Twickenham Theatre announces closure

Following the sell out success of Sweeney Todd, London’s newest fringe theatre has announced its closure.

Sweeney Todd played its final sold-out performance of an extended opening season just yesterday at the 100-seat Twickenham Theatre in West London. Today, Executive Director, West End producer Tony Green has just two days to vacate the London Road premises after the pub was sold in a move he calls a “total bombshell”.

“I have been advised that the pub has been sold and that the new landlords ‘do not figure theatre as part of their plans’,” he says. “To make matters worse, the new landlords, along with the brewery and the superior landlords of the site are not going to honour the three months’ notice period I had in place.”

New fringe theatre in Twickenham to stage Sweeney Todd

A new 100-seat fringe theatre is set to launch later this year. The Twickenham Theatre will open in September with an intimate in-house production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.

The theatre is located just one minute from Twickenham rail station and is served by 12 bus routes as well as free local parking. The Twickenham Theatre is described as "a flexible performance space that will be both a producing and receiving house".

Beginning previews on Wednesday 10th September 2014, Sweeney Todd will be co-produced by Twickenham Theatre producer David Adkin.