The Queen will be welcome to visit a new London theatre complex set to open close to Buckingham Palace later this year, according to its management team.

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Really Useful's eight remaining theatres are the Adelphi, the Cambridge, the Gielgud, Her Majesty's, the London Palladium, the New London, the Palace and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

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She also taken part in the 24 Hour Plays initiative at the Old Vic theatre in London and in New York.

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And there are question marks over an ambitious plan to replace the National Film Theatre on London's South Bank with a new state-of-the-art Film Centre: once again, the main question is who might pay for it.

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There were three new entries in the top 20 including the actor and first artistic director of the Globe theatre in London, Mark Rylance.

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His other seven theatres are the Palladium, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, the Cambridge, Her Majesty's, the Palace, New London and the Adelphi.

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