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Post by theatregoer22 on Mar 13, 2024 19:18:40 GMT
I love how many toilets the Bridge Theatre and Troubadour Theatres have.
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Post by newda on Mar 13, 2024 19:28:42 GMT
I love the Milton Keynes Theatre. It tends to be the modern ones that are best designed for today's needs, although some refurbished theatre have done a great job In a similar vein, The Waterside theatre in Aylesbury is also a delight to visit. Modern, well laid out, and good views and legroom from all seats. |
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Post by lynette on Mar 13, 2024 19:29:23 GMT
Big fan of the Bridge, doesn't seem to be any bad seats there and best theatre toilets in London! Really? The toilets seems to cause much confusion when I was there. I love the Milton Keynes Theatre. It tends to be the modern ones that are best designed for today's needs, although some refurbished theatre have done a great job. I quite like The Other Palace. I'm sure there are more that will come to me. The Bridge is beautifully located with lots of places to eat before or after, picnic even and great views. A real coup by Hytner and his Co. The toilets are good, but downstairs from the foyer ( with a few, very few on street level) On one occasion I was not allowed downstairs until a few minutes before show started even when I flashed my ticket on my phone. They need to fully embrace the punters just a bit more and….and…serve better snacks. Not just the madeleines. |
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Post by n1david on Mar 13, 2024 19:50:01 GMT
They need to fully embrace the punters just a bit more and….and…serve better snacks. Not just the madeleines. When the Bridge opened it had a much bigger range of food, including great sandwiches and hot food - designed in conjunction with the restaurant St John. The bigger range went after Covid and has never returned. |
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Post by d'James on Mar 13, 2024 20:10:01 GMT
I love the Milton Keynes Theatre. It tends to be the modern ones that are best designed for today's needs, although some refurbished theatre have done a great job In a similar vein, The Waterside theatre in Aylesbury is also a delight to visit. Modern, well laid out, and good views and legroom from all seats. I actually just remembered the Aylesbury Theatre. That was great, too. |
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Post by theatrenerd on Mar 13, 2024 20:34:42 GMT
As a biased Brummie I've got to shout out the Rep and the Hippodrome. Both have large stages and yet even from the back row can still feel intimate at times, plus great sightlines. I do also love the Alexandra, but it does has more flaws. But I always love looking at the blue Art Decco design, maybe its more of a nostalgia thing for me going there when I was young.
In London, I would also say the Bridge and loved Drury Lane pre-restoration so I would love to go back and see how it's changed.
And as a bonus; I love the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Always love looking around the foyer and gift shop and love the thrust stage auditorium (aside from the pillars and restricted side-view seats).
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Post by nick on Mar 14, 2024 8:42:23 GMT
Basically, anything post-Victorian seems fine.
Royal Festival Hall is a bit of a barn though seating is fine and love the interiors and exterior. I was in the box opposite the royal box recently. The overhang of the box in front was terrible - those of us at the back were ok but I was at the front were not. Having said that the main auditorium looked fine. |
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Post by mkb on Mar 14, 2024 9:03:16 GMT
May I nominate the main auditorium at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough?
It's compact and in-the-round, and every seat, set designer permitting, offers a perfect view. Even the back rows on all four sides are very close.
There's a latecomers' row in one corner, so no-one is ever disturbed during the show, and people arriving late have a good vantage point.
The stage floor is on a lift mechanism, so two different productions can be played on the same day, and they have a modern walk-on lighting floor/netting above the stage.
The whole thing is a housed in a beautiful, neon-lit, Art Deco, former Odeon.
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Post by nick on Mar 18, 2024 16:50:03 GMT
Latecomers row = brilliant idea.
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