Adapted by Patrick Barlow. From an original concept by Simon Corble & Nobby Dimon. Directed by Maria Aitkin.
Star Wars - Shortened
Opened - 17th Aug 2006
For 1 night only. Written by Adam Long. Performed by Adam Long, Rick Bland & Richard Lynson.
Mack & Mabel
Opened - 10th Apr 2006
Directed by John Doyle. Starring David Soul & Janie Dee.
Closed - 1st Jul 2006
Anthony Hamilton in Concert
Opened - 23rd Mar 2006
2 nights only.
Closed - 24th Mar 2006
Otherwise Engaged
Opened - 28th Oct 2005
by Simon Gray. Starring Richard E Grant & Anthony Stewart Head.
Closed - 28th Jan 2006
What the Butler Saw
Opened - 24th Aug 2005
by Joe Orton. Transferred from the Hampstead Theatre.
Closed - 22nd Oct 2005
The Gruffalo
Opened - 19th Jul 2005
by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler.
Closed - 21st Aug 2005
The Countess
Opened - 7th Jun 2005
by Gregory Murphy.
Closed - 9th Jul 2005
Amajuba - Like Doves We Rise
Opened - 6th Apr 2005
by Yael Farber and others.
Closed - 30th Apr 2005
The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Opened - 7th Mar 1996
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
The Complete History of America (abridged)
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)
Closed - 3rd Apr 2005
Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club
Opened - 19th Dec 1995
by Jonathan Harvey. Directd by John Burgess. Transferred from The Donmar Warehouse.
Closed - 22nd Jan 1996
Taking Sides
Opened - 30th Jun 1995
by Ronald Harwood. Directed by Harold Pinter. Starring Daniel Massey, Michael Pennington & Suzanne Bertish. Transferred from the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Closed - 9th Dec 1995
My Night With Reg
Opened - 21st Nov 1994
by Kevin Elyot. Directed by Roger Mitchell. Starring John Sessions, David Bamber, Anthony Calf, Joe Duttine, Roger Frost & Kenneth MacDonald. Transferred from the Royal Court Theatre. Transferred to The Playhouse Theatre.
Closed - 24th Jun 1995
The Doug Anthony Allstars
Opened - 16th Sep 1994
6 performances
Closed - 25th Sep 1994
The Flying Karamazov Brothers - Juggle & Hyde
Opened - 20th Jul 1994
Closed - 3rd Sep 1994
Jack - A Night on the Town with John Barrymore.
Opened - 18th May 1994
with Nicol Williamson. Directed by Leslie Megahey.
Closed - 16th Jul 1994
Dishonourable Ladies
Opened - 6th Apr 1994
with Honor Blackman. 5 performances
Closed - 9th Apr 1994
Maxwell: The Musical Review
Opened - 21st Feb 1994
by Evan Steadman. Starring John Savident.
*Due to open on 21st February 1994 but was pulled at the last minute.
Closed - 21st Feb 1994
Looking Through A Glass Onion - John Lennon in Word & Music
Opened - 18th Oct 1993
by John Waters.
Closed - 1st Jan 1994
Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens
Opened - 28th Jun 1993
by Bill Russell & Janet Hood. Directed by Bill Russell. Starring Kim Criswell, James Dreyfus, Sean Mathias, Simon Green, Regina Fong, Simon Fanshawe & Kwame Kwei-Armah. Transffered from the Drill Hall.
Closed - 24th Jul 1993
Misery
Opened - 17th Dec 1992
by Stephen King. Adapted by Simon Moore. Starring Sharon Gless & Bill Paterson.
Closed - 15th May 1993
Making It Better
Opened - 21st Oct 1992
by James Saunders. With Jane Asher, David De Keyser, Larry Lamb & Rufus Sewell. Directed by Michael Rudman. Transferred from The Hampstead Theatre.
Closed - 28th Nov 1992
Ennio Marchetto
Opened - 10th Oct 1992
Closed - 17th Oct 1992
Run For Your Wife
Opened - 12th Dec 1983
Written & Directed by Ray Cooney. Starring (among others) Bernard Cribbins, Patrick Mower, John Quayle, Ernie Wise, Aimi Macdonald, Leslie Lawton, Una Stubbs, Ron Aldridge. Over 1600 performances. Transferred from the Shaftesbury Theatre. Transferred to the Whitehall Theatre.
