Oliver!
Gielgud Theatre
ab £25
Venue
Shaftesbury Ave, W1D 6AR
Das Gielgud Theatre ist ein Londoner Theater, das auf British Theatre vorgestellt wird. Entdecken Sie kommende Produktionen, praktische Hinweise zum Veranstaltungsort und Tipps zur Ticketbuchung vor Ihrem Besuch. Das Gielgud Theatre, ursprünglich das Hicks Theatre genannt, wurde am 27. Dezember 1906 eröffnet. Die ersten beiden Produktionen, die Musicals The Beauty of Bath und My Darling, wurden beide von Seymour Hicks geschrieben, nach dem das Theater benannt wurde. Als die Frau von Hicks wegen Krankheit mehrere Aufführungen von The Dashing Little Duke (1909) verpasste, übernahm er persönlich die Rolle. Im selben Jahr wurde Charles Frohman Alleinmanager des Theaters und benannte es schnell in Globe Theatre um. Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchills Mutter) schrieb die Wiedereröffnungsvorstellung His Borrowed Plumes. In den nächsten zwei Jahrzehnten feierte das Theater Erfolge mit Produktionen wie Fallen Angels im Jahr 1925, Call It a Day im Jahr 1935 (mit 509 Aufführungen) und John Gielguds Inszenierung von The Importance of Being Earnest im Jahr 1938, in der Gielgud sowohl die Hauptrolle spielte als auch Regie führte. Gielguds nächste Produktion, Christopher Frys The Lady's Not for Burning, feierte 1949 eine erfolgreiche Premiere, und dieser Erfolg wurde in den folgenden Jahrzehnten mit A Man For All Seasons (1960, ebenfalls dessen Bühnenpremiere), There’s a Girl in My Soup (1966, lief für 1.064 Vorstellungen) und Daisy Pulls it Off (1983, 1.180 Vorstellungen, der längste Lauf des Theaters) fortgesetzt. Mit der Eröffnung des Shakespeare’s Globe am South Bank wurde das Theater 1994 zu Ehren des Beitrags des Schauspielers und um Verwechslungen mit zwei ähnlichen Namen zu vermeiden, in Gielgud Theatre umbenannt. Zwischen 2007 und 2008 fand eine umfassende Renovierung statt. Blithe Spirit (2014)Strangers On A Train (2014)Private Lives, The Audience, Strangers on a Train (2013)Chariots of Fire (2012)The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Lend Me a Tenor, The Ladykillers (2011)Hair, Yes Prime Minister (2010)Enjoy, Avenue Q (2009)Gilbert-und-Sullivan-Saison, God of Carnage, Six Characters in Search of an Author (2008)Equus, Macbeth, Nicholas Nickleby (2007)The Crucible, The Canterbury Tales, Frost/Nixon (2006)Don Carlos, Some Girls, And Then There Were None (2005)All’s Well That Ends Well, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2004)Tell Me on a Sunday (2003) NCP Wardour Street, NCP Newport Place, NCP Denman Street, NCP Lexington Street. Chinatown, Soho (Q Park Schema) Rollstuhlgerechter Eingang und Sitzplätze verfügbar UNTERSTÜTZTE VORSTELLUNGEN:Gibt es Einrichtungen für Schwerhörige? Im gesamten Auditorium gibt es ein Infrarotsystem mit herkömmlichen Headsets. Sind Blindenführhunde und/oder Assistenzhunde erlaubt? Assistenzhunde sind im Auditorium erlaubt. Das Personal kann auch auf die Hunde aufpassen. Bitte kontaktieren Sie das Theater direkt für weitere Informationen. Cameron Mackintoshs spektakuläre neue Inszenierung des beliebten Musicals von Lionel Bart kehrt ins West End im Gielgud Theatre zurück, inszeniert und choreografiert von Matthew Bourne. Sichern Sie sich Karten für Oliver!, die Show, die von Kritikern als 'triumphal' und 'unverzichtbar' bezeichnet wird. Seien Sie die Ersten, die sich die besten Tickets, exklusive Angebote und die neuesten Nachrichten aus dem West End sichern. Sie können sich jederzeit abmelden. Datenschutzrichtlinie
Photos via Google. Attributions: Jacques Poudrier, Vasiliki Menegatou, Kenny Chau, Mario Yanyov
Capacity
Just under 1,000 (three levels)
Current attached shows
1
Google rating
4.7 ★ (4.6k)
Das Gielgud Theatre ist ein Londoner Theater, das auf British Theatre vorgestellt wird. Entdecken Sie kommende Produktionen, praktische Hinweise zum Veranstaltungsort und Tipps zur Ticketbuchung vor Ihrem Besuch.
