Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch
Theatre exterior
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| Location |
Hornchurch, Greater London England |
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| Coordinates | 51°33′57″N 0°13′07″E / 51.5658°N 0.2186°E |
| Public transit |
 Emerson Park Hornchurch
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| Capacity | 500 |
| Opened | 1975 |
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| www.queens-theatre.co.uk | |
The Queen's Theatre is a 500-seat producing theatre located in Hornchurch in the London Borough of Havering, east London.
The theatre opened in its current purpose-built site on Billet Lane, Hornchurch in 1975.
From 1953 to 1975 the theatre had occupied a converted, and for some time derelict, cinema on Station Lane (the site of the present Ripon House development) that had been used for storage during the Second World War. The theatre originally opened in the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II and its name reflects this. The opening production was See How They Run.
The building deteriorated and the London Borough of Havering built the new theatre. It was opened by Sir Peter Hall in April 1975, with a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Home to the original productions of the award-winning Return to the Forbidden Planet and Blood Brothers, performers such as Maggie Smith, Martin Shaw, Joan Plowright, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorn, Carol Sloman, Lucy Benjamin, Gemma Salter, Bernard Cribbins, Conn O’Neill and theatre-makers and artists David Eldridge, Chris Bond, Bob Carlton, Bob Eaton, Glen Walford, Nichola McAuliffe, Tim Firth, Dan Murphy and Richard O’Brien the Queen’s Theatre, over its 60 plus year history, has built a track record in creating the best in live entertainment.
The theatre's current artistic director is Douglas Rintoul who was appointed in 2015. The theatre's previous artistic directors include Bob Carlton, Marina Calderone and Bob Tomson.
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