About

Lagos Theatre Festival (LTF) is the largest performing arts festival in Nigeria and indeed West Africa. It was created to promote theatre in unconventional spaces. Through the festival, theatre makers and producers are supported to expand their practice beyond traditional theatre spaces by creating work that responds to any given space.

The Festival was founded by British Council in 2013 as part of its ambitions of fostering exchange, collaboration and strengthen relationships between Nigerian and British artists through the presentation of high quality Nigerian and British theatre.

LTF 2013 was held at Eko Hotel, and featured 4 shows over one weekend; LTF 2014 held at Freedom Park also featuring 4 shows over four days; Following a break in 2015, LTF was re-launched in 2016 with the introduction of a fringe strand and it featured 109 shows in 19 venues working with 35 theatre companies during the 6 days of the festival. In 2017, the festival presented over 70 shows in 16 venues. The 2018 edition of the festival featured over 120 shows in 22 venues. In 2019, the 6th edition was held from the 8th to the 14th of April, 2019, and featured 26 productions, with 103 events.

British Council handed over the running and management of the Lagos Theatre Festival to an independent Board in 2019.

Since its inception in 2013, Lagos Theatre Festival has hosted 6 festivals, with 260 productions, 50 workshops and over 420 shows. We have reached 42,800 physically and over 770 million online.