West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London. Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London. Famous screen actors, British and international alike, frequently appear on the London stage.
There are a total of 39 theatres in the West End, with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened in May 1663, the oldest theatre in London. The Savoy Theatre – built as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan – was entirely lit by electricity in 1881.
The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) announced that 2018 was a record year for the capital's theatre industry with attendances topping 15.5 million for the first time since the organisation began collecting audience data in 1986. Box office revenues exceeded £765 million. While attendance in 2019 was down 1.4% compared to the previous year, box office revenues reached a record £799 million.
The majority of West End theatres are owned by the Ambassador Theatre Group, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, Nimax Theatres, LW Theatres, and the Nederlander Organization.
Theatre in London flourished after the English Reformation. The first permanent public playhouse, known as The Theatre, was constructed in 1576 in Shoreditch by James Burbage. It was soon joined by The Curtain. Both are known to have been used by William Shakespeare's company. In 1599, the timber from The Theatre was moved to Southwark, where it was used in building the Globe Theatre in a new theatre district formed beyond the controls of the City corporation. Regarding theatre as sinful, these theatres were closed in 1642 due to the Puritans who would later influence the interregnum of 1649. On 24 January 1643, the actors protested against the ban by writing a pamphlet titled The Actors remonstrance or complaint for the silencing of their profession, and banishment from their severall play-houses.
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vignette|droite|Le théâtre de Taormina, vision que donne Gustav Klimt du théâtre grec antique (le théâtre de Taormine). vignette|En attendant Godot, texte de Samuel Beckett, mise en scène de Otomar Krejča. Festival d'Avignon, 1978. Rufus (Estragon) et Georges Wilson (Vladimir). Photographie de Fernand Michaud. Le théâtre () est à la fois l'art de la représentation d'un drame ou d'une comédie, un genre littéraire particulier, et l'édifice dans lequel se déroulent les spectacles de théâtre. On parle aussi de genre dramatique.
Le music-hall désigne un genre de spectacle et un type d'édifice. Il est l'héritier du café chantant né dans les années 1770 et du plus récent café concert, toutefois il s'en distingue par son agencement comprenant un « promenoir ». Terme d'origine anglaise, il est attesté en français à partir de 1862. Un terme approchant est théâtre de variétés. Le music-hall est un genre artistique qui apparaît avec l'urbanisation croissante, du milieu du jusqu'aux années 1920. Il s'établit dans les grandes villes européennes de France, d'Angleterre et d'Allemagne.
Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria. It quickly made its way to France, where it became opéra comique, and eventually, in the following century, French operetta, with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner.
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