"To be clear, it won't have the biggest capacity house in London. But it will have two 1,500-seat theatres inside it, which is pretty damn big individually (bigger than all but a handful of musical theatre and opera houses) and combined it'll rival the 3,069-set Edinburgh Playhouse for the title of biggest theatre in the entire country. What the hell is going to be staged there, you might reasonably ask."
"The Troubadour chain is an intriguing one that has been bringing large, flexible, somewhat architecturally prosaic spaces to London for a few years now. In a statement, the company's co-CEOs Oliver Royds and Tristan Baker suggest the new theatre will be used to transfer in large scale shows struggling to find a berth in a West End with a very limited stock of available big theatres. Fair, but 1,500 seats is , and remember there are two of them."
Greenwich lacks large theatre venues beyond the small Greenwich Theatre and commercial shows at The O2. The Troubadour Greenwich Peninsula Theatre will open next autumn with two 1,500-seat houses, totaling 3,000 seats. The combined capacity will rival the 3,069-seat Edinburgh Playhouse and mark one of the largest theatre complexes in the country. The Troubadour chain has provided large, flexible, architecturally prosaic spaces in London. Company co-CEOs Oliver Royds and Tristan Baker envisage the new venue hosting transfers of large-scale shows unable to secure West End theatres with limited big-house availability. Previous Troubadour venues have seen mixed commercial fortunes.
Read at Time Out London
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