Leicester Square one bust each of famous former residents in the square: the scientist Sir Isaac Newton designed by W. Calder Marshall; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy by H. Weekes; John Hunter, a pioneer of surgery, by T. Wooler; and William Hogarth, the painter, by J. Durham. Ownership transferred to Westminster City Council in 1933. The most recent addition was a bronze statue of film star and director Charlie Chaplin, designed by sculptor John Doubleday in 1981. On the pavement were inscribed the distances in miles to several Commonwealth countries, including Canada, Kenya and Jamaica. After the
Leicester Square Theatre Broadway, "Round the Horne" (2003) After this, the theatre was then named Leicester Square Theatre. American comedian Joan Rivers made her acting debut in August 2008 with her play "Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress", which played a total of 75 performances to celebrate her birthday. A musical based on the comic strip "Alex", by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, starring Robert Bathurst, finished the year 2008. and "An Evening with Joan Collins" ran from 2011 to 2015. Bill Bailey, Roseanne Barr, Sandra Bernhard, Jo Brand, Bill Burr, Julian Clary, Greg Davies, Macy Gray, Richard