Do you want to star in a show at Tara Theatre? We're launching our community theatre group and we want you to join us 💫 This is a free group welcoming you into our building to make a brand new piece of theatre 🎭 Find out more and sign up while there are places ⬇️ taratheatre.com/get-involved...

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 We are overjoyed to share that our official headliner for this year’s Comedy Lab Showcase is none other than Nish Kumar 🎉 Nish will be performing alongside a whole host of brand new South Asian comedians, all hosted by Sharlin Jahan 🌟 taratheatre.com/whats-on/the...

SOUTH ASIAN QUEER STORIES ✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating South Asian Heritage Month with @taratheatre.com in a fantastic conversation at the @w-hotels.bsky.social London in Queer South Asian storytelling! – #queer #SAHM25 #SouthAsianHeritageMonth @sahm-uk.bsky.social

⚠️ LAST CHANCE ⚠️ Applications for The Comedy Lab close NEXT WEEK ⏰ Want to learn direct from professional comedians and sharpen up your sense of humour? Well, this is the project for you! 🔥 Snaps from last year's showcase 📸 More Info & Apply Now 📝 taratheatre.com/news/the-com...

This Autumn at Tara Theatre... Dream of Theresa May As a gay Indian man living in London desperately looks for a way to stay in the UK, he finds an unlikely mentor in his nemesis, Theresa May 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ 17-29 Nov 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...

🚨 REMINDER 🚨 Applications for The Comedy Lab close in TWO WEEKS 👀 If you've got a funny bone and want to take part in a FREE day long workshop to develop your comedy stand up skills, then NOW IS YOUR TIME 🔥 Snaps from last year's showcase 📸 More Info & Apply Now taratheatre.com/news/the-com...

Did anyone order more South Asian Play Reading Group? Join us this autumn for a fresh take on the Mahabharata, a workplace drama in 1970s Banglatown, a therapist under threat in a sci-fi thriller and a dystopian climate refugee story Free tickets available now 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/

Tara Theatre were thrilled this week to partner with South Asian Heritage Month, Queer Britain and W Hotels to deliver a panel on Telling South Asian Queer Stories 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Check out stills from the event and get booking for I Dream of Theresa May 💫 🗓️ 17 – 29 Nov 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...

🎉 BRAND NEW OPPORTUNITY 🎉 Join us this autumn for our Meet Your Neighbours Community Theatre Group This free ten week programme is led by professional theatre-makers where you create your own original show performed at Tara Theatre 💫 Find out more and sign up now 📝 taratheatre.com/participate/...

⏰ Deadline Friday ⏰ Find out more and apply now: taratheatre.com/about/work-w...

📣 CALL OUT FOR NEW COMEDIANS 📣 Tara Theatre and Brown Sauce Comedy Club are teaming up again to find the most side-splitting South Asian comedians for The Comedy Lab! If you've tried your hand at comedy already and are looking for that step up, apply to join The Comedy Lab 🌟

Today marks two years since we lost our former Artistic Director and dear friend Abdul Shayek. It’s difficult to know how to mark this day.

📣 NEXT WEDNESDAY 📣 Calling all actors, playwrights and theatre lovers! Join us for the last Play Reading Group of Summer 2025 as we explore Abir Mohammad's queer Muslim love story Want to read? Grab your free ticket 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Wed 6 Aug, 4PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/sou...

🚨 CLOSING SOON 🚨 Playwrights! As our NOVA 2026 submission deadline approaches (THIS Thu 31 Jul at 12PM), we wanted to share a selection of activities from our 31 Days of Playwriting 📝 Ideas to spark your writing and inspire you 🎉 Find out more about NOVA taratheatre.com/participate/...

🌟 THIS WEEK 🌟 Join Bhuchar Boulevard for an evening focusing on our journey from grassroots activism to mainstream stages 🎉 Featuring readings directed by Natasha Kathi-Chandra and a Q&A panel, you won't want to miss it ✨ 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Wed 30 Jul, 6:30PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/ret...

📣 NEXT WEDNESDAY 📣 Calling all actors, playwrights and theatre lovers! Zahra Jassi's play turns Millwal FC's merch shop into incel HQ and questions the racialised double standard of terrorism Want to read? Grab your free ticket 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Wed 23 Jul, 4PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/sou...

