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The Haymarket's managers Frederick Harrison (who was sole lessee) and Cyril Maude remained through the first year of the 20th century. [23] [page needed] In 1904, the auditorium was redesigned in Louis XVI style by C. Stanley Peach. [24] The following year, Maude acquired the Playhouse Theatre by
The Charing Cross Theatre is an Off West End theatre under The Arches off Villiers Street below Charing Cross station. Founded in 1936, the venue occupied several premises in the West End of London before locating to its present site. The current site, from 1946 to 2002, presented Victorian-style music hall under the name Players' Theatre.
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The theatre at its largest, after reconstruction in 1881–82, had a capacity of between 650 and 700. As the Charing Cross Theatre (1869–1876) the house became known for bills offering a mixture of drama, burlesque and operetta. Among the authors of its burlesques were W. S. Gilbert and H. B. Farnie.
In 1885, Chicago-based businessman and philanthropist Ferdinand Wythe Peck began ambitious plans for the building that would house the Auditorium Theatre. [3] At the time, Chicago was still recovering from the 1871 Great Chicago Fire and was rife with the contentious labor issues that would lead to the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing. Peck was ...
Following the closure of the theatre, the Players' Theatre Club continues to perform music hall shows throughout the year in other venues such as the Museum of Comedy, the Royal Oak pub in Tabard Street and the Royal Air Force Club in Piccadilly. [8] The theatre at Villers Street was later refurbished and is now the Charing Cross Theatre.
Charing Cross (/ ˈ tʃ ær ɪ ŋ / CHARR-ing) [1] is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet.Since the early 19th century, Charing Cross has been the notional "centre of London" and became the point from which distances from London are measured.
The displays in the bars include theatre posters, Dr Watson's old service revolver, political cartoons and the stuffed and mounted head of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 10 ] Over the years the exhibits in the downstairs bar areas have been augmented with photographs of the actors who have played Holmes and Watson since the ...