Closed - 4th Mar 1989
Woza Albert!
Opened - 15th Jun 1983
Directed by Barney Simon. Starring Percy Mtwa & Mbongeni Ngema. Transferred from the Riverside Theatre.
Closed - 10th Dec 1983
Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
Opened - 23rd Jul 1981
by Dario Fo. Starring Alfred Molina, Maggie Steed, Sylvester McCoy, Christopher Ryan & Karen Drury.
Closed - 11th Jun 1983
Hank Williams - The Show He Never Gave
Opened - 2nd Jun 1981
by Maynard Collins. Transferred from the King's Head Theatre.
Closed - 11th Jul 1981
Tom Foolery
Opened - 5th Jun 1980
by Tom Lehrer. Starring Jonathan Adams, Martin Connor, Tricia George & Robin Ray. 400 performances
Closed - 30th May 1981
Bent
Opened - 4th Jul 1979
by Martin Sherman. Starring Ian McKellan, Tom Bell, Jeff Rawle & Richard Gale.
Transferred from the Royal Court Theatre.
Gloo Joo
1978
Directed by Michael Rudman. Starring Antony Brown, Dave Hill & Oscar James.
Sextet (or Six of One)
1977
by Michael Pertwee. Directed by Robin Midgley. Starring Leslie Phillips, Julia Lockwood, Peter Blythe, Carol Hawkins, Angela Scoular & Julian Fellowes.
The Frontiers of Farce (including The Purging & The Singer)
1977
The Purging by Georges Feydeau
The Singer by Frank Wedekind Starring Leonard Rossiter, Dilys Laye, John Phillips, Joan Morrow, Paul Greenwood, Penny Ryder, William Sleigh & Peter Bayliss.
The Family Dance
1976
by Felicity Browne.
I Gotta Shoe
1976
With Linda Lewis, Clarke Peters, Felix Rice, Eric Roberts & Elizabeth Welch.
Gaslight
1976
Directed by Robert Young. Starring Anton Rodgers, Nicola Pagett & Peter Vaughan.
Oh Coward!
Opened - 5th Jun 1975
by Noel Coward. Revue. 68 performances
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
1975
by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Bernard Goss. Starring Christopher Timothy, Richard O'Callaghan, William Squire & Darien Angadi.
A Doll's House
1973
by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Patrick Garland. Starring Claire Bloom, Colin Blakely, Anton Rogers, Peter Woodthorpe, Stephanie Bidmead, Nora Nicholson & Dorothy Baird.
Absurd Person Singular
Opened - 4th Jul 1972
by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by Eric Thompson. Starring Richard Briers, Michael Aldridge, Sheila Hancock, Anna Calder-Marshall, Bridget Turner & David Burke. Transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre.
Hulla Baloo
1972
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Starring Jimmy Edwards.
After Haggerty
1971
by David Mercer. Directed by David Jones. Starring Frank Finlay, Billie Whitelaw, Leslie Sands & David Wood.
Butley
1971
by Simon Gray. Directed by Harold Pinter. Starring Alan Bates, Richard Briers, Richard O'Callaghan, Colette O'Neil, Michael Byrne, George Fenton & Mary Wimbush.
High Bid
Opened - 29th Dec 1970
The Wild Duck
Opened - 10th Nov 1970
Council of Love
Opened - 20th Aug 1970
Here are the Ladies
Opened - 28th Jul 1970
Flint
Opened - 5th May 1970
Starring Michael Hordern, Vivien Merchant, Moira Redmond, Julia Foster & James Grout.
Mandrake
Opened - 16th Apr 1970
by Anthony Bowles. Starring Margaret Burton, Roy Kinnear, Paul Shelley, Sarah Atkinson, Julia McCarthy, Ian Patterson & Sandra Michaels. 12 performances
Closed - 25th Apr 1970
So What About Love
Opened - 16th Sep 1969
Brief Lives
Opened - 25th Feb 1969
by John Aubrey. Adapted & Directed by Patrick Garland. Starring Roy Dotrice.
