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 Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
12. Lionel Barts party house @ 3a Seymour Walk, Chelsea
13. The Buckstone Club @ Theatre Royal Haymarket,
14. Michael Crawford's Penthouse @ St John's Wharf, Wapping
15. Sir John Gielgud lived here @ 16 Cowley Street, Westminster
16. The Old Mercury Theatre @ Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London
17. Colet Court: Home of Joseph @ Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9JT
18. A Theatre fit for a Baron @ 28A Comeragh Road
19. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
20. The Lost Zoo of Walworth @ Sullivan Road, Southwark
21. The Rivoli Ballroom @ 350 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
22. Magic St Georges Hall @ Langham Place, Regent Street
23. Hendon Hall @ Ashley Lane, Hendon, London
24. The Globe Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside
25. The Pigalle Club @ 215-217 Piccadilly, St James
26. The Pavlova Statue @ Victoria Palace, Victoria Street, London
27. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
28. Brinks Mat Bullion @ 117 Wilton Way
29. Lost Bromley New Theatre @ Bromley High Road, Bromley
30. Thesp Alastair Sim lived here @ 8 Frognal Gardens, London
31. Ghost of Actor William Terriss @ The Adelphi, The Strand, London
32. Rudolf Steiner Hall @ 35 Park Road, Marylebone
33. Joe Orton lived and died here @ 25 Noel Road, Islington, London
34. The Players' Theatre @ 43 King Street, Covent Garden
35. Michael Jackson plaque @ Lyric Square, King Street, Hammersmith
36. The Royal Opera House @ Covent Garden
37. Sir Harry Lauder @ 46 Longley Road, Tooting
38. Lilian Baylis lived here @ 27 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell
39. The Golden Lion @ 25 King Street, St James
40. Champagne Charlie lived here @ 136 Englefield Road, Islington, London
41. Finsbury Park Empire @ St Thomas/Prah Road, Finsbury Park, London
42. Cambridge Theatre @ Earlham Street, Covent Garden
43. Guildhall Art Gallery and Romans @ Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London
44. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
45. Noel Coward lived here @ 111 Ebury Street, Pimlico
46. Italia Conti Theatre Academy @ Goswell Road, Clerkenwell
47. Trafalgar Studio's @ 14 Whitehall, City of Westminster
48. Lupino Lane lived here @ 32 Maida Vale, Maida Vale
49. The Criterion Restaurant @ 224 Piccadilly, London
50. Wiltons Music Hall @ Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street
51. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
52. Theatre Royal Haymarket @ 18 Suffolk Street
53. Free Foyer Music @ Belvedere Road
54. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
55. Jessie Matthews was born here @ 94 Berwick Street, Soho
56. Ellen Terry's House and Theatre @ 215 Kings Road, Chelsea
57. Colonel Elliott's Magic Home @ 54 Welbeck Street, London
58. Fortune Theatre @ Russell Street, Covent Garden
59. Magician Houdini Lived Here @ 10 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
60. Small Theatre, Big Heart @ 265 Camden High Street
61. Emlyn Williams Flat @ Flat 3, 123 Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
62. Martita Hunt's Flat @ 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Camden
63. Ted Willis born here @ 55 Stanley Road, Tottenham
64. Wood Green Empire @ High Road, Wood Green, London
65. Actress Peggy Ashcrofts home @ Manor Lodge, 40 Frognal Lane, Hampstead
66. The Palladium @ Argyll Street, London
67. Mrs Hendersons Windmill Theatre @ 17 - 19 Great Windmill Street, London
68. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
69. Comedy of Errors 1st Performance @ Gray's Inn Hall, South Square, Holborn
70. Heir to Spike Milligan's Throne @ 393A High Street, Leytonstone
71. One hell of an Actor @ 8 Hamilton Place
72. English National Opera @ St Martin's Lane, London
73. Drury Lanes Pantomime Fountain @ Catherine St , London
74. The Duke of Yorks Theatre @ 104 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden
75. The Gielgud Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
76. The Bel Savage Inn @ 50 Ludgate Hill, Ludgate
77. Nell of Old Drury @ 29 Catherine Street
78. Her Majesty's Theatre @ Haymarket, London
79. Scene of the Flying Man! @ 15 Ashley Place, Westminster, London
80. A Puppet Barge not to be missed @ Little Venice
81. A Colosseum in Watford @ Rickmansworth Road
82. Home to a British Acting Legend @ Troy Court, Kensington High Street
83. The Cockpit-in-Court @ 70 Whitehall, Westminster
84. Sir John Gielgud's birthplace @ 7 Gledhow Gardens, Earl's Court
85. Derek Jacobi lived here @ 2 Essex Road South, Leytonstone
86. Stanley Holloway was born here @ 25 Albany Road, Manor Park
87. Theatre Royal Ghost @ Drury Lane, Catherine Street
88. The Savoy Hotel @ 1 Savoy Hill, Strand
89. Comedy and Tragedy @ Gilbert Bridge, Barbican, London
90. The King of Sequins @ 29 Kenilworth Avenue, Walthamstow
91. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
92. The Lyceum Theatre @ Wellington Street, Covent Garden
93. The Magic Couple lived here @ 20 Upper Tollington Park, Finsbury Park
94. The Lyric Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho
95. Little Angel Theatre @ 14 Dagmar Passage
96. Swap Coffee for Beer Perhaps @ 3 Allington Street, Victoria
97. Magician Evanion lived here @ 221 Kennington Road, Lambeth
98. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
99. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
100. Hard as Nails & Bronson @ 188 Sheen Lane, East Sheen
101. Ben Elton's School @ Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, Forest H
102. Vaudeville Theatre @ 404 Strand
103. Comedian Little Tich lived here @ 93 Shirehall Park, Hendon, London
104. Royal Vauxhall Tavern @ 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall
105. Sadler's Wells Theatre @ Rosebury Avenue, Islington, London
106. Cooper always won them over @ Forest Road, Walthamstow
107. Apollo Victoria Theatre @ 17 Wilton Rd
108. The Shaftesbury Theatre @ 210 Shaftesbury Avenue
109. The Royal Court Theatre @ 50-51 Sloane Square, Kensington
110. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road