Garrick Theatre

Theatre in Charing Cross Road, London. Associated mostly with comedies, it was commissioned by the librettist W S Gilbert (1836–1911), designed by Walter Emden (1847–1913), and opened by the actor and manager John Hare in 1889 with Arthur Pinero's The Profligate. The original theatre seated 800 on four levels.

Another Garrick Theatre, in Whitechapel, London, opened in 1831, was burned down and rebuilt in l846. It closed in 1875, opened again in 1879 with an opera buffa, but was demolished shortly afterwards to make way for a police station.