Look Back in Anger
Opened - 10th Dec 1968
The Real Inspector Hound and The Audition
Opened - 17th Jun 1968
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard. Starring Richard Briers, Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, Robin Ellis & Caroline Blakiston. The Audition by Sean Patrick Vincent. Starring David Baxter, George King, Jean Hart, Jill Johnson, Ronald Cream & Mervyn Pascoe.
Mrs Wilson's Diary
Opened - 24th Oct 1967
by Richard Ingrams & John Wells. Directed by Joan Littlewood. Starring Myvanwy Jenn, Bill Wallis, Howard Goorney, Nigel Hawthorne & Bob Grant. 254 performances
The Restoration of Arnold Middleton
Opened - 31st Aug 1967
by David Storey. Starring June Barry & Tenniel Evans.
Loot
Opened - 31st Oct 1966
by Joe Orton. Directed by Charles Marowitz. Starring Michael Bates, Sheila Ballantine, Kenneth Cranham & Simon Ward. Transferred from the Cochrane Theatre. 342 performances
An Evening with George Bernard Shaw
Opened - 26th Sep 1966
The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter
Opened - 22nd Aug 1966
The Owl and The Pussy Cat
Opened - 2nd Mar 1966
with Anton Rogers & Diana Sands.
A Severed Head
Opened - 28th May 1963
Directed by Val May. Starring Heather Chasen, Bernard Horsfall, Peter Reeves, Irene Hamilton & Ann Saker. 1110 performances
Next Time I'll Sing to You
Opened - 25th Feb 1963
By James Saunders. Directed by Shirley Butler. Starring Victor Winding, Barry Foster, Liz Fraser, Peter McEnery & Denys Graham.
Miss Pell is Missing
1963
Starring Richard Briers.
Four to a Bar
1962
The Irregular Verb to Love
Opened - 11st Apr 1961
Written by Hugh & Margaret Williams. Starring Derek Nimmo, John Standing, Joyce Redman & Hugh Williams. 360 performances
Three
1961
Lunch Hour by John Mortimer The Form by NF Simpson A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter Starring Emlyn Williams, Wendy Craig, Alison Leggatt & Richard Briers.
The Art of Living
Opened - 18th Aug 1960
Written by Art Buchwald, Julian More & Johnny Speight. Music by Monty Norman & David Heneker. Starring Edward Woodward.
A Taste of Honey
Opened - 8th Jun 1959
Transferred from the Wyndhams Theatre.
Not in the Book
Opened - 2nd Apr 1958
Starring Wilfred Hyde White, Avice Landon, Sydney Tafler, Charles Heslop, Philip Guard & Martin Wyldeck. 488 performances
Paddle Your Own Canoe
1957
Directed by Eleanor Fazan. Starring Peter Vaughan, Violet Farebrother, Newton Blick, Moira Lister, Roy Purcell & Nigel Stock.
Waltz of the Toreadors
Opened - 27th Mar 1956
by Jean Anouilh. Directd by Peter Hall. Hugh Griffith, Beatrix Lehmann, Walter Hudd, Trader Faulkner, Brenda Bruce, Gabrielle Daye. 700 performances
Waiting for Godot
Opened - 12th Sep 1955
by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Peter Hall. Starring Peter Woodthorpe, William Squire, Timothy Bateson, Peter Bull & Leonard Cracknell.
Transferred from the Arts Theatre
Intimacy at 8.30
1954
by Peter Myers, Alec Grahame & David Climie. Starring Aud Johansen, Dilys Lay, Ronnie Stevens, Ron Moody, Joan Heal, Pip Hinton, Hugh Paddick, Eleanor Fazan & Joan Sims. 551 performances
The Bad Samaritan
1953
by William Douglas-Home. Starring Michael Denison, Viginia McKenna & George Relph.
Birthday Honours
1953
by Paul Jones. Directed by Nigel Patrick. Starring Marian Spencer, Beryl Baxter, Jean St. Clair, Hugh Latimer, Moira Lister & David Stoll.
Fool's Mate
1953
by Lyndon Brook.
The Young Elizabeth
Opened - 30th Jun 1952
by Jenette & Francis Letton. Directed by Charles Hickman. Starring Mary Morris, Joseph O'Conor, Margaretta Scott, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Godfrey Kenton, Margaret Scudamore, Basil Dignam
The Vortex
Opened - 9th Apr 1952
by Noel Coward. Starring Neville Prescott, Adrienne Allen, Robert Andrews, Sylvia Coleridge, Isabel Jeans & Michael Gough.
