... Sadler's Wells Universal Ballet Savoy The Mikado Shaftesbury Napoleon St Martin's The Mousetrap Strand Buddy Theatre Royal, Drury Lane The Witches of Eastwick Theatre Royal, Haymarket The Blue Room Vaudeville Madame Melville Victoria Palace Fame Whitehall ...

... combined it became even more interesting. For instance, it was back in the 1780s when the first panto mimes were staged at Drury Lane in the evenings after the main show had finished, and Peter Savidge sang a song from an early Aladdin, which had been unearthed ...

... change in theatre design. Edward Sacks, architect and engineer, who was responsible for engineering the late 19th century Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres in London, wrote that the average life of a newly built theatre during the 18th century and before ...

... spring. The show, with a likely cast of more than 100 leading British performers, will take place at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in April and will feature a medley of songs from the acclaimed Michael Bennett musical A Chorus Line. Mishon told The Stage: ...

... switches to smaller venue BY CAMERON ROBERTSON Cameron Mackintosh will transfer The Witches of Eastwick from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to the Prince of Wales, amid claims that he never wanted to open it at a large venue in the first place. 1 he blockbuster ...

... 22, 1900) 50 YEARS AGO: Princess Margaret followed up her glimpse of Will Any Gentleman? at the Irene Vanbrugh matinee at Drury Lane with a visit to the play itself at the Strand. The first scene of the third act, with principal comedians Robertson Hare ...

... Sadler's WeHs Rambert Dance Company Savoy The Mikado Shaftesbury Napoleon St Martin's The Mousetrap Strand Buddy Theatre Royal, Drury Lane The Witches of Eastwick Theatre Royal, Haymarket The Blue Room Vaudeville Madame Melville Victoria Palace Fame WnWehal The ...

... notably Binkie Huckaback, the 'ageing juvenile'. He returned to the stage in 1959 as Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady (Drury Lane) for a long run and again in 1966 in the comedy Let's Get a Divorce opposite Fenella Fielding. Throughout the seventies ...

... Sadtor's Weds Rambert Dance Company Savoy The Mikado Shaftesbury Napoleon St Martin's The Mousetrap Strand Buddy Theatre Royal, Drury Lane The Witches of Eastwick VaudevMe Madame Melville Victoria PaJace Fame Whitehall The Puppetry of the Penis Wimbledon Theatre ...

... the hammer at Christie's later this month. The son of celebrated actor Edmund Kean and one-time manager of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Kean published the script for performance at the Princess' Theatre, Oxford Street in 1858. Starring Kean himself as Lear ...

... late Oliver Reed. The collection holds some amazing set models, inc luding a detailed working model of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It is complete with furnishings, stage sets, workings, crystal chandeliers and an audience in evening gown and white tie ...

... from time to time, a need is expressed for more drama houses like the Apollo or the Lyric, or more musical houses like Drury Lane or the Palladium, these are phases that come and go according to demand. Perhaps it is time we put behind us the social ...