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Wyndham's Theatre

Wyndham's Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by actor/manager Charles Wyndham (the other is the Criterion Theatre). Located on Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster, it was designed c.1898 by W. G. R. Sprague, the architect of six other London theatres between then and 1916. It was designed to seat 759 patrons on three levels; later refurbishment increased this to four seating levels. The theatre was Grade II* listed by English Heritage in September 1960.[1]

Address

St. Martin's Court
London, WC2
United Kingdom

51°30′40″N 0°07′42″W / 51.511111°N 0.128222°W / 51.511111; -0.128222

London Underground Leicester Square

Salisbury Estate

Delfont Mackintosh Theatres

Grade II* listed

West End theatre

799 on 4 levels

Long Day's Journey into Night

16 November 1899 (1899-11-16)

W. G. R. Sprague

Delfont Mackintosh era[edit]

In May 2005, the theatre was taken over by Cameron Mackintosh's Delfont-Mackintosh Ltd., which began operations of the venue in September 2005. In October 2005, the theatre presented Tom Stoppard's Heroes, a translation of the French play Le vent des peupliers by Gérald Sibleyras, which starred Richard Griffiths and John Hurt.[7]


The following year the theatre hosted a new production of Joanna Murray-Smith's play Honour starring Diana Rigg, Martin Jarvis and Natascha McElhone, which ran between 7 February and 6 May 2006. It later hosted the West End transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory's hit production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George, which starred Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell and ran till September. Between December 2006 and April 2007, the theatre presented the West End commercial transfer of Alan Bennett's National Theatre hit The History Boys which played to sell-out houses during its run until April 2007.


Bill Kenwright's production of Somerset Maugham's The Letter played through summer 2007. There was a short hiatus after Chita Rivera was forced to postpone a scheduled London return. Shadowlands, based on the life story of C. S. Lewis opened in October 2007, starring Charles Dance and Janie Dee, before another return of Alan Bennett's The History Boys from December 2007.


The theatre closed temporarily for refurbishment works, before reopening in September 2008 with Kenneth Branagh starring in Michael Grandage's production of Chekhov's Ivanov. This new version by Tom Stoppard was the opening play in the Donmar West End twelve-month season at Wyndham's, with tickets at Donmar Warehouse prices.[8]


The Donmar West End season also included Derek Jacobi starring in Twelfth Night, Judi Dench in Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade, and Jude Law in Hamlet, all staged by Grandage.

(9 December 2003 – 3 April 2004) by Moira Buffini starring Harriet Walter

Dinner

(20 April 2004 – 9 October 2004) by Michael Frayn, starring Colm Meaney

Democracy

: Monster II (1 November 2004 – 13 November 2004)

Dylan Moran

By the Bog of Cats (1 December 2004 – 26 February 2005) by , starring Holly Hunter

Marina Carr

(9 March 2005 – 2 April 2005) by David Wood, starring Ruby Wax

The Witches

(7 April 2005 – 14 May 2005), by Eve Ensler

The Vagina Monologues

(21 June 2005 – 17 September 2005) by William Shakespeare, starring Helen McCrory, Sienna Miller and Clive Rowe

As You Like It

(18 October 2005 – 14 January 2006) by Gérald Sibleyras, starring Richard Griffiths, John Hurt and Ken Stott

Heroes

(14 February 2006 – 6 May 2006) by Joanna Murray-Smith, starring Diana Rigg and Martin Jarvis

Honour

(23 May 2006 – 2 September 2006) by Stephen Sondheim, starring Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell

Sunday in the Park with George

(21 September 2006 – 18 November 2006) by John Mortimer, starring Derek Jacobi

A Voyage Round My Father

(18 December 2006 – 14 April 2007) by Alan Bennett

The History Boys

(19 April 2007 – 10 August 2007), by Somerset Maugham, starring Jenny Seagrove and Anthony Andrews

The Letter

(3 October 2007 – 17 December 2007) by William Nicholson, starring Charles Dance and Janie Dee (transferred to the Novello Theatre)

Shadowlands

(20 December 2007 – 26 April 2008) by Alan Bennett, starring Desmond Barrit

The History Boys

(14 September 2009 – 29 November 2009)

The Shawshank Redemption

(3 December 2009 – 10 March 2010) by J. B. Priestley

An Inspector Calls

(19 March 2010 – 30 October 2010) (following closure at the Gielgud Theatre)[9]

Avenue Q

– Dandelion Mind (2 November 2010 – 8 January 2011)[10]

Bill Bailey

(8 February 2011 – 7 May 2011) by Bruce Norris (transferred from the Royal Court Theatre)

The official poster for the 2011 production of Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate

Clybourne Park

(1 June 2011 – 3 September 2011) by William Shakespeare, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate

Much Ado About Nothing

(5 October 2011 – 17 December 2011) by Alfred Uhry, starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave

Driving Miss Daisy

Christmas with the Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas (20 December 2011 – 7 January 2012)

(9 January 2012 – 21 January 2012)

