Soho, Chinatown and Leicester Square are also short walks away, all providing a variety of restaurants and bars. Check www. Rail Charing Cross Station is the closest rail station, and is approximately a minute walk from the theatre.
Turn left out of the main entrance onto The Strand. At the large roundabout at the bottom of Trafalgar Square, take the third right onto Cockspur Street. There is an induction loop system available in the foyer for the Box Office. We have a Sennheiser infra-red hearing system that works in all part of the auditorium, although the signal is strongest when you are sitting in full sight of the Sennheiser emitters. It is advisable to discuss with Box Office prior to booking to ensure you are able to have the best experience.
How To Use. Upon arrival let any of our Front of House team know that you would like to use the Sennhesier system. We then have two options available to you;. Switch your hearing aid to the T position, and then wear the receiver necklace to enable the system to communicate with your hearing aids.
You have adjustable volume control and the staff member will ensure it is set to the correct channel for you. You have adjustable volume control and the headset will automatically find the correct channel for you. In the unlikely event that you should experience any problems with using your Sennhesier system please let any member of the Front of House team know and they will be happy to assist you.
In line with our Covid safety protocols all headsets and receivers are sanitised prior and after customer use. Assistance dogs are welcome. For ease of access and comfort, we recommend purchasing a seat on the end of a row or in a box. Alternatively we can provide a dog sitting service during the performance.
Please contact the Theatre Manager on or at admin criterion-theatre. Please contact our box office team directly on or on boxoffice criterion-theatre. Our team will ensure you are booked into the best available seats for your requirements. For in person bookings, we have step free access to our foyer box office with a low level counter. The auditorium is situated below street level with step free access only available to the Upper Circle.
Dress Circle is one further level down and the Stalls three levels below Jermyn Street level, and four floors below Piccadilly Circus. Via the main entrance stairway there are 23 steps down to the Upper Circle, 32 steps down to the Dress Circle and 54 steps to the Stalls.
Unfortunately we do not currently have a lift facility in the Grade II listed building. We can offer alternative access via our fire exit stairways to all levels via Jermyn Street upon request. Although there are still steps they are reduced and are not part of the ornate curved stairway of our main entrance.
Please speak to a member of our front of house team on arrival or contact us on in advance of your visit. Our bars are situated on the Dress Circle and Stalls auditorium levels. Drinks may be taken into the auditorium and our staff can offer assistance purchasing beverages if customers are unable to access the bar areas. You can also pre-order via our CrowdEngage pre-show text sent out on the day of your booking to pre-order for at seat service. For information about blue badge parking in Westminster please visit www.
Please note the Leicester Square car park is not currently part of the Q-Park theatreland discount scheme. Verity, Architect. T he Theatrical Observer reported on the opening of the Criterion Theatre in their March 25th, edition saying:- 'It is almost impossible to give the reader an idea of the lavish and exquisite decorations that pervade the interior of certainly the most elegant theatre in the metropolis.
The period taken as the model of taste is that of Louis Seize - the purest and finest in the annals of French history. The decorations of the fronts of the boxes and balcony, are the work of the upholsterer and gilder, rather than of the scenic artist - white, light blue, and gold, with gold-coloured satin curtains, subdued by the folds of white lace; the chairs in the stalls are admirably in keeping with the whole design - they are true to the period - the backs form an oval covered with blue satin, with a pure flatted white framework, edged with a Louis-Seize gold border; the seats, which are quite luxurious are similarly covered The front of the balcony is gracefully shaped - so formed indeed that the decorator's art has full scope for its display.
No one can enter the theatre without being struck with its solid magnificence - without being compelled to acknowledge the elegant and true taste of its designer. Verity has constructed a temple which shall be a lasting testimony to his architectural ability; and we sincerely congratulate him upon having not only designed a most elegant edifice, but a most commodious, comfortable well ventilated, and convenient one. The management has been entrusted to Mr.
Byron, from whose ability everything may be expected; Mr. Hingston, one of the most clever and popular managers, of the day, superintends the managerial business department; and Mr. Barker is invested with the stage-management. The theatre opened its doors for the first performance on Saturday evening, when two new pieces were produced; the first a comedy from the pen of Mr.
Henry Byron; the other a musical extravaganza by Mr. Of the first named, which is called "An American Lady," it will give the clearest idea of it, if we say that it is constructed on the model of Mr.
Byron's former comedies - not that it is in any degree copied from any one of them, but it is the same in style, in purpose, in effect. He plays the principal character in it himself, a soft, listless, purposeless man, who though not quite an idiot, yet requiring, as he tells the American lady, somebody as a matromonial partner who can supply the brains and he will contribute the devotion.
The dialogue is written with an off-hand sort of ability - an ability that goes far to show that we have not yet seen the exact amount of it.
The principal character was played by Mrs. Wood - doubtlessly written for her - with great force and fidelity, and with an unlimited amount of spirit and verve.
The other parts were well filled by Mr.
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