Name: Great West End Theatres
Released: 2013-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Donald Sinden, Marc Sinden

Great West End Theatres

TV Show · Documentary

Great West End Theatres is the first series of its kind to document all 40 of London's theatres. A carefully researched and well-written history of the best London has to offer, it is also a backstage pass onto the finest stages in the world.

2013 · 51m

Starring Donald Sinden, Marc Sinden

Director Marc Sinden

EPISODE 1

Theatre Royal Haymarket

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.

49m
EPISODE 2

Prince of Wales

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.

43m
EPISODE 3

Picadilly

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.

43m
EPISODE 4

Wyndham's

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.

49m
EPISODE 5

St Martin's

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.

42m
EPISODE 6

The Ambassadors

This delightful theatre sits opposite the renowned restaurant The Ivy, the favourite haunt of the theatrical glitterati.

43m