COMEDY THEATRE (NOW HAROLD PINTER THEATRE)

The Comedy Theatre is now the Harold Pinter Theatre

The Comedy Theatre has been renamed the Harold Pinter Theatre after the late Nobel Prize-winning British playwright.

The theatre, on London's Panton Street, is a fitting venue to take the playwright's name, having hosted seven of his plays over the past two decades, including, in recent years, The Lover And The Collection and Betrayal.

Howard Panter, ATG's Joint Chief Executive and Creative Director, said: "The work of Pinter has become an integral part of the history of the Comedy theatre. The re-naming of one of our most successful West End theatres is a fitting tribute to a man who made such a mark on British theatre, who, over his 50-year career, became recognised as one of the most influential modern British dramatists."