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The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster, central London. It was listed Grade II on 20 July 1971. [ 1 ] Its seating capacity is 1,200 on three levels.
Aldwych (pronounced / ˈ ɔː l d w ɪ tʃ / AWLD-witch) is a street and the name of the area immediately surrounding it, in the City of Westminster, part of Greater London, and is part of the West End Theatreland.
Theatre Location Opened Capacity Current Management Key Theatre, Peterborough Peterborough 1973 360 Landmark Theatres (part of Selladoor Worldwide) King's Lynn Corn Exchange: King's Lynn 1854 733 King's Hall: Herne Bay, Kent: 4 April 1904 250–500 The King's Theatre Newmarket 1955 123 Newmarket Operatic Musical And Dramatic Society Ltd (NOMADS)
In 2005, the theatre was renamed by its owners (Delfont Mackintosh Theatres) the Novello Theatre in honour of Ivor Novello, who lived in a flat above the theatre from 1913 to 1951. The black comedy Arsenic and Old Lace had a run of 1337 performances here in the 1940s, and Sailor Beware! ran for 1231 performances from 1955.
It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fourth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented at the theatre by the actor-manager Tom Walls between 1923 and 1933. It starred the same cast members as many of the other Aldwych farces. The story concerns a reputedly haunted English country house. Investigators and frightened ...
The play was first performed in 1926 at the Aldwych Theatre in London, the third of the Aldwych farces, [1] and ran for 409 performances. [2] In 1930 Walls directed a filmed version of the play , with most of the same performers, and the piece has been revived and adapted as a musical .
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When the Aldwych production closed in the summer of 1981 the set was moved to the Old Vic Theatre and the work performed for a four-part mini-series by Channel 4 and Mobil Showcase Theatre., [5] which was telecast in the US in January 1983. The full-length version of the play was produced by three American companies subsequent to the RSC.