internationally. The company also offers education and training programmes.

• Aesop's Touring Theatre Company

  Specialises in touring schools, art centres and theatres nationally throughout the year with plays and workshops specifically written and designed for nursery, infant and junior age groups.

• Albery Theatre

  Originally known as the New Theatre, the Albery opened in 1903. A host of famous names have appeared on-stage at the theatre including Sir John Gielgud, Sybil Thorndike, Sir Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft.

• Aldwych Theatre

  There can be no other theatre in the world which has two such distinct and diverse claims to fame as having been the home of farce and the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

  
  
• Almeida Theatre Company

  The Almeida produces high calibre interpretations of classics and new plays that are both risk taking and adventurous. The theatre has an educational programme involving young people from schools and colleges across Islington in workshops with playwrights, directors, actors and designers.

• Arc Theatre

  Educational theatre company based in North-East London, who have focussed since 1984 on diversity and equality issues for young people and adults.

• Arcola Theatre Production Company

  Arcola is a vibrant theatre venue housed in a former clothing factory. It serves the local community in east London, with a particular focus on Black, Turkish and Kurdish audiences.

• Artichoke

  Artichoke is a creative company that puts on extraordinary shows that change the way people look at the world. We work with the best creative minds to produce events that live in the memory forever.

  
  
• Artsdepot

  North London's exciting new arts venue.

• Barbican

  A large multi-arts venue in London.

  
  
• Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)

  BAC aims to create and promote exciting, innovative, accessible, high quality and surprising arts activity through creative collaboration between artists, staff and public.

• Bernie Grant Arts Centre

  Designed by award winning architect David Adjaye, the Bernie Grant Arts Centre is the latest addition to London’s cultural arts scene. This purpose built multi-arts centre includes a 300-seat auditorium, 70-seat studio/rehearsal space, café/bar, multimedia workspaces and open spaces.

  
• Blue Elephant Theatre

  The Blue Elephant is the only professional theatre in Camberwell: a vibrant arts venue, aiming to nurture new and emerging artists across all art-forms. "Camberwell's coolest venue" The Guardian

• Box Clever Theatre Company

  Box Clever is a writer-led, multi-disciplinary company that creates contemporary theatre with and for young people. The company's school tours include new writing on life issues and adaptations of curriculum set texts. Box Clever is also a partner in the development of special projects in the areas of social, health and environmental education.

• Bush Theatre

  The Bush Theatre is an internationally renowned centre for developing new writing, bringing the best in home-grown and international talent to London audiences. It has also been building its community and education programme, and its national and international touring role.

• Cafe Theatre Scripts

  This website puts the drama repertoire of the long established Artaud Company and the Café Theatre, the London home of the Company, at the disposal of theatre professionals or amateurs and the general reader.

• Cambridge Theatre

  The Cambridge Theatre is in London's West End and was built for Bertie Meyer. It opened on September 4, 1930. It is a member of the Society of London Theatre.

  
  
• Camden People's Theatre (CPT)

  Camden People's Theatre is small scale experimental company dedicated to the creation of new work. It produces, promotes and supports professional theatre from innovative emerging companies. It places special emphasis on making theatre accessible on a cross-cultural basis and prioritises work which has been developed through collaboration.

• Canal Cafe Theatre

  Canal Café Theatre is one of London’s leading fringe theatre venues with an award-winning reputation for comedy and increasingly for new writing.

• Cardboard Citizens

  Cardboard Citizens is the UK's only homeless people's professional theatre company and the leading practitioner of Forum Theatre in the UK. The company works with homeless and ex-homeless people, including asylum seekers and refugees. Their work is wide ranging and includes professional productions, participatory projects, and professional training in forum theatre.

• Charles Cryer Studio Theatre

  A fully equipped studio space which can provide a more intimate area for performance as well as discussion forums and group training. The venue has the capacity to seat up to 110 people and has full lighting and sound equipment. It is the heart of many local community groups and the friendly atmosphere offers a wide variety of styles of performance including drama, dance, musicals and comedy.

