Theatre Collection (page 12)

The Lady With A Lamp by Reginald Berkeley
Promotional postcard for The Lady With A Lamp by Reginald Berkeley. First produced at the Arts Theatre, 5th May and the Garrick Theatre, 24th January 1929. Originally called Florence Nightingale

Storm of The Battle of Tinderley Down by C K Monro
Promotional postcard for Storm or The Battle of Tinderley Down by C. K. Monro. First produced at the Ambassadors Theatre, 13th August 1924. The title refers to the expression storm in a tea-cup

Half Past Eight by P Rubens and C H Bovill
Promotional postcard for Half Past Eight, One of those Musical Things by Paul Rubens & C. H. Bovill; music Paul Rubens. First produced at the Comedy Theatre on 10th August 1916

Alec ( Sir Affable ) Knowles - Theatrical Journalist
Alec (" Sir Affable" ) Knowles (1851-1917) - Theatrical Journalist and member of Londons notorious Pelican Club

War and Peace
Final scene from the performance of Sergei Prokofievs opera " War and Peace", based on Leo Tolstoys novel. Opera Theatre in Kiroy

CHEJOV, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904). Russian writer. Performance of The Seagull at the Moscow Art Academic Theatre

Monkeys playing music

Ah, Wilderness! Federal Theatre Playhouse, Tulane & Miro Streets. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Ah, Wilderness

The theatre, Zurich, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Newsie, ten years old. Going into a moving picture theatre with his papers. Location: Schenectady, New York (State). Date 1910 February

Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Handbill
Theatre Royal Handbill advertising the Marriage of Figaro and Virtues Triumph. Date: January 13th 1785

Programme cover for Theatre Cluny, Paris, 1931 1931

Programme cover for Theatre Michel, Paris, 1922 1922

Programme cover for the Empire Theatre, Paris, 1927. Artwork by Edouard Halouze 1927

Kiev Theatre
The theatre, Kiev. Date: 1911

Garrick Theatre 1970
The Garrick Theatre, St, Martins Lane, London, where Brian Rix was starring in Let Sleeping Wives Lie. Date: 1970

Wardrobe Department
Ladies in the Wardrobe Department of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, London
The Comedy Theatre (now the Harold Pinter Theatre) on the corner of Panton Street and Oxendon Street, in Londons West End. The Crime of Margaret Foley is playing. Date: 1947

Bolshoi Theatre Moscow
The Grand Imperial Theatre The Bolshoi Date: 1908?

Backstage Covent Garden
Fashionable visitors in the salon at Covent Garden Theatre, London Date: 1820

Costume design for New York stage, 1920s
Costume design by unknown designer for New York stage, 1920s for a lady in a pink creation edged with white ruffles, possible night attire Date: 1920s

Programme cover for La Revue de Marigny, Marigny Theatre, Paris 1922. Artwork by Robert Polack 1922

Aeolian Hall, New York
Theatre, Aeolian Hall. Lobby of Aeolian Hall

Theatre, Mercenary Mary 1925, Nerman
Mercenary Mary, a successful comedy, playing at the London Hippodrome, staring Mr A. W. Baskcomb, Frank Masters, Peggy O Neil (Mary) Lew Hearn, June and Sonnie Hale

Theatre first night in Edwardian London
In magnificent evening dress, the Edwardian first-nighters leave their broughams and mount the steps to the theatre. Specially drawn for The Sketch Christmas number by Cecil Beaton

USA / Met Opera / Stage
NEW YORK a performer takes a bow, as a bouquet of flowers is handed up

12th Night / 1864 Perform
Performed in the course of the 1864 Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-on-Avon

Oscar Hammerstein II
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist and librettist, famous for his professional partnership with Richard Rogers. Wrote lyrics for " South Pacific" etc

An Elizabethan Playhouse
An early 20th century drawing of a scene at the Swan Theatre, Bankside, loosely based on a contemporary sketch by Johannes de Witt

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected

Street Acrobats
Street acrobats performing before a London crowd

Moliere / Malade Imagin
LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE The imaginary invalid, his doctors and his maidservant

Mrs Patrick Campbell
Beatrice Stella Campbell (nee Tanner), 1865-1940, stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell, posing for a photograph while acting in the melodrama The Black Domino at the Adelphi Theatre

As you Like its / Speare
Rosalind, Celia and Touchstone in the Forest of Arden

Theatre / Pantomime / Dame
Fred Kitchen, a Pantomime Dame

Pantomime / Aladdin / Cooper
Aladdin whispers into the ear of his attentive red genie

Jp Kemble / Timon Athens
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE Popular actor and theatre manager, seen here in the role of Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 3

Gianduja / Sand / 1858
Gianduja/Sand/1858

Covent Garden 1930
Covent Garden Theatre at night, operagoers arriving in evening dress which at this time was de rigueur

At Covent Garden 1914
A gala performance at Covent Garden Theatre : most of the audience are there to see or be seen, rather than to enjoy the on-stage performance

Puppets, Tournai
TOURNAI, Belgium Traditional Guignol de la Maison Tournaisienne (puppet theatre)

London Teashop 1927
Three ladies in fashionable cloche hats, one with her dog on her lap, enjoy tea and cake at a London teashop next door to Wyndhams Theatre

Newbury Theatre 1803
Theatre at Newbury

Hatto / Brunnhilde / Theatre
HATTO (Marguerite Jeanne Frere) French soprano in the role of Brunnhilde

Advert / Sandwich Man 19C
Sandwichman advertising a pantomime - Babes in the Wood at Drury Lane Theatre, London

POSTER FOR TOSCA 1900
The first production, at Romes Teatro Costanzi on 14 January 1900, is received coolly by many critics, but is a resounding success with the audience and the public

Play / Wallenstein / 1800
Act 3, scene 15 from the trilogy written by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Play / Feydeau / Flea in Ear
Translated as The Flea in the Ear, this farcial confusion was written by the French novelist Ernest Aimee Feydeau

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