theatre Top Theatre-related places to visit in London.

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.

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11. The Golden Lion @ 25 King Street, St James
12. Vaudeville Theatre @ 404 Strand
13. The Rivoli Ballroom @ 350 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
14. Magician Houdini Lived Here @ 10 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
15. Sir John Gielgud lived here @ 16 Cowley Street, Westminster
16. Her Majesty's Theatre @ Haymarket, London
17. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London
18. The Peacock's Flipper Ghost @ Portugal Street, London
19. Italia Conti Theatre Academy @ Goswell Road, Clerkenwell
20. Ghost of Actor William Terriss @ The Adelphi, The Strand, London
21. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
22. Fortune Theatre @ Russell Street, Covent Garden
23. Jessie Matthews was born here @ 94 Berwick Street, Soho
24. Alec Guinness born here @ 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Maida Vale
25. Comedy and Tragedy @ Gilbert Bridge, Barbican, London
26. Sir Harry Lauder @ 46 Longley Road, Tooting
27. Champagne Charlie lived here @ 136 Englefield Road, Islington, London
28. The Pavlova Statue @ Victoria Palace, Victoria Street, London
29. A Theatre fit for a Baron @ 28A Comeragh Road
30. Michael Jackson plaque @ Lyric Square, King Street, Hammersmith
31. The Royal Court Theatre @ 50-51 Sloane Square, Kensington
32. Mrs Hendersons Windmill Theatre @ 17 - 19 Great Windmill Street, London
33. The Buckstone Club @ Theatre Royal Haymarket,
34. Stanley Holloway was born here @ 25 Albany Road, Manor Park
35. The Players' Theatre @ 43 King Street, Covent Garden
36. The Savoy Hotel @ 1 Savoy Hill, Strand
37. Michael Crawford's Penthouse @ St John's Wharf, Wapping
38. Martita Hunt's Flat @ 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Camden
39. Colet Court: Home of Joseph @ Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9JT
40. The Bel Savage Inn @ 50 Ludgate Hill, Ludgate
41. One hell of an Actor @ 8 Hamilton Place
42. Brinks Mat Bullion @ 117 Wilton Way
43. Sir John Gielgud's birthplace @ 7 Gledhow Gardens, Earl's Court
44. Magician Evanion lived here @ 221 Kennington Road, Lambeth
45. The Hippodrome @ 1 Cranbourn Street, London
46. Guildhall Art Gallery and Romans @ Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London
47. A Puppet Barge not to be missed @ Little Venice
48. A Colosseum in Watford @ Rickmansworth Road
49. The Lost Zoo of Walworth @ Sullivan Road, Southwark
50. Small Theatre, Big Heart @ 265 Camden High Street
51. Free Foyer Music @ Belvedere Road
52. Apollo Victoria Theatre @ 17 Wilton Rd
53. Derek Jacobi lived here @ 2 Essex Road South, Leytonstone
54. Home to a British Acting Legend @ Troy Court, Kensington High Street
55. Actress Peggy Ashcrofts home @ Manor Lodge, 40 Frognal Lane, Hampstead
56. Cambridge Theatre @ Earlham Street, Covent Garden
57. The Criterion Restaurant @ 224 Piccadilly, London
58. St Martins Theatre @ West Street, Cambridge Circus, Covent Garden
59. Ellen Terry's House and Theatre @ 215 Kings Road, Chelsea
60. The Palladium @ Argyll Street, London
61. Finsbury Park Empire @ St Thomas/Prah Road, Finsbury Park, London
62. The Rose Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, London
63. Matinee With A Difference @ Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street
64. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
65. The Royal Opera House @ Covent Garden
66. The Palace Theatre @ Cambridge Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue
67. Playwright Harold Pinter's Home @ 19 Thistlewaite Road, Clapton
68. The Cockpit-in-Court @ 70 Whitehall, Westminster
69. Thesp Alastair Sim lived here @ 8 Frognal Gardens, London
70. Wiltons Music Hall @ Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street
71. Drury Lanes Pantomime Fountain @ Catherine St , London
72. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
73. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
74. Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre @ Curtain Road, Shoreditch
75. Little Angel Theatre @ 14 Dagmar Passage
76. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
77. Theatre Royal Haymarket @ 18 Suffolk Street
78. The New London Theatre @ Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London
79. The Globe Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside
80. Clown Joseph Grimaldi lived here @ 56 Exmouth Market, Islington
81. Trafalgar Studio's @ 14 Whitehall, City of Westminster
82. The Pigalle Club @ 215-217 Piccadilly, St James
83. The Ambassadors Theatre @ West Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden
84. Theatre Royal Ghost @ Drury Lane, Catherine Street
85. The Old Mercury Theatre @ Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London
86. Lionel Barts party house @ 3a Seymour Walk, Chelsea
87. Ben Elton's School @ Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, Forest H
88. Ted Willis born here @ 55 Stanley Road, Tottenham
89. Nell of Old Drury @ 29 Catherine Street
90. Comedy of Errors 1st Performance @ Gray's Inn Hall, South Square, Holborn
91. The Duke of Yorks Theatre @ 104 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden
92. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
93. The Gielgud Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
94. Lupino Lane lived here @ 32 Maida Vale, Maida Vale
95. Meeting of The Damned @ Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon
96. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
97. Poor Lazarus Isaacs @ Tower Street, London
98. Emlyn Williams Flat @ Flat 3, 123 Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
99. The Lyceum Theatre @ Wellington Street, Covent Garden
100. Lilian Baylis lived here @ 27 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell
101. The Lyric Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho
102. Theatre manager haunts his own. @ Theatre Royal, Stratford
103. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
104. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
105. Comedian Little Tich lived here @ 93 Shirehall Park, Hendon, London
106. Heir to Spike Milligan's Throne @ 393A High Street, Leytonstone
107. Sadler's Wells Theatre @ Rosebury Avenue, Islington, London
108. Magic St Georges Hall @ Langham Place, Regent Street
109. The Shaftesbury Theatre @ 210 Shaftesbury Avenue
110. Swap Coffee for Beer Perhaps @ 3 Allington Street, Victoria