Qualla: Sadler's Wells East https://qualla.com/sadler-s-wells-east en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/sadler-s-wells-east-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sadler's Wells East https://qualla.com/sadler-s-wells-east Sadler's Wells East: Introduction https://qualla.com/sadler-s-wells-east/ Photo credit RichH, CC BY-SA 4.0. The announcement came in June 2018, bundled into a £1.1 billion vision for what the Mayor of London was calling the "East Bank" — a cultural district rising from the post-Olympic landscape of Stratford. Sadler's Wells, whose original Islington theatre traces its performing arts lineage back to 1683, would build a satellite venue in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Seven years later, on 16 January 2025, Sadler's Wells East opened its doors.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/sadler-s-wells-east-wp/gcpv-sadlers-wells-east-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sadler's Wells East: A Stage Designed to Match https://qualla.com/sadler-s-wells-east/ Photo credit The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0. The choice of Dublin-based architects O'Donnell + Tuomey to design the building was deliberate — they had already worked on the adjacent V&A East Museum, and the two new institutions were conceived as part of a coherent cultural campus. The resulting theatre includes six dance st...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/sadler-s-wells-east-wp/gcpv-sadlers-wells-east-a-stage-designed-to-match.mp3 0:06 2 full Sadler's Wells East: Opening on the East Bank https://qualla.com/sadler-s-wells-east/ Photo credit The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0. The East Bank is a broader ambition: a cluster of cultural institutions — including the V&A East Museum, a new outpost of the BBC, and University College London's East campus — gathered in the park built for the 2012 Olympics. It represents a significant investment in East London...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/sadler-s-wells-east-wp/gcpv-sadlers-wells-east-opening-on-the-east-bank.mp3 0:06 3 full Sadler's Wells East: The Opening Programme https://qualla.com/sadler-s-wells-east/ Photo credit N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The artists and companies featured in the opening programme gave a sense of what Sadler's Wells East intends to be. Ivan Michael Blackstock premiered TRAPLORD; Botis Seva brought Until We Sleep; Phoenix Dance Theatre performed Inside Giovanni's Room. Birmingham Royal Ballet's jun...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/sadler-s-wells-east-wp/gcpv-sadlers-wells-east-the-opening-programme.mp3 0:06 4 full Sadler's Wells East: An Extension, Not a Replacement https://qualla.com/sadler-s-wells-east/ Photo credit The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sadler's Wells East is built to function as a satellite, not a successor. The original theatre in Islington — which has been on its site, in various forms, since 1683, and in its current building since 1998 — continues to operate. The relationship between the two venues is meant ...

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