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Theatre Deli

Name: Theatre Deli
Address: Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A4AF, GB
Telephone: +442037353771

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Theatre Deli fills empty spaces with art and artists, creativity and community. Find out about What’s On here.

Registered charity Theatre Deli has been a driving force within the arts since 2008, taking over empty spaces in city centres, and creating 15 hubs to date that support emerging artists, companies and communities whose identities, backgrounds, disciplines or work are underrepresented in theatre. Currently operating in Sheffield and London, Theatre Deli works to develop diverse audiences, artistic

communities by providing safe suitably resourced environments for everyone to experiment with, develop, showcase and enjoy art. We support and invest in artists through residencies, drop-ins, jams, festivals, co-productions, in-kind support and so much more. Our opportunities for artists will always be found on this website. You can explore the community hubs we’ve created - past and present - in our Theatre Deli Archive. You can learn more about how we partner with landlords and property developers here. In 2021 we paid over £25,000 to artists across our various programmes, and a further £9,850 in artist-favoured box office splits. We welcomed over 10,000 visitors to our spaces, and gave away more than £15,000 worth of our affordable studio space in kind.

03/06/2026

☀️This June at Theatre Deli☀️

Lots going on this month!

Rage ☄️Jazz 🎶Cabaret 🎤Stories 📖

🔗all the tickets for these events are on our website
👋see ya there

Deli Meets: Spoken Word Poetry Night by Poets of Colour
Wednesday 3rd June 6.30pm Free
A new spoken word poetry night celebrating the work of poets from the Global Majority.

Story Pick + Mix with House of Rumour
Wednesday 3rd June · £12–£15 Interactive foxy folktales from around the world by top storytelling double act.

Deli Meets: Dramaturgy Drop in by Second Brain Collective
Thursday 4th June, 1pm - 5pm
An experienced directorial and dramaturgical team who are ready to answer all your dramaturgical questions

Voidspace Live!
6th-7th June 11-7pm £65/£35
The world’s biggest festival of grassroots interactive performance and playable art. “Brilliantly batsh*t” - The Nudge

Shakespeare Unstaged: A Midsummer Nights Dream with 60 Hour Shakespeare  Friday 12th June 2026 7.15pm · £10 Midsummer Nights Dream brought to life in just one day!

Rebel Jam: Inside The Q***rosphere Cabaret .insight.theatre
Thursday 12th June £10
Join Crystal and Nadia serve q***r enlightenment like a two-for-one spritz at happy hour

All The Rage
11th-13th June Various Times £6-£15
A theatrical response to the release of the Epstein Files created by more than 70 female-identifying and non-binary playwrights and artists.

Shakespeare Unstaged Open Auditions with 60 Hour Shakespeare  Saturday 13th June
Open auditions for performers interested in joining future Shakespeare Unstaged productions.

Black Lives Natter SpeakEasy with Black Lives Natter  Saturday 13th June· PWYC A welcoming space centring Black voices, conversation, and community exchange in an informal SpeakEasy format.

Deli Meets: Offline This Summer
13th June 5-8pm - Free
Unplug. Enjoy. Network. Create. Converse. Connect.

Iris Trio: An Intimate Evening of Jazz and Storytelling
Saturday 13th June - £15-£25
Join Iris for an intimate evening of jazz standards and originals celebrating storytelling and connection through live music.

28/05/2026

🍬Story Pick + Mix is a season of stand-up storytelling shows for seekers and dreamers within reach of central London.

🍫Contemporary retellings of some of the best Old Stories, told by some of the UK’s best professional storytellers, hosted by a storyteller as obsessed with retro pick + mix sweets as she is with stories.

🍭Each event showcases one full-length fairytale for grownups, aiming to gratify the inner child of us all. Curated by The House of Rumour in cahoots with leading UK story promoter The Crick Crack Club.

🍡After the show, the audience will be invited to create their own ‘pick+mix metaphor’ for what they’ve just seen, to add to the Story Pick + Mix Library.

🍻Actual candy (and occasionally, actual drinks) will be available free for those whose teeth can still handle it …

This month the story is…..

