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

One of the West End's most elegant Victorian playhouses, the Garrick Theatre stands on the curved southern stretch of Charing Cross Road, close to Leicester Square. It opened on 24 April 1889 with a production of Pinero's The Profligate, built for the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and designed by Walter Emden and C. J. Phipps. Named after the eighteenth-century actor David Garrick, it remains a Grade II* listed survivor of pre-1914 theatre design. The auditorium was originally laid out on four levels...