Just a few minutes’ walk from the Rathbone, the Dominion was once the site of the St Giles’ Leper Hospital founded in 1101 by Matilda, Queen of Henry I. It was a brewery for around 160 years until construction of the theatre started in 1928, opening a year later.
The Royal Variety Performance was home here in the 1990s and recent musicals included Grease, Scrooge and Beauty and the Beast. The star of the Dominion since 2002 has been the Ben Elton masterpiece We Will Rock You which closed in 2014.
