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ALT B: Rehearsed Readings

Providing artists with a creative space to perform their work.

Rehearsed Readings from the most exciting up and coming talent.

ALT B (aka Alternative Bush) is a platform for creatives, makers and performers across artforms.

Our Rehearsed Reading season is providing artists with a creative space to perform their work and take the first steps in developing their writing.

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New Artistic Director Announced: Taio Lawson
Thu 06 Mar 2025

The Bush Theatre trustees have appointed Taio Lawson as the theatre’s new Artistic Director and Co-CEO. Taio joins the company in Summer 2025 and he will oversee the final season of plays programmed by Lynette Linton, who leaves in March 2025. Taio’s first season of work will launch in early 2026. Taio will lead the…

Charles Holloway OBE: From West London to the West End
Thu 31 Oct 2024

Benedict Lombe’s play Shifters transferring from the Bush Theatre to the West End was a milestone moment: for the artists involved, the audiences they engaged, and the future of British theatre it will inspire. It offers a glimpse of what commercial theatre in this country could be. And as Bush audience members and supporters know,…

Shifting the Narrative: Radical Love Commissions
Wed 28 Aug 2024

A new initiative, inviting eight Global Majority artists to write short-form responses to the West End production of Benedict Lombe’s hit play Shifters, which is at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London, until 12 October.  We’re delighted to be launching this new opportunity, alongside ATG Entertainment West End Creative Learning and the Producers of Shifters.…