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 Seating Plan: |
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 Tube Station: |
Piccadilly Circus |
 Parking: |
Parking at NCP Whitcomb Street. Street parking is very limited - we strongly advise the use of public transport. |
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| Total Seats: | 796 |
| No of Bars: | 0 |
| No of Food Point: | 0 |
| No of Parking Spaces: | 0 |
 Guide Dogs: |
Guide dogs are not allowed into the auditorium but staff are able to look after 2 dogs per performance in the theatre’s office. |
 Infra-Red: |
Infra-red system with 6 headsets. Headsets available from the Duty Manager. You will be asked to leave a credit card or a £10 deposit. Portable loop available in Box Office. |
 Disabled Access: |
Entrance through a side EXIT door on Oxendon Street, up a temporary ramp placed over a step (approx. 8cm high). This leads to the foyer and the back row of the Dress Circle. 1 space for a wheelchair user at E17 - companions can be seated next to this space. The width is approx. 1m 10. The maximum depth is 92cm (distance between back wall and next row). Transfer seating is available at the rear of the Dress Circle. Please contact the Box Office for further information. The theatre can store 4 wheelchairs per performance (stored by the stairs next to the Stalls). Each wheelchair user must bring a companion. |
 Toilets: |
There is no adapted toilet. It may be possible to use the toilet on the left hand side of the Dress Circle, down 6 steps and through 2 doorways, approx. 64cm wide. Men’s and women’s toilets are available on the Stalls, Royal Circle and Balcony levels. Please note, the men’s toilet on the Royal Circle level is only accessible via 13 steps up from the Royal Circle Bar. |
 Steps: |
2 steps up to double doors opening into the foyer. All stairs are highlighted and have handrails on both sides. No steps from the foyer to the back of the Dress Circle (2 steps between rows). 24 steps down from the foyer to the Stalls, 23 steps up from the foyer to the Royal Circle (with 2 steep steps between rows) and 50 steps up to the Balcony. |
 Air Conditioning: |
Yes |
 Owner: |
The Ambassador Theatre Group Limited |
The Royal Comedy Theatre, as it was then known, opened on 15 October 1881. The theatre's reputation grew through the First World War when C B Cochran and André Charlot presented their famous review shows.
The range of work at the Comedy Theatre has been far reaching, from musical comedies to revival and experimental theatre and includes hugely successful shows such as Savages starring Paul Scofield in 1973 and The Rocky Horror Show making its West End debut in 1979. Alan Bennett has appeared with Patricia Routledge in his Talking Heads and Stockard Channing appeared in Six Degrees of Separation, which won best play at the 1993 Olivier Awards. No history of the Comedy Theatre would be complete without reference to Harold Pinter. The Homecoming, No-man's Land, Moonlight, The Hothouse and The Caretaker have all been presented in recent years.
Maureen Lipman has also graced the Comedy stage starring in Alan Plater's highly acclaimed comedy, Peggy For You, but The Comedy's two biggest successes must be The Caretaker starring Michael Gambon in 2000 and an eight week sell out of Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs in 1999, starring Ewan McGregor and directed by Denis Lawson, which smashed all box office records.
More recently, Francesca Annis and Anthony Andrews have starred in Ibsen's Ghosts and 2004 saw the much lauded revival of RC Sherriff's Journey's End and a successful run of The Old Masters by Simon Gray, starring Edward Fox and Peter Bowles. This production was directed by Harold Pinter. In January 2005, Kim Cattrall starred in Peter Hall's production of Whose Life Is It Anyway? by Brian Clark, followed by Tom Courtenay in Brian Friel's The Home Place and Joseph Fiennes and Francesca Annis starred in Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton.
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Whilst every effort is made to ensure that the information on these pages is correct, we cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Ticket prices and Show details correct at time of publication, however if you are in any doubt about any of the information on this site, please do not hesitate to contact the Box Office for further assistance.
