Qualla: Wyndham's Theatre https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wyndham-s-theatre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wyndham's Theatre https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre Wyndham's Theatre: Introduction https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre/ Photo credit Oxyman, CC BY 2.5. On the night of 16 November 1899, the Prince of Wales arrived at the opening of a new theatre on Charing Cross Road. The actor-manager Sir Charles Wyndham had dreamed for years of owning a theatre of his own; through friends, patrons, and decades of stage success he had finally built one. The first play was a revival of T. W. Robertson's David Garrick - a sentimental Victorian piece that suited the occasion. What no one in the room could have known was that the building they were inaugurating would become one of the busiest premiere houses in London for a hundred and twenty years and counting, hosting everything from the British debut of an American teenager named Tallulah Bankhead to the world premiere of an Arthur Miller play to Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wyndham-s-theatre-wp/gcpv-wyndhams-theatre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wyndham's Theatre: The Architect Who Built Six Theatres https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre/ Photo credit Andy Roberts from East London, England, CC BY 2.0. Wyndham's Theatre was designed around 1898 by W. G. R. Sprague, the architect who would also design the Aldwych, the Strand, the Wyndham's twin Albery (now the Noel Coward), and three others in the next eighteen years. Sprague's theatres share a particular grace: late-Victorian e...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wyndham-s-theatre-wp/gcpv-wyndhams-theatre-the-architect-who-built-six-theatres.mp3 0:06 2 full Wyndham's Theatre: Du Maurier and the Daughter in the Wings https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre/ Photo credit Anthony O'Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1910 the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier began a fifteen-year association with the theatre that helped define its early decades. Du Maurier was a leading West End star, and his presence anchored the house through the First World War and the early 1920s. His small daughter Daph...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wyndham-s-theatre-wp/gcpv-wyndhams-theatre-du-maurier-and-the-daughter-in-the-wings.mp3 0:06 3 full Wyndham's Theatre: The Twentieth Century https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre/ Photo credit Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0. In April 1953 Graham Greene's first play, The Living Room, premiered here with Dorothy Tutin in the cast. In January 1954 Sandy Wilson's musical pastiche The Boy Friend transferred from the tiny Players' Theatre and ran for 2,078 performances before moving to Broadway. Through th...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wyndham-s-theatre-wp/gcpv-wyndhams-theatre-the-twentieth-century.mp3 0:06 4 full Wyndham's Theatre: The Donmar Year https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre/ Photo credit Anthony O'Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 2008, after a temporary closure for refurbishment, Wyndham's reopened with a full twelve-month season of plays by the Donmar Warehouse - one of London's most prestigious off-West End theatres - staged at the Donmar's normal ticket prices. Kenneth Branagh starred in Tom Stoppar...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wyndham-s-theatre-wp/gcpv-wyndhams-theatre-the-donmar-year.mp3 0:06 5 full Wyndham's Theatre: What Comes to Wyndham's https://qualla.com/wyndham-s-theatre/ Photo credit Judor92, CC BY-SA 3.0. The pattern of what plays Wyndham's continues: serious dramatic work, often with major actors, often with limited runs. Mark Strong, Carey Mulligan, James Earl Jones, Brian Cox, Lesley Manville, Audra McDonald, Bryan Cranston, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The house's particular gift is ...

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