📢ANNOUNCING TWO WORLD PREMIERES 📢
In 2024, we turn 30! We’re kicking off celebrations with 2 extraordinary productions.
Roy Williams’ adaptation of Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Stephen Unwin’s Laughing Boy, after Sara Ryan’s memoir, arrive at JST.
🎨 Ciaran Walsh
We are relieved, happy and grateful to announce that
@ace_national
have awarded us an emergency grant. This helps pay our core costs over the coming months. It means we can keep creating our
#JSTBraveNewWorld
Season, bringing our freelancers together and fundraising to reopen.
We are heartbroken to tell you our building was badly flooded yesterday. A pipe burst in a nearby building, resulting in up to 5 feet of water throughout our basement, including our dressing rooms, offices, archives, workshop, prop and technical stores. There were no injuries.
🇨🇾Daphne Alexander
@alexdaphne
performs Dimitris Lipertis' Βούττημαν Ήλιου from the Republic of Cyprus!
"Lipertis’ poem is about forbidden love within conservative Cypriot rural society. He vividly describes the traditions pertaining to death in the Greek Orthodox community."
🎉
#JSTBraveNewWorld
announcement!
🌟Today we’re delighted to announce
#JST15Heroines
, our major new online project launching this autumn.
📗Inspired by Ovid’s ‘Heroides’, 15 leading playwrights re-tell the stories of the women of classical myth in 3 parts!
Greek & Cypriot actors (female, 20s-30s) in the UK, could you make yourselves known please? DM or reply here with Spotlight pins if possible
#castingcall
#CASTING
📣 CREATIVES CALLOUT📣
Next Monday, applications will open for our 2023
#CreativeAssociate
programme
Here's our Deputy Director Anna Ryder to tell you more about what you can expect from our year long attachment programme for theatremakers🎭
🔗
🌟CAST AND CREATIVE ANNOUNCEMENT🌟
We're so excited to announce the actors joining us on our upcoming
@DigitalTheatre
production
#JST15Heroines
!
#TheWar
stars ANN OGBOMO, SOPHIA ELENI, REBEKAH MURRELL, GEMMA WHELAN and JEMIMA ROOPER!
🎟️Tix:
⚡️NEWS! We're excited to announce the appointment of 16 Creative Associates
@JSTheatre
. We think they all have a big role to play in the theatre of tomorrow, and we're delighted they're joining our artistic family.
🎭Each year a director joins
@JSTheatre
to work on programming, creative projects and develop their artistic leadership.🎬
💫In April we'll be sorry to say goodbye to the wonderful
@CatRobey
but excited to welcome our new Carne Deputy Director Ebenezer Bamgboye! (
@EbeBamgboye
)
Thank you to the 390 female playwrights who submitted an entry for
#TomorrowatNoon
, which will result in commission, production and publication of 3 one-act plays. That's THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY. We feel very humble and honoured.
This is being debated in Parliament on Thursday. More signatures show MPs this matters to a lot of people.
Theatre is going bankrupt fast. Please sign and RT.
Applications for our 2023
#CreativeAssociate
Programme are now open!
Giving 10 early career theatre freelancers from underrepresented backgrounds time, space and money to develop their artistic voice and transform their industry know-how
Find out more🔗
We opened 25 years ago today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
@JSTheatre
!! We’re celebrating with our
#JSTMemories
Season starting in September!
Thank you to every member of staff, production team, actor and audience member that have made these 25 years possible! Here’s to the next 25!!
PLEASE RT this opportunity for early-career theatre artists! We're looking for 3 pairs/teams of people developing new plays. We offer free space for a week, mentoring, showcase, dramaturgy, feedback, & expenses. Deadline 14 July. Details & application form
We're honoured to be Fringe Theatre of the Year at
#TheStageAwards
. Massive thanks to our audience and friends. We're so happy to share this award with our amazing family of freelancers.
Congratulations to Jermyn Street Theatre on winning Fringe Theatre of the Year at
#TheStageAwards
for going above and beyond in their offerings to audiences and freelancers and ensuring resilience in the years to come.
We’re incredibly proud of
@littler_tom
on his
#OFFIES2022
Award for Artistic Director 🙌 we might be biased but we think he’s ace - and now he has an award to prove it! 😁
#OFFIES2022
announcing the winner of the first Special Awards – for ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: the winner is Tom Littler
@littler_tom
, Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre
@JSTheatre
– congratulations!
