W. G. R. Sprague John Gielgud

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# Queen's Theatre, 51 Shaftesbury Avenue Standing at 51 Shaftesbury Avenue in London's West End, you're looking at a theatre designed by W. G. R. Sprague in 1908—a masterpiece of Edwardian theatrical architecture whose elegant interior survived both changing tastes and Nazi bombs. When the Queen's ...

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Queen's Theatre Built by W. G. R. Sprague, the Queen's Theatre opened in 1908 with a comedy The Sugar Bowl. While the Edwardian interior has largely survived, the theatre suffered bomb damage during the last war, re-opening in 1959 with the present exterior and John Gielgud in The Ages of Man