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Old Joint Stock Theatre: Birmingham 1864 95 The Old Town Hall: Hemel Hempstead 1978 110 Dacorum Borough Council Old Rep Theatre Birmingham 15 February 1913 383 Old Vic: London 1818 1,067 Artistic Director – Matthew Warchus: Oldham Coliseum Theatre: Oldham 1885 585 Olivier (Royal National Theatre) London 1976 1,160 Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
The architects were Owen & Ward [1] and the theatre was opened on 27 May 1901 as the Lyceum Theatre [2] on John Bright Street. Initially it attracted few theatre goers and it was decided to bring in a star. For ten weeks from the middle of June 1901 Harry Arthur Saintsbury trod the boards as the theatre's leading man, playing in costume dramas. [3]
The Birmingham Hippodrome, home stage of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, is the busiest single theatre in the United Kingdom. [1] Birmingham is an important centre for theatre in the United Kingdom. The earliest known performances in the city were medieval pageants and miracle plays. Birmingham's first permanent theatres and theatrical companies ...
Established in 1932, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is one of the largest theatres in London, with 1,304 seats. It is situated in Queen Mary’s Gardens in Regent’s Park, one of London’s Royal Parks. [1] The theatre’s annual 18-week season is attended by more than 140,000 people each year.
Regent's Park is the setting of Cruella de Vil's fashion show in Disney's live-action prequel film Cruella (2021). Regent's Park is the setting of the modern headquarters of MI5 for the spy thriller television series Slow Horses (2022). In Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Pongo is barking the alert from Regent's Park. As stated ...
The theatre was awarded its first Arts Council England grant in 1954 worth £3,000 which now equates to £77,000. Shortly after in 1960, Barry Jackson met with Birmingham City Council and Arts Council England to guarantee the funding to build a new arts venue. This was eventually agreed in 1968, and plans for the new Rep began to take place.
The theatre was a requirement of the City Council, who stipulated that a public amenity should be provided as a condition of granting planning permission. However, the proximity of three other theatres probably contributed to no-one taking up the concession to run the theatre and it remained unused until c.1990, when it and the nightclub space ...
The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Hamsom (1803–1882), Designer of the Hansom Cab, Birmingham Town Hall and Churches of the Catholic Revival. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-3851-4. Holyoak, Joe (1989). All About Victoria Square. Birmingham: The Victorian Society Birmingham Group. ISBN 0-901657-14-X. Foster, Andy ...