41 Earlham Street, London WC2
Original: 18 June 1977
1981: The Warehouse is the Royal Shakespeare Company’s small London auditorium. It was been specially built in the Donmar Theatre, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden
Current independent status: 1992 – present
Official website: https://www.donmarwarehouse.com
251 Seats
Named after Donald Albery and the middle name of his wife, Margaret, and originally opened as a rehearsal room.
Transformed into a modern performance space under the leadership of Sam Mendes.
The building was previously used as a hops warehouse and a banana-ripening depot, before becoming a film studio in the 1920s.
Selected Past Productions
Some information from the Donmar Warehouse website
- Macbeth (8 December 2023 – 10 February 2024)
- Clyde’s (13 October – 2 December 2023)
- Next to Normal (14 August – 7 October 2023)
- When Winston Went To War With The Wireless (2 June – 29 July 2023) by Jack Thorne
- Private Lives (7 April – 27 May 2023)
- Trouble in Butetown (10 February – 25 March 2023)
- Watch on the Rhine (9 December 2022 – 4 February 2023)
- The Band’s Visit (26 September – 3 December 2022)
- Silence (1 – 17 September 2022)
- The Trials (12 – 27 August 2022)
- A Doll’s House Part 2 (10 June – 6 August 2022)
- Marys Seacole (15 April – 5 June 2022)
- Henry V (11 February 2022 – 9 April 2022)
- Force Majeure (10 December 2021 – 5 February 2022)
- Love and Other Acts of Violence (7 October 2021 – 27 November 2021)
- Search Party (21 – 25 September 2021)
- Blindness (Sound Installation) (1 August – 5 September 2020)
- Teenage Dick (6 December 2019 – 1 February 2020)
- (Blank) (11 October – 30 November 2019)
- Appropriate (16 August – 5 October 2019)
- Europe (20 June – 10 August 2019)
- Writing Wrongs (24 – 30 June 2019)
- Sweet Charity (6 April – 8 June 2019)
- Berberian Sound Studio (8 February – 30 March 2019)
- Sweat (7 December 2018 – 2 February 2019)
- Measure for Measure (28 September – 1 December 2018)
- Aristocrats (2 August – 22 September 2018)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (4 June – 28 July 2018)
- The Way of the World (29 March – 26 May 2018)
- The York Realist (8 February – 24 March 2018)
- Belleville (7 December 2017 – 3 February 2018)
- The Lady from the Sea (12 October – 2 December 2017)
- Knives in Hens (17 August – 7 October 2017)
- The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence On Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids Company (24 June – 12 August 2017)
- Becoming: Part One (27 June – 1 July 2017)
- The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (21 April – 17 June 2017)
- Limehouse (2 March – 15 April 2017)
- Saint Joan (9 December 2016 – 18 February 2017)
- One Night in Miami (6 October – 3 December 2016)
- Faith Healer (23 June – 20 August 2016)
- Elegy (21 April – 18 June 2016)
- Welcome Home, Captain Fox! (18 February – 16 April 2016)
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (11 December 2015 – 13 February 2016)
- Teddy Ferrera (2 October – 5 December 2015)
- Splendour (30 July – 26 September 2015)
- Temple (21 May – 25 July 2015)
- The Vote (24 April – 7 May 2015)
- Closer (12 February – 4 April 2015)
- City of Angels (5 December 2014 – 7 February 2015)
- Henry IV (3 October – 29 November 2014)
- My Night With Reg (31 July – 27 September 2014)
- Fathers and Sons (5 June – 26 July 2014)
- Privacy (10 April – 31 May 2014)
- Versailles (20 February – 5 April 2014)
- Coriolanus (6 December 2013 – 13 February 2014)
- Roots (3 October – 30 November 2013)
- The Same Deep Water As Me (1 August – 28 September 2013)
- The Night Alive (13 June – 27 July 2013)
- The Weir (18 April – 8 June 2013)
- Trelawny of the Wells (15 February – 13 April 2013)
- Julius Caesar (30 November 2012 – 9 February 2013)
- The Silence of the Sea (10 January – 2 February 2013)
- The Dance of Death (13 December 2012 – 5 January 2013)
- The Promise (15 November – 8 December 2012)
- Berenice (27 September – 24 November 2012)
- Philadelphia Here I Come! (26 July – 22 September 2012)
- The Physicists(31 May – 21 July 2012)
- Making Noise Quietly (19 April – 26 May 2012)
- The Recruiting Officer (9 February – 14 April 2012)
- Richard II (1 December 2011 – 4 February 2012)
- The Real Thing (to August 7 1999) by Tom Stoppard. Starring Mark Bazeley, Stephen Dillane, Jennifer Ehle, Caroline Hayes, Joshua Henderson, Nigel Lindsay, Sarah Woodward.
- Enter the Guardsman (11 September – 18 October 1997)
- The Seagull (12 August – 6 September 1997)
- The Maids (19 June – 9 August 1997)
- The Fix (26 April – 14 June 1997)
- Nine (6 December 1996 – 8 March 1997)
- Fool for Love (3 October – 30 November 1996)
- Pentecost (3 – 28 September 1996)
- Hedda Gabler (30 July – 31 August 1996)
- Habeas Corpus (30 May – 27 July 1996)
- Endgame (11 April – 25 May 1996)
- Company (1 December 1995 – 2 March 1996)
- The Glass Menagerie (7 September – 5 November 1995)
- Insignificance (1 June – 6 August 1995)
- Our Boys (11 April – 13 May 1995)
- Highland Fling (21 March – 8 April 1995)
- The Threepenny Opera (8 December 1994 – 18 March 1995)
- True West (9 November – 3 December 1994)
- Design for Living (1 September – 5 November 1994)
- Glengarry Glen Ross (16 June – 27 August 1994)
- Beautiful Thing (29 March – 23 April 1994)
- Cabaret (2 December 1993 – 26 March 1994) Directed by Sam Mendes, Starring Jane Horrocks & Alan Cumming
- Hamlet (10 – 27 November 1993)
- The Life of Stuff (16 September – 6 November 1993)
- Here (9 July – 11 September 1993)
- Translations (3 June – 24 July 1993)
- Playland (25 February – 17 April 1993)
- Richard III (14 January – 20 February 1993)
- Assassins (22 October 1992 – 9 January 1993)
- Transformed under the leadership of Sam Mendes
- The Forest by Alexander Ostrovsky (17 July 1981 – ) RSC Warehouse. Directed by Adrian Noble. Designed by Bob Crowley, Lighting by Leo Leibovici, Music by Guy Woolfenden, Sound tapes by Leo Leibovici, Sound by John A. Leonard, Stage Manager Monica McCabe, Deputy Stage Manager Trevor Williamson, Assistant Stage Manager Michael Stanislaw.
- Thirteenth Night by Howard Brenton (2 July 1981 – ?) RSC Warehouse. Directed by Barry Kyle, Designed by Bob Crowley, Lighting by Leo Leibovici, Music composed and produced by Nick Bicat. Sound by John A. Leonard, Deputy Stage Manager Trevor Williamson, Assistant Stage Manager Charles Evans.
- Naked Robots (19 January 1981 – 6 June 1981)
- Television Times (9 December 1980 – 31 March 1981)
- The Irish Play (18 November 1980 – 28 March 1981) RSC Warehouse. Directed by Barry Kyle, Designed by Bob Crowley, Lighting by Michael Calf