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The Lyric Hammersmith is a theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
 on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough in West London and forms part of Inner London.It was formed in 1965 by merging the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham....
, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions. It has two main performance areas: the Main House, a 550-seat 19th-century auditorium, rebuilt from the original Frank Matcham
Frank Matcham

Frank Matcham was a famous England theatrical architect. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery....
-designed theatre, which hosts its main productions; and the 120-seat Studio, which houses smaller productions by up-and-coming companies. The Lyric also presents frequent "Lyric Children" and "Lyric Music" performances as well as "Sunday Night Comedy".

Its current artistic director is Sean Holmes
Sean Holmes

Sean Holmes is a British theatre director and, from spring 2009, artistic director of London?s Lyric Hammersmith....
, and its executive director is Jessica Hepburn, and its current show is the acclaimed Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a Tony Award-winning rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater. The musical is based on the controversial 1891 German Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind....
 musical.








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The Lyric Hammersmith is a theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
 on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough in West London and forms part of Inner London.It was formed in 1965 by merging the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith and the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham....
, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions. It has two main performance areas: the Main House, a 550-seat 19th-century auditorium, rebuilt from the original Frank Matcham
Frank Matcham

Frank Matcham was a famous England theatrical architect. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery....
-designed theatre, which hosts its main productions; and the 120-seat Studio, which houses smaller productions by up-and-coming companies. The Lyric also presents frequent "Lyric Children" and "Lyric Music" performances as well as "Sunday Night Comedy".

Its current artistic director is Sean Holmes
Sean Holmes

Sean Holmes is a British theatre director and, from spring 2009, artistic director of London?s Lyric Hammersmith....
, and its executive director is Jessica Hepburn, and its current show is the acclaimed Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a Tony Award-winning rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater. The musical is based on the controversial 1891 German Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind....
 musical.

Five strands

"The Lyric’s programme is divided into five strands":
  • Main House
  • Studio
  • Music & Comedy
  • Lyric Children
  • Lyric Young Company


Production History

(Source: "What's On: Past Productions" on the Lyric official website.)

  • Christmas
    Christmas

    Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
     For the Under 7s - (29 November 2007 - 5 January 2008)
  • Beauty and the Beast
    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale . The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune am?ricaine, et les contes marins in 1740....
     - (6 - 24 November 2007)
  • Casanova - (16 October - 3 November 2007)
  • Water - (25 September - 13 October 2007)
  • Rough Crossings
    Rough Crossings

    Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book and television series by Simon Schama.This gives an account of the history of thousands of enslaved African Americans who escaped to the British Empire cause during the American War of Independence....
     - (5 - 22 September 2007)
  • The Bacchae
    The Bacchae

    The Bacchae is an Classical Greece tragedy by the Classical Athens playwright Euripides. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BCE as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which Euripides' son or nephew probably directed....
     - (2 - 4 August 2007)
  • Accidental Heroes - (21 June - 22 July 2007)
  • Angels in America
    Angels in America

    Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a theatre in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television Angels in America and an opera by Peter E?tv?s....
    : Part 2 - (20 June - 22 July 2007)
  • Angels in America
    Angels in America

    Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a theatre in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television Angels in America and an opera by Peter E?tv?s....
    : Part 1 - (7 - 9 June 2007)
  • Elegy
    Elegy

    An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive Poetry#Elegy, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead....
     - (26 April - 26 May 2007)
  • Absolute Beginners
    Absolute Beginners

    Absolute Beginners is a novel by Colin MacInnes, written and set in 1958 London, England. It was published in 1959. The novel is the second of MacInnes' London Trilogy, coming after City Of Spades and before Mr....
     - (3 - 14 April 2007)
  • St George and the Dragon - (13 - 31 March 2007)
  • Don't Look Now
    Don't Look Now

    Don't Look Now is an Cinema of the United Kingdom-Cinema of Italy Thriller , directed by Nicolas Roeg and released in 1973. It is based on a Don't look now by Daphne du Maurier....
     - (9 February - 10 March 2007)
  • Ramayana - (17 January - 3 February 2007)
  • Cymbeline
    Cymbeline

    Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a Shakespeare's Late Romances....
     - (23 November 2006 - 13 January 2007)
  • Watership Down
    Watership Down

    Watership Down is a heroic fantasy novel about a small group of rabbits, written by United Kingdom author Richard Adams. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are Anthropomorphism, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology....
     - (31 October - 18 November 2006)
  • pool (no water) - (29 September - 28 October 2006)
  • Metamorphosis
    Metamorphosis

    .Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically developmental biology after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure through cell cell growth#Cell reproduction and cell differentiation....
     - (16 May - 17 June 2006)
  • Aurélia's Oratorio
    Oratorio

    An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and solo ists. The oratorio was somewhat modeled after the opera. Their similarities include the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable Fictional character, and arias....
     - (12 - 29 April 2006)
  • The Wolves in the Walls - (24 February - 1 April 2006)
  • The Odyssey - (20 January - 18 February 2006)
  • Nights at the Circus Christmas - (2 December 2005 - 14 January 2006)
  • The Magic Carpet - (1 - 26 November 2005)
  • Brontë
    Brontë

    The Bront? sisters , Charlotte Bront? , Emily Bront? and Anne Bront? , were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature....
     - (19 - 29 October 2005)
  • Road to Nowhere
    Road to Nowhere

    "Road to Nowhere" is a song by Talking Heads, from the 1985 album Little Creatures . It also appeared on Best of Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, the Once in a Lifetime box set and the Brick ....
     - (2 September - 15 October 2005)
  • Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
     - (30 June - 23 July 2005)
  • Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
    Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

    "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" is a song by The Smiths, recorded in autumn 1985 and first released on their 1986 album The Queen Is Dead....
     - (17 June 2005)
  • Asterisk
    Asterisk

    An 'asterisk' is a typographical symbol or glyph. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often pronounce it as star ....
     - (10 - 13 June 2005)
  • Stars Are Out Tonight - (19 April - 7 May 2005)
  • Hymns - (30 March - 16 April 2005)
  • Aurelia's Oratorio
    Oratorio

    An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and solo ists. The oratorio was somewhat modeled after the opera. Their similarities include the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable Fictional character, and arias....
     - (5 - 26 March 2005)
  • Rhinoceros
    Rhinoceros

    Rhinoceros , often colloquially abbreviated rhino, is a name used to group five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae....
     - ( 18 February - 26 March 2005)
  • A Raisin in the Sun
    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway theatre in 1959. The story is based upon a family's own experiences growing up in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago, Illinois's Woodlawn, Chicago neighborhood....
     - (27 January - 12 February 2005)
  • Strictly Dandia Christmas for 7+s (26 November 2004 - 22 January 2005)
  • The Firework-Maker's Daughter
    The Firework-Maker's Daughter

    The Firework-Maker's Daughter is a short children's novel by Philip Pullman. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Doubleday in 1995....
     - (2 - 20 November 2004)
  • The Bacchae
    The Bacchae

    The Bacchae is an Classical Greece tragedy by the Classical Athens playwright Euripides. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BCE as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis, and which Euripides' son or nephew probably directed....
     - (30 September - 30 October 2004)
  • Don Juan
    Don Juan

    Don Juan or Don Giovanni is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra, by Tirso de Molina, is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630....
     - (14 - 25 September 2004)
  • A Passage to India
    A Passage to India

    A Passage to India is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s....
    /National Youth Theatre
    National Youth Theatre

    The London-based National Youth Theatre or NYT is an organization which runs acting auditions, workshops, drama courses, and theatre productions....
     Guest Season/The Master and Margarita
    The Master and Margarita

    The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheism Soviet Union....
     - (20 August - 11 September 2004)
  • Spyski/The importance of being Ernest
    The Importance of Being Ernest

    For the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest.For other uses see The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Ernest is an album by United States country singer Ernest Tubb, released in 1959 ....
    -(3 October - 1 November 2008)

External links

  • – Official website of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.