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King's Head Theatre
The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an off-West End venue in London. It is the first and longest operating pub theatre in the UK.〔()〕 In March 2010 Adam Spreadbury-Maher became Artistic Director and the theatre became home to now resident company OperaUpClose.〔(''The Stage'' article )〕
==Background==
The small theatre is located in the back room behind the bar at the King's Head pub on Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre is housed in a Victorian building, but a public house, originally known as ''The King's Head Tavern'', has been on the same site, opposite the parish church, since 1543.〔('Islington: Social and cultural activities', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 45-51 ) Accessed: 09 March 2007〕 The theatre's reconstruction in 2007-2008 increased both the stage size and seating capacity, with the addition of new seating.
Dan Crawford ran the venue until his death in 2005. His wife and long-serving associate artistic director Stephanie Sinclaire took over with help from those who had worked with Crawford. She mounted 20 galas in the first year at the theatre with the help of Caroline Smith and longtime supporters such as Maureen Lipman, Sir John Mortimer, Linda Marlowe, Sharon D Clarke, Clive Rowe, Janie Dee and others and pulled the theatre out of debt. In 2007, Sinclaire was joined by the Tony-Award winning New York producer, Steven M. Levy, who has been serving as the company's Executive Producer. Levy and Sinclaire got the theatre producing for a year and presented several musical and play premieres.
The atmosphere Crawford created in 1970 was intended to be enjoyed by an interesting, cosmopolitan and cultural audience. Noise complaints have limited the music from its previous 7 nights a week. Dan Crawford disagreed with the introduction of decimal currency. For over twenty years after decimalisation of the pound (1971), the bar continued to show prices and charge for drinks in pre-decimal currency. However, the current management decided to introduce computerised tills, while keeping the antique till as the main focal point in the pub.
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