Park Theatre

The Park Theatre stands in Finsbury Park, north London, in a converted three-storey office building. It opened in 2013 after a campaign backed by figures like Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Rickman. The theatre has two auditoria, Park200 and Park90, with flexible seating and natural light that can be blacked out. The Morris Space on the third floor hosts workshops and small performances. Backstage facilities include dressing rooms, a green room, wardrobe, and prop stores. A café bar on the ground floor also presents occasional cabaret and songwriting events. The theatre mixes new writing, classics, and revivals in a programme that has drawn critical and box office success. Highlights include the UK premiere of These Shining Lives with Honeysuckle Weeks and Charity Wakefield. Productions such as Jonathan Maitland’s Dead Sheep and An Audience with Jimmy Savile sold out in 2015. The theatre has revived plays by Richard Bean and David Hare and staged UK premieres like The Boys in the Band. Innovative productions such as Grounded and Brainstorm have explored themes like British Sign Language and the teenage brain. Visitors find a café bar that hosts performances and a flexible studio space for smaller shows. The theatre runs programmes like Script Accelerator, which helps producers develop new plays. Social initiatives include discounted tickets for locals and acting classes for children and adults. The Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] fundraiser features celebrities solving a crime live on stage. The Prism Project offers free rehearsal space to minority ethnic artists, supporting under-served voices in theatre.