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The Park Theatre in Camden's Park Street opened on the 31st of May 1873 under the management of Thomas Thorpe Pede. The Theatre was to be called the Regent's Park Theatre but this name was never actually used.

The Park Theatre was designed by G. T. Robinson and built by the Contractor Edward Vaughan with decorations by Messrs. Pashley, Newton, Young & Co.

The Theatre was also known as the Alexandra Theatre and the Royal Alexandra Theatre for a brief period until 1875.

The Park Theatre was destroyed by fire on the 11th of September 1881.

Right - Programme for 'Two Orphans' at the Royal Park Theatre, Camden for the week beginning March the 24th 1879.

In 1890 the Theatre was rebuilt and operated under the new name of the Park Hall.

In Edward Walford's 'Old and New London,' published in 1878, he remarks on the Park Theatre thus: 'In Park Street, which connects Camden Town with the north-east corner of Regent's Park, is the Royal Park Theatre, a place of dramatic entertainment, originally opened about the year 1870 under the name of the Alexandra Theatre. The class of amusement generally given here consists of melodramas, farces, and opera-bouffe.' Edward Walford's 'Old and New London' 1878.

Charles Dickens Junior also mentions the Park Theatre in his 'Dickens's Dictionary of London' published in 1879, and writes: ' Park Theatre, Park-street, Camden Town, - A handsome theatre at the Regent’s-park corner of Camden Town, only established a few years. It has a rernarkably roomy stage and is very comfortably fitted up. Nearest Railway Stations, Portland-road and Camden; Omnibus Routes, Park-street, Camden Town High-street, and Camden-road. Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879.

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