  
• Chelsea Players

  Chelsea Players - London-based fringe theatre company producing new writing and established work.

• Chicken Shed

  Specializes in musicals, ballets, mime, and dance. Based in Southgate, North London.

• Circo Rum Ba Ba

  A well-established women's circus theatre company which is know for its elaborate costumes. The octopus on our CV clinic page is from one of their shows, called Octopus Ocean.

• Circus Arts Forum (CAF)

  Promotes and represents all aspects of the circus community. The forum organises a National Circus Day, annual conferences, offers a general advice service and strategic support such as lobbying.

• Circus Space

  The Circus Space is a centre of excellence in the circus arts, working in partnership with the public and private sectors at local, regional and international levels to redefine perceptions of circus and broaden its appeal. It offers a diverse programme that includes the UK's only degree-level education in the circus arts, professional development opportunities for aspiring and established performers and participatory and leisure activities for young people and adults.

• Clean Break Theatre Company

  Clean Break works with women within the criminal justice system and women ex-offenders. The company commissions and produces new plays and provides a comprehensive accredited theatre training programme.

• Cochrane Theatre

  The Cochrane Theatre is a receiving and producing house that aims to present all aspects of the performing arts within a proscenium arch.

  
• Cockpit Theatre

  The theatre is well-known in the arts and entertainments industry and the venue's engaging atmosphere and reputation for innovative work (and easy evening parking) makes it popular with press, VIPs and audiences alike.

• Company FZ

  Company F.Z are innovators in the field of physical comedy, visual theatre and circus.

• Criterion Theatre

  In the latter half of the 17th century, on the site of the Criterion Theatre, there stood a coaching inn called the White Bear with the address of No. 221 Pickadilly. The Reduced Shakespeare Company made the Criterion Theatre their home for 9 years ending in April 2005. Since then recent productions have included: The Gruffalo; What the Butler Saw; Otherwise Engaged and Mack & Mabel.

• David Glass New Mime Ensemble

  David Glass Ensemble is an innovative ensemble, playing an important role in developing physical theatre and ensemble work. His participatory work has been particularly important in relating physical theatre to the needs of young people.

• Deafinitely Theatre

  Deafinitely Theatre was set up in Janurary 2002 to produce performance ideas by deaf people. All the work is Deaf led but is accessible to hearing people as well. The company also runs projects and workshops for youth theatre's, community groups, colleges and schools.

• Donmar Warehouse

  The Donmar produces a wide range of contemporary classics, new work and music theatre and a schools education programme.

• Duckie

  Duckie specialises in professional theatre by and for lesbian and gay audiences.

• Emergency Exit Arts

  Emergency Exit Arts is one of the UK's leading street arts companies, providing arts services for community events, public celebrations and arts in education projects. It also creates and produces one-off performances and site-specific events.

• English Stage Company (Royal Court Theatre)

  This is the UK’s leading theatre for new writing. It develops and produces new plays at its recently refurbished home in Sloane Square and also runs a dramaturgical service, comprehensive programmes for young writers and international work.

• English Touring Theatre (ETT)

  English Touring Theatre tours productions of classical plays. A broad and wide reaching programme of workshops, talks and special events accompanies every tour.

• Etcetera Theatre

  A London fringe theatre venue.

• Frantic Assembly

  Frantic Assembly is a physical theatre company, founded in 1994. The company specialises in creating contemporary physical theatre and has a strong new writing policy. As well as working in London, Frantic Assembly tours the UK extensively and runs regular educational workshop programmes to complement its productions.

• Futures Theatre Company

  Futures Theatre Company was founded in January 1992 to promote plays written by women. It now works in theatre-in-education and claims to have reached 40,000 young people with its performances and drama workshops, across 17 London boroughs.

• Gate Theatre

  The Gate specialises in international work, including new plays and new work in translation. The theatre runs an education and outreach programme in its local community that has links with international aspects of the programme and is regarded as an important training ground for younger practitioners.

• Germination

  Germination is a creative production company, working in the spaces between society, technology and culture. Its aim is to engage audiences in ideas around positive social change through film, performance and digital media.

