About Wyndham's Theatre
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Wyndham's opened on 16 November 1899, with a revival of T. W. Robertson's comedy David Garrick, in which the theatre's owner, the actor-manager Sir Charles Wyndham, appeared with his future wife, Mary Moore. He built it and gave it his name, and W. G. R. Sprague designed it, which is why the inside is gilded and ornate rather than plain. It's Grade II* listed.
Wyndham went on to build a second theatre behind this one, now called the Noël Coward Theatre, so the two buildings share a back wall.
Delfont Mackintosh Theatres has run Wyndham's since September 2005. It reopened in 2008 after a four-month refurbishment, with a year-long season from the Donmar Warehouse that included Jude Law's Hamlet.
Mostly plays, and a few musicals
Most of what plays here is drama, often a limited run with a big name in it, and the auditorium is narrow enough for a speaking voice to carry to the back row. Musicals have had long runs here too: The Boy Friend ran for 2,078 performances from 1954, and Godspell, with David Essex and Jeremy Irons in the cast, ran for almost three years from 1972.
Recent runs here
- To Kill a Mockingbird (2026), Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of the Harper Lee novel
- My Master Builder (2025), with Ewan McGregor
- Next to Normal (2024), the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (2024), with Brian Cox
- Life of Pi (2021 to 2023), which won five Olivier Awards, including Best New Play
- Leopoldstadt (2020 to 2021), Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning play
Earlier highlights
- Art (1996), Yasmina Reza's comedy, which ran for over 2,000 performances before moving to the Whitehall Theatre
- No Man's Land, twice: with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in 1975, and with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in 2016
Other theatres of a similar size
- Garrick Theatre, 733 seats, a couple of minutes down Charing Cross Road
- The Noël Coward Theatre, the building directly behind this one
- Harold Pinter Theatre, around 800 seats, on Panton Street by Leicester Square
Call us on 020 7193 9050 if your date won't work here and we'll check what's on at the others.
About FAQs
When was Wyndham's Theatre built?
It opened on 16 November 1899, built by Sir Charles Wyndham and designed by W. G. R. Sprague.
Who owns Wyndham's Theatre?
It's run by Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, which has had it since 2005.