Westminster Theatre - Notable Productions

Notable Productions

  • Harley Granville Barker's Waste, 1936, directed by the author. The first full public production.
  • Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, 1943, with Martita Hunt as Mrs Cheveley
  • Eden and Adelaide Phillpott's comedy Yellow Sands, from 29 March 1945, with Cedric Hardwicke as Richard Varwell
  • Henry V, July 1953, Elizabethan Theatre Company, notable as the first London play ever to be directed by John Barton.
  • The Duenna ( Music: Julian Slade Lyrics & Book: Dorothy Reynolds) London production, opened 28July 1954 and ran for 134 performances
  • British Touring Shakespeare Company, Hamlet, 2002

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