Greenwich Theatre

Greenwich Theatre
1855 Rose and Crown Music Hall
1871 Crowder's Music Hall
1879 Royal Borough Theatre of Varieties
1898 Parthenon Theatre of Varieties
1912 Greenwich Hippodrome
The two facades of the theatre, to either side of the Rose and Crown pub, 2007
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LocationCroom's Hill, Greenwich
London, SE10
United Kingdom
Coordinates51°28′47″N 0°00′30″W / 51.479722°N 0.008333°W / 51.479722; -0.008333
Public transitDocklands Light Railway National Rail Greenwich
Capacity421
ProductionVisiting productions
Construction
Opened1969; 55 years ago (1969)
Rebuilt1871, 1898, 1969
Website
greenwichtheatre.org.uk

Greenwich Theatre is a local theatre located in Croom's Hill close to the centre of Greenwich in south-east London.

Theatre first came to Greenwich at the beginning of the 19th century during the famous Eastertide Greenwich Fair at which the Richardson travelling theatre annually performed. The current Greenwich Theatre is the heir to two former traditions. It stands on the site of the Rose and Crown Music Hall built in 1855 on Crooms Hill at the junction with Nevada Street. However, it takes its name from the New Greenwich Theatre built in 1864 by Sefton Parry on London Street, opposite what was then the terminus of the London and Greenwich Railway.[1]

  1. ^ The Era, 29 May 1864, p. 10, New Greenwich Theatre.