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The Haymarket Theatre was opened by Sir Ralph Richardson and the opening season started with The Recruiting Officer on 17 October 1973, Economic Necessity on 24 October and Cabaret on 21 November. Leicester City Council purchased a 99-year lease of the theatre in 1974. Between 1974 and 2007 the theatre was operated by The Leicester Theatre Trust.
The theatre operated until 2007 when it was closed and replaced by the newly built Curve Theatre in Leicester's Cultural Quarter. The theatre was reopened in early 2018. Located on Belgrave Gate at the front of the entrance to the Haymarket Theatre is The Metal Tree sculpture by Hubert Dalwood ARA. It was unveiled in 1974 and used to be the ...
The Donkey, 203 Welford Rd, Leicester (opened 2005) Firebug, Pocklington's Walk, Leicester; The Shed, Yeoman Street, Leicester. The SoundHouse, 28 Southampton St, Leicester LE1 1SJ; In March 2018, the Haymarket Theatre reopened pledging it will stage music events. One of Leicester's main live music venues, The Charlotte, closed in January 2009 ...
Samuel Foote Haymarket Theatre, ca. 1900. In 1754, John Potter, who had been rated (i.e. paid property tax) for the theatre since its opening, was succeeded by John Whitehead. [10] In 1758 Theophilus Cibber obtained from William Howard, then the Lord Chamberlain, a general licence under which Foote tried to establish the Haymarket as a regular ...
In 1984, another revised production opened at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre with a revised script by Fry and contributions by director Mike Ockrent. It transferred to the Adelphi Theatre on 12 February 1985 and closed on 16 January 1993 after an eight-year run and 3,303 performances.
Sue Townsend Theatre (formerly the Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix Arts Centre and the Upper Brown Street Theatre) is a theatre in the city of Leicester, England. The centre hosts live shows and films of the arthouse and world cinema genres. Julian Wright is credited for his work to preserve the theatre from demolition in the 1980s and in the 2000s.
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Managed by Harrogate (White Rose) Theatre Trust Ltd Harold Pinter Theatre: London 15 October 1881 796 (1,180 originally) Owner – Ambassador Theatre Group: Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke 1865; as theatre 1951, refurbished 2007 380 Her Majesty's Theatre: London 1705 1,216 Owner – Really Useful Group: The Hexagon: Reading 1977 1,686 Highbury ...