• Graeae Theatre Company

  Graeae is a disabled-led theatre company that profiles the skills of actors, writers and directors with physical and sensory impairments. Their artistic approach creates aesthetically accessible productions for disabled and non-disabled audiences.

• Greenwich and Lewisham Young People's Theatre

  Greenwich and Lewisham Young People's Theatre (GLTPT)provides a wide range of opportunities for young people to learn through drama and theatre arts, including workshops and its schools education programme. It also has an established arts and theatre programme for young refugees and asylum seekers in South East London.

• Greenwich Playhouse

  London’s newest, purpose studio theatre which is located in SE10. The Greenwich Playhouse is prominently situated in the forecourt of the new Greenwich Connex South East Rail and Docklands Light Railway Station. The venue boasts state-of-the-art facilities and has a resident artistic director.

• Greenwich Theatre

  In all aspects of both programming and producing Greenwich Theatre is committed to supporting the production of musical theatre. It is also committed to providing a nationally unique programme of educational opportunities for young people, primarily through the operation of the Greenwich Musical Theatre Academy.

• Hackney Empire

  A large theatre in Hackney, with education and community programmes, as well as other shows.

• Half Moon Young Peoples Theatre

  The Half Moon produces professional theatre and provides training, youth theatre, and other participatory opportunities for young people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

  
• Hampstead Theatre

  The Hampstead Theatre specialises in new writing, runs a dramaturgical service reading over 1,000 scripts every year, and runs an education and community programme.

  
  
• Her Majesty's Theatre

  Her Majesty's Theatre is in London's West End. A theatre has been on this site, in a street called the Haymarket in the St. James's district, since 1705.

• Immediate Theatre

  Immediate Theatre was set up in Hackney in 1996. From the outset the company's vision was to work closely with locally based organisations and community groups to create theatre which engaged people in the process of change.

• Improbable

  Under the leadership of three artistic directors, Improbable is a theatre company committed to finding new ways to tell stories using puppetry, mask, live music and improvisation. Projects are primarily based on stories connecting people to each other and to the world.

• In Toto Theatre

  In Toto Theatre specialise in creating ‘total theatre’ by, with and for young audiences; a highly visual, musical style of theatre using an approach which is inclusive and very accessible to a wide range of ages and abilities. Its work transcends cultural and language barriers by using a combination of puppetry, live music, storytelling and dance. It is a registered arts award centre, currently offering accreditation in Bronze and Silver Arts Awards with plans to offer Gold Arts Awards to young people from Spring 2008.

• Independent Street Arts Network

  ISAN provides a range of services for promoters of street arts. Providing networking and information services in the UK, the organisation has raised the profile of the sector and the level of debate about the artform. It also has useful international links and a track record in enabling collaborations to present new work.

• Informal European Theatre Meeting

  A membership organisation which exists to stimulate the quality, development and contexts of contemporary performing arts in a global environment.

• International Workshop Festival (IWF)

  This provides professional development for performing arts practitioners. Its main event is an annual festival of workshops led by nationally and internationally renowned artists.

• ITC members list

  A list of the all the ITC members and companies.

• Julie McNamara

  Julie McNamara's theatre practice offers a programme of artform development from a disability perspective.

• Kali Theatre Company

  Kali is an Asian-led theatre company founded in 1990 to promote new writing by Asian women. Our support will help it develop a rolling programme of complementary and integrated projects that encourage, promote and increase access to quality writing for performance by Asian women.

• Kaos

  Kaos Theatre is an ensemble company that combines a cappella singing, physicality, storytelling and intimate performances to create highly original visual interpretations of classics, adaptations and new writing. Company also offers education and training programmes.

• Kazzum Arts Project

  Kazzum is a company at the forefront of dynamic, creative work for younger audiences, drawing on a range of artistic and cultural influences and practices.

