Notable productions include Bugsy Malone, Shopping and F***ing, Ghost Stories and the Olivier Award-winning Blasted. Hosting work by playwrights such as Harold Pinter, John Gielgud and Simon Stephens, the theatre is best-known for creating smash-hit productions that regularly transfer to the West End. One of the UK’s leading producing theatres, the Lyric Hammersmith welcomes audiences in their thousands throughout the year. Currently the main auditorium has a capacity of 550. The Lyric Hammersmith has since been expanded in 20, with new rooms added, including the multi-facilitated Reuben Foundation Wing. In 2004, the theatre underwent major renovations at the hands of architect Rick Mather, creating a new ticket booth, café and rehearsal spaces. In 1979 the new venue was opened by the Queen. After public outcry, it was decided that the theatre would be dismantled and rebuilt on its current site, along with a new contemporary black-box studio.
Originally built on another site, the Lyric Theatre was threatened with demolition in 1966 to make way for a new shopping complex. La Fanciulla del West, The Music Center at Strathmore September 2018. The Lyric Hammersmith first opened in 1895, designed by prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham as an intimate opera house. Maryland Lyric Opera presented a powerful concert performance of Puccini’s seldom-heard ‘La Fanciulla del West’The 80-piece orchestra, trusted with most of the opera’s heavy lifting, played its collective heart out under MDLO Music Director Louis Salemno, who conducted with authority and conviction.
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