HER MAJESTY's THEATRE |
A west-end theatre, know for its spectacular production of Shakespeare in the early 20th century
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Her Majesty’s Theatre
is on the Hay Market in the West End. Although there has been a theatre
here since the early 1700s, Her Majesty’s was constructed in 1897. It
was done for Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who was an actor and a theatre
manager. He founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, at the theatre
itself. He also produced some of the best and most spectacular
showings of Shakespeare and other classical works in the early 1900s.
After World War One however, the theatre came to specialize in hosting
musicals. In fact, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera
had played continuously at the theatre since 1986! Interestingly, the
Theatre also changes its name appropriately to ‘His’ or Her’ Majesty’s
Theatre, with the gender of each monarch.
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