Das Gielgud Theatre, ursprünglich das Hicks Theatre genannt, wurde am 27. Dezember 1906 eröffnet. Die ersten beiden Produktionen, die Musicals The Beauty of Bath und My Darling, wurden beide von Seymour Hicks geschrieben, nach dem das Theater benannt wurde. Als die Frau von Hicks wegen Krankheit mehrere Aufführungen von The Dashing Little Duke (1909) verpasste, übernahm er persönlich die Rolle. Im selben Jahr wurde Charles Frohman Alleinmanager des Theaters und benannte es schnell in Globe Theatre um. Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchills Mutter) schrieb die Wiedereröffnungsvorstellung His Borrowed Plumes. In den nächsten zwei Jahrzehnten feierte das Theater Erfolge mit Produktionen wie Fallen Angels im Jahr 1925, Call It a Day im Jahr 1935 (mit 509 Aufführungen) und John Gielguds Inszenierung von The Importance of Being Earnest im Jahr 1938, in der Gielgud sowohl die Hauptrolle spielte als auch Regie führte. Gielguds nächste Produktion, Christopher Frys The Lady's Not for Burning, feierte 1949 eine erfolgreiche Premiere, und dieser Erfolg wurde in den folgenden Jahrzehnten mit A Man For All Seasons (1960, ebenfalls dessen Bühnenpremiere), There’s a Girl in My Soup (1966, lief für 1.064 Vorstellungen) und Daisy Pulls it Off (1983, 1.180 Vorstellungen, der längste Lauf des Theaters) fortgesetzt. Mit der Eröffnung des Shakespeare’s Globe am South Bank wurde das Theater 1994 zu Ehren des Beitrags des Schauspielers und um Verwechslungen mit zwei ähnlichen Namen zu vermeiden, in Gielgud Theatre umbenannt. Zwischen 2007 und 2008 fand eine umfassende Renovierung statt.
Blithe Spirit (2014)Strangers On A Train (2014)Private Lives, The Audience, Strangers on a Train (2013)Chariots of Fire (2012)The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Lend Me a Tenor, The Ladykillers (2011)Hair, Yes Prime Minister (2010)Enjoy, Avenue Q (2009)Gilbert-und-Sullivan-Saison, God of Carnage, Six Characters in Search of an Author (2008)Equus, Macbeth, Nicholas Nickleby (2007)The Crucible, The Canterbury Tales, Frost/Nixon (2006)Don Carlos, Some Girls, And Then There Were None (2005)All’s Well That Ends Well, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2004)Tell Me on a Sunday (2003)
NCP Wardour Street, NCP Newport Place, NCP Denman Street, NCP Lexington Street. Chinatown, Soho (Q Park Schema)
Rollstuhlgerechter Eingang und Sitzplätze verfügbar
UNTERSTÜTZTE VORSTELLUNGEN:Gibt es Einrichtungen für Schwerhörige?
Im gesamten Auditorium gibt es ein Infrarotsystem mit herkömmlichen Headsets.
Sind Blindenführhunde und/oder Assistenzhunde erlaubt?
Assistenzhunde sind im Auditorium erlaubt. Das Personal kann auch auf die Hunde aufpassen.
Bitte kontaktieren Sie das Theater direkt für weitere Informationen.
Cameron Mackintoshs spektakuläre neue Inszenierung des beliebten Musicals von Lionel Bart kehrt ins West End im Gielgud Theatre zurück, inszeniert und choreografiert von Matthew Bourne. Sichern Sie sich Karten für Oliver!, die Show, die von Kritikern als 'triumphal' und 'unverzichtbar' bezeichnet wird.
