I do love this theatre, and since I've only been once so far, that's a good recommendation. The play I saw was 'This is our Youth' by Kenneth Lonnergan and it was on a few weeks ago. The cast was Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix. The play was average, and now for the theatre...
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Advantages: Small, cosy Disadvantages: Can get overcrowded
I do love this theatre, and since I've only been once so far, that's a good recommendation. The play I saw was 'This is our Youth' by Kenneth Lonnergan and it was on a few weeks ago. The cast was Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix. The play was average, and now for the theatre...
LOCATION
A very short walk from Leicester Square tube station and easily accessable by cabs; it's near Trafalgar Square, kind of ... .../>
The security is not very good! Your ticket is taken and you go forward into a cosy room where you can buy drinks and so on (all overpriced, but that's normal for London). The area is lit very well and there are some seats. This same area is used during the intermission, if that's the right term.
SEATING
Very good, and comfortable seats, a bit low, but lots of leg room (I am quite tall). Clean, but a bit creaky ... more
I do love this theatre, and since I've only been once so far, that's a good recommendation. The play I saw was 'This is our Youth' by Kenneth Lonnergan and it was on a few weeks ago. The cast was Matt Damon, Casey Affleck and Summer Phoenix. The play was average, and now for the theatre...
LOCATION
A very short walk from Leicester Square tube station and easily accessable by cabs; it's near Trafalgar Square, kind of hidden from the 'main drag'.
ON ENTERING
The security is not very good! Your ticket is taken and you go forward into a cosy room where you can buy drinks and so on (all overpriced, but that's normal for London). The area is lit very well and there are some seats. This same area is used during the intermission, if that's the right term.
SEATING
Very good, and comfortable seats, a bit low, but lots of leg room (I am quite tall). Clean, but a bit creaky if you fidget too much, I could see that easily becoming a problem.
TOILETS
Men's toilets were clean and decent and easily, yet oddly, located on the side of the stairs leading to the stage.
THE STAGE
Big enough, and sound effects (of passing trains) were very effective surrounding the entire audience.
these on a number of different occasions.
The range of offers has (and will) included the following:
? Two for the price of One.
? Best Available seats for a reduced price.
At the moment there is an offer to see the play ?Wait Until Dark? at the GarrickTheatre in London where the seats have been reduced to £17.50. If you were paying top-price tickets for four of you to go you would expect to pay £150.00 (£37.50 per ticket) without booking fee. With the offer this would be £70.00! And all you have to do is phone the box office and quote something at them.
Well worth a look at!
I went to see Bombay Dreams with an offer of £15.00 of each ticket plus a free glass of champagne at the interval!
***KID?S WEEK***
Taking a family to the theatre in the West End can be an incredibly expensive experience, although some of the more ...
Advantages: To see or not to see ?? Disadvantages: "Yes" is the answer!
'. Here you will see (and can touch) hand prints in coloured paint of famous celebrities past and present, among them: Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir John Gielgud, Bonnie Langford, Alan Rickman and Felicity Kendal, to name a few.
From here, you can enter the main galleries, which take you along a few corridors with illuminated display cases featuring various aspects of theatrical history in chronological order from the Tudor Age to English National Opera of the 1990s.
Other cases are devoted to particular Londontheatres, famous actors and families, such as the Redgrave family, David Garrick, and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, including a model of how it looked before major alterations in 1921.
You can also see the original play bill from 'The Mousetrap', together with stills [photographs] of the original cast in character (including those ...
Advantages: Well laid out, lively displays, compact size Disadvantages: None
destruction in the mid-1920s, to its art deco form of 1929. The Savoy was where most of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas were given their premier performances, and included are a small three-dimensional model of the theatre, a first-night programme for the operetta ‘Iolanthe’ of 25 November 1882, and if you listen carefully, selections from G & S playing softly in the background. In another case, I was fascinated to see a poster for the British premiere of ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ in December 1879 – not in London, but at a theatre in Paignton, not far from where I live.
Other cases are devoted to particular Londontheatres, famous actors and families, such as the Kemble family, Edmund Kean, David Garrick, and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, including a model of how it looked before major alterations in 1921. One ...
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