Theatres Collection (page 2)

Theatre goes rural
With many London theatres closed, this production of On Approval was rehearsed in a barn in Buckinghamshire, then toured the provinces. Date: 1940

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Sketch depicting a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Date: 1939

Noel Coward's Cavalcade was a thirty-year retrospect of England in peace and war. It ran at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane between October 1931 and September 1932 and had a cast

Foundation Stone for New Brixton Theatre 1894
Henry Irving laying the foundation stone of the new Brixton Theatre and Opera House. Built by theatre architect, Frank Matcham

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Satirical puppet show La Tarumba. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatters tea party starring Marie Studholme as Alice and Stanley Brett as the Mad Hatter at The Prince of Wales Theatre, West End, London. Date: 1907

Hippodrome Theatre, London 1900
Exterior view of the Hippodrome Theatre, London. Date: circa 1900

Last Night at Drury Lane 1872
Men and women in their best attire at the theatre in Drury Lane, London, to watch Christine Nilsson a Swedish operatic soprano. Date: 1872

The People's Palace
Exterior of People's Palace in Mile End Road, East London. Date: 1895

Sadlers Wells, Theatre, London
Exterior of Sadlers Wells, Theatre. Date: 1830

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Outside the entrance of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Date: 1828

Exterior of Olympic Theatre, located junction of Drury Lane, Wych Street, London, specialised in comedies. Date: 1831

Exterior of Little Theatre, Haymarket, London. Date: 1815

Stage at Little Theatre, Haymarket, London. Date: 1815

Exterior of the Haymarket Theatre, London. Date: 1846

Exterior of the new Haymarket Theatre, London. Date: July 1821

Where Shafesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road meet, Palace Theatre, playhouse in London. Date: late 1890s

Exterior of the Gaiety Theatre, Strand, London. Date: circa 1885

View of the front entrance from the street. Date: early 19th century

Olympia Music-Hall, Paris
Outside the Olympia Music-Hall (which still exists) Date: 1898

Caricature of (Sir) Edward Moss, chairman of Moss Empires and the man behind the London Hippodrome, talking to his stage director Frank Parker

Trafalgar Square Theatre, London - by night, busy with theatregoers. (2 of 2) Date: late 19th century

Trafalgar Square Theatre, London - by day - comic opera every evening. (1 of 2) Date: late 19th century

Advert for Fanchon and Marcos Ideas stage presentations for Fox West Coast Theatres, 1930 Date: 1930

The Cut, Waterloo
The Cut (formerly New Cut) is a street in London which runs between Waterloo Road in Lambeth and Blackfriars Road in Southwark

Court dresses in the early Restoration, Paris
Women in feather headdresses and luxurious embroidered dresses, court of King Louis XVIII, circa 1817. Interior with blue curtains and fleur de lys carpet

Woman leading a horse in the Parc de Bagatelle, 1807
Woman in hunting dress, bonnet and kerchief leading a horse in the Parc de Bagatelle, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1807. A check in the park at Bagatelle

Iris Lockwood in Get a Load of This, London Hippodrome
Iris Lockwood, actress, model and later wife of theatre director and producer Robert Nesbitt, appearing in the London Hippodrome revue Get a Load of This wearing a dress by Norman Hartnell. Date: 1941

Auditorium of the new London Hippodrome
The interior of the brand new London Hippodrome at the corner of Charing Cross Road and Cranbourn Street. Built by theatre architect Frank Matcham for Edward Moss of Moss Empires Limited

Exterior of the London Hippodrome
Exterior, showing entrance, of the brand new London Hippodrome, when it opened in January 1900. Built by theatre architect Frank Matcham for Edward Moss (Moss Empires Limited)

The good-humoured crowd at the London Hippodrome
Street entertainers amuse the crowds waiting outside the London Hippodrome. Date: 1901

Cartoon, Another Juliet. Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre, for a matinee slot

Programme cover, Kingston Empire Theatre, Surrey, Kingshot Theatres Ltd, Director: Stanley Watson. circa 1950

Dolly Sisters on front cover of the Sketch 1921
The Dolly Sisters photographed in their costumes for the new pantomime " The Babes in the Wood" by C B Cochran. The Dolly Sisters enjoyed immense success in London

Playwright Clemence Dane 1921
Clemence Dane (1888 - 1865), famous female playwright. The Sketch comments particularly on her play " Will Shakespeare", at that time still running at the Shaftesbury

Photograph of the dolly sisters in fluffy white costumes for their Pony Trot. Until the end of the League of Notions revue

Voice audition for female role in a musical 1908
Illustration of a voice-trial for a female role in a musical comedy, with Stanley Wade and Merlin Morgan shown judging the auditions for Mr George Edwardes theatre companies

Cartoon portrait, Mrs A de Parravicini, theatrical agent - He wouldn t care if all our theatres were turned into circuses. 1886

Cartoon, West-End Waits, a reference to the rival pantomimes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres, London. 1885

Cartoon portrait, Mr H A Freeman, Acting Manager at the Grand Theatre, London (there were several theatres named the Grand, in places including Clapham, Croydon, Islington, Fulham and Woolwich). 1885

Cartoon, Music Hall Proprietors
Cartoon, The dismay of the Music-Hall Proprietors when they heard of the threatened destruction of the Inventions Exhibition, knew no bounds

Proposed site of Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in London 1924
Illustration depicting the proposed site for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre as an arrangement of theatre, museum and offices on the Victoria Embankment near to Whitehall

The newly built Theatre Royal, Manchester
Facade of the newly built Theatre Royal, Manchester. Date: 1845

Cheshire Regiment Memorial, Musee du Debarquement
The memorial is to all members of the Regiment whose different Battalions fought in various theatres of war. On D-Day the 2nd Battalion landed on Gold Beach as part of the 50th Northumbrian Division

Ellaline Terriss as Peggy Quainton in The Gay Gordons
Ellaline Terriss as Peggy Quainton in the Edwardian musical comedy, The Gay Gordons, at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Date: 1907

Mlle. Roussel as Martial in La Corde de Pendu, 1844
Mlle. Roussel as Martial in La Corde de Pendu by Laloue and Bourgeois, Theatre du Cirque Olympique, 1844. Actress crossdressing as a trumpeter for the Musketeers

Mlle. Duverger in the title role of Fiorina, 1844
Mlle. Duverger in the title role of Fiorina, by Melesville and Carmouche, Theatre du Palais-Royal, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollets

Auguste Berger as Hector in Un Enfantillage, 1844
Auguste Berger as Hector in Un Enfantillage by A-H-J Duveyrier, Theatre du Palais Royal, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollets Galerie

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