📣JOB OPPORTUNITY📣
We’re looking for an Assistant Producer to join us at the administrative heart of a busy producing theatre, supporting the Executive Producer.
Perfect for early-career theatre administrators & producers!
Find out more and apply now👇
We're thrilled to announce the cast of Laughing Boy🎉
⭐️ Janie Dee - Sara Ryan
⭐️ Alfie Friedman - Connor Sparrowhawk
⭐️ Forbes Masson - Rich
Written & directed by Stephen Unwin after Sara Ryan's Justice for Laughing Boy. Casting by Ginny Schiller.
🎟
✨EXTRA PERFORMANCES ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND✨
All evening performances sold out! BUT, we're delighted to announce an extra performance of each show running next wknd!
⚔️Fri 20, 7.30
#TheWar
🧵Sat 21, 7.30
#TheLabyrinth
🏜️Sun 22, 7.30
#TheDesert
🎟️
We're delighted to share that Stella Powell-Jones & David Doyle will succeed Tom Littler as Artistic Director & Executive Producer
Alongside Executive Director, Penny Horner they will form a management team for the next chapter of our theatre 💜
🔗
We’re incredibly proud of our Artistic Director, Tom Littler, on his appointment as Artistic Director & Joint CEO of
@orangetreethtr
Tom’s final production with us will be
#JSTLoveAll
🎭 in Sept. We'll miss him lots & wish him luck on this new chapter! 🔗
We’re so excited to announce that the winner of The Woven Voices Prize for Playwriting 2023 is… Aaron Kilercioglu (
@aa_koglu
) with his play 'The E.U. Killed My Dad'.
Our Artistic Director
@littler_tom
said: "Anyone who knows Penny and Howard, our co-founders, will know what a huge blow this is to them personally as well as to our theatre. Please keep them in your thoughts. We will come through, and our
#JSTBraveNewWorld
programme continues."
#TheDesert
stars INDRA OVÉ, ROSALIND ELEAZAR, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, NICHOLLE CHERRIE and MARTINA LAIRD!
All 3 productions will be directed by ADJOA ANDOH (
#RichardII
@The_Globe
), JST Deputy Director CAT ROBEY and Artistic Director TOM LITTLER! Camera direction from ANKE LUEDDECKE!
We're relieved and delighted to receive the help we need from the
#CultureRecoveryFund
. We'll announce our reopening programme very soon and we can't wait to welcome back audiences and artists.
#HereForCulture
🌞"And yet, the miracle of it is, which is indeed almost beyond all credit, that our garments, being as they were drenched in the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and gloss."🌞
Many
#JSTTempest
costumes flooded, rescued, washed & drying on a 17th C trampoline. 💦💜💦🌞
Laughing Boy officially opens tonight.⭐️
Here is your first look at
@RoseUnwin
's new play, bringing
@sarasiobhan
's memoir to the stage.👀
Tickets are selling fast - book now to avoid disappointment.🎉
🎟
📆 Until 31 May
📸 Alex Brenner
#JST2020
Season Announcement! 🎉
Featuring Trevor Nunn, Peter Gill, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Lisa Dwan, Michael Pennington, Alan Ayckbourn, Timberlake Wertenbaker and David Threlfall!
Booking open now for January - July 2020 🎟👉
🎭ANNOUNCING
#JSTFootprintsFestival
!💫
⭐️3-month long celebration of drama, music, poetry and comedy!
⭐️43 small-scale productions playing to socially-distanced audiences of 25 in the theatre!
⭐️ALL shows streamed simultaneously online!
Huge congratulations to
@Deejanie
on her Offie nomination for Lead Performance in a Play for Laughing Boy.🎉
There are just over 3 weeks left to see Stephen Unwin's "extraordinary" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ new play (Daily Mail)
🎟
📆 Closes 31 May
📸 Alex Brenner
We are absolutely thrilled to have received 6 Offie nominations for Roy Williams' sold-out hit The Lonely Londoners.👀
⭐️Production
⭐️New Play
⭐️Director (Plays)
⭐️Performance Ensemble
⭐️Choreography/Movement
⭐️Lighting Design
Congratulations to all involved!👏
📸 Alex Brenner
🎉Today we're delighted to announce our 2022
#JSTCreativeAssociates
🥳
A cohort of early-career theatre makers & creatives who will use JST as their creative base over the next year 🙌
Read on to find out more about them...
