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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 21/06/2026 00:44:00

On the corner of Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the heart of the West End, the Prince of Wales Theatre is a long-running London playhouse best known in recent years as the home of large-scale musicals. The present building, with around 1,150 seats on two levels, dates from 1937. The first theatre on the site opened in 1884 as the Prince's Theatre, designed by the architect C. J. Phipps for the actor-manager Edgar Bruce. It was renamed the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1886, after the fu...