Dates: 1930 – present
Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, Bertie Crewe and Cecil Masey, and built on the site of a Music Hall, the Alcazar, which was demolished in 1930.
Once – Get-In (March 2013)
Once – Get-Out (March 2015)
There are 1,012 seats over three levels: Stalls, Dress Circle and Upper Circle.
Past Productions
- Come From Away (opened 30 January 2019, closing 7 January 2023)
- Chicago (26 March 2018 – 5 January 2019)
- The Exorcist (October 20 2017 to March 10 2018)
- The Girls (Feb 21 2017 – July 15 2017)
- Dirty Dancing (December 6 2016 – January 2017)
- The Last Tango (September 22 2016 – November 2016)
- Guys and Dolls ( to August 21 2016) transferred from the Savoy Theatre
- Bend it Like Beckham (15 May 2015 – )
- Once: The Musical (March 2013 – 21 March 2015) opening night: 9 April
- Goodnight Mr Tom ( – January 2013)
- Blood Brothers (November 1991 to November 10th 2012) 21 year run
- Into the Woods (September 25 1990 – February 23 1991)
- The Baker’s Wife (1989)
- The Biograph Girl (19 November 1980 – 10 January 1981)
- Night and Day (8 November 1978 – 1979)
- Norman Is That You? (Opened 16 April 1975 – ) starring Harry Worth, Avril Angers
- The Gingerbread Lady (Previews from ?18 October 1974, opened 23 October 1974-1975) by Neil Simon, starring Elaine Stritch
- Edith Evans and Friends (19 September 1974 – 5 October 1974) starring Edith Evans
- Play Mas (opened 21 August 1974, closed 16 September 1974) by Mustapha Matura, starring Rudolph Walker
- Bloomsbury (Previews 3 July 1974, Opened July 10 1974, Closed 17 August 1974) by Peter Luke, starring Daniel Massey, Yvonne Mitchell, Clive Francis, Penelope Wilton, Moyra Fraser
- Design for Living (Previews 20 November 1973, opened 21 November 1973, closed 8 June 1974) by Noel Coward, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jeremy Brett, John Stride, Peter Bayliss
- Two Gentlemen of Verona (26 April 1973 – 10 November 1973) Musical, from The New York Shakespeare Festival. Directed by Mel Shapiro. Lighting by David Hersey.
- Canterbury Tales (21 March 1968 – 31 March 1973. 2080 performances)
- 1966 – Refurbishment. The Noel Coward Bar opened by Noel Coward in 1969.
- Love for Love (April 1943) starring John Gielgud
- Harlequinade (8 September 1948 – ?) by Terence Rattigan
- The Browning Version (1948)
- Tonight at Eight Thirty (1936 – ?)
- Private Lives (24 September 1930 – 20 December 1930) a limited run starring Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Adrienne Allen, Laurence Olivier (after a premiere at the Kings’ Theatre, Edinburgh on 18 August 1930)
Equipment
1971 (from The Stage Guide)
Electrics: Strand LP board in FOH. Dimmers – 120; 3 presets; 6 groups. Circuits – FOH 36; Flies 49; Stage dips 11. Socket type – 15A BESA and 30A Reyrolle. Total capacity available – 300A on 3 phases. Special effects supply – 180A on 3 phases. Follow spots – 2 x Patt.265s in projection box.