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Olympia Theatre, West Derby Road, Everton, Liverpool

Formerly the New Olympia / Olympia Cinema

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Postcard showing the Olympia Theatre, Liverpool

Above - Postcard showing the Olympia Theatre, Liverpool

 

Variety Programme for the Liverpool Olympia Theatre on March the 2nd 1914. The Olympia Theatre in Liverpool's West Derby Road, Everton was built for Moss Empires Ltd. in 1905 by the renowned Theatre Architect Frank Matcham. The auditorium was was huge and built on four levels, Stalls and three Balconies, and could accommodate 3,750 people, whilst the stage had a 48' wide Proscenium, was 41' deep, and had a height of 68'.

Right - Variety Programme for the Liverpool Olympia Theatre on March the 2nd 1914. On the Bill were Whit Cunliffe, Eight Lancashire Lads, the American Bioscope, and the play 'The Forest Fire' by Langdon McCormick.

The Theatre, now Grade II Listed, was built as a Circus Variety Theatre and is a rare survivor of its type in the country.

To see a 360 degree view of the auditorium today click here...

A 1907 postcard for the Olympia Theatre, Liverpool.The Olympia Theatre was converted into a Cinema in 1925 and was even used as a Naval Depot during the second world war.

Left - A 1907 postcard for the Olympia Theatre, Liverpool.

More recently the Olympia Theatre has seen service as a Bingo Hall, and a Discotheque.

 

However, in 2008 the Theatre is back in use again for various forms of live entertainment and is occasionally even used as a Circus venue, as originally intended when it opened over one hundred years ago in 1905.

You may like to visit the Liverpool Olympia Theatre's own website here...

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