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The Alhambra Theatre was a popular theatre and music hall located on the east side of Leicester Square, in the West End of London. It was built as the Royal Panopticon of Science and Arts, [1] opening on 18 March 1854. It was closed after two years for a circus ring to be added, and reopened in April 1858 as the Alhambra.
The Leicester Square Theatre is a 400-seat theatre in Leicester Place, immediately north of Leicester Square, in the City of Westminster, London. It was previously known as Notre Dame Hall, Cavern in the Town and The Venue. The theatre hosts stand-up comedy, cabaret, music, plays and comedies.
The theatre was then taken over again by United Artists and on 27 September 1933 re-opened as a full-time cinema, once more re-named the Leicester Square Theatre, with Jack Buchanan's own film for United Artists That's a Good Girl. It played United Artists pictures first run in London until it was closed again on 18 July 1937 for redecoration.
David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist by Johann Zoffany (c. 1770). The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson.First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
The new theatre finally opened in 2008 and was named the Alhambra as a tribute to its famous former neighbor, the old Alhambra Maurice Chevalier. [2] The new Alhambra has faithfully continued the music hall tradition of the old one, with an eclectic array of performers [ 3 ] from the worlds of indie rock, jazz, punk rock, African American folk ...
The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square is a prominent cinema building in the West End of London.Built in the Art Deco style and completed in 1937, the building has been continually altered in response to developments in cinema technology, and was the first Dolby Cinema in the United Kingdom.
The Empire Theatre opened on 17 April 1884 under the ownership of Daniel Nicols as a West End variety theatre on Leicester Square, as well as a ballet venue, with a capacity of about 2,000 seats. The first performance was Chilpéric , with music by Hervé , adapted by H. Hersee and H. B. Farnie and described as a Grand Musical Spectacular, in ...
The Café de Paris was a nightclub in the West End of London, active from 1924–41 and 1948–2020. It was located on Coventry Street , which runs between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus . In the 1930s it became one of the leading theatre clubs in London.