Saville Theatre

ODEON Covent Garden

ABC Shaftesbury Avenue
Illustration from theatre programme of 1936 based on a photo of the Saville Theatre, featuring the play The Limping Man, a 1931 play by William Matthew Scott.
Address	Shaftesbury Avenue Camden, London
Coordinates	51°30′51″N 0°07′42″W / 51.514269°N 0.128242°W / 51.514269; -0.128242
Owner	Odeon Cinemas
Type	Cinema
Capacity	1,426 (1931)
Current use	Odeon Covent Garden
Construction
Opened	8 October 1931
Closed	December 1969
Rebuilt	Renovated, as cinema, 2001
Years active	1931–1969
Architect	Sir Thomas Bennett, with Bertie Crewe

ODEON Covent Garden is a four-screen cinema in the heart of London's West End. Formerly known as The Saville Theatre, a former West End theatre at 135 Shaftesbury Avenue in the London Borough of Camden. The theatre opened in 1931, and became a music venue during the 1960s. In 1970 it became the two cinemas ABC1 Shaftesbury Avenue and ABC2 Shaftesbury Avenue, which in 2001 were converted to the four-screen cinema Odeon Covent Garden.