• Kinetika

  Kinetika has 10 years experience in the design, production and performance of extraordinary shows that retain the essence of carnival whilst telling a story, working as a team of professional artists alongside young people. Kinetika’s past projects and performances include Atlanta Olympics, Kolkata Carnival in India, 'Beijing 2008' Olympic Cultural Festival, Notting Hill Carnival, London Olympic Torch Relay, London Jazz Festival, Thames Festival, Baishakhi Mela and Nelson Mandela's statue unveiling at Parliament Square.

• Kings Head Theatre

  A London fringe theatre venue.

• Landor Theatre

  A London fringe theatre venue.

• London Bubble Theatre Company

  London Bubble runs a year round programme of work allowing people of all ages to make theatre.

  
  
• London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)

  LIFT programmes contemporary and innovative world theatre including international co-production and outdoor theatre events.

• London International Mime Festival (LIMF)

  The London International Mime Festival is an annual festival of mime, puppetry and visual theatre attracting the highest quality international and national work.

• London Palladium

  The London Palladium is one of the most famous of London's West End theatres. Built by Frank Matcham, a famous theatrical architect who designed two famous London theatres: the London Palladium and the London Coliseum.

• Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

  The Lyric Hammersmith produces and presents some of the most original nights out at the theatre to be found in London and through its free first nights, £9 nights and Studio £7s, and generous concessions, it works to ensure that its audience is as various as the city it inhabits.

  
  
  
  
  
• Mimbre

  Mimbre are three female circus artists who create innovative and highly skilled acrobatic performances using physical theatre and different forms of movement and dance.

• Montage Theatre

  London-based theatre company and training for acting, dancing and singing (all ages).

• National Operatic and Dramatic Association

  Provides information and support for amateur companies.

• National Theatre

  The Royal National Theatre produces a full range of new, contemporary and classic plays in its three theatres, performing to all age groups and communities. It tours and hosts work from other countries, and carries out an intensive programme of education and development in the studio.

  
  
• National Youth Theatre of Great Britain

  The National Youth Theatre gives young people aged 14-21 throughout the UK the chance to participate in theatre to a high professional, artistic and practical standard. It contributes to their social and cultural development and encourages them to aspire to excellence.

• New Ambassadors Theatres

  The Ambassadors opened in 1913 - three years late as a result of World War I. It was built with the intention of being an intimate, smaller theatre and is situated opposite celeb-fave Ivy Restaurant.

• New End Theatre

  Presents issue–led writing, including musicals, comedy and classic revivals. The building housing the New End Theatre was constructed in 1890 as the mortuary of the former New End Hospital. A tunnel connecting the hospital and mortuary allowed the bodies to be transported under the road.

  
  
• New Peckham Varieties

  NPV (New Peckham Varieties) is based at the Magic Eye Theatre in south east London and offers training and education opportunities for all, with a particular emphasis on young people.

• New Wimbledon Studio

  The New Wimbledon Studio offers the best of fringe theatre in South West London, including comedy, classic drama, contemporary drama, and new writing.

• News Revue

  A London fringe theatre venue.

• Nimax Theatres

  A group of London theatres. On the 26th September 2005, producers Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer purchased the Apollo, Lyric, Duchess and Garrick Theatres from Andrew Lloyd Webber, creating Nimax Theatres Limited. The Vaudeville Theatre, solely owned by Max Weitzenhoffer, completes the Nimax portfolio.

• Nitro

  Nitro commissions and produces Black-led music and theatre, particularly for younger audiences.

• Official London Theatre

  This site lists all the members of SOLT and what's showing where

• Oily Cart Company

  Oily Cart specialises in producing theatre for three to five-year-old children, and innovative work for young disabled people with multiple impairments.

• Orange Tree Theatre

  The Orange Tree, in Richmond-upon-Thames, produces high quality theatre-in-the-round. It also provides schools’ projects and training opportunities for new directors.

• Out of Joint

  Out of Joint is an outstanding new writing company with an international reputation. It tours new plays to middle scale venues throughout the country.

• Oval House Theatre

  The Oval House supports, promotes and encourages the development of new work. It has a strong policy of supporting disability arts, Black and Asian theatre companies, and also runs an extensive programme of theatre and workshops for young people.