✨ We're recruiting ✨ We're looking for a Head of Finance to oversee Tara Theatre's financial processes and support strategic long-term financial and business planning. 🗓 DEADLINE: 8 August ➡️ Find out more and apply via our website: taratheatre.com/about/work-w...

📣 Send us your writing 📣 Playwrights it's time! Our flagship playwriting programme is now accepting submissions for 2025/26 🌌 Whether you have a script or a brand new idea you're eager to write, we want to hear from you and read your work 💫 taratheatre.com/participate/...

Do you want to have your play staged at Tara Theatre? Our flagship playwriting programme NOVA is back and we're looking for writers to receive a commission of £1,500 to develop their work Submissions open Tue 8 Jul Check out this year's prompts and get more info ℹ️ taratheatre.com/participate/...

📣 NEXT WEDNESDAY 📣 Calling all actors, playwrights and theatre lovers! Anjeli Chapman Wolf takes Play Reading Group to a Bengali village held hostage by British soldiers in her dark comedy Want to read? Grab your free ticket 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Wed 9 Jul, 4PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/sou...

🚨 Playwrights! Can I have your attention? 🚨 This is your first official head's up. NOVA is coming back. Get 8th July in your diaries. 📝 Leave a comment if you want exclusive early access to this year's writer's prompts... 👀 More details coming soon... 🌌

#NowWatching Fremont @taratheatre.com

📣 NEXT WEDNESDAY 📣 Calling all actors, playwrights and theatre lovers! South Asian Play Reading Group goes sci-fi horror with Bear Cub Wolf, a grungy dystopian thriller by Gurjot Dhaliwal Want to read? Grab your free ticket 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Wed 25 Jun, 4PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/sou...

#NowWatching ‪Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza | الحياة حلوة ‬ @taratheatre.com

Next Week at Tara Film Club... Fremont Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting as she desperately searches for love while facing insomnia and survivor’s guilt for those left behind in Kabul www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5nx...

ONE NIGHT ONLY 👀 Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte comes to Tara Theatre for a sneak peek Edinburgh Preview Join Sanjay on a Bollywood Chai infused journey as he explores his sexuality and tries to be the best version of himself 🏳️‍🌈 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ 27 Jun, 7:30PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/lov...

Next Week at Tara Film Club... Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza الحياة حلوة Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabalay is on a month long work trip when the Egypt/Gaza border closes Watch his seven year fight to get back to his family www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Glf...

TARA FILM CLUB RETURNS 🎥🍿 To celebrate Refugee Week 2025, Tara Theatre proudly present FREE screenings of award-winning cinema platforming stories from refugee communities Don't miss these films at Tara Theatre, only next week 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ 17-18 Jun, 7:30PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/

From Our Friends ✨ The Next Act is a podcast series spotlighting the future of British South Asian theatre Each episode features a guest playwright and examines their creative process alongside the political, personal, and artistic forces informing their work Listen now 🎧 www.thenextact.co.uk

⏰ LAST CHANCE ⏰ This. Is. It. Only THREE performances left of our ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ production of Permission How better to spend your weekend than experiencing exceptional women-led South Asian theatre? Book now or miss out 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ MUST CLOSE TOMORROW 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/per...

From Our Friends 💫 Winner of Best New Play at the Offies 2024, STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey, the hilarious and moving mix of celebratory Black and Queer empowerment and arousal, is back @tamasha1989.bsky.social‬ 🎭 Brixton House 🗓️ Until 28 Jun 🎟️ brixtonhouse.co.uk/shows/stars/

The Permission playlist is here! You asked (a lot!) and we've got a mix with all the tunes featured throughout our current production 🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/3sz... If you haven't seen the show, get these songs playing and book your tickets 🗓️ Until 7 Jun 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/per...

From Our Friends 🌟 Talawa Firsts is back with another fortnight of groundbreaking Black British New Work! Join Talawa for two weeks of world premieres, showcasing innovative new writing and performance 🎭 Talawa Theatre Company 🗓️ 7-18 Jul 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/cc/talawa-fi...

📣 NEXT WEDNESDAY 📣 Calling all actors, playwrights and theatre lovers! Our Play Reading Group is BACK! Jump between East London 2025 and Delhi 1947 in Pooja Sivaraman's Desire Lines Want to read? Grab your free ticket below 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Wed 11 Jun, 4PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/sou...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Permission 🎉 Reviewers have high praise for Hunia Chawla's "unapologetically South Asian" production 🔥 Check out the highlights and get booking ASAP to see the play There are only FIVE shows left, don't miss it ⏰ 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Until 7 Jun 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/per...

