This February we’re looking at London
Theatre on The Daily Constitutional.
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Here's LW's Richard III on a famous West End pub named for one of the most famous actresses of them all…
Nell of Old Drury, Catherine Street, Covent Garden.
I go here every Wednesday on Ghosts, Gaslight and Guinness. It is a real theater pub. The orchestras of the musicals and the Royal Opera drop in for a drink during the interval and after the show cast and crew from the surrounding theatres drink here. There is a room upstairs which looks out over the Theatre Royal Drury Lane where you can nearly always find a table. They don't do food, but there are a million restaurants nearby and as a result you are not jostling with people eating at tables. It is a good old fashioned boozer with lovely staff and they serve Broadside, my favorite beer. It is named after Nell Gwynne one of the many mistresses of Charles II. There is a tunnel that links the theater with the pub and the King would use it for secret assignations with Nell and be back in his box as the curtain came down.
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Richard III
Richard III, scion of a Lord Mayor of London, is a writer, actor, director and stand-up comic. And the only London Walks guide to have addressed the United Nations!
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