The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. It was built for the producer Henry Leslie, who financed it from the profits of the light opera hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from its original venue to open the new theatre on 17 December 1888.
The Lyric Theatre in April 2007
1898 Lyric poster
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (1950)
South Sea Bubble, 1956
Shaftesbury Avenue is a major road in the West End of London, named after The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It runs north-easterly from Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, crossing Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus. From Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus, it is in the City of Westminster, and from Cambridge Circus to New Oxford Street, it is in the London Borough of Camden.
Shaftesbury Avenue in 2016 with West End theatres pictured along the right side of the road
Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus in 1949
The Forbidden Planet comic store on the road