Third Person
Opened - 3rd Jan 1952
by Andrew Rosenthal. Starring Janette Scott, Denholm Elliott, Kenneth Hyde, Roger Livesey, Ruth Dunning & Ursula Jeans.
Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens
1951
A one man show from the works of Charles Dickens. Dramatised & Performed by Emlyn Williams.
Who is Sylvia
Opened - 24th Oct 1950
by Terence Rattigan. Directed by Anthony Quayle. Starring Robert Flemyng, Esmond Knight, Roland Culver, Athene Seyler. 380 performances
Ruth Draper - Character Sketches
Opened - 9th Oct 1950
Starring Ruth Draper. 7 performances
Closed - 14th Oct 1950
Travellers Joy
Opened - 2nd Jun 1948
by Arthur Macrae. Starring Yvonne Arnaud, Dora Bryan & Arthur Macrae. 294 performances
You Never Can Tell
Opened - 26th Apr 1948
The Indifferent Shepherd
Opened - 5th Feb 1948
by Peter Ustinov. Starring Gladys Cooper & Andrew Cruickshank.
Happy as Larry
Opened - 16th Dec 1947
by Donagh MacDonagh. Directed by Denis Carey. Starring Michael Gwynn, Liam Redmond, Anna Burden & Wilfrid Brambell.
Miss Ruth Draper
Opened - 10th Nov 1947
Deep at the Roots
Opened - 29th Sep 1947
by Aranaud d'Usseau & James Gow. Transferred from The Wyndhams Theatre
School for Spinsters
Opened - 11st Sep 1947
A Sleeping Clergyman
Opened - 19th Jun 1947
The Guniea Pig
Opened - 18th Feb 1946
by Warren Chetham-Strode. Directed by Jack Minster. Starring Cecil Trouncer, Rachel Gurney, Robert Flemyng, Denholm Elliott, Derek Blomfield, William Mervyn & Joan Hickson. 236 performances
The Rivals
Opened - 24th Sep 1945
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Directed by William Armstrong & Edith Evans. Starring Michael Gough, Edith Evans, Morland Graham, Anthony Quayle, Peter Cushing, Reginald Beckwith & Brefni O'Rorke. 166 performances
In Town Again
Opened - 6th Sep 1940
Revue
Come Out of Your Shell
Opened - 5th Jun 1940
Revue 126 performances
French for Love
Opened - 31st Oct 1939
237 performances
Grouse in June
Opened - 16th May 1939
by NC Hunter. Starring Arthur Hambling, Constance Lorne, Richard Goolden, Hugh McDermott, Billie Ryan, Winifred Willard & Robert Beatty. 126 performances
Tony Draws a Horse
Opened - 26th Jan 1939
364 performances
French Without Tears
Opened - 6th Nov 1936
by Terence Rattigan. Directed by Harold French. Starring Trevor Howard, James Hayter, Rex Harrison, Kay Hammond, Guy Middleton, Roland Culver, Robert Flemyng, Mackenzie Ward, Constance Carpenter & Hubert Gregg. 1039 performances
The Lady of La Paz
Opened - 2nd Jul 1936
139 performances
After October
Opened - 16th Apr 1936
by Rodney Ackland. Starring Peter Godfrey. 310 performances
Rosmerholm
1936
Nina
Opened - 17th Sep 1935
183 performances
All Rights Reserved
1935
Between Us Two
1935
Sixteen
Opened - 4th Apr 1934
188 performances
The Wise Woman
1934
The Maitlands
1934
Journey's End
1934
Fresh Fields
Opened - 5th Jan 1933
by Ivor Novello. Starring Lillian Braithwaite. 464 performances
Musical Chairs
Opened - 1st Apr 1932
Directed by Theodore Komisarjevsky. Starring John Gielgud, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper & Finlay Currie. 314 performances
Flat To Let
Opened - 1st Dec 1931
by Arthur Macrae. Starring Ann Todd, Reginald Gardiner, Lilian Braithwaite, Athole Stewart & Frank Allenby. 125 performances
After All