The Rat Pack: Live From Las Vegas

– Fearless (13 February 2012 – 17 March 2012)

Jackie Mason

(22 March 2012 – 12 May 2012) (stage play of the Oscar-winning film)

The King's Speech

(18 May 2012 – 1 September 2012) by Mike Leigh, starring Jill Halfpenny

Abigail's Party

(16 October 2012 – 19 January 2013) (limited run following closure at the Playhouse Theatre)

Dreamboats and Petticoats

(29 January 2013 – 13 April 2013) by Simon Gray, starring Rowan Atkinson

Quartermaine's Terms

(16 May 2013 – 31 August 2013) by Alan Ayckbourn, starring Felicity Kendal and Kara Tointon

Relatively Speaking

(16 September 2013 – 4 January 2014) by Clive Exton, starring Lee Evans and Sheila Hancock

Barking in Essex

(22 January 2014 – 19 April 2014) by Conor McPherson, starring Brian Cox, Ardal O'Hanlon and Dervla Kirwan

The Weir

and Three Sisters (23 April 2014 – 3 May 2014) (performed in Russian with a Russian cast)

Uncle Vanya

(18 June 2014 – 23 August 2014) by David Hare, starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan

Skylight

(11 September 2014 – 31 January 2015) by Mike Bartlett, starring Tim Pigott-Smith

King Charles III

(16 February 2015 – 11 April 2015) by Arthur Miller, starring Mark Strong, Nicola Walker and Phoebe Fox

A View from the Bridge

(27 April 2015 – 27 June 2015) by David Mamet, starring Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge

American Buffalo

(13 July 2015 – 29 August 2015) by Richard Bean, starring Stephen Merchant and Steffan Rhodri

The Mentalists

(5 October 2015 – 21 November 2015) by Florian Zeller, in a translation by Christopher Hampton, starring Kenneth Cranham and Claire Skinner

The Father

(7 December 2015 – 5 March 2016) by Martin McDonagh, starring David Morrissey

Hangmen

(23 March 2016 – 18 June 2016) by Duncan Macmillan, starring Denise Gough

People, Places and Things

The Truth (27 June 2016 – 3 September 2016) by , in a translation by Christopher Hampton, starring Tanya Franks and Alexander Hanson

Florian Zeller

(20 September 2016 – 17 December 2016) by Harold Pinter, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart

No Man's Land

(10 January 2017 – 11 March 2017) by Khaled Hosseini, adapted by Matthew Spangler, starring Ben Turner

The Kite Runner

(28 March 2017 – 10 June 2017) by Patrick Marber, starring David Tennant, Adrian Scarborough and Gawn Grainger

Don Juan in Soho

(27 June 2017 – 9 September 2017) by Lanie Robertson, starring Audra McDonald

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill

Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle (9 October 2017 – 6 January 2018) by , starring Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham

Simon Stephens

(6 February 2018 – 8 April 2018) by Eugene O'Neill, starring Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville

Long Day's Journey into Night

The Height of the Storm (9 October 2018 – 1 December 2018) by , in a translation by Christopher Hampton, starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins

Florian Zeller

(3 December 2018 – 5 January 2019)[11]

Bill Bailey - Larks in Transit

(7 January 2019 – 12 January 2019)[12]

The Catherine Tate Show Live

(11 February 2019 – 27 April 2019) by Arthur Miller, starring David Suchet

The Price

The Starry Messenger (29 May 2019 – 10 August 2019) by , starring Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern

Kenneth Lonergan

(28 August 2019 – 14 September 2019) by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Fleabag

The Man in the White Suit (8 October 2019 – 7 December 2019) by , starring Stephen Mangan, Kara Tointon and Sue Johnston

Sean Foley

(13 December 2019 – 11 January 2020) by Kander and Ebb, starring Jason Manford, Ore Oduba and Carley Stenson

Curtains

(12 June 2021 – 4 September 2021) by Tom Stoppard (production previously played here from January to March 2020, when theatres closed due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Leopoldstadt

(15 November 2021 – 15 January 2023)

Life of Pi

(16 February 2023 – 2 September 2023) by Rodgers and Hammerstein

Oklahoma!

The Old Man and the Pool (12 September 2023 - 7 October 2023) by

Mike Birbiglia

(21 October - 9 December 2023) by William Shakespeare, starring Kenneth Branagh

King Lear

(16 December 2023 - 9 March 2024) by Stephen Moffat starring Lee Mack, Sarah Alexander and Frances Barber, directed by Mark Gatiss

The Unfriend

(19 March 2024 – 8 June 2024) by Eugene O'Neill, starring Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson

Long Day's Journey into Night

(18 June 2024 – 21 September 2024) by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

Next to Normal

Guide to British Theatres 1750–1950, John Earl and Michael Sell pp. 150 (Theatres Trust, 2000)  0-7136-5688-3

ISBN

Wyndham's Theatre Website

Delfont Mackintosh Theatres

Theatre History and (Arthur Lloyd)