Exciting reconstruction of the original theater in...

Exciting reconstruction of the original theater in which William Shakespeare's works were staged 400 years earlier.
Thanks to the tenacity and commitment of the American actor and director Sam Wanamaker who has dreamed of realizing this project since 1970, in 1997 this building on the South Bank finally saw the light of day, which reproduces as far as possible faithfully the original theater, built few hundreds of meters away, for the first time in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt the following year and definitively demolished thirty years later.
For security reasons it can accommodate "only" 1400 spectators compared to the original which had a capacity of 3000.
You can visit it with a guided tour or attend one of the many shows on offer.
A curiosity ... Since 2003 there is a copy of the building in Rome in the Villa Borghese gardens which offers Elizabethan shows.