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Trafalgar Studios is a West End theatre
West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
 in Whitehall
Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, England. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, towards traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I of England, which is often regarded as the heart of London....
 in the City of Westminster
City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough of London with City status in the United Kingdom. It is located west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, and forms part of Inner London and the bulk of London's central area....
.

Also known as Trafalgar Studios at the Whitehall Theatre in honour of its former incarnation, the building consists of two intimate theatres designed by architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
s Tim Foster and John Muir. Studio 1, the larger of the two spaces with 380 seats, opened on June 3, 2004 with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
's production of Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
. Studio 2, with 100 seats, opened in October 2005 with the play Cyprus.

The original Whitehall Theatre, built on the site of the 17th century Ye Old Ship Tavern was designed by Edward A.






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Trafalgar Studios is a West End theatre
West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
 in Whitehall
Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, England. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, towards traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I of England, which is often regarded as the heart of London....
 in the City of Westminster
City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough of London with City status in the United Kingdom. It is located west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, and forms part of Inner London and the bulk of London's central area....
.

Also known as Trafalgar Studios at the Whitehall Theatre in honour of its former incarnation, the building consists of two intimate theatres designed by architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
s Tim Foster and John Muir. Studio 1, the larger of the two spaces with 380 seats, opened on June 3, 2004 with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
's production of Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
. Studio 2, with 100 seats, opened in October 2005 with the play Cyprus.

The original Whitehall Theatre, built on the site of the 17th century Ye Old Ship Tavern was designed by Edward A. Stone, with interiors in the Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
 style by Marc-Henri and Laverdet. The theatre opened on September 29, 1930 with The Way to Treat a Woman by Walter Hackett, who was the theatre's licensee. In November 1933 Henry Daniell
Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell was an England actor, best known for his villainous screen roles, but who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films....
 appeared there as Portman in Afterwards. Hackett presented several other plays of his own before leaving in 1934, and the theatre built its reputation for modern comedies throughout the rest of the decade. During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 it housed revue
Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
s, which had become commonplace entertainment throughout the West End. In 1942, The Whitehall Follies, featuring Phyllis Dixey
Phyllis Dixey

Phyllis Dixey was a British Stage actress and impresario. Her earlier career was as a singer in variety shows in Britain. During World War II, she joined Entertainments National Service Association and entertained the British forces....
, the first stripper to perform in the theatre district, opened with great fanfare and became an immediate success. Dixey leased the theatre and remained in it for the next five years. A series of farce
Farce

A farce is a comedy written for the stage or film which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include sexual innuendo and word play, and a fast-paced Plot whose speed usually increases, culminat...
s, presented under the umbrella title The Whitehall Farces by producer Lord Brian Rix, were staged over the next twenty-two years, with many of them televised
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
.

In 1969 a nude revue called Pyjama Tops took over the venue and remained for five years, after which the building was shuttered. After considerable refurbishment that retained most of its Art Deco
Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
 features, it reopened on March 5, 1986 with a successful revival of J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, Order of Merit was an England novelist and Presenter....
's When We Are Married. Subsequent productions included When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on 14 February 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London.Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining pseudonym to escape unwelcome social obligations....
, The Foreigner, Run For Your Wife, Absurd Person Singular
Absurd Person Singular

Absurd Person Singular is a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn. Divided into three acts, it documents the changing fortunes of three married couples. Each act takes place at a Christmas celebration at one of the couples' homes on successive Christmas Eves....
, Travels with My Aunt
Travels with My Aunt

Travels with My Aunt is a novel written by United Kingdom author Graham Greene.The novel follows the travels of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric Aunt Augusta as they find their way across Europe, and eventually even further afield....
, tributes to Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
, Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
, and the Blues Brothers, and solo performances by Ennio Marchetto and Maria Friedman
Maria Friedman

Maria Friedman is a English actress of television and musical theatre....
.

Between 1997 and 1999, the theatre was converted into a television and radio studio used primarily to broadcast Jack Docherty
Jack Docherty

Jack Docherty is a Scotland comedian and was born John Docherty. He came to public fame with his chat show, The Jack Docherty Show, which was broadcast on Five from the channel's launch....
's popular talk show and BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history....
's Live from London. It returned to theatrical use, with such productions as Three Sisters
Three Sisters (play)

Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1900 in literature and first produced in 1901, It is considered one of Chekhov's major plays....
, Puppetry of the Penis
Puppetry of the Penis

Puppetry of the Penis is a Adult puppeteering that first started in 1997 as a live show by David 'Friendy' Friend and Simon Morley, first performed on the international stage at the 1998 Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia....
, "Art"
'Art' (play)

?Art? is a French language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered on 28 October 1994 at Com?die des Champs-?lys?es in Paris. The English language adaptation, translated by Christopher Hampton opened in London's West End theatre on 15 October 1996....
, Rat Pack Confidential, and Sing-a-Long-a-ABBA
ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
, before its owner, the Ambassador Theatre Group
Ambassador Theatre Group

The Ambassador Theatre Group was co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992. The company, known as ATG, is the largest Theatre Group in London's West End, and the second largest Theatre Group in the United Kingdom....
, announced the building would be reconfigured and reopen with a new name.

