Theatres - Gielgud Theatre

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Yes, Prime Minister ( Gielgud Theatre ) - Play

The original writers of the BBC series, Antony Jay & Jonathan Lynn, have reunited for this 30th anniversary production starring Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey Appleby and David Haig as Jim Hacker.Following a sell-out season at Chichester Festival Theatre, this critically-acclaimed production opens this September for a strictly limited season at London's Gielgud Theatre.Heading the coalition government, the PM is staring disaster in the face. The country is on the brink of financial meltdown There is just one grain of hope - a morally dubious deal with the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan. But great institutions have a way of riding punches and bouncing back unscathed - will it prove so for Jim Hacker and his team of close advisors? Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby are back and in truly vintage form.

Hair ( Gielgud Theatre ) - Musical

Welcome to the curly, shaggy, gleaming, streaming, wonderful world of HAIR. For the first time in West End history, an entire original Broadway cast transfers to the London stage! Don't miss this Tony Award winning company currently wowing audiences and critics alike in New York. A celebration of life, love and freedom, and a passionate cry for hope and change, HAIR features some of the greatest songs ever written for the stage, including 'Let The Sun Shine In', 'I Got Life', 'Hair' and 'Aquarius'. Parental Guidance Advised: Contains full nudity, strong language and adult themes. Strobe lighting is also used.

Gielgud Theatre

Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1D 6BA

Nearest Tube: Leicester Square
Nearest Bus Stop: 14, 19, 38

This theatre, which is designed in Louis XVI style, is a pair with the Queen's Theatre on the adjacent street corner. Originally called The Hicks Theatre, after actor-manager Seymour Hicks for whom it was built, the name was changed to The Globe in July 1909, and then in November 1994 the name was changed to The Gielgud in honour of the actor, aswell as to avoid confusion with the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The Gielgud Theatre, now refurbished in 1987, is notable for it's circular Regency staircase and oval gallery.

Terence Frisby's "There's A Girl in my Soup" opened here in 1966 and had a long run of 1,064 performances, a run that was not surpassed until Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of the comedy "Daisy Pulls it Off" opened in April 1983 and lasted 1,180 performances, this theatre's record for the longest run. In 1987 Peter Shaffer's sucessful play "Lettice and Lovage" opened, with Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack in the original cast, and run for 2 years. In 1992 a revival of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, "An Ideal Husband", directed by Peter Hall opened here and enjoyed a successful run of 7 months, this production was then restaged in 1996 at the Haymarket Theatre, before it transferred to Broadway.