Lyceum Theatre

The Lyceum Theatre opened in its current form in 1904 with a design by Bertie Crewe. In the theatre's earlier incarnation, the venue played host to the first London exhibition of Madame Tussaud's waxworks. The façade dates back to 1834, retaining a design by Samuel Beazley. The 1834 theatre opened as the Theatre Royal Lyceum and English Opera House and very much focused on performing English operas, rather than the Italian operas that the theatre had become associated with earlier in the nineteenth century.