This is a partial list of former theatres in London.
Former theatres in London[edit]
English Renaissance theatres[edit]
This covers the period from the establishment of the first Tudor playhouses, through to their closure by Parliament at the beginning of the English Civil War in 1642.
Post Renaissance former London theatres[edit]
- Alhambra Theatre
- Astoria Theatre
- Bolton's Theatre Club
- Britannia Theatre
- The Bunker, Southwark
- Camden Theatre
- Cockpit Theatre
- Coronet Theatre
- Daly's Theatre
- Dorset Garden Theatre
- Empire Theatre of Varieties
- Empress Theatre (Brixton)
- Everyman Theatre, Hampstead
- Folly Theatre later Toole's Theatre
- Gaiety Theatre, London
- Garrick Theatre (Leman St)
- Gate Theatre Studio
- Gibbon's Tennis Court
- Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street)
- Golders Green Hippodrome
- Goodman's Fields Theatre
- Half Moon Theatre
- Hippodrome, London
- Holborn Theatre
- Lisle's Tennis Court
- London Opera House
- London Pavilion
- Novelty Theatre
- Olympic Theatre
- Open Space Theatre
- Opera Comique
- Original Shaftesbury Theatre
- Q Theatre
- Queen's Theatre, Long Acre
- Players' Theatre
- Princess's Theatre, London
- Royal Aquarium
- Royal Strand Theatre
- Royalty Theatre
- Rutland House
- Sans Souci Theatre
- Saville Theatre
- Scala Theatre
- St George's Hall
- St James's Theatre
- Stoll Theatre
- Surrey Theatre
- Terry's Theatre
- Theatre Royal, Marylebone
- Unity Theatre
- Westminster Theatre
- Windmill Theatre
Former music halls[edit]
- Apollo Saloon
- Canterbury Music Hall
- Charing Cross Music Hall
- Evans Music-and-Supper Rooms
- Golders Green Hippodrome
- London Hippodrome
- London Pavilion
- Middlesex Music Hall, the Old Mo'
- Oxford Music Hall
- Strand Musick Hall
- Surrey Theatre
- Weston's Music Hall (later, the Holborn Empire)
- Wilton's Music Hall
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- "Theatres", Pictorial Handbook of London, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854
- "Theatres", London and its Environs (6th ed.), Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1887
- William Biggs Boulton (1901), Amusements of Old London, London: J. C. Nimmo, OCLC 382918
- Henry Barton Baker (1904), History of the London Stage and its Famous Players (1576-1903), London: Routledge, OL 7081413M
- Walter Besant (1904), "Theatres", London in the Time of the Tudors, Survey of London, London: A. & C. Black
- "Theatres", Brief Guide to London, London: D.H. Evans & Co., 1908, OCLC 21996391
- Findlay Muirhead, ed. (1922), "Theatres", London and its Environs, Blue Guides (2nd ed.), London: Macmillan & Co., OCLC 365061
- Diana Howard (1970), London theatres and music halls, 1850-1950, London: Library Association, ISBN 0853654719
External links[edit]
- London Metropolitan Archives (2010). "Sources for the History of London Theatres and Music Halls at London Metropolitan Archives" (PDF). City of London. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2013.