Orange Tree Theatre Orange Tree Theatre The Orange Tree Theatre is a 180-seat theatre at 1 Clarence Street, Richmond in south-west London, which was built specifically as a theatre in the round. It is housed within a disused 1867 primary school, built in Victorian Gothic style. The theatre was founded in 1971 by its previous artistic director, Sam Walters, and his actress wife Auriol Smith in a small room above the Orange Tree pub opposite the present building, which opened in 1991. Paul Miller, previously associate director at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, is the artistic director. He succeeded Walters, the UK's longest-serving
Norfolk Street, Strand Norfolk Street, Strand Norfolk Street in the City of Westminster, London, ran from Strand in the north to the edge of the River Thames in the south, and after the Victoria Embankment was built (1865–1870), to what is now Temple Place. It was crossed only by Howard Street. It was demolished in the 1970s. Norfolk Street was built on land once occupied by Arundel House and its gardens, the property of the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk. Norfolk Street and its neighbouring streets, Arundel, Howard, and Surrey, were all built after Arundel House was demolished by the earl of Arundel