🦊WE ARE FOX by (Alys Torrance + Lucy Lill)
An evening of interactive foxy folktales from around the world by top storytelling double act.🦊

📅3rd June
📍Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
🔗link to book in bio

25/05/2026

is a multi-layered theatrical event spanning 15 spaces and is an urgent collective response to the release of the Epstein Files.

Created by more than seventy female-identifying and non-binary playwrights and artists, it confronts institutional silence, cultural complicity and the enduring history of misogyny.

It is a two-part experience. The first half offers an exploration of the office floor, where a series of durational installations, performances and scenes unfold. Moving between the 15 spaces, audiences will encounter spaces of rage, hope and resistance.

The second half brings the audiences together for a collective unifying act that draws the project’s many voices into a single, shared theatrical moment. 💪

Writer and director conceived of the project in a playwriting WhatsApp group when the files were first released. She was joined by who is producing ALL THE RAGE for the collective, in co-production with Roxanne Carney and Theatre Deli, with Deborah Pearson as Consulting Producer. Lucy Morrison directs.

🎟️£6-£15 (£2 per ticket sold will be donated to a charity working with survivors of sexual abuse and gender based violence)
📍Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street
📅11th-13th June
🔗Link to book in bio

22/05/2026

📋Phoebe is 28, a journalist, has OCD and is the queen of lists. On her mirror, on the fridge, all over her hands and…everywhere basically.✍️

Her favourite lists are:

1) shopping,
2) favourite stationary
3) least favourite numbers
4) past jobs ranked in order of wanting to staple her earlobes to the table
5) the missed opportunities folder in her emails.

😈She’s pretty sure keeping them is her healthiest habit, propelling her on towards being the most productive, best version of herself. So, when her lists are spawning lists and lists and lists and becoming an overwhelming listathon, and a pink fluffy monster appears under her duvet and starts spooning her while she sleeps: she’s sure there isn’t a problem.

😱Phoebe wonders if she needs her space: but the monster is a really good cook, plus they do all her washing for her. So why is she suddenly listing all the ways she might die?

“Bravura solo performance”

“Blackburn makes this contrast between fantasy and reality both devastating and familiar”

The Quinntessential Review: “Blackburn and Browning can be proud of this inventive, open-ended portrait of an everyday life spent negotiating relentless, obsessive compulsion.”

: “Beautifully poetic writing” “Raw honesty to Blackburn’s performance”

🎟️£10
📅29th and 30th May
📍Theatre Deli, Leadenhall Street
🔗link in bio to book!

13/05/2026

🎙️An Evening of Afrocentric Poetry with is an immersive blend of rhythm, language, and storytelling. 🎶

✏️Fusing Yoruba and English, Great Kolawole delivers powerful poetic narratives accompanied by live melodies.

🎨Each performance creates a rich soundscape where words and music move as one, drawing the audience into moments of reflection, emotion, and connection.

🥁This is more than a poetry reading, it is a living, breathing experience of culture, voice, and rhythm.

📍107 Leadenhall Street
🗓️16th May 7-9.30pm
🎟️£18
🔗Link to book in bio

06/05/2026

🌻This month at Theatre Deli! 🥳

May is JAM PACKED with performances, workshops, networking and storytelling! 🤩

4th May Delicious Poetry Open Mic · Free

7th May Deli Meets: Dramaturgy Drop-In with Second Brain Collective Free

8th & 9th May Shift+Space: Son by Restitched Theatre PWYC

13th May ·Deli Meets: Singers & Musicians Social with Free 
13th May Mindfulness Journey to Inner Calm with Holistic £5 
13th May Deli Meets: Yoruba Cultural Dance Experience with .olabisi  Free 
14th May Story Pick + Mix with £12–£15 
Until 16th May Alibi: Dead Air £32.50

15 – 16 May Shift+Space: Period Drama by .malini PWYC

16 May An Evening of Afrocentric Poetry with £18

18th May Deli Meets: The Lonely Organisers Chapter Club Free

22 – 23 May Shift+Space: Rulebook to Society by PWYC

29 – 30 May Shift+Space: SWEETNESS by .esohe · PWYC

29 – 30 May A Sudden, Disturbing To Do List by Eleanor May Blackburn · £5

19th-21st May Mate by Nuzhat Jabinh £5

28th May Black Men in Conversation with £10

🔗Link to book all of these events in our bio
📍All events will take place at Theatre Deli 107 Leadenhall Street

01/05/2026

🎊New Venue Alert!🔔

🌟11 New Studios - on sale now

Our new Theatre Deli studios in Crossharbour are available now to book from 15th June onwards.

