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The Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue's oldest theatre was opened in 1888, just two years after the street itself was completed. An indistinct red brick building, it lacks the grandeur of the neighbouring Gielgud and Apollo, but has a charm and unassuming beauty that are all its own. The auditorium is also unconventional, with u-shaped balconies offering fine unrestricted views and bringing the audience closer to the action than in many large theatres. Though designed as a home for comic opera, the Lyric's major successes have been with serious drama. The Kenneth Branagh/Emma Thompson partnership had one of its first major successes in 1989 with Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus premiered here, starring Alec Guinness and with Bennett in drag as Mrs Swabb, the cleaning lady. Other successes include the premier of Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves (1973) and high-energy musical Five Guys Named Moe.
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68 Regent Street, W1B | 3 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Café Royal is a 160-bedroom 5-star luxury hotel on Regent Street, in London's city centre overlooking Piccadilly Circus. The hotel has conference facilities, a cafe, bar ... More
London > Hotels > Luxury Chain Hotel
21 Piccadilly, W1J | 3 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
A hotel that is distinctly in the old English style, with magnificent antique décor, staff who are attentive, discreet, and ever so polite and, most importantly, ... More
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Leicester Square, WC2H | 4 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
The Hampshire Hotel is located in the heart of film and Theatreland. Guests can enjoy superb Mexican- Peruvian sharing plates at Leicester Square Kitchen with drinks ... More
London > Entertainment > Theatres
Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
From the outside, the Gielgud Theatre is an impressive sight, towering four storeys over Shaftesbury Avenue, its height further emphasized by the turret on top. The ... More
London > Entertainment > Theatres
51 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
With a new name and following a major renovation, Queen's Theatre became the Sondheim Theatre in December 2019, reopening with Cameron Mackintosh's new version of Les ... More
London > Entertainment > Theatres
218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, Soho, London W1V | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
The tiny entrance of the Criterion Theatre is almost invisible among the massive advertisements, traffic and crowds of Piccadilly Circus. To ignore it, however, is to ... More
London > Entertainment > Cinemas
7-14 Coventry Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
A vast and much needed improvement on the old Cineworld cinema in the Trocodero, Picturehouse Central opened in June 2015 and was treated to a full ... More
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22-32 Shaftesbury Avenue, Trocadero, W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
From spring 2019 the Crystal Maze LIVE Experience comes to the West End. After three successful years in Angel, Islington (open until 28th ... More
London > Entertainment > Comedy Clubs
1a Oxendon Street, Soho, London SW1Y | 2 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
The Comedy Store is the spiritual home of stand-up in the UK. Despite being the best large comedy venue in the country, the Store still succeeds ... More
London > Events > Theatre Dates: 31st March 2016 to 1st November 2020
Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, W1V | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Mischief Theatre, creators of The Play That Goes Wrong - winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy - and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, have ...More
London > Events > Theatre Dates: 8th May to 26th September 2020
Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue, 6 Panton Street, SW1Y | 3 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Adapted from Jane Austen's unfinished novel and "joyously directed" (Evening Standard) by Samuel West, The Watsons comes to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre from Chichester ...More
London > Events > Theatre Dates: 20th April to 18th July 2020
Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue, St Martins Lane, WC2N | 6 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Described by the Guardian as 'one of the peak theatrical performances of the year', Juliet Stevenson reprises her role in Robert Icke's The Doctor when it ...More
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London > Attractions > Art Galleries
Brewer Street, Soho, London W1F | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
A new gallery space dedicated to light art. ... More
London > Attractions > Sights
Piccadilly Circus, Soho, London W1J | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Right in the middle of the West End, Piccadilly Circus isn't a circus at all, but an enormous road junction where Piccadilly itself Regent Street, Shaftesbury ... More
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Soho, London W1D | 3 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Walking from Gerrard Street to Shaftesbury Avenue in the Chinatown area of Soho you'll come across the pedestrianised Horse & Dolphin Yard which gets its name ... More
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London > Shopping > Food and Drink Shops
5 Denman Place, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
With specially sourced and blended teas and tisanes, working with multigenerational tea makers around the world, from Lithuania, Guatemala and France to India, Egypt and Japan, ... More
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London > Restaurants > Spanish restaurants
18-20 Rupert Street, Piccadilly, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Refurbished two years after it first launched in 2015 (as Morada Brindisa), Brindisa Rupert Street is one of five London restaurants ... More
London > Restaurants > South East Asian restaurants
