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The theatre was designed in 1930 by Edward A. Stone, [1] with an interior designed by Marc-Henri Levy and Gaston Laverdet. [2] It cost over £400,000 to be built. [3] Named after Prince Edward (at the time Prince of Wales, briefly Edward VIII and later Duke of Windsor), it opened on 3 April 1930 with a performance of the musical Rio Rita. [4]
The first theatre on the site opened in January 1884 when C.J. Phipps built the Prince's Theatre for actor-manager Edgar Bruce. It was a traditional three-tier theatre, seating just over 1,000 people. The theatre was renamed the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1886 after the future Edward VII.
Prince Edward Theatre: London 3 April 1930 1,716 Owner – Delfont Mackintosh Theatres: Prince of Wales Theatre: London January 1884 1,160 Owner – Delfont Mackintosh Theatres: Princes Hall: Aldershot 1972 690 Princes Theatre: Clacton 14 April 1931 1,400 Owner - Tendring District Council: Priory Theatre: Kenilworth: 8 April 1946 120 ...
Prince Edward Theatre: Old Compton Street 1,727 Delfont Mackintosh Theatres: MJ the Musical [72] Musical 27 March 2024 Open-ended Prince of Wales Theatre: Coventry Street 1,148 Delfont Mackintosh Theatres: The Book of Mormon: Musical 21 March 2013 Open-ended Savoy Theatre: Strand 1,150 ATG Entertainment: Mean Girls [73] Musical
The Charles Cryer Theatre is a studio theatre located in the High Street in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton. The theatre is named after the man who led the campaign to open the Secombe Theatre in neighbouring Sutton. [1] It was opened by Prince Edward in 1991. [2] [3] It closed in 2016, but in November 2019 it reopened under new ...
The London Palladium (/ p ə ˈ l eɪ d i ˌ ʊ m /) is a Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street, London, in Soho. The theatre was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1910. The auditorium holds 2,286 people. Hundreds of stars have played there, many with televised performances.
The New Wimbledon Theatre is situated on the Broadway, Wimbledon, London, in the London Borough of Merton.It is a Grade II listed Edwardian theatre built by the theatre lover and entrepreneur, J. B. Mulholland, who at the time was also owner of the King's Theatre in Hammersmith and had owned the Theatre Metropole in Camberwell in the 1890's.
The present building, opened in 1812, is the most recent of four theatres that stood at the location since 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. [1] According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". [2]