Trafalgar Studios
Trafalgar Studios is a West End theater in Whitehall in the City of Westminster in London. The theater is also called Whitehall Theatre, in honor of his former name. The theater consists of two chamber games that were designed by architects Tim Foster and John Muir.
Studio 1, the larger of the two rooms, has 380 seats. It was opened by the Royal Shakespeare Company on 3 June 2004 with Shakespeare's Othello. Studio 2, with 100 seats, opened on 3 February 2005 with Losing Louis by Simon Mendes da Costa.
History
The original Whitehall Theatre was designed in the Art Deco style by Edward A. Stone and opened on 29 September 1930 with the play The Way to Treat a Woman of the theater tenant Walter Hackett. In November 1933, Henry Daniell appeared as Portman on in Afterwards. Hackett led to various original pieces before he left the theater in 1934. The theater built until the end of the 1930s on a reputation as a center for modern comedies.
During the Second World War they played revues, the daily entertainment in the West End were with time. 1942 Phyllis Dixey played with in the play The Whitehall Follies, the first stripper in the theater district. He was received enthusiastically and immediately had success. Dixey leased the theater and led it for the next five years. Thereafter, a series of farces, which were presented under the general title The Whitehall Farces played. All were produced by Lord Brian Rix and were resident for over 22 years in the Whitehall Theatre. Many farces were also performed on television.
1969, Aktrevue was recorded with the name pajama tops and listed five years. After the building was provided with shutters and subjected to considerable modernization, which retained most of the Art Deco elements. The theater was on March 5, 1986, with a successful revival of JB Priestley's When We Are Married, reopened.
Post production included pieces such as When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Foreigner, Run For Your Wife, Absurd Person Singular, Travels with My Aunt, Tribute to Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, the Blues Brothers and solo performances by Ennio Marchetto and Maria Friedman.
Between 1997 and 1999 the theater was converted into a television and radio studio to send from there, mainly the popular talk show by Jack Docherty and the radio show Live from London BBC Radio 4. Then it moved back to theater use with productions such as The Three Sisters, Puppetry of the Penis, type, Rat Pack Confidential, and Sing-a- Long -a- ABBA. The Ambassador Theatre Group announced afterwards to change the theater and rename it. The new name was Trafalgar Studios.
Productions of the Trafalgar Studios were Sweeney Todd, Alan Bennett's The Old Country, an adaptation of Jane Eyre and Bent.
The theater was classified by English Heritage as a Grade II building in December 1996.