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Gielgud Theatre
Shaftesbury Ave
London, W1
Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Box Office: 020 7494 5065
Capacity : 889
Air Conditioned
Disabled Access
Infra-red or loop sound amplification

Designed by W.G.R.Sprague in 1906.Originally called the Hicks Theatre then The Globe in 1909 and in 1995 changed to the Gielgud. The Gielgud Theatre, named after British actor John Gielgud, is a West End theatre in London's Shaftesbury Avenue at the corner of Rupert Street.

Designed by W. G. R. Sprague with the Queen's as its companion theatre, it was opened in 1906 as the Hicks Theatre in honour of actor, manager and playwright Seymour Hicks. In 1909 it was renamed Globe Theatre.

In 1995, prior to the opening of Sam Wanamaker's new Globe Theatre on the South Bank in 1997, it was renamed Gielgud Theatre.

Memorable productions
1907: Brewster's Millions by Winchell Smith & Byron Ongley
1908: A Waltz Dream, an operetta by Oscar Straus
1916: Peg O' My Heart by John Hartley Manners
1925: Fallen Angels by Noël Coward, starring Tallulah Bankhead
1931: The Improper Duchess by James B. Fagan, starring Yvonne Arnaud
1939: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, with John Gielgud starring as well as directing
1942: The Petrified Forest by Robert Sherwood
1949: The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry, with Richard Burton in a supporting role
1959: The Complaisant Lover by Graham Greene, starring Ralph Richardson
1960: A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt, starring Paul Scofield
1966: There's a Girl In My Soup by Terence Frisby
1976: a season of Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage
1982: Design for Living by Noël Coward, starring Vanessa Redgrave
1990: Man of the Moment by Alan Ayckbourn
1995: Design for Living, starring Rachel Weisz
2004: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, starring Christian Slater
2005: Don Carlos, starring Derek Jacobi
2005: Some Girls, starring David Schwimmer
2005: And Then There Were None, starring Tara Fitzgerald
2006: The Crucible, starring Iain Glen