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Theatre Royal Haymarket

Food and Drink The Theatre Royal Haymarket offers a choice of 5 bars and a full range of confectionery. Bars open 30 minutes prior to each performance. “To make your evening exceptional try the Oscar Wilde Room, with a private entrance to the most sumptuous theatre in the West End, you can access our beautifully restored Oscar Wilde Room 45 minutes prior to the start of the performance. There is a free open bar where a selection of drinks, including champagne, are served by your attendant, along with a selection of gourmet sandwiches.
Disabled Access Guide dogs are allowed in box. Staff will dog-sit. Accessible to a wheelchair user with assistance. Disabled Access. Induction Loop or Infra-red sound amplification.
Parking Near to Theatre MasterPark Whitcomb Street, NCP Denman Street and Leicester Place are the closest public car parks to The Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
Underground - Tube London Bus Routes: 14, 19, 22, 24, 29, 38, 40, 176.
Rail London Charing Cross
Bus Route Charing Cross and Piccadilly Circus
Theatre History 1720 - Built by John Potter, a carpenter, on the site of the King's Head and the Gun Smith shop.
1729 - Hurlothrumbo ran 30 nights. The theatre's first major success
1730’s During the 1730's Henry Fielding produced a number of satires attacking both political parties and the Royal Family which so incensed the government of the day that censorship of plays by the Lord Chamberlain was introduced in 1737 - the act was not repealed until September 1968.
1737 - Under George II the Licensing Act came into effect, British citizens flooded the theatre to voice their grievance causing the riot act to be enforced by the British Grenadiers and the subsequent closure of the theatre.
1794 - Twenty people died and many were injured when a vast crowd pushed to see His Majesty who was attending an evening performance.
1820/21 - The old Playhouse was closed and a new theatre was erected a little to the south, gaining a vista from St. James Square. Designed by Court Architect John Nash during the remodelling of Regents Park and Regent Street.
1853 - John Baldwin Buckstone becomes the new light of the Theatre Royal with 200 successful productions. His life was the theatre and he is still a resident haunting staff to this day.
1862 - 400 nights of Our American Cousin with Edward Southern as Lord Dundreary, adds a new word, 'dreary' to the dictionary. John Buckstone clears over 30,000 pounds profit.
18 Suffolk Street, Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4HT
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