Opened - 2nd Feb 1931
262 performances
Those Naughty Nineties
1931
A Pair of Trousers
1931
Nine to Six
Opened - 23rd May 1930
Revival 136 performances
Milestones
Opened - 9th Apr 1930
The Far Off Hills
1930
Mulberry Bush
1930
General John Regan
1930
Make Up Your Mind
1930
Her Shop
1929
Art and Mrs Bottle
1929
Passing Brompton Road
Opened - 10th Jul 1928
174 performances
Skin Deep
1928
March Hares
1928
Out She Goes
1928
Quest
Opened - 20th Dec 1927
143 performances
The Happy Husband
Opened - 15th Jun 1927
109 performances
The Marquise
1927
When Blue Hills Laughed
1927
Cats Cradle
Opened - 8th Apr 1926
155 performances
The Scarlet Lady
1926
Mixed Doubles
Opened - 9th Jun 1925
102 performances
Hay Fever
1925
The Mask and the Face
Opened - 27th May 1924
Revival 232 performances
Fata Morgana
1924
Three Birds
Opened - 1st Nov 1923
Trust Emily
Opened - 10th Oct 1923
Jack Straw
1923
Advertising April
1923
by Herbert Farjeon and Horace Horsnell. Directed by Lewis Casson. Starring Sybil Thorndike, Frank Cellier, Elizabeth Pollock, Gwladys Gaynor, Lawrence Anderson & Ashton Pearse.
The Dippers
Opened - 22nd Aug 1922
173 performances
Ambrose Appljohn's Adventure
Opened - 19th Jul 1921
455 performances
Lord Richard in the Pantry
Opened - 11st Nov 1919
576 performances
Our Mr Hepplewhite
Opened - 3rd Apr 1919
239 performances
You Never Know Y'Know
Opened - 20th Jul 1918
351 performances
A Little Bit of Fluff
Opened - 27th Oct 1915
by Walter W Eillis. Starring Ernest Thesiger, Marjorie Maxwell, George Desmond, Ruby Miller, Stanley Lethbury, Alfred Drayton, Violet Gould, Lilian Talbot. 1241 performances
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Opened - 23rd Feb 1914
122 performances
The Blue Mouse
1914
Oh! I Say
Opened - 28th May 1913
by Sydney Blow & Douglas Hoare. Starring James Welch, Marguerite Scialtiel, Sybil de Bray. 288 performances
Eliza Comes to Stay
Opened - 2nd Feb 1913
132 performances
Ann
Opened - 18th Jun 1912
116 performances
98.9
Opened - 27th Feb 1912
The New Sin
1912
Man and Superman
Opened - 22nd Sep 1911
by George Bernard Shaw. Starring Pauline Chase. Revival. 191 performances
Baby Mine
Opened - 22nd Feb 1911
345 performances
When Knights Were Bold
Opened - 17th Jan 1910
148 performances
Don
Opened - 29th Nov 1909
Mr Preedy and the Countess
Opened - 13rd Apr 1909
The Mollusc
Opened - 15th Oct 1907
324 performances
The Liars
Opened - 13rd Apr 1907
by Henry Arthur Jones. Revival. 100 performances
The Amateur Socialist
Opened - 4th Nov 1906
108 performances
The Prince Chap
Opened - 16th Jul 1906
The Little Stranger
Opened - 14th Feb 1906
The White Chrysanthemum
Opened - 31st Aug 1905
156 performances
What Pamela Wanted
1905
The Freedom of Suzanne
Opened - 15th Nov 1904
156 performances
The Duke of Killicrankie
Opened - 20th Jan 1904
328 performances
Billy's Little Love Affair
Opened - 15th Sep 1903
Starring Eva Moore, Charlotte Granville, Allan Aynesworth, Sam Sothern, Mark Kinghorne, Charles Groves, Florence St. John.
Caste
Opened - 23rd May 1903
Revival
The Alter of Friendship
Opened - 24th Mar 1903
Paul Arthur Season
A Clean Slate
Opened - 10th Feb 1903
A Country Mouse
Opened - 13rd Aug 1902
John Hare Season. Starring Gerald du Maurier, JD Beveridge, Miss Vane Featherston, Miss Granville, Annie Hughes.