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Donmar Warehouse Theatre
41 Earlham Street
London, WC2H 9LD
Tube: Covent Garden
Box Office: 0870 060 6624
Capacity : 252
Air Conditioned
Disabled Access
NO facilities for hard of hearing
Set in a shell of a 19th century warehouse, the distinctive characteristics of the Donmar's famous auditorium have provided a singular environment for a rich heritage of theatre. It has become the sole studio theatre to be recognised with membership of the Society of London Theatre.
History
The Donmar Warehouse is a small theatre in the Covent Garden area of the West End of London copnveniently close to the Monmouth Street location of Restaurant Mon Plaisir ideally located to provide you with pre theatre food and drinks.
Theatrical producer Donald Albery formed the Donmar company in 1953, the name reputedly formed from DONald Albery and MARgot Fonteyn, the ballerina and a close personal friend.
In 1961, Albery bought the site, a space that was once the vat room and hop warehouse of a brewery, as a private drama studio and rehearsal room for Fonteyn's London Festival Ballet. It was acquired as a theatre by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977. The theatre became an independent producing house in 1992.
Recent Events
The Donmar Warehouse currently produces a mixed programme of new plays, revivals and musicals. Its revivals of foreign plays regularly commission new translations (or 'versions'), i.e. Ibsen's The Wild Duck (David Eldridge), Racine's Phadera (Frank McGuinness) and Fo's Accidental Death of An Anarchist (Simon Nye) within the past few years. Its recent musical productions have included Grand Hotel and the Sondheim works, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Company, Into the Woods and the 1992 production of Assassins that opened Sam Mendes' tenure as Artistic Director. The current artistic director is Michael Grandage.
Numerous well known British and non-British actors have appeared at the theatre, including Nicole Kidman (The Blue Room), Gwyneth Paltrow (Proof) and Ian McKellen (The Cut). |
