Exclusive – The Piano Works to take up residency within Nightcap Covent Garden following relocation: Live music concept The Piano Works is set to take up residency within the Covent Garden venue of Nightcap – owner of the Cocktail Club, Adventure Bar Group, Dirty Martini and Barrio Familia group of bars – following a relocation.
The Piano Works is reopening its West End venue within the Gillian Lynne Theatre on the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street, as it partners with Nightcap for the residency within its Covent Garden Lyceum venue. Starting from Thursday, 16 November, The Piano Works, which also has a venue in Farringdon, will be the first audience-requested, live music concept to be offered at a Nightcap venue.
Nightcap chief executive Sarah Willingham said: “I’m looking forward to working with the talented team at The Piano Works, to bring another fantastic concept into a Nightcap venue. Our customers will love it, and our teams will work together to make sure people have the best night out over this busy Christmas period and into the new year.” Earlier this year, The Piano Works applied to Westminster Council to increase the licensed capacity at its current Leicester Square venue, in Parker Street, from 400 to 700 people. This was rejected, despite support from statutory bodies, which it said made operating within Westminster untenable and led a search for a new West End premises where a larger capacity was possible.
Alan Lorrimer, owner of The Piano Works, formerly owned and operated the Gillian Lynne Theatre site under Brazilian concept Guanabara from 2004 to 2012. “Returning to the Gillian Lynne Theatre location has always been a dream of mine, and I have always felt it would be the perfect spot for a Piano Works location,” he said. “When our West End capacity licence request was rejected, I approached the team at Nightcap and was delighted it agreed to this exciting opportunity to partner with us in such a collaborative way.” Morris Greenberg, of CDG Leisure acted on the relocation.
Opening night is Thursday 16th November. Interested in finding out more or looking to plan an event, look no further.