  
• Pacitti Company

  Pacitti produces highly original group and solo theatre with a unique visual style that uses aspects of fine art, film and new technology.

• Paddington Arts

  A West London youth arts organisation that is committed to developing talent and creativity in the community.

  
  
• Paines Plough

  Paines Plough is a theatre company that specialises in developing new writing talent. It tours to small and middle-scale theatres throughout the country. The company also offers education and training programmes.

• People Show

  People Show is a long established company committed to creating multidisciplinary, multimedia live theatre. There is no artistic director and shows are developed through the ideas of the core and associate artists.

• Piccadilly Theatre

  At its grand opening in April 1928, the Piccadilly Theatre was one of the largest theatres to be built in London, as its souvenir brochure claimed, 'If all the bricks used in the building were laid in a straight line, they would stretch from London to Paris'. The 1990s witnessed an expansion in musicals, ballet and dance at the theatre.

  
• Pleasance Islington

  The London branch of the extremely successful Edinburgh fringe venue.

• Polka Theatre

  Polka Theatre is the only theatre venue in Britain exclusively dedicated to children. The theatre has been developing new writing for children and is at the forefront of theatre for early years (0–6 year olds). It produces its own plays and presents the work of other companies.

• Prince Edward Theatre London

  A large West End theatre owned by the Delfont Mackintosh group.

• Puppet Barge

  Puppet Barge theatre presents marionette and rod puppet shows on a barge throughout the year in London (Little Venice) and along the river Thames.

• Queens Theatre

  The Queen’s Theatre is a producing venue providing an important community resource for outer east London. It presents a diverse programme, including a strong education and outreach programme for all age groups.

• Questors

  The Questors is the largest community theatre in Europe, with an audience membership of around 3,000, of whom around 600 are actively involved in productions.

• Quicksilver Theatre Company

  Quicksilver Theatre tours schools and venues in London, nationally and internationally with productions for children and young people aged three to 11.The company also offers education and training programmes specifically aimed at young people.

  
  
• Reality Productions

  Reality Productions aims to change the face of theatre by focusing on disabled and culturally diverse writers.

  
  
• Red Room

  Red Room is a new writing company that cultivates and produces radical new theatre.

• Red Shift Theatre Company

  Red Shift is a London based company which tours nationally to small and middle-scale venues throughout the UK. The company's work combines traditional narrative with art-house performance, creating work that is both challenging and accessible.

• Richmix

  Rich Mix is located within the buzzing heart of Shoreditch. Since opening in Spring 2006, this vast former garment factory has played host to the newest releases and exciting film festivals in our three-screen cinema and events for clients such as Lily Allen, Google, Bacardi and the BBC. In short, it’s 62,000 square feet of activity and innovation, designed to bridge cultures and disciplines to create an entirely new kind of arts centre.

• Ridiculusmus Theatre Company

  Ridiculusmus make comic theatre that is provocative, bold and unconventional. Their work is created through improvisation and is comitted to being both accessible and experimental, with the company placing particular emphasis on the nature of their relationship with the audience. The company tours both nationally and internationally.

• Ripstop Productions

  Ripstop Productions creates visual theatre for children, with shadow theatre and live music integral to their work. It has a policy of creating theatre that can tour easily to different venues, including schools and theatres.

• Roundhouse

  The Roundhouse hosts a multidisciplinary programme of theatre, physical theatre, music and performance art, and an arts training centre for young people in the Undercroft.

• Royal Albert Hall

  The Royal Albert Hall is one of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings. Since its opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from every kind of performance genre have appeared on its stage.

• Royal Opera House

  The Royal Opera House is one of the most historic lyric theatres in the world and home to The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. As a resource to the nation it gives over 700 performances each year, alongside a programme committed to learning, promoting new talent and reaching as wide an audience as possible.

• Savoy Theatre

  The Savoy Theatre, which opened on 10 October 1881, was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte (1844-1901) on the site of the old Savoy Palace in London as a showcase for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

• Scarabeus

  Scarabeus is one of the UK’s foremost exponents of multidisciplinary performance. It uses visual theatre, stilts, abseiling, dance and acrobatics to create challenging work outside conventional performance spaces. The Company also runs an education programme for children and adults.

