His Majesty's Theatre
His Majesty’s Theatre sits at the heart of London’s West End, a grand seating house with a 1,216‑seat capacity that’s hosted theatre and musical spectacles for over a century. Designed by Charles J. Phipps and built in 1897 for the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, it’s tied to the early history of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, which Tree helped found here. The building’s stage, historically wide enough for large-scale productions, helped the venue become a home for operatic and musical premieres, and later for major musicals, including the long-running The Phantom of the Opera since 1986 (with a pause during the COVID closures). Before this elegant 1897 structure rose, the site’s theatrical story goes back to 1705, when the first Queen’s Theatre on the same site was established by John Vanbrugh, quickly becoming an opera house and later undergoing multiple rebuilds after fires in 1789 and again in 1791. …
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