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.
MORE THEATRE SIGHTS:
11. Sir John Gielgud lived here @ 16 Cowley Street, Westminster
12. The Golden Lion @ 25 King Street, St James
13. The Rivoli Ballroom @ 350 Brockley Road, Brockley, London
14. Actress Peggy Ashcrofts home @ Manor Lodge, 40 Frognal Lane, Hampstead
15. Wood Green Empire @ High Road, Wood Green, London
16. The Palladium @ Argyll Street, London
17. Lionel Barts party house @ 3a Seymour Walk, Chelsea
18. The Buckstone Club @ Theatre Royal Haymarket,
19. One Sexy Beast @ Green Street
20. Nell of Old Drury @ 29 Catherine Street
21. The Lost Zoo of Walworth @ Sullivan Road, Southwark
22. Finsbury Park Empire @ St Thomas/Prah Road, Finsbury Park, London
23. Free Foyer Music @ Belvedere Road
24. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
25. Colet Court: Home of Joseph @ Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9JT
26. Theatre Royal Haymarket @ 18 Suffolk Street
27. Sir John Gielgud's birthplace @ 7 Gledhow Gardens, Earl's Court
28. The Bel Savage Inn @ 50 Ludgate Hill, Ludgate
29. Drury Lanes Pantomime Fountain @ Catherine St , London
30. Hendon Hall @ Ashley Lane, Hendon, London
31. Ellen Terry's House and Theatre @ 215 Kings Road, Chelsea
32. Mrs Hendersons Windmill Theatre @ 17 - 19 Great Windmill Street, London
33. The Players' Theatre @ 43 King Street, Covent Garden
34. Comedy and Tragedy @ Gilbert Bridge, Barbican, London
35. Champagne Charlie lived here @ 136 Englefield Road, Islington, London
36. The Royal Opera House @ Covent Garden
37. Lupino Lane lived here @ 32 Maida Vale, Maida Vale
38. Thesp Alastair Sim lived here @ 8 Frognal Gardens, London
39. Guildhall Art Gallery and Romans @ Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London
40. Magician Evanion lived here @ 221 Kennington Road, Lambeth
41. D'Oyly Carte lived here @ 2 Dartmouth Park Road, Kentish Town
42. Michael Jackson plaque @ Lyric Square, King Street, Hammersmith
43. Trafalgar Studio's @ 14 Whitehall, City of Westminster
44. Emlyn Williams Flat @ Flat 3, 123 Dovehouse Street, Chelsea
45. Wiltons Music Hall @ Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street
46. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
47. Fortune Street Park @ Fortune Street, Barbican, London
48. Comedy of Errors 1st Performance @ Gray's Inn Hall, South Square, Holborn
49. Sir Harry Lauder @ 46 Longley Road, Tooting
50. The New London Theatre @ Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London
51. Lilian Baylis lived here @ 27 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell
52. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
53. Magic St Georges Hall @ Langham Place, Regent Street
54. Playwright Harold Pinter's Home @ 19 Thistlewaite Road, Clapton
55. The Savoy Hotel @ 1 Savoy Hill, Strand
56. Comedian Little Tich lived here @ 93 Shirehall Park, Hendon, London
57. Scene of the Flying Man! @ 15 Ashley Place, Westminster, London
58. Magician David Devant lived here @ Flat 1 Ornan Court, Ornan Road, London
59. Magician Houdini Lived Here @ 10 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
60. Noel Coward lived here @ 111 Ebury Street, Pimlico
61. Clown Joseph Grimaldi lived here @ 56 Exmouth Market, Islington
62. The Ambassadors Theatre @ West Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden
63. The Criterion Restaurant @ 224 Piccadilly, London
64. English National Opera @ St Martin's Lane, London
65. Hard as Nails & Bronson @ 188 Sheen Lane, East Sheen
66. Ben Elton's School @ Stillness Junior School, Brockley Rise, Forest H
67. Alec Guinness born here @ 155 Lauderdale Mansions South, Maida Vale
68. The Globe Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside
69. The Cockpit-in-Court @ 70 Whitehall, Westminster
70. Vaudeville Theatre @ 404 Strand
71. Martita Hunt's Flat @ 7 Primrose Hill Studios, Camden
72. Actress Lynn Fontanne's Home @ 6 Station Terrace, Snakes Lane, Woodford
73. The Lyric Theatre @ Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho
74. Ghost of Actor William Terriss @ The Adelphi, The Strand, London
75. The Hippodrome @ 1 Cranbourn Street, London
76. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
77. Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre @ Curtain Road, Shoreditch
78. Ted Willis born here @ 55 Stanley Road, Tottenham
79. Theatre Royal Ghost @ Drury Lane, Catherine Street
80. Sadler's Wells Theatre @ Rosebury Avenue, Islington, London
81. Her Majesty's Theatre @ Haymarket, London
82. Colonel Elliott's Magic Home @ 54 Welbeck Street, London
83. Meeting of The Damned @ Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon
84. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
85. A Colosseum in Watford @ Rickmansworth Road
86. Home to a British Acting Legend @ Troy Court, Kensington High Street
87. Heir to Spike Milligan's Throne @ 393A High Street, Leytonstone
88. A Big Night Out at the Albany @ Douglas Way. Deptford
89. Italia Conti Theatre Academy @ Goswell Road, Clerkenwell
90. Royal Vauxhall Tavern @ 372 Kennington Lane, Vauxhall
91. Lost Bromley New Theatre @ Bromley High Road, Bromley
92. Poor Lazarus Isaacs @ Tower Street, London
93. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
94. The Granville Theatre @ Walham Green, Hammersmith & Fulham
95. Jessie Matthews was born here @ 94 Berwick Street, Soho
96. The Master Ventriloquist @ Flat 71, Kenilworth Court, Putney
97. The Palace Theatre @ Cambridge Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue
98. Rudolf Steiner Hall @ 35 Park Road, Marylebone
99. Matinee With A Difference @ Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street
100. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
101. Cooper always won them over @ Forest Road, Walthamstow
102. The Savoy Theatre @ Savoy Street, Westminster
103. Fortune Theatre @ Russell Street, Covent Garden
104. Theatre manager haunts his own. @ Theatre Royal, Stratford
105. Little Angel Theatre @ 14 Dagmar Passage
106. The Rose Theatre @ 21 New Globe Walk, London
107. A Theatre fit for a Baron @ 28A Comeragh Road
108. Cambridge Theatre @ Earlham Street, Covent Garden
109. The King of Sequins @ 29 Kenilworth Avenue, Walthamstow
110. The Shaftesbury Theatre @ 210 Shaftesbury Avenue
pinpointing the forgotten and lost history of London
Shady Old Lady »» Car Reviews »» Classic Telly »» Peckish © 2025 The Shady Old Lady, Privacy Policy