We have 11 new studios at our Crossharbour location (5 Greenwich View Place, London E14 9NN).

Over the last year this space has been used for our programme The Allotment, in partnership with . Since then we’ve been busy preparing the space to accommodate these new Deli studios for regular bookings.

Crossharbour DLR station is just 15 mins on the train from Bank. The studios there are comfortable and with lots of natural light.

It’s not the first time Theatre Deli has had a venue on the Isle of Dogs - we were based there 2016-2017.

We have other spaces in the pipeline and expect to announce more Theatre Deli creative hubs very soon! 🥳

20/04/2026

🤝FREE new Deli Meets events led by members of our community 🤝

27th April - Red vs Crimson; The Nuance of Performing Translates Text with

1st May - Dulmi! Game Night with

7th May & 4th June - Dramaturgy Drop In with Second Brain

13th May - Yoruba Dance Experience with .olabisi

13th May - Singers and Musicians Social with

5th June - Money Dates with Second Brain

13th June - Offline This Summer Networking and Showcase

Get together, make new friends, learn something new with Deli Meets 🤗

All events are able to book on our website NOW! 🫂

09/04/2026

🤔Thinking about applying for Arts Council funding but not sure where to start?

💸We’re hosting a free information session aimed at first-time applicants and those who haven’t previously received funding from

Led by London-based Relationship Managers in the Theatre team, this session will provide an overview of the application process, funding criteria, and general guidance to help participants craft strong applications. We’ll focus particularly on applications to the Under £30k strand, with advice on projects that involve research and development (R&D) and short performance runs at the early stages of developing work.

🎟️Free but booking essential as places are limited
🔗 Link in bio to book
📍Theatre Deli 107 Leadenhall Street EC3A 4AF
🗓️16th April 12-1.30

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01/04/2026

🐣This is not an April fools! ‼️

🌼Here is what’s happening at Theatre Deli this April.🍃

🔗Tickets at our link in bio

with  9 April An evening of tall tales for thirsty minds

SpeakEasy Po’Jam 9 April Music and spoken word open mic for global majority artists.

Shakespeare Unstaged: The Taming Of The Shrew with  10 April A fast-paced, high-energy staging

Shift+Space: The Penguin by  10&11 April
A hilarious descent into modern loneliness.

Shakespeare Unstaged Open Auditions for The Merchant Of Venice with  11 March A chance to meet the team and get involved.

BLN Pop-Up Bookshop with Natter 11 April
Drop in, discover new reads

SpeakEasy with 11 April
A space centring Black voices, conversation, and community.

Deli Meets: Q***r Craft Cafe with .rex Rex 13 April
All skill levels and art styles welcome!

Mindfulness Journey to Inner Calm with  15 April
Wellbeing session to help you slow down and reset.

Arts Council England Project Grants Advice Session
16 April
Free advice on funding

Shift+Space: Her And The Voice In Her Head by
17&18 April
Matters of the heart that make up who we are.

Love?- An Immersive Experience by
21&22 April
An one-person experience exploring love and connection.
game : Dead Air
21 April - 16 May
Traitors meets True Crime in this deviously fun night out.

Shift+Space: Spicy White by
24 25 April
A play confronting how institutions determine people’s futures.

Revolution Stage - The Value of Money with
25 April
Receive revolutionary money and choose what truly matters.

Shakespeare Unstaged: The Merchant Of Venice with  1 May
A high-energy staging in their signature rapid-rehearsal style.

Shift+Space: Altar by .mya_
1&2 May
Where grief lingers, love echoes.

Shakespeare Unstaged Open Auditions for Midsummer Night’s Dream with
2 May

Photo credits

Slide 8 - Elina In Focus
Slide 15 - Lauren Hollie

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Theatre Deli, 107 Leadenhall Street
London
EC3A4AF

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 10pm
Tuesday	10am - 10pm
Wednesday	10am - 10pm
Thursday	10am - 10pm
Friday	10am - 10pm
Saturday	10am - 10pm

Telephone

+442037353771

Website

https://www.theatredeli.co.uk/

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