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. English National Opera @ St Martin's Lane, London
12. One Sexy Beast @ Green Street
13. Finsbury Park Empire @ St Thomas/Prah Road, Finsbury Park, London
14. The Master Ventriloquist @ Flat 71, Kenilworth Court, Putney
15. Matinee With A Difference @ Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street
16. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
17. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
18. The Lost Zoo of Walworth @ Sullivan Road, Southwark
19. Champagne Charlie lived here @ 136 Englefield Road, Islington, London
20. Ghost of Actor William Terriss @ The Adelphi, The Strand, London
21. The Buckstone Club @ Theatre Royal Haymarket,
22. Wiltons Music Hall @ Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street
23. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
24. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
25. Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre @ Curtain Road, Shoreditch
26. Stanley Holloway was born here @ 25 Albany Road, Manor Park
27. The Savoy Hotel @ 1 Savoy Hill, Strand
28. Comedy and Tragedy @ Gilbert Bridge, Barbican, London
29. Ben Elton's School @ Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, Forest H
30. Theatre Royal Ghost @ Drury Lane, Catherine Street
31. Brinks Mat Bullion @ 117 Wilton Way
32. Colonel Elliott's Magic Home @ 54 Welbeck Street, London
33. The Old Mercury Theatre @ Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London
34. A Puppet Barge not to be missed @ Little Venice
35. Punch and Judy Birthplace @ St Pauls Portico, Westminster
36. Alec Guinness born here @ 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Maida Vale
37. The Rivoli Ballroom @ 350 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
38. Colet Court: Home of Joseph @ Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9JT
39. Actress Peggy Ashcrofts home @ Manor Lodge, 40 Frognal Lane, Hampstead
40. Royal Vauxhall Tavern @ 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall
41. The Bel Savage Inn @ 50 Ludgate Hill, Ludgate
42. The Rose Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, London
43. A Colosseum in Watford @ Rickmansworth Road
44. Small Theatre, Big Heart @ 265 Camden High Street
45. Theatre Royal Haymarket @ 18 Suffolk Street
46. Sir John Gielgud's birthplace @ 7 Gledhow Gardens, Earl's Court
47. Guildhall Art Gallery and Romans @ Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London
48. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
49. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
50. Playwright Harold Pinter's Home @ 19 Thistlewaite Road, Clapton
51. Sir Harry Lauder @ 46 Longley Road, Tooting
52. Her Majesty's Theatre @ Haymarket, London
53. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
54. The Aida Foster Theatre School @ Finchley Road, Temple Fortune, Golders Green
55. The Gielgud Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
56. Sir John Gielgud lived here @ 16 Cowley Street, Westminster
57. Sadler's Wells Theatre @ Rosebury Avenue, Islington, London
58. Lionel Barts party house @ 3a Seymour Walk, Chelsea
59. The Royal Opera House @ Covent Garden
60. The Globe Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside
61. The Pigalle Club @ 215-217 Piccadilly, St James
62. Little Angel Theatre @ 14 Dagmar Passage
63. A Theatre fit for a Baron @ 28A Comeragh Road
64. Hard as Nails & Bronson @ 188 Sheen Lane, East Sheen
65. Michael Jackson plaque @ Lyric Square, King Street, Hammersmith
66. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
67. The Prince Edward Theatre @ Old Compton Street, Soho
68. Drury Lanes Pantomime Fountain @ Catherine St , London
69. Cooper always won them over @ Forest Road, Walthamstow
70. Italia Conti Theatre Academy @ Goswell Road, Clerkenwell
71. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
72. Lost Bromley New Theatre @ Bromley High Road, Bromley
73. Comedian Little Tich lived here @ 93 Shirehall Park, Hendon, London
74. Mrs Hendersons Windmill Theatre @ 17 - 19 Great Windmill Street, London
75. Apollo Victoria Theatre @ 17 Wilton Rd
76. Swap Coffee for Beer Perhaps @ 3 Allington Street, Victoria
77. Trafalgar Studio's @ 14 Whitehall, City of Westminster
78. Cambridge Theatre @ Earlham Street, Covent Garden
79. Theatre manager haunts his own. @ Theatre Royal, Stratford
80. Martita Hunt's Flat @ 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Camden
81. Actress Lynn Fontanne's Home @ 6 Station Terrace, Snakes Lane, Woodford
82. Wood Green Empire @ High Road, Wood Green, London
83. The Palladium @ Argyll Street, London
84. The New London Theatre @ Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London
85. Michael Crawford's Penthouse @ St John's Wharf, Wapping
86. Lupino Lane lived here @ 32 Maida Vale, Maida Vale
87. The Cockpit-in-Court @ 70 Whitehall, Westminster
88. Emlyn Williams Flat @ Flat 3, 123 Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
89. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
90. Thesp Alastair Sim lived here @ 8 Frognal Gardens, London
91. Poor Lazarus Isaacs @ Tower Street, London
92. The Players' Theatre @ 43 King Street, Covent Garden
93. Free Foyer Music @ Belvedere Road
94. St Martins Theatre @ West Street, Cambridge Circus, Covent Garden
95. Scene of the Flying Man! @ 15 Ashley Place, Westminster, London
96. A Big Night Out at the Albany @ Douglas Way. Deptford
97. Rudolf Steiner Hall @ 35 Park Road, Marylebone
98. The Duke of Yorks Theatre @ 104 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden
99. The Hippodrome @ 1 Cranbourn Street, London
100. Jessie Matthews was born here @ 94 Berwick Street, Soho
101. Heir to Spike Milligan's Throne @ 393A High Street, Leytonstone
102. One hell of an Actor @ 8 Hamilton Place
103. Nell of Old Drury @ 29 Catherine Street
104. Magic St Georges Hall @ Langham Place, Regent Street
105. Noel Coward lived here @ 111 Ebury Street, Pimlico
106. The Royal Court Theatre @ 50-51 Sloane Square, Kensington
107. Magician Evanion lived here @ 221 Kennington Road, Lambeth
108. The Ambassadors Theatre @ West Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden
109. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London
110. Vaudeville Theatre @ 404 Strand