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Sadler's Wells is one of the world's leading dance venues. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site since 1683.
Sadler's Wells Theatre is a performing arts venue in Clerkenwell, London, England located on Rosebery Avenue next to New River Head. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site since 1683. It consists of two performance spaces: a 1,500-seat main auditorium and the Lilian Baylis Studio, with extensive rehearsal rooms and technical facilities also housed within the site. Sadler's Wells is renowned as one of the world's leading dance venues. As well as a stage for visiting companies, the theatre is also a producing house, with a number of associated artists and companies that produce original works for the theatre. Sadler's Wells is also responsible for the management of the Peacock Theatre in the West End, during times not used by the London School of Economics. (Wikipedia)
Sadler's Wells Theatre - Wikipedia
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4 Sadler’s Wells has had a theatre on its site since 1683, when a ‘Musick House’ was established to entertain the invalids who came to take medicinal water from the wells owned by Thomas Sadler. The remains of the original wells can still be found today beneath the theatre.
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Sadler's Wells - How Water Shaped North Clerkenwell - A London Inheritance
Sadler's Wells theatre, the centre for dance in north Clerkenwell has origins in the discovery of a medieval well whilst digging for gravel in 1683
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