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

Opened in 1882 as the Royal Avenue Theatre, the Playhouse is a West End theatre tucked at the foot of Northumberland Avenue, close to the Thames at Charing Cross. Behind its classical stone front lies one of the best-preserved sets of Victorian stage machinery in London. The theatre was built for the impresario Sefton Parry to a design by the architect F. H. Fowler, with an original capacity of around 1,200. It opened with a revival of an Offenbach operetta. Disaster struck in 1905, when part ...