🎉ICYMI this morning, we closed off
#TheSonnetProject
with the incredible Olivia Colman! Thank you (the audiences) all so much for your contribution to such a wonderful endeavour!🎉
😎 P.s. And thanks to those who noticed the typo in our video this morning!
#JSTBraveNewWorld
Reviews are in for Laughing Boy⭐️👀
"Powerful" - Evening Standard
"Insists on recognising & championing individuality, bright & loud as a Routemaster bus." - The Guardian
"Janie Dee is magnificent" - Broadway World
🎟
📆 Until 31 May
📷 Alex Brenner
An extra week of dates have been added for Stephen Unwin's Laughing Boy📆
Bringing Sara Ryan’s impassioned, frank, & surprisingly funny memoir to the stage, check out our exclusive rehearsal trailer now!⭐️
🎟
📆 25 April - 31 May
📹 Rory Chambers
We did NINE plays today. A massive credit to the cast, stage management, front of house, production team and audiences. We couldn't be prouder.
#preview
#JSTTonight
THEATRE DIRECTORS - we're hiring! Our amazing Carne Deputy Director Ebenezer Bamgboye is off in August, and we're looking for his successor.
🌈 Please RT & share widely!
🕕 Deadline: Monday 30 May
👉
During the
#JusticeforLB
campaign, an extraordinary quilt was made to honour Connor Sparrowhawk's life.⭐️
The quilt is now on display down the road from our theatre at St James’s Church, open from 10am to 6pm. You can visit it for the duration of the play's run.
@StJPiccadilly
ACTOR CALL OUT - PAID! We are looking for actors for
#JSTButterWouldnMelt
who are UK based, from the following 3 countries & speak the national languages of the countries! Please put your hands up - ESTONIA, SLOVAKIA and LATVIA!!
It's finally time to say a heartfelt farewell to Roy Williams' The Lonely Londoners!❤️
The final two performances of the show will be at 3.00pm and 7.30pm👀
Congratulations to everyone involved on this five-star, sold-out run.👏
📸 Alex Brenner
Today we're so excited to announce our 2023
#JSTCreativeAssociates
A talented group of early-career theatre makers & creative freelancers who will use JST as their creative base over the next year
Read on to find out more about them…
🚨We're thrilled to announce the cast of The Lonely Londoners🚨
⭐️ Tobi Bakare - Lewis
⭐️ Gamba Cole - Moses
⭐️ Shannon Hayes - Agnes
⭐️ Gilbert Kyem Jr - Big City
⭐️ Carol Moses - Tanty
⭐️ Aimee Powell - Christina
⭐️ Romario Simpson - Galahad
🎟
TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT🎉
After a tough process with many fantastic candidates - we’re so pleased to announce that
@CatRobey
has been appointed as
@JSTheatre
's Carne Deputy Director!
#CatsOutTheBag
!
We are proud to join over 70 UK theatres as signatories of this open letter to all theatre freelancers, and to join the
#freelancerstaskforce
. We're a theatre run by freelancers, for freelancers.
Calling all actors, writers, creatives, stage and production managers, front and back of house... if you work in theatre and you want to share a cuppa, some stories and some perspectives, please join this lovely panel for A Cup of JSTea on Monday at 3pm.
On now! Noël Coward's Tonight at 8.30 cycle. Nine one-act plays, from music hall to drama, operetta to comedy, presented as three trios. Playing Wed to Sun. With Tomorrow at Noon, a contemporary reaction, playing Mon/Tues.
Our biggest ever project!
Here's your first look at
#JSTThrillMe
👀
This 'steamy & sexy' thriller musical will have you on the edge of your seat for the entire 80 min performance 🔥...
📸
@stevegregson_
🎟️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Look at all of those stars!🤩
Congratulations to the cast and creative team of Laughing Boy!👏
Don't miss this five-star show. Tickets are selling fast!⏰
🎟
📆 Until 31 May
📸 Alex Brenner
Our co-founder and Exec Director
@PennyJst
discovered the flood and
@LondonFire
@thameswater
worked for 14 hours straight throughout the night to pump 56,000 gallons of water out of the building. We offer them our huge thanks for their amazing work.
🌊NEW PROJECT!
