Performance venues

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Richmond Theatre

Frank Matcham's red terracotta theatre on Richmond Green, opened in 1899 with As You Like It.

PlayhousesWorth it for the building

Matcham built about eighty theatres and this is one of the few left more or less as he meant it - red terracotta and brick outside, an elaborate painted auditorium of 840 seats inside, protected at the higher grade. It opened on 18 September 1899, and it sits on the edge of Richmond Green, which is the other reason to go.

What is on is mostly touring: plays and musicals on their way round the country, a week at a time, with concerts and children's shows between them and a pantomime at Christmas that has been running long enough to be its own institution. It is a receiving house rather than a producing one, so the programme changes every Monday.

Where
The Green, Richmond, TW9 1QJ
Nearest station
Richmond · 3 min walk

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