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Encyclopedia > Apollo Theatre
Apollo Theatre
Mamet's A Life in the Theatre starring Joshua Jackson in February 2005
Address
Shaftesbury Avenue
City
Westminster, London
Designation Grade II
Architect Lewin Sharp
Owned by Nimax Theatres
Capacity 796, on 4 levels
Type West End theatre
Opened 21 February 1901
Production Glengarry Glen Ross
Apollo Theatre
Coordinates: 51°30′41″N 0°08′00″W / 51.511472, -0.133417

The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed[1] West End theatre, designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield and is located on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. The fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, it opened on February 21, 1901 with an American musical comedy entitled The Belle of Bohemia. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 1026 KB)The Apollo Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England in February 2005. ... David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. ... Joshua Carter Jackson (born June 11, 1978) is a Canadian actor. ... February 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → Pope John Paul II is taken to a hospital suffering from a serious case of influenza. ... Shaftesbury Avenue is a major London street, named after Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, that runs in a north-easterly direction from Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, crossing Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus. ... The City of Westminster is a borough of London, England with city status. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Forth Bridge, designed by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler, opened in 1890, and now owned by Network Rail, is designated as a Category A listed building by Historic Scotland. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, 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 commercial theatre... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... The Forth Bridge, designed by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler, opened in 1890, and now owned by Network Rail, is designated as a Category A listed building by Historic Scotland. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, 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 commercial theatre... For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ... Shaftesbury Avenue is a major London street, named after Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, that runs in a north-easterly direction from Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, crossing Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus. ... The City of Westminster is a borough of London, England with city status. ... is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...


The first London theatre of the Edwardian period, it was renovated, by Schaufelberg, in 1932 and a private foyer and ante room installed to the Royal Box. The sculpted work on the stone fascia is by T.Simpson, the building is of plain brick to the neighbouring streets. The theatre has a first floor central loggia. Inside there is a three galleried auditorium with elaborate plasterwork[1]. The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It succeeded the Victorian period and is sometimes extended to include the period up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Productions at the theatre include the first performances of Edward German's Tom Jones in 1907, Whispering Wires in 1927 with Henry Daniell as Barry McGill, R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End (1928, with Laurence Olivier), I'm Not Rappaport (1986), Driving Miss Daisy (1988, with Wendy Hiller), Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989, with Peter O'Toole), Terrence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea (1993), Side Man (2000), the female version of The Odd Couple (2001), Arthur Miller's The Price (2003), Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2006), and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (2006, with Rosamund Pike), The Glass Menagerie (2007,with Jessica Lange) and The Last Five Years (2007). Sir Edward German (17 February 1862 - 11 November 1936) was a musician and composer. ... Tom Jones is a comic opera in three acts by Edward German founded upon the Henry Fieldings novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling with a libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander M. Thompson and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A publicity shot of Henry Daniell in the 1940s Henry Daniell (March 5, 1894, London – October 31, 1963) was an British actor, best known for his villainous screen roles, but who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. ... Robert Cedric Sherriff (6 June 1896 – 13 November 1975) was an English writer. ... For other uses see Journeys End (disambiguation) A Penguin edition of R.C. Sherriffs Journeys End Journeys End is the seventh and most famous play by R. C. Sherriff. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, (IPA: ; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Im Not Rappaport is a movie about two old men on a bench experiencing everyday life in central park and the challenges that senior life brings, avoiding their worriful children, and staying out of a rest home. ... Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry adapted into a 1989 Warner Bros. ... Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (August 15, 1912 – May 14, 2003) was a distinguished English film and stage actress. ... Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell is a play by Keith Waterhouse about the title characters life at a public house: The_Coach_and_Horses,_Greek_Street,_Soho,_London. ... Peter Seamus OToole (born August 2, 1932, uncertain but presumed correct date[1]) is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor. ... Terence Mervyn Rattigan (June 10, 1911-November 30, 1977) was one of Britains most important dramatists. ... The Deep Blue Sea (1952) is a play by Terence Rattigan. ... Side Man is a play by Warren Leight. ... Walter Matthau and Art Carney in the 1965 Broadway production The Odd Couple was a hit 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spinoffs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. ... Arthur Bob Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. ... The Price aired as episode #156 in the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation first broadcast on November 13, 1989. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. ... Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... Summer and Smoke is a play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a lonely, unmarried ministers daughter who is courted by a former love, a wild, undisciplined doctor. ... Pike is the only child of Caroline and Julian Pike, both musical performers. ... The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. ... Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ... The Last Five Years is a one act musical written by Jason Robert Brown. ...


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