Where are the best seats at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre?

Districts 4, 5, 8 and 9, rows D and E, off the aisle rather than on it. They sit side on to the action and take in the whole of it. The top-price seats sit front and centre in Districts 4 and 5.

Are there restricted view seats at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre?

A few, and they are mild. The aisle and stair rails in the main Districts give a very slight restriction, row A of the Circle has a safety rail in the eyeline and loses the front edge of the stage, and the back rows of the side Districts ask you to lean forward.

What is the view from my seat like at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre?

Better than most people expect, wherever you end up. It is built in the round, so no seat is behind another block and nothing overhangs the main bowl. What changes the view from one seat to the next is the angle to the stage, whether a rail sits in the eyeline and whether you can see the screens.

Is it better to sit at the front or further back here?

Further back, in most cases. Row A is at stage level, so you look along the stage rather than down onto it, and in Districts 1, 3, 6, 7, 10 and 11 it is also the cramped row. Rows D and E of a main District are the safer money.

Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre Seating Plan

The West End vocabulary does not work here. There are no Stalls, no Dress Circle and no Royal Circle. There is no left or right of the stage to sit on either, because the stage is in the middle and the audience is wrapped all the way around it.

What you are choosing between is eleven numbered Districts. The stage is District 12, so the audience ones run from 1 to 11.

Should I sit in the Stalls or the Circle?

There aren't any Stalls here, and the only Circle is District 11 at the top. Instead, the seats are split into five areas, and here's what each one is like.

Main Districts, 4, 5, 8 and 9. The blocks down the long sides, side on to the action, and the best all-round view in the building. Six seats a row, so nobody is far from a gangway
Moving Districts, 1 and 2. The two big banks at either end, and they rotate during the performance. The most memorable seats here and the ones some people would rather avoid
District 10. A full bank of seats running from the top down to the ground, with some of the best sightlines in the building
Side Districts, 3, 6 and 7. Set-back shelves beside the main blocks. Cheaper, and better than they look, as long as you accept looking sideways
Circle, District 11. The high shelves behind and above everything else, and the cheapest seats in the building

What varies between one seat and another

Because the stage is in the middle, the view from your seat here is a matter of angle rather than distance, and the differences between one District and the next are smaller than they would be in a West End theatre. They are still worth getting right, and the five routes below describe the view from each part of the auditorium in turn.

In an ordinary theatre the things that decide a seat are distance, the overhang and the pillars. Here the list is different.

Nothing overhangs the main bowl. District 11 sits behind and above the other blocks rather than over them, so the usual worry about a low ceiling cutting the top off the stage does not apply anywhere you are likely to sit.

The rake is good. Most people see over the heads in front of them without leaning. Row A of most Districts is at stage level and the rows behind look down onto the stage.

Rails are the real restriction. Aisle and stair rails in the four main Districts put a very slight obstruction in some views, and in the Circle there is a safety rail across the front. There are two screens, at the far ends between Districts 1 and 2, and a good deal of the show's most-watched character appears on them. From most seats you glance at one; from the back of Districts 1 and 2 you turn your head to the far one instead. Since the two screens largely duplicate each other, what a back row really costs you is a comfortable glance rather than the content itself. That is our reading of it and not the theatre's.

Every seat has a cup holder in front of it.

What it costs

Tickets start from around £35, and that price already has a £2.00 facility fee and a £0.50 Troubadour Trust levy inside it, which is why the number on the seat map is the number you pay. The cheapest seats are in the Circle and midweek. Book with us and it is all-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay.

Most seats go for around £60 to around £110. Premium seats, which are the front and centre rows of Districts 4, 5, 8 and 9, start from around £120.

The seating plan

The plan shows all eleven Districts and the stage in the middle. Tap a District to see what is free on your date and what it costs.

Call us on 020 7193 9050 if you would rather talk it through.