Shaftesbury Theatre

The Shaftesbury Theatre opened under a different name, The Princes Theatre, on 26 Dec. 1911 with a production of The Three Musketeers. It is the most recent theatre to be built on Shaftesbury Avenue. It was designed as a house for melodrama by Bertie Crewe for the Melville brothers, who also owned the Lyceum Theatre at the time.