Top Theatre-related places to visit in London.
The glitz, glamour, red velvet, and soggy carpets of treading the boards over the West End. While other historic buildings have been replaced or removed, lots of theatres from the Victorian period and before have been lovingly restored.
MORE THEATRE SIGHTS:
11. Mrs Hendersons Windmill Theatre @ 17 - 19 Great Windmill Street, London
12. Magician Houdini Lived Here @ 10 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
13. The Peacock's Flipper Ghost @ Portugal Street, London
14. One hell of an Actor @ 8 Hamilton Place
15. The Savoy Hotel @ 1 Savoy Hill, Strand
16. Jessie Matthews was born here @ 94 Berwick Street, Soho
17. The Royal Court Theatre @ 50-51 Sloane Square, Kensington
18. Stanley Holloway was born here @ 25 Albany Road, Manor Park
19. Champagne Charlie lived here @ 136 Englefield Road, Islington, London
20. Fortune Theatre @ Russell Street, Covent Garden
21. The Master Ventriloquist @ Flat 71, Kenilworth Court, Putney
22. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
23. The Rivoli Ballroom @ 350 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
24. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London
25. Her Majesty's Theatre @ Haymarket, London
26. Wood Green Empire @ High Road, Wood Green, London
27. The Pavlova Statue @ Victoria Palace, Victoria Street, London
28. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
29. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
30. Michael Jackson plaque @ Lyric Square, King Street, Hammersmith
31. Alec Guinness born here @ 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Maida Vale
32. Michael Crawford's Penthouse @ St John's Wharf, Wapping
33. Ghost of Actor William Terriss @ The Adelphi, The Strand, London
34. A Colosseum in Watford @ Rickmansworth Road
35. Free Foyer Music @ Belvedere Road
36. St Martins Theatre @ West Street, Cambridge Circus, Covent Garden
37. Comedy and Tragedy @ Gilbert Bridge, Barbican, London
38. Drury Lanes Pantomime Fountain @ Catherine St , London
39. Actress Peggy Ashcrofts home @ Manor Lodge, 40 Frognal Lane, Hampstead
40. A Theatre fit for a Baron @ 28A Comeragh Road
41. The Players' Theatre @ 43 King Street, Covent Garden
42. Trafalgar Studio's @ 14 Whitehall, City of Westminster
43. The Bel Savage Inn @ 50 Ludgate Hill, Ludgate
44. Sir John Gielgud lived here @ 16 Cowley Street, Westminster
45. The New London Theatre @ Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London
46. Clown Joseph Grimaldi lived here @ 56 Exmouth Market, Islington
47. The Pigalle Club @ 215-217 Piccadilly, St James
48. The Buckstone Club @ Theatre Royal Haymarket,
49. The Lost Zoo of Walworth @ Sullivan Road, Southwark
50. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
51. The Lyceum Theatre @ Wellington Street, Covent Garden
52. Martita Hunt's Flat @ 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Camden
53. The Hippodrome @ 1 Cranbourn Street, London
54. Brinks Mat Bullion @ 117 Wilton Way
55. The Duke of Yorks Theatre @ 104 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden
56. Playwright Harold Pinter's Home @ 19 Thistlewaite Road, Clapton
57. Sir John Gielgud's birthplace @ 7 Gledhow Gardens, Earl's Court
58. Derek Jacobi lived here @ 2 Essex Road South, Leytonstone
59. Cambridge Theatre @ Earlham Street, Covent Garden
60. Lupino Lane lived here @ 32 Maida Vale, Maida Vale
61. Nell of Old Drury @ 29 Catherine Street
62. Theatre Royal Ghost @ Drury Lane, Catherine Street
63. Emlyn Williams Flat @ Flat 3, 123 Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
64. The Criterion Restaurant @ 224 Piccadilly, London
65. Finsbury Park Empire @ St Thomas/Prah Road, Finsbury Park, London
66. The Rose Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, London
67. Apollo Victoria Theatre @ 17 Wilton Rd
68. Magician Evanion lived here @ 221 Kennington Road, Lambeth
69. Thesp Alastair Sim lived here @ 8 Frognal Gardens, London
70. Lionel Barts party house @ 3a Seymour Walk, Chelsea
71. Colet Court: Home of Joseph @ Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9JT
72. Guildhall Art Gallery and Romans @ Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London
73. A Puppet Barge not to be missed @ Little Venice
74. Small Theatre, Big Heart @ 265 Camden High Street
75. The Cockpit-in-Court @ 70 Whitehall, Westminster
76. Lilian Baylis lived here @ 27 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell
77. Ellen Terry's House and Theatre @ 215 Kings Road, Chelsea
78. Meeting of The Damned @ Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon
79. The Palladium @ Argyll Street, London
80. Matinee With A Difference @ Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street
81. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
82. Swap Coffee for Beer Perhaps @ 3 Allington Street, Victoria
83. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
84. Heir to Spike Milligan's Throne @ 393A High Street, Leytonstone
85. Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre @ Curtain Road, Shoreditch
86. Ted Willis born here @ 55 Stanley Road, Tottenham
87. Little Angel Theatre @ 14 Dagmar Passage
88. Poor Lazarus Isaacs @ Tower Street, London
89. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
90. Home to a British Acting Legend @ Troy Court, Kensington High Street
91. Ben Elton's School @ Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, Forest H
92. The Royal Opera House @ Covent Garden
93. The Ambassadors Theatre @ West Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden
94. Theatre Royal Haymarket @ 18 Suffolk Street
95. The Shaftesbury Theatre @ 210 Shaftesbury Avenue
96. Wiltons Music Hall @ Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street
97. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
98. The Gielgud Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
99. Rudolf Steiner Hall @ 35 Park Road, Marylebone
100. Lost Bromley New Theatre @ Bromley High Road, Bromley
101. The Lyric Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho
102. Comedian Little Tich lived here @ 93 Shirehall Park, Hendon, London
103. The King of Sequins @ 29 Kenilworth Avenue, Walthamstow
104. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
105. Hard as Nails & Bronson @ 188 Sheen Lane, East Sheen
106. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
107. Noel Coward lived here @ 111 Ebury Street, Pimlico
108. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
109. The Palace Theatre @ Cambridge Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue
110. Royal Vauxhall Tavern @ 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall
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