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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Coliseum Theatre is on St. Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster. It is one of London's largest and best equipped theatres and opened in 1904, designed by theatrical architect Frank Matcham, for impresario Oswald Stoll. Their ambition was to build the largest and finest 'People's palace of entertainment' of its age. The inaugural performance was a variety bill on 24 December 1904. In 1911, dramatist W. S. Gilbert produced his last play here, The Hooligan. The theatre changed its name from the London Coliseum to the Coliseum Theatre between 1931 and 1968 when 651 performances of the musical comedy White Horse Inn started on 8 April 1931. It reverted to the original name when the Sadler's Wells Opera Company moved to the Coliseum in 1968. The Company changed its name to the English National Opera in 1974 and bought the freehold of the building for 12.8m. From 16th June 1963 it became the second of London's three Cinerama Theatres, first showing the 3-strip version for the first 5 months, then 70mm single strip film was shown until 22nd May 1968 when it screened its final movie.

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