What are the opening hours?

Tuesday 9am - 5pm Wednesday 9am - 5pm Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 9am - 5pm Saturday 9:30am - 5pm Sunday 9:30am - 5pm

Polka Theatre

Name: Polka Theatre
Address: 240 The Broadway, London, SW191SB, GB
Telephone: +442085434888
Price range: ££
Rating: 4.7

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Polka Theatre

The home of children’s theatre 🎭
The UK's Most Welcoming Theatre 2024 🎉
Account is manned Mon - Fri We open later when we have evening shows.
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Since the doors opened in 1979, this unique venue has been entertaining children with resonant, engaging and exciting theatre. Over 100,000 children a year come to Polka and are inspired, stimulated and engaged by theatre, often for the first time. Polka strives to stir the emotions, spark the imagination and, most of all, entertain. Its two theatre spaces, the Main Theatre and the Adventure Theat

re are designed especially for children so that their first taste of theatre is welcoming and relevant. Opening Times:

Tuesday – Friday: 9am – 5pm
Saturday – Sunday: 9:30am – 5pm (excluding Bank Holidays)

The building is closed on Mondays. Box Office Opening times:
Tues-Fri – 9am – 5pm
Sat-Sun – 10am – 4.30pm

Phone lines are open on Mondays from 10am – 4pm. Alternatively, please email [email protected].

28/08/2026

What do we do while we're closed?

Short answer. Loads. Some highlights this week have been:

⭐ Checking and testing all the lights and other technical equipment in both theatres
⭐ Reorganising all our amazing workshop props
⭐ Carrying out essential work in our backstage bathrooms

There's still lot more work to be done (including the deep carpet clean!) before we can welcome you back!

25/08/2026

The countdown to Big Dreams in on 🥳

Have you seen us around Wimbledon?

22/08/2026

📣 We'll be closed for a little bit 📣

From Monday 24 August - Tuesday 8 September we'll be closed for our annual dark period, so we can carry out some essential work to keep our building looking lovely! We'll be checking the theatres, cleaning the carpets, changing some décor and so much more, keep an eye out to see what we're up to.

To summarise:

⭐ Play Spaces, the Café and shop will be closed from Monday 24 August and reopen Wednesday 9 September.

⭐ Box Office will be open Monday 24 - Thursday 27 August & Tuesday 1 - Friday 4 September. Normal Box Office opening hours will return from Monday 7 September.

⭐ Shows will return with our Big Dreams Festival on Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September. Our Weekly workshops start from Tuesday 22 September.

19/08/2026

Happy 20th birthday Freefalling 🥳

Over the past twenty years, Freefalling has:

⭐ Helped over 380 young people
⭐ Delivered over 700 hours of workshops
⭐ Performed 24 performances
⭐ And arranged over 1100 cab trips for the young people who need them!

A massive shout out to our incredible Freefalling Project Manager Dominic Hedges, and this year's practitioners Aqiong Zhang, Catriona Malbaski and Melissa Berry.

You can read more about this project on our blog >> https://polkatheatre.com/celebrating-20-years-of-freefalling/

Here's to twenty more years 🎉

18/08/2026

Our Summer Schools are over for another year ☀️

A huge thank you to almost 70 children who joined us across the three Summer Schools, we loved watching you create and learn! And thank you to our amazing team of practitioners, we couldn't do it without you 🫶

🐔 Chickens vs Humans by Youth Theatre Summer School
🐭 The Country Mice and the City Mice by Puppet Summer School
🪞 Mirror Mischief - The Musical by Musical Theatre Summer School

15/08/2026

We're hiring 📣

Applications are open for Sales and Ticketing Supervisor.

For more information, and to apply, go to our website > https://polkatheatre.com/jobs/

13/08/2026

Ready to dive in with Blub? 🐟

A big welcome to the theater.nuu team! Tickets are pretty much SOLD OUT, contact our Box Office to join the waiting list.

11/08/2026

It was a joy to visit Ronald McDonald House Tooting with our Arthur cast 🫶

Together, they explored the beautiful garden, made potions and played games. Thank you to all the children and families for welcoming us in!

The House provides a safe place for families with children at St George's Hospital and we are proud to support is as part of our Community Programme.

Ronald McDonald House UK

07/08/2026

A fond farewell to our Arthur company, who are riding away after a 8 wonderful weeks with us ❤️🐎

Missing them already? They’ll be at The Egg at Theatre Royal Bath this Winter ❄️

06/08/2026

Last week, we celebrated our amazing volunteers at their Summer Party!

In recognition of their incredible work, awards were given out to select members of the team, including 'Team Player', 'Outstanding Contribution' and 'Going Above and Beyond' . We could not operate without all these wonderful people, and we hope you join us in thanking them for all they do ❤️

Address

240 The Broadway
London
SW191SB

Opening Hours

Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9:30am - 5pm
Sunday	9:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+442085434888

Website

https://polkatheatre.com/

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