FOOD AND DRINK
The Aldwych Dress Circle bar opens 1 hour before each performance, the Stalls bars & Upper Circle bar open 30 minutes before each performance.
Coffee and confectionary available in the Rear Stalls & Dress Circle Bars. A Champagne & Wine Bar is situated to the right of the Front Stalls.

THEATRE INFORMATION FOR THE DISABLED
Seats are available in the third row of the Dress Circle for wheelchair users. Wheelchair users must have an able bodied escort. Access to the theatre is from Drury Lane. The theatre has a separate disabled person's lavatory. The theatre now has a loop system.

PARKING
NCP Parker Street/Drury Lane. Parking meters outside the Aldwych Theatre.

 UNDERGROUND/TUBE
Temple/Covent Garden/Holborn are the closest to The Aldwych Theatre.

RAIL
Charing Cross Railway Station is closet to The Aldwych Theatre.

 BUSES  
Bus Routes: 1, 4, 11, 13, 15, 68, 98 for The Aldwych Theatre

THEATRE HISTORY
When the area between Wellington Street, Strand and Fleet Street was reconstructed in the last years of the nineteenth century, much of London's old theatre land was wiped out. The new streets of Aldwych and Kingsway were constructed, with plans being drawn up for the building of two theatres with identical facades along the Aldwych. There was to be one on the corner of Catherine Street, and the other on the corner of Drury Lane. Between the two theatres there was to be a magnificent hotel, The Waldorf.

The Waldorf Theatre, now The Strand, opened in May 1905 and the Aldwych Theatre was completed shortly afterwards in December 1905.. It was built by Seymour Hicks in association with American impresario Charles Frohman, to a design by W.G.R. Sprague with a seating capacity of 1,092. This has been increased to 1200.