Comedy Theatre

Address: Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN

Tube: Piccadilly Circus

Architect: Thomas Verity

Opened: 1881

Capacity: 796

The Royal Opera House, the Criterion Theatre and the Comedy Theatre are the only three London theatres opened prior to 1890 that still have the original stage intact. It was intended that electric lighting, rather than common gas light should light this new Theatre. However it was not to be.The Savoy Theatre which had opened five days earlier was the first London theatre to have the new fangled lighting.

Past productions at the Comedy Theatre:

Steptoe and Son: Murder in Oil Drum Lane (22 February 2006 - 15 April 2006) by Roy Galton and John Antrobus

Donkeys' Years (9 May 2006 - 15 December 2006) by Michael Frayn, starring Samantha Bond, David Haig, Mark Addy and James Dreyfus

The Rocky Horror Show (18 December 2006 - 29 January 2007) by Richard O'Brien, starring David Bedella and Suzanne Shaw

Boeing-Boeing (5 February 2007 - ) by Marc Camoletti, starring Roger Allam, Frances de la Tour, Mark Rylance, Daisy Beaumont, Tamzin Outhwaite, Amy Nuttall, Rhea Perlman and Kevin McNally