Which West End Theatres have you visited?

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When you get to my age it would be a surprise if there were theatres I HADN'T been to! All those mentioned I've been to (inc the Royalty - no longer there, I believe), as well as numerous theatres around the country:

Crucible, Sheffield
Coventry Theatre (now defunct)
Belgrade, Coventry
Belgrade Venue, Coventry
Apollo, Coventry
Alexandra, Birmingham
Hippodrome, Birmingham
Old Rep, Birmingham
Crescent, Birmingham
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Brum Studio @ Birmingham Rep
Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
NIA, Birmingham
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
Swan, Stratford
The Other Place, Stratford
Courtyard, Stratford (temporary theatre)
Forum, Billingham
Haymarket, Leicester
Curve, Leicester
Nottingham Playhouse
Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Gatehouse, Stafford
Grand, Wolverhampton
Opera House, Blackpool
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Theatre Royal, Bath
Ustinov Studio, Bath
Empire, Liverpool
Theatre Royal, York
Greenwich Theatre
Chichester Festival Theatre
Minerva, Chichester
Richmond Theatre
Orange Tree, Richmond
Wimbledon Theatre
New Victoria, Woking
Theatre Royal, Brighton
Marlborough Little Theatre, Brighton
New Theatre, Oxford
Watermill, Newbury (Bagnor, actually)
Lyceum, Edinburgh
Playhouse, Edinburgh
Derby Playhouse
Swan, High Wycombe
Harrogate Theatre
Everyman Studio, Cheltenham
Orchard, Dartford
Mayflower, Southampton
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Leeds Grand
Hippodrome, Bristol
Marlowe, Canterbury
Royal and Derngate, Northampton
Churchill, Bromley
Opera House, Manchester
Royal Exchange, Manchester
Lowry Lyric, Manchester
Hope Mill, Manchester
Salisbury Playhouse
Theatre Royal, Windsor
Rose, Kingston
Jack Studio, Brockley
Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford
Watford Palace
Millenium Cetre, Cardiff
Kings, Portsmouth
Theatre Royal, Winchester
Theatre Royal, Stratford East
Aylesbury Waterside
Barn, Cirencester

and abroad:

Her Majesty's, Melbourne, Australia
Universal, Melbourne, Australia
Last Laugh, Melbourne, Australia
Arts Centre Playhouse, Melbourne, Australia
Opera House, Sydney, Australia
Festival Theatre, Adelaide, Australia
Manoel, Valletta, Malta
St James Cavalier Centre, Valletta, Malta
Koopermoolen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mariinsky, St Petersburg, Russia
Gershwin, New York
Eugene O'Neill, New York
Palace, New York
St James, New York
Orpheum, New York
Broadway, New York
Majestic, New York
Golden, New York
Winter Garden, New York
Music Box, New York
Shubert, New York
Neil Simon, New York
Imperial, New York
Richard Rodgers, New York
Marquis, New York
Minskoff, New York
Nederlander, New York
Actors' Playhouse, New York
Plymouth, New York
Madison Square Garden, New York
Lunt-Fontaine, New York
Ford Center, New York
Studio 54, New York
Union Square, New York
Circle in the Square, New York
Martin Beck, New York
Booth, New York
Belasco, New York
Sullivan Street Playhouse, New York
Helen Hayes, New York
Jane Street, New York
Broadhurst, New York
Henry Miller, New York
State Theater Lincoln Centre, New York
Paper Mill, Millburn, New Jersey
Steppenwolf, Chicago
James N Nederlander, Chicago
Shakespeare, Chicago
Lyric Opera, Chicago
Writers' Theatre, Glencoe (Chicago)
Opera House, Budapest, Hungary
Theater an der Wein, Vienna, Austria
Gate, Dublin
Mogador, Paris
Chatelet, Paris
Starlighthalle, Bochum, Germany
Neue Flora, Hamburg, Germany
Reithalle, Munich, Germany

Whew!!!

Great topic. I went to the Vaudeville for the first time recently and wondered how many others I have yet to visit, now I can check and see.


Ones I've been to in bold:

Adelphi
Aldwych
Ambassadors
Apollo
Apollo Victoria
Arts
Cambridge
Criterion
Dominion
Duchess
Duke Of York's
Fortune
Garrick
Gielgud
Gillian Lynne
Harold Pinter
Her Majesty's
London Palladium
Lyceum
Lyric
Noël Coward
Novello
Palace
Phoenix
Piccadilly
Playhouse
Prince Edward
Prince Of Wales
Savoy
Shaftesbury
Sondheim (Queens)
St Martins
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Trafalgar Studios
Vaudeville
Victoria Palace
Wyndham's

Not too bad, some I'm not likely to visit anytime soon (Novello, Lyric...), some I really wasn't sure if I'd been there!

I have been to all West End theatres and most fringe theatres in London. I haven't been to the Bloomsbury Theatre, the Peacock and the Shaw Theatre who occasionally put on stuff. Main fringe theatres I have yet to visit are the Arcola and the Hen and Chickens Theatre. Haven't been to the new Boulevard Theatre in Soho.

Funnily enough every show I’ve been to since “reopening” has been at a theatre I’d never been to before so in just a month I’ve ticked off the Lyric, Sondheim, Apollo, Palace, Vaudeville and Alexandra Palace theatres!

Certainly worth a visit to see Woman on Black.
I feel like a lot of people who have ignored the presence of The Mousetrap all these years finally made the effort to go, which is great really - well worth seeing (although I’m not sure it warrants that length of run except for the novelty factor)

I saw The Mousetrap on it's 60th anniversary tour but the current casting tempted me in for another visit in the West End. Woman in Black has never appealed, but I may yet have to do it just to tick off the venue!

Finally ticked off St Martins as well. Don't know when I'll go to the Lyric and Fortune. I like to get moderately scared watching horror movies at home but not at the cinema, let alone the thought of seeing Woman in Black.

Maybe I could see Six again at the Lyric or Austentatious. But I am choosier these days about what I want to trapse up to London to see.

The only one from the list that I haven’t visited is the Lyric, but now that Thriller has moved out I’m much more likely to make a trip there!

I'm sure it will outlive me.

Not last year, obvs, but there are sometimes Christmas concerts at the Lyceum, presented by London Musical Theatre Orchestra.

I actively avoid West End theatres - horrible tatty old flea pits with bad seats, bad sightlines, badly-behaved audiences and expensive tickets. I've been to just over half on the list I think.

One place I haven't been to is the Arts - it just isn't on my radar at all. What is it like ? Is it in the same location as when "Waiting for Godot" premiered there in 1955 ?

I thought it was some sort of smaller studio venue so I don't know why it would qualify for the West End list when Soho and Jermyn Street apparently don't.