page_title: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
section_title: The theatre
hierarchical_section_title: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre / The theatre
caption_attribution_description: English: The bar of the Open Air Theatre at night.
context_page_description: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is an open-air theatre based in Regent's Park in central London.
context_section_description: The theatre is located in Queen Mary's Gardens, on the Inner Circle of Regent's Park and consequently is surrounded entirely by parkland. It was founded in 1932 by Sydney Carroll and Robert Atkins.
  The theatre is completely uncovered; the only sheltered area being underneath the tiered auditorium, which houses one of the longest bars of any theatre in London – stretching the entire length of the seating.
  The theatre houses an extensive backstage area complete with green room for the company and technical team, a full wardrobe, makeup and wigs department, a workshop for the maintenance of stage sets and numerous offices for stage management, sound, LX and other crew.
  The theatre is a registered charity, run by an Artistic Director Timothy Sheader and Executive Director William Village. The charity's Board of Trustees is chaired by Robert Davis DL, and includes Sir Peter Rogers, Stuart Griffiths OBE, Toni Racklin, Jim Reed, Samantha Spiro, Martin Wilkinson and William Village, alongside Dame Judi Dench, the theatre's Patron. The theatre has also been the inspiration for other open-air theatres around the world, such as the Maynardville Open-Air Theatre in Cape Town and Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester.
  Quality colour footage of the theatre in 1950 was included towards the end of reel 1, in a Pathe News short of that year narrated by Rex Harrison.
caption: Open Air Theatre Bar, at night
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