Kiln Theatre
Theater · Kilburn, England
Kiln Theatre is at 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR, and stages plays and cinema screenings; the box office is on 020 7328 1000. Brondesbury on the Mildmay line is 289 m from the theatre's postcode and Kilburn on the Jubilee line 551 m, with the West Hampstead stations 740 m and further, all of them in Camden.
History
The operator's own history records a Foresters' meeting hall of 1929, converted to a theatre in 1980 by Shirley Barrie and Ken Chubb, who named it the Tricycle Theatre after their Wakefield Tricycle Company; the building re-opened as Kiln Theatre in September 2018. Nicolas Kent became artistic director in 1984, Indhu Rubasingham joined in 2012 and Amit Sharma became artistic director in 2023. The theatre has produced original work by Zadie Smith, Lynn Nottage, Roy Williams, Moira Buffini, Abi Morgan and Florian Zeller. Kiln Theatre Limited is company no. 1396429 and charity no. 276892.
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269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR
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