Directed by Stephen Daldry, The Audience opens in February at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End.

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Visitors to London can also watch a theatrical version at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End through October (though performances are selling out).

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Not that this matters much, as "The Audience, " at London's Gielgud Theatre, is a vehicle for the country's favorite actress, Helen Mirren, and also for the designer, Bob Crowley, who wows us with his replicas of the infinitely receding columns of Buckingham Palace and a sitting-room in the queen's Scottish castle, Balmoral.

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Really Useful's eight remaining theatres are the Adelphi, the Cambridge, the Gielgud, Her Majesty's, the London Palladium, the New London, the Palace and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

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