Harold Pinter has London theatre named after him


London's Comedy Theatre is to be renamed next month after Harold Pinter, the playwright, director and actor who died in 2008.
Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) said it was "a fitting tribute to a man who made such a mark on British theatre".
The company has owned the West End venue since 2000.
The first show to open at the newly named Harold Pinter Theatre will be Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman, in October.
The theatre has hosted seven Pinter productions over the last 21 years, including The Homecoming, No Man's Land, Moonlight, The Hothouse, The Caretaker with Michael Gambon.
The most recent was a production of Betrayal starring Kristin Scott Thomas, which ended its run last month.
Pinter directed several plays there, including The Caretaker, Twelve Angry Men and the Simon Gray plays Otherwise Engaged and The Old Masters.
Born in 1930 in East London, Pinter wrote 32 plays, 22 screenplays and directed 36 theatre productions. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005.
Thandie Newton will play the lead role in Dorfman's Death and the Maiden when it opens on 13 October.
Its author said it was "extraordinarily appropriate" that his play would be the first to be staged in the renamed theatre.
"That play is dedicated, after all, to Pinter," said the Argentine dramatist.
The Comedy Theatre originally opened in 1881 as the Royal Comedy Theatre. Despite its name, it has hosted a wide range of plays.
Source: BBC

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