Seien Sie die Ersten, die sich die besten Tickets, exklusive Angebote und die neuesten Nachrichten aus dem West End sichern.
Sie können sich jederzeit abmelden. Datenschutzrichtlinie
The Gielgud Theatre, originally called the Hicks Theatre, opened on 27 December 1906. It’s first two productions, the musicals The Beauty of Bath and My Darling, were both written by Seymour Hicks, who the theatre was named after. When Hick’s wife missed several performances of The Dashing Little Duke (1909) due to illness, he stepped into the role personally.
In that same year, Charles Frohman became sole manager of theatre and quickly renamed it the Globe Theatre. Lady Randolph Churchill (Winston Churchill’s mother) wrote the reopening production, His Borrowed Plumes. The next two decades were peppered with successful productions such as Fallen Angels in 1925, Call It a Day in 1935 (which ran for 509 performances), and John Gielgud’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest in 1938 (in which Gielgud both starred and directed).
Gielgud’s next production, Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not for Burning, has a successful premiere in 1949, and that success was followed up in the next decades with A Man For All Seasons (1960, also its stage premiere), There’s a Girl in My Soup (1966, ran for 1,064) and Daisy Pulls it Off (1983, 1,180 performance, the theatre’s longest run).
With the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe on the South Bank, the theatre was renamed the Gielgud Theatre in 1994, both in honor of the actor’s contribution, and to avoid public confusion over two similar venue titles. An extensive refurbishment took place between 2007-8.
Blithe Spirit (2014)
Strangers On A Train (2014)
Private Lives, The Audience, Strangers on a Train (2013)
Chariots of Fire (2012)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Lend Me a Tenor, The Ladykillers (2011)
Hair, Yes Prime Minister (2010)
Enjoy, Avenue Q (2009)
Gilbert and Sullivan Season, God of Carnage, Six Characters in Search of an Author (2008)
Equus, Macbeth, Nicholas Nickleby (2007)
The Crucible, The Canterbury Tales, Frost/Nixon (2006)
Don Carlos, Some Girls, And Then There Were None (2005)
All’s Well That Ends Well, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2004)
Tell Me on a Sunday (2003)
Box office closed · opens 4:30pm
These are the box office (ticket desk) hours supplied by Google. The theatre itself opens around 45 minutes before curtain-up — always check your ticket for the performance start time. You can book online any time through British Theatre.
Tube
Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square
Train
Charing Cross
Bus
14, 19, 38
Parking
NCP Wardour Street, NCP Newport Place, NCP Denman Street, NCP Lexington Street. Chinatown, Soho (Q Park Scheme)
For the best all-round view at the Gielgud Theatre, aim for the centre of the Stalls, roughly the middle rows, where the rake and sightlines are strongest. If you want to be closer to the stage, the front and centre of the Stalls puts you right in the action, while the centre of the Dress Circle gives a cleaner elevated view of the whole stage. The theatre holds just under 1,000 across three levels: the Stalls, the Dress Circle and the Grand Circle.
| Level | Best for | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Stalls | Overall best views, close to the stage | Centre rows are the sweet spot. Front rows sit low against a raised stage, and the Dress Circle overhang clips the top of the stage from the rear rows. |
| Dress Circle | A clean, elevated head-on view from the centre | The curve of the circle means seats towards the ends of the front rows are angled and can be restricted. |
| Grand Circle | Best value, decent views from the front | You are higher and further back. A safety bar runs across the front and can clip the view from the first few rows, and seats at the far ends of rows are side-on to the stage. |
For Oliver!, the centre of the Stalls is hard to beat, giving you a full, level view of the ensemble numbers and the staging without craning. The centre of the Dress Circle is the strong alternative, lifting you just enough to take in the whole picture while staying close to the action.
The Dress Circle curves quite tightly, so seats towards the far ends of the front rows sit side-on to the stage and lose part of the view. In the rear of the Stalls, the Dress Circle overhang is low and can cut off the top of the stage. On the Grand Circle, a safety bar runs across the front and can clip the view from the first few rows, and seats at the far ends of the rows are angled side-on to the stage, so read a seat view before choosing them.
