Above the Stag Theatre (Closed Permanently)

Specialists in mostly lighter fare such as comedies, musicals and panto, with an empahsis on the funny, erotic, camp, cheeky and subversive, punctuated by the occasional psychodrama or gay-appeal straightforward play. Opened in Victoria in 2008, closed in 2012 to make way for the redevelopment of Victoria station, then reopened November 2013 in a reinvented railway arch in near-gay-specific Vauxhall. On 1 June 2018 the theatre moved to a new and larger premises, also in Vauxhall, with a 25th-anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey's BEAUTIFUL THING as the new space's inaugural production. An in-house cabaret lounge opened in 2021 [see entry]. Sadly, on 8 August 2022, the theatre announced its immediate closure.