• Scarlet Theatre

  Scarlet produces imaginative theatre, which tours in London, nationally and internationally. It provides education programmes linked to productions.

• Shakespeare Schools Festival

  A unique arts-education initiative, enabling teachers and pupils to perform a half-hour play at their local professional theatre.

• Shakespeare's Globe

  The reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe on London's Bankside, including theatre, education and exhibition departments.

• Shared Experience Theatre

  Shared Experience has gained a national and international reputation for its highly physical interpretations of classic novels. It is acclaimed across the world for its powerful dramatic performances and visual imagery.

• Soho Theatre Company

  Soho Theatre produces and presents new plays, runs workshops and pre-show platform discussions, presents workshop productions and encourages the development of new writers through its Writers’ Centre.

• Southbank Centre

  Southbank Centre consists of the Royal Festival Hall, The Hayward, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Saison Poetry Library. It's programme includes wide-ranging programme - classical & world music, rock & pop, jazz, dance, literature and the visual arts

  
  
• Spare Tyre Theatre Company

  Spare Tyre Theatre Company uses theatre with voiceless communities to provide opportunities for people's life stories to be shared, and celebrated creating community theatre that transforms lives and challenges social prejudice.

• Sphinx

  Sphinx nurtures the work of women writers and brings them together with other leading female artists, creating innovative theatre.

• Spiral Flight

  Spiral Flight brings together collaborative creative teams of artists, engineers and performers to produce street theatre and installation art.

• Stage One Theatre Company

  Stage One is a musical theatre company working in south east London and Essex.

• Talawa Theatre Company

  Talawa is a Black producing theatre company presenting plays from the African diaspora and new interpretations of classics. The company also runs an education programme and a scheme to develop Black women writers.

• Tamasha Theatre Company

  Tamasha produces new and popular touring theatre productions of contemporary relevance for Asian communities and audiences in multicultural Britain. The company also provides an education programme.

• The Albany

  The Albany, in the heart of Deptford, is a multi-use performing and digital arts venue, with a strong focus on working with diverse, local communities.

• The Ant Theatre Company

  Professional touring theatre company, focusing on new talent, both on and off stage.

• The Courtyard

  A London fringe theatre venue.

• The Little Angel Theatre

  The Little Angel Theatre is one of the country's oldest children's theatres, and one of only three purpose-built puppet theatres in England.

• The London International School of Performing Arts

  Initiation and advanced course of theatre study based on the teachings of Jacques Lecoq. It also offers an evening course for more experienced theatre practitioners from all disciplines.

• The Lyric Theatre

  The Lyric Theatre is the oldest theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, having opened in December 1888. It was originally built for impresario Henry J Leslie as a home for operetta. Since then the building has hosted drama, comedy and musicals.

  
  
• The National Youth Music Theatre

  Gives young people the opportunity to participate in all aspects of music theatre.

• The Old Vic

  Through Old Vic New Voices, The Old Vic aims to support young and emerging talent, to source and develop new work for production on The Old Vic stage, and to open up the building to new and diverse audiences. The New Voices Club for young practitioners supports actors, writers, directors and producers aged 18 to 25 build a career in theatre.

• The Puppet Centre

  The Puppet Centre Trust is a national development agency for the art form of puppetry.

• The UCL Bloomsbury Theatre

  Online information and listings for comedy, drama, music and dance events at the UCL Bloomsbury theatre in London.

• Theatre Centre

  Theatre Centre has been one of the leading companies for young people for half a century, producing high quality theatre in schools and arts venues around the country.

• Theatre de Complicite

  Théâtre de Complicité specialises in touring productions of physical-based theatre and also provides a programme of professional workshops and educational initiatives.

• Theatre Rites

  Theatre-Rites has been creating high quality and innovative theatre experiences for young people since 1995. They tour both nationally and internationally and also create site-specific shows performed in spaces as diverse as derelict houses to working hospitals.