From Our Friends 💫 Weaving personal narrative with recordings of her family under occupation, Language: no broblem reveals the layered forms of domination a language can exert on another, continuously transforming and altering 🎭 Battersea Arts Centre 🗓️ 13–14 Jun 🎟️ bac.org.uk/whats-on/lan...

✨ FREE TARA WORKSHOP ✨ Are you a writer eager to know how to get your play staged in 2025? Get inspiration and advice from playwright Ruth D'Silva and producer Jessie Anand in this relaxed candid talk Limited places, book quick 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ 19 Jun, 4:30PM 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/tar...

#NowWatching Permission @taratheatre.com

❓ 73 Questions with the Permission Cast ❓ Join actor Rea Malhotra Mukhtyar as she tells us about the first day of Permission rehearsals, her best memory in a theatre, and that one time she was mistaken for Nicole Scherzinger Catch all 73 Questions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=obTU...

From Our Friends 🌟 Welcome to the island of Pangea—where the sun never sets, the house band keeps the beat, and the loved ones you’ve lost could be right around the corner... 🎭 @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social 🗓️ 7 Jun – 6 Jul 🎟️ kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/15/...

📸 FIRST LOOK 📸 Check out these stunning Permission production shots by Adam Razvi Catch this superb play diving into a complex continent spanning friendship led by two excellent performances 🌟 Only playing THIS WEEK! Don't miss it! 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ Until 7 Jun 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/per...

❓ 73 Questions with the Permission Cast ❓ Hang out with actor Anisa Butt and learn about Hanna in Permission, Rami Malek as inspiration, her love for Speed at Bush Theatre and the pressing issue playwrights should be writing about right now Catch all 73 Questions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=obTU...

From Our Friends 💫 Lucy is stuck upside-down in Peter’s bathroom window at the end of their first date. What an awkward situation! LOVESTUCK charts the hilarious, humiliating and all too relatable quest for our happy ever after... 🎭 @stratfordeast.com 🗓️ 6 Jun – 12 Jul 🎟️

💫 REMINDER 💫 We have a BSL interpreted performance of Permission on Wed 4 Jun We also have wheelchair seats available for all performances during the run Contact our Box Office to book access tickets for this performance 🎭 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ 7:30PM, Wed 4 Jun 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/per...

❓ 73 Questions with the Permission Cast ❓ Check in with actor Rea Malhotra Mukhtyar for an inside look at Permission and her characters, climbing Mount Acatenango in Guatemala, the Colaba art district and big love for Operation Mincemeat Catch all 73 Questions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=obTU...

From Our Friends 🌟 WAF ON SALE NOW! 🌤️ Continuing it's 16th year and boasting over 180 events across 17 days. Wandsworth Arts Fringe is back! 🎭 Wandsworth Arts Fringe 🗓️ 6 – 22 Jun 🎟️ welcometowandsworth.com/waf25/ #WAF #WAF2025 #WandsworthArtsFringe #LondonTheatre #WhatsOnInLondon

👀 INSIDE THE REHEARSAL ROOM 👀 The Permission team have been hard at work and we're on the edge of our seats for the show, you're in for an absolute treat! Permission opens THIS FRIDAY! Don't miss it 💫 🎭 Tara Theatre 🗓️ 30 May – 7 Jun 🎟️ taratheatre.com/whats-on/per... 📸 Photography by Adam Razvi

❓ 73 Questions with the Permission Cast ❓ Get to know actor Anisa Butt as she guides you through what it's like working on Permission, what makes an activist, theatre icon Denzel Washington and cooking dinner for Oprah Catch all 73 Questions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=obTU...

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Hunia Chawla @TaraTheatre We sat down with Hunia to discuss her play Permission, A play about patriarchy, protest and the global political order at Tara Theatre. wp.me/pdXz8Y-5zb #interview #london #newwriting

🪧 PERMISSION @ Tara Theatre this month 🎙️ In Conversation: Hunia Chawla & Natasha Kathi-Chandra What's the journey in turning a one woman play into a full-scale production? Learn how Permission evolved from inception to the show it is today 🚀 Watch the interview 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPvZ...