Gielgud Theatre

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Wed Jun 20 2012

The Gielgud is owned by the Delfont Mackintosh group and seats just under 900 people on three levels. It was designed by WGR Sprague in a neo-classical style and opened in 1907 as the Hicks Theatre, named after actor-manager and playwright Seymour Hicks. American impresario Charles Frohman took over in 1909 and renamed it the Globe, reopening the theatre with a drama by Winston Churchill’s mother, Lady Randolph Churchill. Taken over by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group in the 1980s and refurbished in 1987, it played host to several Ayckbourn premieres and acquired a famous theatre cat, Beerbohm, who on his death in 1995 received a front-page obituary in ‘The Stage’. To avoid confusion with Sam Wanamaker’s Bankside Shakespeare’s Globe project, the theatre’s name was changed in honour of the great thespian knight in 1992, and in 2006 Cameron Mackintosh’s Delfont Mackintosh Group took ownership and embarked on a further round of refurbishments to both the facade and the interior, which were completed in 2008.

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Address:
Gielgud Theatre London
W1D 6AR

Phone:
0844 482 5130
Website:
www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk
Transport:
Tube: Piccadilly Circus
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1. Gielgud Theatre
  - London
    W1D 6AR
  - 0844 482 5130
  - www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk
  - 51.512010,-0.133203

Categories:
Theatre. West End. Musical comedy. Musicals. Comedy. Theatre revival. Drama. Classical theatre
Facilities:
Eating and drinking facilities. Bar. Accessible facilities. Wheelchair access. Devices for the hearing-impaired

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Rating: 4/5
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– Sat Jun 15
Gielgud Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6AR
£10-£85. Runs 2hrs 20mins

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Mon Jun 10
Gielgud Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6AR
£38.50

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West End

Another West End transfer for Chichester Festival Theatre, who concluded their 2012 fiftieth anniversary season with Jonathan Kent's fresh, infectious and gorgeously decadent production of Noel Coward's classic, can't live with 'em, can't live without...

Sat Jun 22
– Sat Sep 21
Gielgud Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6AR
£10-£43.50

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