London Palladium

The London Palladium is a venue to which all performers aspire and has hosted more annual Royal Variety Performances than any other theatre. Designed by Frank Matcham it opened on Boxing Day 1910 and became famous, partly through television, as the “Ace Variety Theatre of the World”. With the opening of the new production of The Wizard of Oz in 2011, Andrew Lloyd Webber also unveiled his major renovation of the box office facilities and a brand new means of accessing the Dress Circle and Stalls directly from the box office. The works substantially increased the movement space and comfort for patrons on arrival and during the interval and have also allowed the provision of more ladies’ lavatories – a grand gesture to mark the second century of the world’s most famous theatre.