Throughout summer 2020 Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch ran a highly successful online initiative called Ten Tiny Plays. They invited members of the public to explore play-making exercises with local theatre director Jules Tipton.

2020 got off to a brilliant start for Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, as thanks to all your efforts, we were awarded The Stage 'London Theatre of the Year', marking the success of 2019. And we were on a spring roll.

Full casting has today been announced for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s traditional seasonal special Christmas Allsorts. The Theatre is excited to be welcoming back actors who are no strangers to its stage.

Whilst Queen's Theatre Hornchurch will sadly need to close as a building from this Thursday, throughout the rest of November,‎ in line with the latest Coronavirus National Restrictions, we're ‎relieved that the Government late last night confirmed that theatres can continue to rehearse and live stream productions. With that, we're pleased to announce that next week's world premiere of Misfits, the latest Queen's Theatre Hornchurch production, will continue, with all twelve performances live streamed, as this new production gets performed from the empty auditorium!

Full casting has been announced for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s upcoming production of Misfits, an innovative new hybrid of live theatre and digital content, playing 12-22 November 2020. Bookers will purchase a ticket which will allow them the choice of watching the show be performed live onstage in front of a socially distanced audience or streamed to their homes, right up until the day of the show.

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch (QTH) is delighted to have been one of the 1,300 cultural organisations across the country today‎ awarded Government Cultural Recovery Funding. This award is an incredibly valuable lifeline at a crucial time for arts organisations like the Theatre‎ and recognises the vital role QTH plays at the heart of the local community, as a regionally significant player and as a key contributor to the national cultural infrastructure too.

World premiere of Misfits, intertwining tales of Essex resilience by four commissioned writers: Anne Odeke, Guleraana Mir, Kenny Emson and Sadie Hasler. Christmas Allsorts, a brand new, delightfully traditional family variety show.

The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is delighted to be able to reopen its doors to the public on Thursday 3 September. The Theatre invites audiences to pop in to pick up its brand new Welcome Back leaflet, have a chat with the Box Office team about upcoming productions in our Autumn season, and enjoy a cup of tea and a cake in the re-opened Café!

Today four of the biggest pantomimes in London announce their postponement to 2021. Hackney Empire, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Theatre Royal Stratford East will not be producing their annual pantos this year due to the continued uncertainty of government guidelines for restarting public performances.

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch is launching a programme of digital and in-person holiday activity for young people of all ages, Summer Unlocked. The programme sits alongside the Summer Inside-Out project, for which the Theatre received funding from the London Community Response Fund, administered by City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charitable funder.

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is today announcing it has this week commissioned four Outer East London and Essex writers to work collaboratively with Artistic Director Douglas Rintoul. The writers will together create a special new play, celebrating the very best of Essex resilience and spirit, as an epic, humorous and celebratory antidote to lockdown stories, to be performed later in Autumn 2020.

Queens Theatre Hornchurch is delighted to announce today (Wednesday 8 July) that it has received funding from the London Community Response Fund administered by City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charitable funder, to run a programme of community outreach and artist development projects throughout the Summer. The theatre is turning themselves 'inside-out' to provide creative opportunities digitally, streamed live into homes across the borough.

RESCHEDULED DATE: Friday 2nd October 2020 at Thameside Theatre, Grays Calling all performers and performance-makers in Thurrock This festival of performance and expert industry advice will be a fantastic opportunity for performers and performance-makers across Thurrock. They can connect with the people in their own communities who can guide, inspire and provide future opportunities for development and work.    Any theatre-maker, playwright, performer, poet, dance-maker or singer/songwriter who lives in or is connected to Thurrock is invited to send in a submission for inclusion in Outer Limits Thurrock. Scratch* performances can be up to 15 minutes in length and expenses up to £100 will be paid.

For the last month, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has been asking its audiences‎ about their experience of lockdown. The Theatre has received over 1,000 responses - online and by phone - each of them by turn, surprising, funny, moving and ultimately full of hope.

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Hull Truck Theatre and Oldham Coliseum Theatre have today (10 June) announced that they will be streaming their epic and landmark 2019 revival of The Hired Man to raise vital funds for current and future creative projects, which together reach over 380,000 people a year, while their theatres are closed to the public. This much loved actor-musician revival played to national critical acclaim across the country, securing three Offie Award nominations and with Lauryn Redding a finalist for Best Female Performance in a Musical.