• Theatre Royal Drury Lane

  The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a theatre in the West End area of London, officially situated on Catherine Street, but backing onto Drury Lane just to the east of Covent Garden.

• Theatre Royal Haymarket

  Masterclass workshops at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London for young people led by the country’s leading actors, directors, theatre designers and writers.

• Theatre Royal Stratford East

  Theatre Royal Stratford East is committed to producing and developing newly commissioned music theatre pieces that have direct relevance to the local community, and in particular to Black and Asian people. In addition, the theatre runs an extensive education, outreach and youth theatre programme.

• Theatre Venture

  Theatre Venture is a long established community theatre arts resource, producing theatre and participatory arts work, primarily in the borough of Newham, for local communities.

• Theatre503

  Theatre503 is a new writing theatre in Battersea. It specialises in promoting new plays and new playwrights and produce many in-house productions.

• Tiata Fahodzi

  Tiata Fahodzi produces new work that reflects and mirrors the lives of West African communities in England. The company’s work is for an all-inclusive British audience but provides a theatrical voice identifiable from a specific cultural perspective.

• Time Won't Wait

  Time Won't Wait is a creative force dedicated to producing dynamic and honest live performance and cross-platform participatory events. It commissions and produces new projects in partnership with local communities, national partners, agencies and international artists.

• Told by an Idiot

  Told by an Idiot specialises in devised and physical theatre led by key practitioners in the field. The company tours original productions to venues regionally, nationally and internationally.

• Total Theatre Network

  Total Theatre plays an increasingly effective role in promoting and developing work in physical performance and circus.

• Trafalgar Studios

  Trafalgar Studios is London’s most exciting new venue. It is a unique development with two intimate, flexible and dynamic performance spaces - Studio 1 and Studio 2.

• Tricycle Theatre Company

  Tricycle Theatre combines a theatre, cinema and gallery, with a strong community focus and an artistic policy reflecting local Irish, Black and Asian communities. The Tricycle Theatre is also an important producer of national and international work, and operates a creative space for people aged 18 months to 18 years old.

• Unicorn Theatre

  Unicorn Theatre opened its new purpose-built theatre base in December 2005. As well as being a professional producer of theatre for young people aged from 6 months to nineteen years, Unicorn also presents the work of other innovative UK-based and International children's theatre companies in its two theatre spaces. Unicorn's Education Programme reaches out to young people from the surrounding community as well as further afield through the three Youth Theatre Groups and with an integrated programme of Residencies and Schools and Family Workshops supporting core curriculum work.

• Wimbledon Studio Theatre

  Housed in what was the Ballroom of the Wimbledon Theatre, the Studio is part of the small-scale touring circuit and offers a broad range of theatre and arts activity. The theatre plans to develop creative partnerships with a number of key companies, to provide new work for its catchment area and particularly for young people over the age of 13.

• Y Touring Theatre Company

  Y Touring is Central YMCA’s award-winning theatre company based in King's Cross, London. Through creating high quality theatre and drama, it aims to highlight important, often difficult, current issues and empower its audiences of young people and adults to generate change in themselves, others and society.

• Yellow Earth Theatre

  Yellow Earth produces high quality ensemble physical performance works using the traditions of east and west. Yellow Earth explores and celebrates multicultural and multilingual heritage and the contemporary east Asian experience by reinterpreting traditional texts and developing new work.

• Young Vic Company

  The Young Vic produces a programme of major classical works and contemporary plays, tours nationally and hosts leading international companies. The company plays an important role in training and developing young directors and designers, and runs an extensive education and outreach programme in local boroughs.

• Youth Music Theatre

  YMT: UK was started in 2003 by a group of experienced and committed people who were determined to create a dynamic, vibrant and participatory company which could bring together young people from around the UK in music theatre projects. All these projects involve young people creating and devising the work themselves, supported by professional directors, choreographers and musical directors. The company provides a full range of residential workshops, mostly in universities, boarding schools or activity centres, during the school and college holidays.