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From the outside, the Gielgud Theatre is an impressive sight, towering four storeys over Shaftesbury Avenue, its height further emphasized by the turret on top. The interior is also magnificent, with richly-decorated pillars supporting the boxes and lavish Baroque ornamentation. Built in 1906 and known as the Globe Theatre for most of the 20th century, it was renamed after the great actor Sir John Gielgud in 1994. For such an impressive theatre, it has had a surprisingly chequered production history, with few long-running shows and some notable flops, such as the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tell Me on a Sunday. Still, there have been some high points in its history: many of Alan Ayckbourn's plays debuted at the Gielgud and the 1943 production of The Importance of Being Earnest is widely regarded as being the definitive version of one of the great British comedies.
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10 Carlisle Street, W1D | 4 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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68 Regent Street, W1B | 4 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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Leicester Square, WC2H | 4 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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51 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
With a new name and following a major renovation, Queen's Theatre became the Sondheim Theatre in December 2019, reopening with Cameron Mackintosh's new version of Les ... More
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Walker's Court, W1F | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, Soho, London W1V | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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7-14 Coventry Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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22-32 Shaftesbury Avenue, Trocadero, W1D | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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London > Entertainment > Jazz Clubs
47 Frith Street, Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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Gielgud Theatre, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, W1V | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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Gielgud Theatre, 6 Panton Street, SW1Y | 4 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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Gielgud Theatre, St Martins Lane, WC2N | 5 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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Brewer Street, Soho, London W1F | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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18 Brewer Street, Soho, London W1F | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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Rupert Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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61 Rupert Street, Soho, London W1D7PJ | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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London > Restaurants > Japanese restaurants
64 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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24 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, WC2H | 7 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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10 Coptic Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1A | 9 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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London > Education > Cookery Courses
15B Little Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W | 10 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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10 Wardour Street, Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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London > Nightlife > Bars
83-85 Wardour Street, W1D | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D | 1 minute from Gielgud Theatre
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68 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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24-26 Leicester Square, Soho, London WC2H | 4 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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1 Suffolk Place, St James's, London SW1Y | 5 minutes from Gielgud Theatre
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