More About Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre

It was built for one show and opened with it. The first preview of The Hunger Games: On Stage on 20 October 2025 was the first night anybody sat in it, and the production opened on 12 November.

The building is purpose-built in the round: the stage sits in the middle with the audience wrapped all the way around it, spread over three floors, with three bars and an outside terrace over the dock. There are no wings, which follows from building it that way, so performers and scenery arrive from above or below rather than from the side. Two of the seating banks rotate during the performance.

The naming comes from the show. The audience sits in numbered Districts, the stage is District 12, and the vocabulary has stuck to the building rather than to the production: staff, tickets and the seat map all use it.

Who runs it

Troubadour Theatres, who also run Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, home to Starlight Express, and who ran the former King's Cross Theatre, where The Railway Children, David Bowie's Lazarus and In the Heights played. A fourth, Troubadour Greenwich Peninsula, was announced on 10 September 2025.

They work the same way each time. A big flexible space goes up to suit one production, instead of a production being squeezed into a theatre built for something else.

Where it sits

Canary Wharf, not theatreland. There is no walk from one theatre to another here and no Theatreland grid of pubs. What there is instead is an estate with more than 300 shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, a free public art collection, and a tube journey of seven minutes from London Bridge and eleven from Waterloo.

For a lot of people that is an easier trip than the West End, particularly anyone arriving on the Elizabeth line.

Past productions

There has been one. The Hunger Games: On Stage has played here since the building opened, and it is booking to 14 February 2027.