Apollo Theatre
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- This article is about the London theatre. For the theatre in Harlem, New York City, see Apollo Theater. For the concert venue in Manchester, see Carling Apollo Manchester. For the theatre in Chicago, Illinois see Apollo Theater Chicago.
The Apollo Theatre is a West End theatre, designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield and is located on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. The fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, it opened on February 21, 1901 with an American musical comedy entitled The Belle of Bohemia.
The first London theatre of the Edwardian period, it was renovated in 1932.
Productions at the theatre include the first performances of Edward German's Tom Jones in 1907, Whispering Wires in 1927 with Henry Daniell as Barry McGill, R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End (1928, with Laurence Olivier), I'm Not Rappaport (1986), Driving Miss Daisy (1988, with Wendy Hiller), Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989, with Peter O'Toole), Terrence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea (1993), Side Man (2000), the female version of The Odd Couple (2001), Arthur Miller's The Price (2003), Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2006), and Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (2006, with Rosamund Pike) and The Glass Menagerie (2007,with Jessica Lange).
[edit] References
- Who's Who in the Theatre, edited by John Parker, tenth edition, revised, London, 1947, pps: 477-478.