40 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Bringing Vietnam to Soho, with a pop art wall installation and Banh Mi sandwiches, this cafe offers street food sandwiches with hot fillings like Asian BBQ ... More
London > Restaurants > Italian restaurants
12 Archer Street, Soho, , Soho, London W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
There was much excitement among the critics when this Italian restaurant opened at the end of 2008. Giles Coren writing in the Times gave it ... More
London > Education > Universities and Colleges
24 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, WC2H | 8 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
The London Film School is the oldest-established international school of film technique in the world. The school has contributed significantly to ... More
London > Education > Cookery Courses
15B Little Portland Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W | 10 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Awarded The Best City Cookery School 2013, the Cookery School at Little Portland Street has been teaching people to make simple, honest food for more than ... More
London > Education > English Language Courses
10 Coptic Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1A | 10 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
English [Out There!] takes a very hands-on approach to learning English. The course places an emphasis on using what you have learned. Students are taken out ... More
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London > Leisure > Health and Beauty
10 Wardour Street, Soho, London W1D | 2 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
On the 6th floor of the W London the AWAY Spa certainly takes you away from the manic pace of life in Leicester Square ... More
London > Leisure > Health and Beauty
Unit 2.4-2.6 Kingly Court, Soho, London W1B | 4 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
On the second floor of the Kingly Court complex off Carnaby Street, Triyoga offers busy city people a refuge where they can centre themselves. One of ... More
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London > Nightlife > Bars
41 Great Windmill Street, W1D | 1 minute from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
Taking its name from teenage boxer 'Kid Mears' (real name Jack Solomons), who found fame and money in British boxing's golden years after ... More
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London > Business > Venue Hire
68 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D | 3 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
This stylish private house in Soho is suitable for photo shoots, meetings, press events, filming and for a limited range of social events such as dinners ... More
London > Business > Venue Hire
1 Suffolk Place, St James's, London SW1Y | 4 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
A hip designer hotel by Tim and Kit Kemp in a grand building on the prestigious Haymarket, the broad boulevard street making for an impressive entrance. ... More
London > Business > Venue Hire
24-26 Leicester Square, Soho, London WC2H | 4 minutes from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue
One of London's biggest cinemas, the Odeon Leicester Square regularly plays host to premieres and awards ceremonies as well as screening the week's big releases. Aside ... More
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Hotels Near Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue What's On Today Near Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue  Pretty Woman: The Musical Theatre | Until 2nd January 2021 Piccadilly Theatre 1 minute walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Everyone's favourite Hollywood love story comes alive on the London stage this February when Pretty Woman: The Musical transfers from ...More  To Kill A Mockingbird Theatre | Until 31st July 2020 Gielgud Theatre 1 minute walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Rhys Ifans, recently seen in On Bear Ridge at the Royal Court Theatre, takes on the lead role of small-town ...More  Les Miserables Theatre | Until 17th October 2020 Sondheim Theatre 1 minute walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Jean Valjean, released on parole after 19 years on the chain gang, finds that the yellow ticket-of-leave he must, by ...More  Body Worlds Exhibitions | Until 11th September 2020 London Pavilion 1 minute walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue A fascinating exhibition which fuses science, art and health education, Body Worlds offers a unique insight into the human body. ...More  The Comedy About A Bank Robbery Theatre | Until 1st November 2020 Criterion Theatre 1 minute walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Mischief Theatre, creators of The Play That Goes Wrong - winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy - ...More  The Watsons Theatre | Until 26th September 2020 Harold Pinter Theatre 3 minutes walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Adapted from Jane Austen's unfinished novel and "joyously directed" (Evening Standard) by Samuel West, The Watsons comes to the West ...More  Magic Mike Live Dance | Until 13th September 2020 The Hippodrome 4 minutes walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Picking up from where Dirty Dancing left off, Channing Tatum presents an adults-only dance and acrobatic spectacular based on the ...More Mary Poppins Theatre | Until 20th September 2020 Prince Edward Theatre 4 minutes walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Step in time with Zizi Strallen as Mary Poppins and Charlie Stemp as chimney sweep Bert in Richard Eyre's revival ...More The Shark Is Broken Theatre | Until 18th July 2020 Soho Theatre 4 minutes walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue Sonia Friedman Productions presents Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw's comedy-drama inspired by the filming of Jaws, and the period of ...More  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Theatre | Until 24th January 2021 Palace Theatre 5 minutes walk from Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue From the 36,000 retweets Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling got when she announced the ...More 
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