Past productions at Trafalgar Studios include Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd (musical)

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 Tony Award?winning Musical theatre thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a libretto by Hugh Wheeler....
, Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright....
's The Old Country, an adaptation of Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Bront?. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co....
, and Bent
Bent (play)

Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman that was later adapted into a 1997 movie by director Sean Mathias. It revolves around the persecution of gay in Third Reich Germany after the murder of Sturmabteilung leader Ernst R?hm....
.

The theatre was Grade II listed
Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
 by English Heritage
English Heritage

English Heritage is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government with a broad remit of managing the historic built environment of England....
 in December 1996, noting "The auditorium has a decorative cohesion and prettiness rare in theatres of its day, and has the best surviving original fabric of this type of theatre".

Recent and present productions


  • Sweeney Todd
    Sweeney Todd (musical)

    Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 1979 Tony Award?winning Musical theatre thriller with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a libretto by Hugh Wheeler....
     (27 July 2004 - 9 October 2004 transferred to The Ambassadors Theatre) by Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim

    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  • Simply Heavenly (25 October 2004 - 19 February 2005) by David Martin and Langston Hugues, starring Clive Rowe
    Clive Rowe

    Clive Rowe is a United Kingdom actor who won the 1997 Laurence_Olivier_Awards for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his role as Nicely Nicely Johnson in the National Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls....
  • Losing Louis
    Losing Louis

    Simon Mendes Da Costa's play, Losing Louis, is a black comedy, first premiered at Hampstead Theatre on the 26th January 2005 and later transferred to Trafalgar Studios....
     (23 February 2005 - 25 June 2005) by Simon Mendes da Costa
    Simon Mendes da Costa

    Simon Mendes da Costa is a playwright.His play Losing Louis was premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London on the 24th January 2005 and directed Robin Leferve....
    , starring Alison Steadman
    Alison Steadman

    Alison Steadman Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England actor....
  • Shoot the Crow (11 October 2005 - 10 December 2006) by Owen McCafferty
    Owen McCafferty

    Owen McCafferty is a playwright from Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, McCafferty held several jobs, including tiling and working in an abattoir, before becoming a full-time writer....
    , starring James Nesbitt
    James Nesbitt

    James Nesbitt is a Northern Irish actor. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in Broughshane and Coleraine, County Londonderry. Although he made acting appearances with the Riverside Theatre, Coleraine in his teenage years, he wanted to become a teacher, like his father....
     and Conleth Hill
    Conleth Hill

    Conleth Hill is an Northern Irish film, stage and television actor.Born in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Hill made his Broadway theatre debut in Marie Jones' Stones in His Pockets....
  • The RSC's
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
     A New Way To Please You (22 December 2005 - 31 December 2005) by Thomas Middleton
    Thomas Middleton

    Thomas Middleton was an England English Renaissance theatre and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period....
     and William Rowley
    William Rowley

    William Rowley was an England Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers. His date of birth is estimated to have been c....
  • The RSC's
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
     Sir Thomas More
    Sir Thomas More (play)

    Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan theatre by Anthony Munday and others that depicts the life of Thomas More. It survives only in a single manuscript, now owned by the British Library....
     (5 January 2006 - 14 January 2006) by Anthony Munday
    Anthony Munday

    Anthony Munday , was an England dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his collaboration with William Shakespeare and others on the play Sir Thomas More and his writings on Robin Hood....
    , William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
     and others
  • The RSC's
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
     Sejanus: His Fall (18 January 2006 - 28 January 2006) by Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson

    Benjamin Jonson was an England English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satire plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist , and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his Lyric poetry poems....
  • The RSC's
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
     Believe What You Will (1 February 2006 - 11 February 2006) by Philip Massinger
    Philip Massinger

    Philip Massinger was an England dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes....
  • The RSC's
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
     Speaking Like Magpies (15 February 2006 - 25 February 2006) by Frank McGuinness
    Frank McGuinness

    Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright, translation and poet....
  • The Old Country (20 March 2006 - 6 May 2006) by Alan Bennett
    Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright....
    , starring Timothy West
    Timothy West

    Timothy Lancaster West, Order of the British Empire is an English people film, stage and television actor....
  • Jane Eyre (12 May 2006 - 19 August 2006) by Polly Teale
    Polly Teale

    Polly Teale is a United Kingdom writer and theatre director best known for her work with the Shared Experience theatre company, where she is joint artistic director alongside Nancy Meckler....
     adapted from Charlotte Brontė
    Charlotte Brontė

    Charlotte Bront? was a United Kingdom novelist, the eldest of the three famous Bront? sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature....
  • Bent
    Bent (play)

    Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman that was later adapted into a 1997 movie by director Sean Mathias. It revolves around the persecution of gay in Third Reich Germany after the murder of Sturmabteilung leader Ernst R?hm....
     (5 October 2006 - 13 January 2007) by Martin Sherman
    Martin Sherman

    Martin Sherman is an United States screenwriter and playwright.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Joseph T. Sherman and Julia Shermanof, Sherman is an openly gay Jew and has lived in London since 1980.....
    , starring Alan Cumming
    Alan Cumming

    Alan Cumming is a Scottish film and stage actor, perhaps best known for his supporting roles as Boris Grishenko in the James Bond film series film GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, in Spy Kids as Fegan Floop and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning lead performance as the Emcee in the highly successfu...
  • The Dumb Waiter
    The Dumb Waiter

    The Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature Harold Pinter written in 1957; it premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, on 21 January 1960....
     (8 February - 24 March 2007) by Harold Pinter
    Harold Pinter

    Harold Pinter, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire , an English people playwright, screenwriter, actor, Theatre director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, was at the time of his death considered by many "the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation."...
    , starring Lee Evans
    Lee Evans (comedian)

    Lee Evans is an England stand-up comedy, musician and actor....
     and Jason Isaacs
    Jason Isaacs

    Jason Isaacs is a United Kingdom actor born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, who is known for his performances as Death Eater Death Eater#Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series films, and as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the internationally-broadcast Television in the United States series Brotherhood ....
  • African Snow (24 April - 5 May 2007) by Murray Watts, directed by Paul Burbridge. Riding Lights Theatre Company
    Riding Lights Theatre Company

    Riding Lights is a United Kingdom independent theatre company who have been touring shows nationally and internationally since 1977.Based at Friargate Theatre, York since 2000, the company has staged numerous original productions such as "Science Friction" and "Dick Turpin", that have toured nationally....
     Production
  • Elling
    Elling

    Elling is an Academy Award-nominated Norway film directed by Petter N?ss. Shot mostly in and around the Norwegian capital Oslo, the film, which was released in 2001, is based on Ingvar Ambj?rnsen's novel Br?dre i blodet , one of a series of four featuring the Elling character ? the others are Utsikt til paradiset , Fugledansen...
     (4 July 2007 - 6 October 2007) by Simon Bent, starring John Simm
    John Simm

    John Ronald Simm is an England actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in two British Academy Television Awards award-winning BBC Wales dramas: as Sam Tyler in the detective drama Life on Mars and as an incarnation of the Master in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who....
     and Adrian Bower
    Adrian Bower

    Adrian Bower is an England actor, best known for his role as physical education and geography teacher Brian Steadman in the first three series of the British comedy series Teachers ....
  • When You've Got It, Flaunt It (6 September 2007), starring David Bedella
    David Bedella

    David Bedella is an United States TV and stage actor.He graduated from Merrillville High School in Merrillville, Indiana.Bedella is perhaps most noted for his role in Jerry Springer - The Opera, where he played both the Warm Up Man and Satan in the Second....
    , Clive Rowe
    Clive Rowe

    Clive Rowe is a United Kingdom actor who won the 1997 Laurence_Olivier_Awards for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his role as Nicely Nicely Johnson in the National Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls....
    , Daniel Boys
    Daniel Boys

    Daniel Boys is a British musical theatre actor, best known for his popular appearance in the BBC series Any Dream Will Do in 2007....
    , John Partridge
    John Partridge (performer)

    John Partridge , is an England actor, who works predominantly as a singer and dancer in musical theatre, and best known for his portrayal of the character Rum Tum Tugger in the official film production of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats ....
    , Simon Lipkin, Helen Hobson and Jon Robyns
    Jon Robyns

    Jon Robyns is a United Kingdom stage actor, who is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q the musical in London's West End....
  • A Night In November (15 October 2007 - 1 December 2007) by Marie Jones
    Marie Jones

