The Blue Orange Theatre is an independent

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

located in the

Jewellery Quarter The Jewellery Quarter is an area of central Birmingham, UK, in the north-western area of Birmingham City Centre, with a population of around 19,000 people in a area. The Jewellery Quarter is Europe's largest concentration of businesses invol ...

in the centre of

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. It was founded by the local producer and director Mark Webster and opened in April 2011, aiming to showcase new drama and writing from the city. The main auditorium is a 107-seat theatre, with the site also including a bar and a rehearsal studio. The theatre acts as a

producing theatre A producing house is a theatre which ‘manufactures' its own shows in-house (such as plays, musicals, opera, or dance) and perhaps does everything from honing the script, building the set, casting the actors and designing and making the costum ...

staging work by its own company, as well as hosting performances from visiting theatre companies.

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* Theatres in Birmingham, West Midlands Theatre companies in Birmingham, West Midlands 2011 establishments in England Producing theatres in England {{UK-theat-struct-stub