Phoenix Theatre (London)
Phoenix Theatre in 2007
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| Address |
Charing Cross Road London, WC2 United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates | 51°30′52″N 0°07′46″W / 51.514444°N 0.129556°W |
| Public transit |
 Tottenham Court Road
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| Owner | Ambassador Theatre Group |
| Type | West End theatre |
| Capacity | 1,012 on 3 levels |
| Production | The Girls |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 24 September 1930 |
| Architect | Giles Gilbert Scott, Bertie Crewe and Cecil Massey |
| Website | |
| Phoenix Theatre website at Ambassador Theatre Group | |
The Phoenix Theatre is a West End theatre in the London Borough of Camden, located on Charing Cross Road (at the corner with Flitcroft Street). The entrances are in Phoenix Street and Charing Cross Road. Phoenix Theatre was built on the place where was a factory and then Music hall Alcazar before.
The theatre was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Bertie Crewe and Cecil Massey. It has a restrained neoclassical exterior, but an interior designed in an Italianate style by director and designer Theodore Komisarjevsky. Vladimir Polunin copied works by Tintoretto, Titian, Pinturicchio and Giorgione. And also safety curtain that holds Jacopo del Sellaio's The Triumph of Love.
There are golden engravings in the auditorium, red seats, carpets and curtains. This look is based on traditional Italian theatres. There are decorated ceilings and sculpted wooden doors throughout the building.
It opened on 24 September 1930 with the première of Private Lives by Noël Coward, who also appeared in the play, with Adrienne Allen, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier. Coward returned to the theatre with Tonight at 8:30 in 1936 and Quadrille in 1952.
On 16 December 1969, the long association with Coward was celebrated with a midnight matinee in honour of his 70th birthday, and the foyer bar was renamed the Noel Coward Bar.
The Phoenix has had a number of successful plays including John Gielgud's Love for Love during the Second World War. Harlequinade and The Browning Version, two plays by Terence Rattigan, opened on 8 September 1948 at the theatre.
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