The YE! company dancing through pink haze

Theatre Nation

A festival of Afrobeats musicals.

The world fell in love with Afrobeats. Now come and see the stories behind the sound.

Tour dates announced soon.

How it started

We staged one Afrobeats musical in Lagos and the city showed up. They sang every word. They came back. So we kept going.

Theatre Nation grows from one belief. African stories can fill theatres and move audiences and travel far beyond where they began.

Now we stage the revolution.

Picture it.

Night after night of original Afrobeats musicals. Live music played raw and deep. You feel it in your chest before you hear it. Dancers who make you forget you have a seat. A lobby that turns into a runway.

And when the curtain comes down the party is only getting started.

Every show is an original African story.

The YE! company dances under yellow stage beams
YE! dancers reach up as two performers kneel centre stage

Who comes

Teenagers who know every lyric sit next to grandparents who remember the originals. The aunties come dressed like it's an owambe.

Friends make a night of it. First-timers end up singing along with people they have never met.

Everybody knows the chorus.

The proof

More than 5,000 audience visits across our productions so far. Many of them saw live theatre for the first time.

The audience is already here. Theatre Nation is how we reach more of them.

Backed by

  • Cowrywise
  • Credit Direct
  • Alliance Française Lagos
  • Klump
  • Reelfruit
  • Malta Guinness
  • Smirnoff
  • Jollof+

Lagos first. Then the world.

Theatre Nation is being built to carry Afrobeats musicals to new cities and new audiences. The next chapter is taking shape.

Tour dates announced soon.