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. Matinee With A Difference @ Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street
13. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
14. The Criterion Restaurant @ 224 Piccadilly, London
15. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
16. The Master Ventriloquist @ Flat 71, Kenilworth Court, Putney
17. Champagne Charlie lived here @ 136 Englefield Road, Islington, London
18. Finsbury Park Empire @ St Thomas/Prah Road, Finsbury Park, London
19. Ben Elton's School @ Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, Forest H
20. The Savoy Hotel @ 1 Savoy Hill, Strand
21. Wiltons Music Hall @ Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street
22. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
23. Stanley Holloway was born here @ 25 Albany Road, Manor Park
24. Ghost of Actor William Terriss @ The Adelphi, The Strand, London
25. The Buckstone Club @ Theatre Royal Haymarket,
26. Alec Guinness born here @ 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Maida Vale
27. Theatre Royal Ghost @ Drury Lane, Catherine Street
28. Comedy and Tragedy @ Gilbert Bridge, Barbican, London
29. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
30. Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre @ Curtain Road, Shoreditch
31. The Old Mercury Theatre @ Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, London
32. The Rivoli Ballroom @ 350 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
33. Punch and Judy Birthplace @ St Pauls Portico, Westminster
34. Small Theatre, Big Heart @ 265 Camden High Street
35. Colonel Elliott's Magic Home @ 54 Welbeck Street, London
36. The Lost Zoo of Walworth @ Sullivan Road, Southwark
37. Theatre Royal Haymarket @ 18 Suffolk Street
38. Royal Vauxhall Tavern @ 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall
39. The Bel Savage Inn @ 50 Ludgate Hill, Ludgate
40. Colet Court: Home of Joseph @ Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9JT
41. Guildhall Art Gallery and Romans @ Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London
42. A Colosseum in Watford @ Rickmansworth Road
43. Sir Harry Lauder @ 46 Longley Road, Tooting
44. Hard as Nails & Bronson @ 188 Sheen Lane, East Sheen
45. Brinks Mat Bullion @ 117 Wilton Way
46. Sir John Gielgud's birthplace @ 7 Gledhow Gardens, Earl's Court
47. Little Angel Theatre @ 14 Dagmar Passage
48. A Puppet Barge not to be missed @ Little Venice
49. Playwright Harold Pinter's Home @ 19 Thistlewaite Road, Clapton
50. The Gielgud Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
51. Actress Peggy Ashcrofts home @ Manor Lodge, 40 Frognal Lane, Hampstead
52. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
53. The Aida Foster Theatre School @ Finchley Road, Temple Fortune, Golders Green
54. Lionel Barts party house @ 3a Seymour Walk, Chelsea
55. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
56. The Rose Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, London
57. A Theatre fit for a Baron @ 28A Comeragh Road
58. The Royal Opera House @ Covent Garden
59. The Prince Edward Theatre @ Old Compton Street, Soho
60. Sir John Gielgud lived here @ 16 Cowley Street, Westminster
61. Sadler's Wells Theatre @ Rosebury Avenue, Islington, London
62. Her Majesty's Theatre @ Haymarket, London
63. Apollo Victoria Theatre @ 17 Wilton Rd
64. The Apollo Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue
65. Comedian Little Tich lived here @ 93 Shirehall Park, Hendon, London
66. Mrs Hendersons Windmill Theatre @ 17 - 19 Great Windmill Street, London
67. Cooper always won them over @ Forest Road, Walthamstow
68. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
69. Michael Jackson plaque @ Lyric Square, King Street, Hammersmith
70. The Pigalle Club @ 215-217 Piccadilly, St James
71. Drury Lanes Pantomime Fountain @ Catherine St , London
72. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
73. The Globe Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside
74. Italia Conti Theatre Academy @ Goswell Road, Clerkenwell
75. Trafalgar Studio's @ 14 Whitehall, City of Westminster
76. Lost Bromley New Theatre @ Bromley High Road, Bromley
77. Theatre manager haunts his own. @ Theatre Royal, Stratford
78. Wood Green Empire @ High Road, Wood Green, London
79. Swap Coffee for Beer Perhaps @ 3 Allington Street, Victoria
80. Actress Lynn Fontanne's Home @ 6 Station Terrace, Snakes Lane, Woodford
81. Free Foyer Music @ Belvedere Road
82. Lupino Lane lived here @ 32 Maida Vale, Maida Vale
83. Martita Hunt's Flat @ 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Camden
84. Scene of the Flying Man! @ 15 Ashley Place, Westminster, London
85. Poor Lazarus Isaacs @ Tower Street, London
86. The New London Theatre @ Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London
87. St Martins Theatre @ West Street, Cambridge Circus, Covent Garden
88. Michael Crawford's Penthouse @ St John's Wharf, Wapping
89. Cambridge Theatre @ Earlham Street, Covent Garden
90. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
91. One hell of an Actor @ 8 Hamilton Place
92. Nell of Old Drury @ 29 Catherine Street
93. The Palladium @ Argyll Street, London
94. Heir to Spike Milligan's Throne @ 393A High Street, Leytonstone
95. The Cockpit-in-Court @ 70 Whitehall, Westminster
96. A Big Night Out at the Albany @ Douglas Way. Deptford
97. Jessie Matthews was born here @ 94 Berwick Street, Soho
98. The Hippodrome @ 1 Cranbourn Street, London
99. Vaudeville Theatre @ 404 Strand
100. The Players' Theatre @ 43 King Street, Covent Garden
101. Emlyn Williams Flat @ Flat 3, 123 Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
102. The Duke of Yorks Theatre @ 104 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden
103. Rudolf Steiner Hall @ 35 Park Road, Marylebone
104. Magician Evanion lived here @ 221 Kennington Road, Lambeth
105. The Magic Couple lived here @ 20 Upper Tollington Park, Finsbury Park
106. Thesp Alastair Sim lived here @ 8 Frognal Gardens, London
107. Magic St Georges Hall @ Langham Place, Regent Street
108. Noel Coward lived here @ 111 Ebury Street, Pimlico
109. The Ambassadors Theatre @ West Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden
110. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London