Apollo Theatre

Address: Shaftesbury Avenue London, W1V 7HD

Tube: Piccadilly Circus

Architect: Lewin Sharp

Opened: 1901

Capacity: 796 seats

The Apollo Theatre opened a month after the death of Victoria, making it officially the first Edwardian theatre. As it is located in Shaftesbury Avenue there are three other theatres in the near vicinity. The Apollo theatre has three tiers but the third tier is reputedly the steepest in London, the auditorium was last renovated in 1932. Most of its earliest productions were musical comedies, and it later became the home of the Follies from 1908 to 1912. By the thirties, it had begun to specialise in light farces, thrillers and musical comedies.

Past Productions at the Apollo Theatre:

The first performances of Edward German's Tom Jones in 1907.
The stage version of George Du Maurier’s novel Trilby (1922) and Such a Nice Young Man by H. F. Maltby.
Whispering Wires in 1927 with Henry Daniell as Barry McGill, R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End (1928, with Laurence Olivier),
Marc Camoletti's Boeing opened here in 1962 before transferring to the Duchess Theatre in 1965.
I'm Not Rappaport (1986),
Driving Miss Daisy (1988, with Wendy Hiller),
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989, with Peter O'Toole),
Terrence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea (1993),
Side Man (2000),
The female version of The Odd Couple (2001),
Arthur Miller's The Price (2003),
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2006),
Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (2006, with Rosamund Pike), The Glass Menagerie (2007, with Jessica Lange)
The Last Five Years (2007).