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Garrick Theatre

The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick.[2] It opened in 1889 with The Profligate, a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, and another Pinero play, The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, was an early success at the theatre. In its early years, the Garrick appears to have specialised in the performance of melodrama. The theatre later became associated with comedies, including No Sex Please, We're British, which played for four years from 1982 to 1986.

This article is about the West End theatre in London. For other uses, see Garrick Theatre (disambiguation).

Address

Charing Cross Road
London, WC2
United Kingdom

51°30′35″N 0°07′41″W / 51.509722°N 0.128056°W / 51.509722; -0.128056

London Underground Charing Cross; Leicester Square
National Rail Charing Cross

Nimax Theatres

Grade II*

West End theatre

718[1] on 3 levels (currently)
800 on 4 levels (originally)

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy

24 April 1889 (1889-04-24)

Walter Emden, with C. J. Phipps

1890 – A Pair of Spectacles by

Sydney Grundy

1895 – , starring Mrs Patrick Campbell

The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

1902 – Water Babies, an adaptation by of Charles Kingsley's novel, with music by Alfred Cellier and others.

Rutland Barrington

1924 – , written by and starring Ivor Novello

The Rat

1947 – directed Jack Buchanan in Born Yesterday

Laurence Olivier

1955 – ran to 1957

La Plume de Ma Tante

1960 – 's Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be began a two-year run with Miriam Karlin

Lionel Bart

1967 – presented and appeared in Stand By Your Bedouin, the first in several seasons of farces, including Uproar in the House and Let Sleeping Wives Lie

Brian Rix

1971 – The last of these farces was

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

1972 – Sleuth transferred

Anthony Shaffer's

1977 – transferred and was a continuing success

Side By Side By Sondheim

1978 – 's thriller Deathtrap ran until 1981

Ira Levin

Earl, John; Sell, Michael (2000). Guide to British Theatres 1750–1950. Theatres Trust. p. 111.  0-7136-5688-3.

ISBN

Parker, John, ed. (1947). Who's Who in the Theatre (tenth, revised ed.). London. pp. 477–478, 1184.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

cite book

Official website

Article on Garrick Theatre

Information about the Garrick and other Victorian theatres