Ustinov Studio

You descend the stairs into a different world—literally underground, just off Saw Close near the Royal Crescent. The Ustinov Studio is where Theatre Royal risks it: experimental productions, emerging artists, and plays that wouldn't fit in the grand 900-seater above. The space itself is deliberately stripped-back, all brick and honest proportions, which somehow makes everything feel more immediate. This is where you'll catch the kind of theatre that provokes conversation in Sally Lunn's afterwards.