Aldwych Theatre

Aldwych, London, WC2B 4DF Full details & map

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Aldwych Theatre review

The Aldwych Theatre may currently be glowing pink - 'Dirty Dancing' providing punters with the time of their musical life - but the venue's campy façade belies a substantial reputation. Laurence Olivier directed his wife, Vivian Leigh, here in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', while the RSC called the Aldwych its London home for more than 20 years. Its architecture better reflects this weighty pedigree, all grand balconies and classy Georgian design - a look maybe more fitting to previously staged works by the likes of Edward Albee, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard than Baby and Johnny's raunchy rumbas.


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Dirty Dancing

Until Oct 23 2010 Theatre  

Cynics will note the resolutely untheatrical digitally animated backdrop, the clumsy split-level design and writer Eleanor Bergstein's seemingly uninspired parroting of the movie script. But Baby H...

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Aldwych Theatre details

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Aldwych, London, WC2B 4DF

Transport Charing Cross/Embankment 

Telephone

020 7379 3367, bookings 020 7432 4220

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