New Star Theatre of Varieties, Snow Hill, Birmingham

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New Star Theatre of Varieties, Snow Hill, Birmingham

Later The Queen's Theatre and Opera House / The Metropole Theatre

The Queen's Theatre and Opera House, Birmingham - From an illustration in the Playgoer of 1901 / 1902 - Courtesy Iain Wotherspoon.

Above - The Queen's Theatre and Opera House, Birmingham - Formerly The New Star Theatre of Varieties - From an illustration in the Playgoer of 1901 / 1902 - Courtesy Iain Wotherspoon.

Photograph of the Birmingham Metropole Theatre, formerly the New Star Theatre of Varieties / Queen's Theatre and Opera House. The New Star Theatre of Varieties on Birmingham's Snow Street opened on the 23rd of November 1885. The Theatre was built at a cost of £15,000 but wasn't successful and closed down later that year.

The Theatre was then reconstructed and reopened as the Queen's Theatre and Opera House on the 26th of December 1886 with a production of 'The Bohemian Girl.'

Under the management of Walter Melville in the early 1900s the Theatre had a change of name again, this time to the Metropole Theatre, with a capacity of 1,600.

Right - Photograph of the Birmingham Metropole Theatre, formerly the New Star Theatre of Varieties / Queen's Theatre and Opera House.

The Metropole closed down as a live Theatre in 1911 and was reopened as a Cinema but was bombed during the war in 1941 and subsequently demolished.

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