The Grand Circle is where the value sits. You are further from the stage and higher up, but the front rows of this level still give a solid view for noticeably less than the Stalls or Dress Circle. If you are not sure which level suits you, our West End seating guide explains how the levels compare. Compare live prices and seat availability across every section at Oliver!.

Wheelchair accessible entrance and seats available
Are there adapted toilets?
An adapted toilet is available in the foyer.
Are there facilities for the hard-of-hearing?
There is an infrared system working throughout the auditorium with conventional headsets.
Are guide dogs and/or hearing dogs permitted?
Access dogs are allowed inside the auditorium. Staff can also dog-sit.
Please contact the theatre directly for further information.
Fantastic. The theatre is absolutely beautiful, only small but perfect. We went to see Oliver which was incredible. The cast were absolutely amazing. What a superb production. This was our first visit to this particular theatre and it didn't disappoint. It's history is amazing and when you sit a look around, then think of all the wonderful people that have trod them boards it was an honour to sit and see the talent and dedication of the people on that stage. Going to the theatre gives an experience that nothing else gets close to. This performance will hook you for ever, so it's a must to visit.
The Gielgud Theatre looks great from the outside and even better on the inside. Pretty much all of the seating gives an adequately good view with most of it giving a great view because of its design. The stage was larger than normal which had to be to put on such a show as Oliver. The Acoustics from the orchestra was amazing. Plenty of bars and toilets to accommodate such a wide audience.
I went to see Oliver and this musical was amazing! The decor was incredible and they had their own orchestra ! The actors were really good even more the children actors ! I greatly recommend seeing this play if you go to london!
Fantastic Theatre. Warm welcome into a bright and historic theatre. Had a box with private room and butler... All very reasonable too all considered, money wise. Saw Oliver! Top show.
Reviews sourced from Google Maps.
The best seats are in the centre of the Stalls, around the middle rows, where the rake and sightlines give a full, level view of the stage. The centre of the Dress Circle is the strongest alternative if you prefer an elevated head-on view.
Seats towards the far ends of the front Dress Circle rows are angled and can be restricted by the curve of the circle. The rear of the Stalls sits under a low overhang that can clip the top of the stage. On the Grand Circle, a safety bar across the front can clip the view from the first few rows, and seats at the far ends of the rows are side-on to the stage.
The Gielgud Theatre seats just under 1,000 people, around 986 to 995 depending on the configuration. They are spread across three levels: the Stalls, the Dress Circle and the Grand Circle.
Wheelchair spaces are located in the Dress Circle, with companion seats alongside and a ramp providing level access to the front of that level. Accessing the Stalls and Grand Circle involves stairs, so the Dress Circle is the step-free option, and it is best to contact the box office in advance.
The Grand Circle offers the best value for Oliver!. You are higher up and further back, but the front rows of this level still give a solid view for noticeably less than the Stalls or Dress Circle.
The current production at Gielgud-Theater is Oliver!. Browse and book tickets directly through British Theatre.
The nearest tube station is Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square.
Gielgud-Theater is located at Shaftesbury Ave, W1D 6AR.
You can call Gielgud-Theater on 0344 482 5151. For tickets and bookings, please use British Theatre to secure the best seats.
The Gielgud-Theater box office (ticket desk) operates: Monday: 4:30 – 7:30 PM; Tuesday: 4:30 – 7:30 PM; Wednesday: 12:30 – 7:30 PM; Thursday: 4:30 – 7:30 PM; Friday: 4:30 – 7:30 PM; Saturday: 12:30 – 7:30 PM; Sunday: Closed. Right now the box office is closed · opens 4:30pm. The theatre itself opens around 45 minutes before curtain-up — and you can book online any time through British Theatre.
Gielgud-Theater offers wheelchair-accessible seating, wheelchair-accessible toilets. Please contact the venue directly if you have specific access requirements.
Gielgud-Theater has a capacity of Just under 1,000 (three levels) — small enough to feel intimate but large enough to host major productions.