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Capacity
  
1852

Phone
  
+31 70 416 7600

Current use
  
The Lion King

Circustheater

Address
  
Circusstraat 4, 2586 CW Den Haag, Netherlands

Afas circustheater algemene impressie


The AFAS Circustheater is a Dutch theatre in Scheveningen, The Hague.

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The original theatre was opened on July 16, 1904 by Circus Schumann. Designed by architect Wilhelmus Bernardus van Liefland, the building was as a proper circus in the summer seasons until the 1960s. Animals were transported here by train from Den Haag Hollands Spoor railway station. The circus has also carried the name Circus Strassburger, and after the 1960s functioned as a concert hall. Currently the theatre is property of the company Stage Entertainment, founded by Joop van den Ende, who bought the building for the symbolic amount of 1 guilder off the Municipality of The Hague on the condition that it would be converted into a functioning theatre. It is now mainly in use for big musical productions.

Uit eten in het afas circustheater the lion king


Name

Caused by change of ownership and sponsorship the theatre underwent multiple name changes.

  • VSB Circustheater - Until 2004.
  • Fortis Circustheater - The Fortis name was used until 2010. Because of the acquisition of Fortis by ABN AMRO, the company name changed from Fortis Circustheater to Circustheater B.V.
  • AFAS Circustheater - From 2010 onward. 'Royal Loge' changed to 'AFAS Loge'.

    • Productions

    Productions that have been shown for longer periods of time in the Circustheater are:

    Trivia

  • In honour of its 100 year anniversary, Madurodam unveiled a replica of the building on October 5, 2004.

    • References

    Circustheater Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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