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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 21:20:00

A gilded Victorian auditorium hidden inside a modern shell, the Lyric Hammersmith is one of the UK's leading producing theatres, on Lyric Square just off King Street in West London. Its ornate main house was originally designed by the celebrated theatre architect Frank Matcham and dates in spirit to 1895, when the venue reopened as the New Lyric Opera House. Threatened with demolition in the 1960s, the theatre was saved by a public campaign, and its historic auditorium was painstakingly dismant...