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Encyclopedia > Ambassadors Theatre
The Ambassadors Theatre in April 2007

The Ambassadors Theatre (formerly the New Ambassadors Theatre), is a West End theatre located in West Street, near Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 2. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... The last elevated portion of the West Side Highway by Trump Place apartment complex The West Side Highway (officially the Joe DiMaggio Highway, formerly the Miller Highway) is a mostly-surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) that runs from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River... Charing Cross Road, London, looking North from its junction with Long Acre. ... The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status, situated to the west of the City of London and north of the River Thames. ...


The theatre was, along with the adjacent St Martin's conceived by their architect, W.G.R. Sprague, as companions, born at the same time in 1913, but World War I interrupted the construction of the latter for three years. The Ambassadors was built with the intention of being an intimate, smaller theatre and is situated opposite the renowned restaurant The Ivy, favourite haunt of the theatrical elite. St. ... Aldwych Theatre W.G.R. Sprague (born 1863 in Australia; died 1933 in Maidenhead) was a theatre designer in the grand age. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Mas-tu vu ? Official website Caprice Holdings website More information and customer reviews of The Ivy Categories: | | | ...


In 1996, the venue was bought out by the Ambassador Theatre Group, the largest operator of theatres in the West End, who renamed the venue, the New Ambassadors, and proclaimed it as a venue for brand new niche works and plays. That brief did not last very long, with the theatre quickly reverting back to commercial West End usage, despite its exterior makeover of purple and green neon. Whpq 19:12, 15 May 2006 (UTC) Categories: ...


Recent productions have included Sweeney Todd (directed by John Doyle and transferred from the Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Ying Tong - A Walk With The Goons, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Telstar - The Joe Meek Story and Journey's End. The theatre recently played host to a the English Touring Theatre's production of Hamlet starring Ed Stoppard and Anita Dobson and On the Third Day, the winner of the Channel 4 series The Play's the Thing. Sweeney Todd is a fictional villain/antihero. ... Someone Wholl Watch Over Me, is a theatrical production by Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. ... Hamlet and Horatio in the cemetery by Eugène Delacroix For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... Edmund Stoppard (born on September 1974), credited as Ed Stoppard is an English actor, son of Tom Stoppard by his second marriage. ... Anita Dobson (born April 29, 1949 in Stepney, London) is an English television actress. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ...


The theatre is currently home to the Bush Theatre's production of Whipping it Up, starring Richard Wilson and Robert Bathurst, following a successful run of Love Song, from September 2006 till February 2007. Richard Wilson OBE (born July 9, 1936) is a Scottish actor and theatre director, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC situation comedy One Foot in the Grave. ... Robert Bathurst as Mark in one of the fantasy stand-up sequences in Joking Apart Robert Bathurst (born 1958, Ghana) is a British actor. ...


On Wednesday, 4 April 2007, it was announced that ATG had sold the venue to Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen, who has with immediate effect renamed the venue The Ambassadors as it once was. He plans to refurbish the exterior of the theatre after Whipping it Up finishes its run in June. There is also speculation that he may move his production of The Mousetrap, the longest running show in the world, back to its original home at the theatre and out of the St Martin's Theatre next door, which he also owns.


The theatre was Grade II listed by English Heritage in March 1973[1]. Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ... English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ...


References

  1. ^ English Heritage listing details accessed 28 Apr 2007

External links

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Ambassador Theatre (480 words)
The Ambassador Theatre is located on the north side of 49th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue.
The Ambassador Theatre opened in 1921 and has retained its name since that time, though records seem to indicate that for a very brief period following a 1980 renovation it was called the "New Ambassador Theatre".
With approximately 1,100 seats, the Ambassador is a flexible space, adaptable for both plays and musicals.
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The Shuberts built the Ambassador Theatre in 1921, one of four theatres they constructed on 48th and 49th Streets as part of their post-World War I rapid expansion.
From 1936 through 1945, the theatre served primarily as a venue for radio broadcasts and motion-picture exhibition.
The plot of land for the Ambassador required that the auditorium be placed diagonally on its relatively small lot.
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