Great West End Theatres

Also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre, it was built in 1720 by John Potter and was the third public theatre opened in the West End. Owned by the Crown Estate.

Owned by Sir Cameron Mackintosh. Grade II listed as of 1999. In the 1950s, the theatre hosted a variety of famous performers from Bob Hope to Benny Hill, Frankie Howerd, Peter Sellers, and Morecambe and Wise.

The Piccadilly Theatre has presented most forms of stage entertainment from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (with its original Broadway cast) to a variety of Royal Shakespeare Company productions including Edward II starring Ian McKellen, and Henry Fonda also made his West End debut in the solo play, Clarence Darrow.

Designed in 1898 by W.G.R. Sprague (who also designed six other London theatres) it was opened by the actor/manager Sir Charles Wyndham on 16 November 1899, in the presence of the Prince of Wales.

Built by W.G.R. Sprague in memoriam for Richard Greville Verney, the 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke. It's the only theatre in the West End still in the hands of the family who built it.

The Greatest Theatres in the West End.