72 Actors. 12 Hours. 1 Epic Journey.
#JSTTheOdyssey
will see
@EmilyRCWilson
's translation of The Odyssey presented in a continuous free online performance on 9 Oct 2020.
Together with
@LRBbookshop
and publishers
@wwnortonUK
, all 24 books will be performed live!
@wmarybeard
we wanted to make sure you knew about 15 HEROINES - 15 new plays inspired by Ovid's Heroides by 15 brilliant women playwrights, filmed live on stage & streamed 9-14 November. All RTs & support appreciated!
🌆The Lonely Londoners🌆
29 February - 6 April
Adapted by Roy Williams, Sam Selvon’s iconic Windrush novel, The Lonely Londoners, comes to the stage for the first time. This world premiere shines a new light on London, friendship, and what we call home.
This is very good news. Thank you to all our artists & audience members who have championed theatres and the battle to
#SaveTheArtsUK
. For our artists - we know that
#freelancersmaketheatrework
& we're nothing without you. For our audiences - we'll reopen better than ever.
The show must go on.
We’re introducing a world-leading £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions weather the impact of coronavirus.
#JSTBraveNewWorld
introduces...
Sing For Your Supper with Stefan Bednarczyk
@stefanbednar
🎶
For three evenings a week, the 'king of cabaret' invites you to a private recital - get ready for Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer, Flanders and Swann, and more treats.
#JSTSingForYourSupper
🎭
#JSTFootprintsFestival
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
💫300 Freelancers. 43 Shows. 11 weeks. 1 Festival.
⭐️Live on stage. Enjoy from home or at our theatre. 25% discount available across both live and streamed performance with a Festival Pass!
🎟️BOOK NOW:
💻💕ONLINE DATING COMEDY STREAMS 16-28 MARCH!
💫Ian Hallard and Sara Crowe star in
#JSTAdventurous
!
#JSTAdventurous
follows the twists and turns of Ros and Richard's relationship as they negotiate technology, treachery and tortoises.
🎟️Tix. avail. now!
If you're heading into London this bank holiday weekend, why not visit the extraordinary quilt made to honour Connor Sparrowhawk's life.⭐️
Collating hundreds of pieces of cloth, the quilt is on display at St James’s Church
@StJPiccadilly
, open from 10am to 6pm.👀
We are thrilled to launch Footprints Festival 2024!🎉
From 10 January 2024, six new daring and electrifying plays from the most exciting up-and-coming theatremakers will take over our stage, offering new writing, bold translations and UK premieres.👀
2023 SEASON ANNOUNCED📢
This autumn Caroline Quentin, April De Angelis, Caryl Churchill &
@charlescourt
take centre stage
#JSTInfamous
🎨
#JSTOwners
🏡
#JSTOdyssey
⛵️
In summer we throw open our doors for 2 months of cabaret, music & comedy🎤
🎟️Book now:
🌳This Sunday, we're hosting a reading of William Wycherley's LOVE IN A WOOD, directed by Hermione Gulliford (
@hermy1G
)!
⌛️31 January; 7pm, FREE on JST YouTube 👉
💫Raising donations for Equity Charitable Trust; supporting actors in financial difficulty!
Look at those stars!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Extraordinary... essential campaigning theatre" - Daily Mail
"Acting at its very finest" - LondonTheatre1
"One of the most important plays you will see all year" - ithankyoutheatre
🎟
📆 Until 31 May
📸 Alex Brenner
Today is the first runthrough of our Bedroom Farces trilogy - We Were Dancing, Ways and Means, and Shadow Play!
Here goes...
#buymorenotebooks
#eggselentwork
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD SEASON
Bringing the drama to you.
📽️ Creating work to entertain you at home.
🌈 Keeping our community of artists and audience together.
🥂 Raising the funds we need to reopen.
Stay tuned.
#JSTBraveNewWorld
Please share! Early-career theatremaker with new play/idea to develop? We're offering free space, dramaturgy, mentoring, showcase and £500 exps. Open to anyone with under 3 yrs pro experience, especially people under-represented in theatre. DEADLINE 14/7.
We have
#TomorrowatNoon
news coming very soon. An amazing 390 female playwrights entered this competition anonymously to reply to Noël Coward. Each was read x2 or x3 times. 8 went to judges, and we're offering commission, production & publication
@OberonBooks
to 3 playwrights.