The Gielgud theatre opened on December 27, 1906 as a tribute to Hicks theater director, actor and playwright Seymour Hicks, who had built. Designed W.G.R. Sprague in the style of Louis XVI, the theater was originally 970 seats, but with the passage of years removed boxes and other seats. The theater is the theater with the Queen's husband, which opened in 1907 on the corner of the adjacent street.
The first play in musical theater and called beauty a bath of Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton. My darling, Hicks last musical, and then in 1907, followed by a successful London production of the Strauss operetta, waltz dream in 1908. Amazing event occurred in the middle of the road running through the work of the main stage next, and to accelerate the Duke of Little (1909), which was produced by Hicks. Hicks played a wife, Ellaline Terriss, the title role (a woman playing a man). Hicks stepped up and when it missed several performances because of illness, in the role - perhaps the only case in the history of musical theater, where her husband worked in the role of his wife.
In 1909, changed its name to the House Globe Theatre. Was demolished last "Globe Theatre", located on Newcastle Street, in 1902 to make way for the Aldwych, and so the name became available. Ran a number of significant production in the Shaftesbury Theatre this way and are listed below. Opened today is called by Dodi Smith in 1935 and lasted for 509 performances, which was considered a great success for the years between the two slow.
Terence Frisby and there is a girl in the soup of my country, and opened in 1966, ran for 1064 performances in the theater, a record not exceeded until the production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's award-winning Olivier Comedy Daisy pulls it off by Densie Dejan opened in April 1983 to run for a performance in 1180 , in the longer term the theater. In 1987 Peter Shaffer play Lettice and Lovage hit with Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack, run for 2 years. The number of theater for the first time Alan Ayckbourn, including a 1990 to this moment. Recently, there has been comedy classic Oscar Wilde, a perfect pair (1992) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2004) remarkable revivals.
Was renovated in 1987, with extensive work on the gold leaf in the hall, and theater is marked in particular for the beautiful circular Regency staircase, oval gallery and tower.
In 1994, in anticipation of the opening 1997 to rebuild Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in the West South Sam Wanamaker, has changed its name to the theater in honor of British actor John Gielgud. In 2003, Sir Cameron Mackintosh announced plans to renew the Gielgud, including the common entrance foyer, with the Queen's Theatre nearby, facing to the Shaftesbury Avenue. Mackintosh took in Delfont Mackintosh Theatres operational control of the Gielgud Theatre from Andrew Lloyd Webber will be really useful in 2006.
During the past 10 years, and found note included the 2004 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"; 2005 in "Some Girls," which starred noted actors David Schwimmer and Tate Catherine; 2006 in the regional service center in the "Canterbury Tales"; 2007 " Macbeth "and" Equus, "and 2008" God of Carnage. " Will "enjoy", by Alan Bennett and starring Alison Steadman, beginning in 2009.
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