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. A Colosseum in Watford @ Rickmansworth Road
12. The Bel Savage Inn @ 50 Ludgate Hill, Ludgate
13. Joe Orton lived and died here @ 25 Noel Road, Islington, London
14. Ghost of Actor William Terriss @ The Adelphi, The Strand, London
15. Mrs Hendersons Windmill Theatre @ 17 - 19 Great Windmill Street, London
16. Theatre Royal Ghost @ Drury Lane, Catherine Street
17. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London
18. Michael Crawford's Penthouse @ St John's Wharf, Wapping
19. Ted Willis born here @ 55 Stanley Road, Tottenham
20. Colonel Elliott's Magic Home @ 54 Welbeck Street, London
21. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
22. Champagne Charlie lived here @ 136 Englefield Road, Islington, London
23. The Rose Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, London
24. The Buckstone Club @ Theatre Royal Haymarket,
25. Martita Hunt's Flat @ 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Camden
26. The Cockpit-in-Court @ 70 Whitehall, Westminster
27. Comedy and Tragedy @ Gilbert Bridge, Barbican, London
28. The Pavlova Statue @ Victoria Palace, Victoria Street, London
29. The Lost Zoo of Walworth @ Sullivan Road, Southwark
30. One hell of an Actor @ 8 Hamilton Place
31. Alec Guinness born here @ 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Maida Vale
32. Vaudeville Theatre @ 404 Strand
33. Rudolf Steiner Hall @ 35 Park Road, Marylebone
34. The Criterion Restaurant @ 224 Piccadilly, London
35. The Rivoli Ballroom @ 350 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
36. Hendon Hall @ Ashley Lane, Hendon, London
37. Guildhall Art Gallery and Romans @ Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London
38. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
39. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
40. Free Foyer Music @ Belvedere Road
41. A Big Night Out at the Albany @ Douglas Way. Deptford
42. Italia Conti Theatre Academy @ Goswell Road, Clerkenwell
43. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
44. Emlyn Williams Flat @ Flat 3, 123 Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
45. The Savoy Hotel @ 1 Savoy Hill, Strand
46. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
47. The Hippodrome @ 1 Cranbourn Street, London
48. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
49. Punch and Judy Birthplace @ St Pauls Portico, Westminster
50. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
51. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
52. Comedy of Errors 1st Performance @ Gray's Inn Hall, South Square, Holborn
53. Cooper always won them over @ Forest Road, Walthamstow
54. The Royal Opera House @ Covent Garden
55. Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre @ Curtain Road, Shoreditch
56. The Gielgud Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
57. The King of Sequins @ 29 Kenilworth Avenue, Walthamstow
58. Thesp Alastair Sim lived here @ 8 Frognal Gardens, London
59. Wiltons Music Hall @ Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street
60. Finsbury Park Empire @ St Thomas/Prah Road, Finsbury Park, London
61. A Puppet Barge not to be missed @ Little Venice
62. Swap Coffee for Beer Perhaps @ 3 Allington Street, Victoria
63. Theatre Royal Haymarket @ 18 Suffolk Street
64. The Players' Theatre @ 43 King Street, Covent Garden
65. Actress Peggy Ashcrofts home @ Manor Lodge, 40 Frognal Lane, Hampstead
66. The Royal Court Theatre @ 50-51 Sloane Square, Kensington
67. Lupino Lane lived here @ 32 Maida Vale, Maida Vale
68. The Pigalle Club @ 215-217 Piccadilly, St James
69. Sir John Gielgud lived here @ 16 Cowley Street, Westminster
70. Stanley Holloway was born here @ 25 Albany Road, Manor Park
71. Lost Bromley New Theatre @ Bromley High Road, Bromley
72. The Golden Lion @ 25 King Street, St James
73. Little Angel Theatre @ 14 Dagmar Passage
74. Her Majesty's Theatre @ Haymarket, London
75. English National Opera @ St Martin's Lane, London
76. Jessie Matthews was born here @ 94 Berwick Street, Soho
77. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
78. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
79. The Prince Edward Theatre @ Old Compton Street, Soho
80. Theatre manager haunts his own. @ Theatre Royal, Stratford
81. Nell of Old Drury @ 29 Catherine Street
82. Wood Green Empire @ High Road, Wood Green, London
83. Scene of the Flying Man! @ 15 Ashley Place, Westminster, London
84. The Duke of Yorks Theatre @ 104 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden
85. Drury Lanes Pantomime Fountain @ Catherine St , London
86. Poor Lazarus Isaacs @ Tower Street, London
87. Magician Houdini Lived Here @ 10 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
88. A Theatre fit for a Baron @ 28A Comeragh Road
89. Home to a British Acting Legend @ Troy Court, Kensington High Street
90. Fortune Theatre @ Russell Street, Covent Garden
91. The Palace Theatre @ Cambridge Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue
92. Clown Joseph Grimaldi lived here @ 56 Exmouth Market, Islington
93. Trafalgar Studio's @ 14 Whitehall, City of Westminster
94. Sir John Gielgud's birthplace @ 7 Gledhow Gardens, Earl's Court
95. Derek Jacobi lived here @ 2 Essex Road South, Leytonstone
96. The Lyceum Theatre @ Wellington Street, Covent Garden
97. Comedian Little Tich lived here @ 93 Shirehall Park, Hendon, London
98. Meeting of The Damned @ Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon
99. Colet Court: Home of Joseph @ Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9JT
100. Lepers, Beer, and Thespians @ 268-269 Tottenham Court Road
101. Cambridge Theatre @ Earlham Street, Covent Garden
102. Hard as Nails & Bronson @ 188 Sheen Lane, East Sheen
103. Magician Evanion lived here @ 221 Kennington Road, Lambeth
104. Ben Elton's School @ Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, Forest H
105. St Martins Theatre @ West Street, Cambridge Circus, Covent Garden
106. The Globe Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside
107. Playwright Harold Pinter's Home @ 19 Thistlewaite Road, Clapton
108. The Shaftesbury Theatre @ 210 Shaftesbury Avenue
109. Lilian Baylis lived here @ 27 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell
110. Sadler's Wells Theatre @ Rosebury Avenue, Islington, London