    Sarah Marie Jones is a Belfast-based actress and playwright. Born into a working class Protestant family, Jones was an actress for several years before turning her hand to writing....
    , starring Patrick Kielty
    Patrick Kielty

    Patrick Kielty is a Northern Irish comedian and television personality. He was born in Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland.Background...
  • Dealer's Choice (6 December 2007 - 29 March 2008) by Patrick Marber
    Patrick Marber

    Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an England comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter....
    , starring Roger Lloyd Pack
    Roger Lloyd Pack

    Roger Lloyd Pack is an England acting, he is best known for his role as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses....
    , Stephen Wight
    Stephen Wight

    Stephen Wight is an award-winning British actor, who trained at the Drama Centre London....
    , Malcolm Sinclair
    Malcolm Sinclair

    Malcolm Sinclair is a United Kingdom Stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as 'Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher' in the television series Pie in the Sky , although he has an extensive number of film, television and theatre roles to his credit....
     and Samuel Barnett
    Samuel Barnett (actor)

    Samuel Barnett is an England actor. He has performed on stage, film, television and radio, and achieved recognition for his work on the stage and film versions of The History Boys by Alan Bennett....
  • Visiting Mr. Green
    Visiting Mr. Green

    Visiting Mr. Green is a popular and provocative stage play by American author Jeff Baron, that has become one of the most-produced plays in the world....
     (3 April 2008 - 10 May 2008) by Jeff Baron
    Jeff Baron

    Jeff Baron is an award-winning playwright from New York. He grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in Manhattan. He has a degree in film production from Northwestern University and an M.B.A....
    , starring Warren Mitchell
    Warren Mitchell

    Warren Mitchell is an England actor....
     and Gideon Turner
  • Fat Pig
    Fat Pig

    Fat Pig is a play by Neil Labute, in which slim male office-worker Tom falls for an extremely overweight librarian Helen, but then has to deal with a plot hatched by his co-workers to sabotage the relationship....
     (27 May 2008 - 6 September 2008 transferred to The Comedy Theatre
    Comedy Theatre

    The Comedy Theatre, is a West End Theatre, and opened on Panton Street in the City of Westminster, on 15 October 1881, as the Royal Comedy Theatre....
    ) by Neil LaBute
    Neil LaBute

    Neil N. LaBute is an United States film director, screenwriter and playwright....
    , starring Robert Webb
    Robert Webb (actor)

    Robert Webb is an England comedian, actor and writer, and one half of the Mitchell and Webb double act, alongside David Mitchell ....
    , Kris Marshall
    Kris Marshall

    Christopher "Kris" Marshall is an England actor best known for his role as Nick Harper in My Family....
     and Joanna Page
    Joanna Page

    Joanna Page is a Wales actress best known for her role as Stacey Shipman in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey....
  • Riflemind (15 September 2008 - 26 October 2008)
  • Horrid Henry
    Horrid Henry

    Horrid Henry is a fictional character created by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Tony Ross. The first Horrid Henry was written and published in 1994 and as of the end of 2008, there have been sixteen titles published, as well as numerous collections, activity books and joke books....
  • Maria Friedman
    Maria Friedman

    Maria Friedman is a English actress of television and musical theatre....
     - Rearranged     (3 December - 3 January 2009)
  • Entertaining Mr Sloane
    Entertaining Mr Sloane

    Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first produced in London at the Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 in literature and transferred to the West End theatre Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964....
     (30 January - 11 April 2009, by Joe Orton
    Joe Orton

    Joe Orton , born John Kingsley Orton, was an England playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedy....
    , starring Imelda Staunton
    Imelda Staunton

    Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, Order of the British Empire, is an Academy Award-nominated England actor best known for her performances in the United Kingdom comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and Vera Drake....
     and Matthew Horne
    Matthew Horne

    Matthew Jeffery Horne is a New Zealand cricketer who played in 35 Test cricket and 50 One Day Internationals from 1997 - 2003.Horne was an attacking right-handed opening batsman who possessed an unusually high backlift....


Nearby Tube stations


  • Charing Cross
    Charing Cross tube station

    Charing Cross tube station is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster with entrances located in Trafalgar Square and Strand, London....
  • Embankment
    Embankment tube station

    Embankment tube station is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster, known for most of its history as Charing Cross.The station is served by the Circle line , District Line, Northern Line and Bakerloo Line Lines....
  • Westminster
    Westminster tube station

    Westminster is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. The station is served by the Circle line , District Line and Jubilee Line lines....


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