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London
Theatre Guide
Aldwych Theatre
Address: Aldwych, London, WC2B 4DF
Tube: Holborn / Covent Garden
Architect: W. G. R. Sprague
Opened: 1905
Capacity: 1176 seats
What constitutes the area known as London’s theatre land was once a much larger area; much of it was demolished at the end of the nineteenth Century. However two brand new sister theatres with identical facades were planned to flank the new Waldorf Hotel. Originally, the theatre was built with four tiers, but today only three tiers of seats remain.
Historically the theatre is associated a series of farces by Ben Travers appropriately entitled the Aldwych farces running from 1925 to 1933. The Royal Shakespeare Company made the Aldwych Theatre their home from 1960 to 1982 until the company moved to the Barbican Theatre.
Past Productions at the Aldwych Theatre:
- Noel Coward's "Private Lives" with Joan Collins,
- The award winning Royal National Theatre's production of JB Priestley's "An Inspector Calls",
- The revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" starring Diana Rigg and David Suchet
- The musical "The Fields of Ambrosia" was short-lived as the critics panned it.
- Currently showing: Dirty Dancing
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