2009
James Bierman succeeds Lucy Davies as Executive Producer. Guys and Dolls opens in Sydney. Mary Stuart Opens on Broadway. Frost/Nixon continues its tour in the U.S. Piaf opens in Buenos Aires. Parade opens in Los Angeles. West End season continues at Wyndham's. Rob Ashford succeeds Douglas Hodge as Associate Director. Hamlet transfers to Elsinore and Broadway.
2008
Guys and Dolls opens in Melbourne. Frost/Nixon goes on tour around USA. Jamie Lloyd joins as a second Associate Director. Donmar launches its season in the West End at the Wyndham's Theatre. Piaf transfers to the Vaudeville Theatre.
2007
Lucy Davies succeeds Nick Frankfort as Executive Producer. Frost/Nixon transfers to Broadway. Michael Grandage announces the purchase of the theatre site on Earlham Street by the Donmar Warehouse, and a year’s residency in the West End at the Wyndham’s Theatre. Douglas Hodge becomes Associate Director.
2006
The Donmar Warehouse ends the year with five productions running simultaneously: Don Juan in Soho at the Donmar Warehouse; Voyage Round My Father transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre; Frost/Nixon transferred to the Gielgud Theatre; Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre and on a National tour.
2005
The Donmar Warehoue collaborates with ATG to produce Guys and Dolls for the West End - the first time the Donmar has collaborated outside of its Covent Garden auditorium.
2004
The Donmar Warehouse starts a national touring programme, taking Tom Stoppard's new version of Pirandello's Henry IV to Salford, Liverpool and Bristol. This is followed by a tour of Neil LaBute's This Is How It Goes in 2005, Mark Ravenhill's The Cut in 2006, and Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman in 2007.
2002
Michael Grandage succeeds Sam Mendes as Artistic Director of the Donmar. Nick Frankfort succeeds Caro Newling as Executive Producer.
1999
Show further informationAmbassador Theatre Group takes over from the Associated Capital Theatres as the landlord of the Donmar Warehouse.
1990-92
Show further informationSam Mendes oversees the redesign of the theatre, retaining the distinctive characteristics of the former warehouse, and the unique thrust stage, while making the welcome addition of two bars, adjacent to a spacious foyer, and significant improvements backstage.
The theatre is reopened in its present incarnation as an independent producing house with the British premiere of Sondheim and Weidman's ASSASSINS.
1990
Show further informationSam Mendes is invited to take up residency as Artistic Director of the theatre with the challenge of presenting an annual eight-month season of home-produced work.
Caro Newling, Senior Press Representative of the RSC, joins him as Executive Producer of the Donmar.
1989
Show further informationAssociated Capital Theatres (formerly the Maybox Group) acquires the Donmar, with the intention of re-developing the theatre.
1981-89
Show further informationUnder the management of Ian Albery and Nica Burns, the Donmar becomes the West End home for Britain's most innovative touring companies.
1977-81
Show further informationThe Royal Shakespeare company makes the Donmar its London home to complement its Stratford venue.
1961
Show further informationTheatre impresario Donald Albery and Margot Fonteyn form the company Donmar Productions (the combination of their Christian names) and purchase the warehouse. Donmar Productions presents a few West End plays and converts the warehouse into a private rehearsal studio for the London Festival Ballet.
1920s
Show further informationThe space is used as a film studio and then the Covent Garden Market banana-ripening depot.
1870s
Show further informationThe building, which now houses the Donmar, serves as a vat room and hop warehouse for the local brewery in Covent Garden.
