Also see this article on Modern Theatre Design from the 5th of August 1899

Also see this article on Theatrical Architecture in 1878

Also see the online archive of Brunskill & Loveday LTD Scenery Builders

Frank Matcham's Theatres and articles featured on this site

About Frank Matcham
An interview with Frank Matcham

Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen
His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
Brixton Theatre
Birmingham Empire Palace
Buxton Opera House
Croydon Hippodrome (1910)
Derby Grand (Alterations)
Dublin Theatre Royal (Second)
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
Empire Theatre, Chatham
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Alhambra Opera House, Brighton
Alexandra Theatre, Stoke Newington
Grand Theatre, Brighton
Granville Theatre, Walham Green, Fulham
Hippodrome Theatre, Brighton
Prince's Theatre, Bristol (1889 and 1902 Alterations)
Bristol Hippodrome
Empire Theatre, Cardiff
Empire Palace, Birmingham
Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Empire Theatre, Newport
Olympia Theatre, Liverpool
Olympia Theatre, Glasgow
Palace Complex, Blackpool
Prince's Theatre, Portsmouth (1891 Rebuild and 1907 Renovations)
London Hippodrome
Everyman, Cheltenham
Chiswick Empire
Crouch End Hippodrome
Marlborough Theatre, Islington
Middlesex Theatre of Varieties
Palace Theatre, Hull
Empire Palace, Hull
Grand Theatre and Opera House, Hull
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Elephant & Castle Theatre, London
Finsbury Park Empire
Rose and Crown Music Hall, Greewich, London
Grand Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man
Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man
Hackney Empire
Her Majesty's Opera House, Blackpool
Holborn Empire
Holloway Empire
Ilford Hippodrome
Empire Palace, Leeds
Lewisham Hippodrome
London Colliseum
London Palladium
Lyric, Hammesmith
Palace Theatre, Leicester
Paragon Theatre of Varieties, London
Richmond Theatre
Richmond Karsino Theatre
Royal Hall, Harrogate (With Robert Beale)
Metropolitan Music Hall, London
Middlesbrough Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Hanley
Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1870 Reconstruction)
Theatre Royal, Norwich (1894 reconstruction)
Empire Theatre, Nottingham
Empire Theatre, Sheffield
Empire, Leeds
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Winter Gardens Theatre, Morecambe
Royalty Theatre, Morecambe
Empire Theatre, Newcastle (1903 Rebuild)
New Coss Empire
Grand Theatre, Islington / Islington Empire (Three builds 1883 1888 1900)
Regent Theatre of Varieties, Salford
Sadler's Wells Theatre - Matcham & Co.
Shepherds Bush Empire
Sheffield Empire
Shoreditch Empire
Southsea King's Theatre
South Shields Empire
Stockport Theatre Royal 1888
Stockport Theatre Royal 1905
Queens Theatre, Stoke on Trent (1896 Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Great Yarmouth (Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Portsmouth (1900 Rebuild)
Borough Theatre, Stratford East
Victoria Palace Theatre, London
Wood Geen Empire
Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Alhambra, Blackpool
Brighton Hippodrome
Empire Palace, Edinburgh
Glasgow Coliseum
Glasgow Empire Theatre
Glasgow Kings Theatre
Glasgow Royalty Theatre
Ardwick Empire
Newcastle Theatre Royal (1901 Reconstruction)
Manchester Gaiety Theatre
Manchester Hippodrome Theatre
Manchester Palace Theatre
Empire Palace Theatre, Newcastle
Tower Circus, Blackpool
Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
Wakefield Theatre Royal Opera House (1894 Rebuild)
Woolwich Empire

Frank Matcham & Company Theatres featured on this site.

Terry's Theatre, Strand, London (Alteration 1905)
London Pavilion Conversion 1934
Odeon, Magdalen Street, Oxford

(Also See Robert Alexander Briggs and the invention of the Panic Bolt)

 

C. J. Phipps's Theatres featured on this site.

About C. J. Phipps

Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen (With James Matthews)
Theatre Royal, Bath
Theatre Royal, Brighton
Theatre Royal, Exeter
Prince's Theatre, Bristol
Theatre Royal, Bristol (Rebuild)
Coventry Opera House
Daly's Theatre, London
Gaiety Theatre Dublin
Theatre Royal, Eastbourne
Garrick Theatre, London
Gaiety Theatre, Hastings
Gaiety Theatre, London (First Theatre)
Her Majesty's Theatre, London
Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Rotunda, Liverpool
Royal Opera House, Londonderry
Royal Strand Theatre (Rebuild 1882)
Royal Theatre, Northampton
Hengler's Circus, London
Lyceum Theatre, London (1882) Reconstruction
Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Theatre Royal, Hanley
Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1865)
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Theatre Royal, Portsmouth (1884 Theatre)
Empire Theatre, Portsmouth
Theatre Royal, Swansea (1867 Renovation and Redecoration)
Olympic Theatre, London (1883 Reconstruction)
Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street, London (1880 Rebuild)
Royal Opera House, Leicester
Queens Theatre, Long Acre, London
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Savoy Theatre, London
Shaftesbury Theatre, London - Original Theatre
South Shields Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London (1879 and 1887 Alterations)
Theatre Royal, Belfast (Second Theatre)
Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
Theatre Royal, Newcastle (Alteration and internal restoration)
Tivoli Theatre, Strand, London
Tivoli Theatre, Dover (with A. Blomfield Jackson)
Vaudeville Theatre, London
Prince of Wales Theatre, London
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindley Street, Edinburgh
Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow
Hoxton Varieties, London
Wolverhampton Grand

 

Bertie Crewe's Theatres featured on this site

Aldershot Hippodrome
Bedminster Hippodrome, Bristol
Royal Hippodrome, Belfast
Empire Theatre, Kingston
Empire, Croydon 1897
Empire, Burnley (1911 Auditorium Rebuild)
Empire Palace, Wolverhampton (1906 Refurb)
Glasgow Palace Theatre
Golders Green Hippodrome
Hippodrome Theatre, Portsmouth
London Opera House, Kingsway
Lyceum Theatre, London (1904 Rebuild)
Palace Theatre, Redditch
Phoenix Theatre, London (With Cecil Masey)
Piccadilly Theatre, London (With Edward A. Stone)
Poplar Queen's Theatre
Regent Theatre, King's Cross
Royal Cinema, Belfast
Nottingham Hippodrome
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Salford Victoria Theatre
Saville Theatre, London
Sheffield Hippodrome
Shaftesbury Theatre, London - Present Theatre
Southend Hippodrome
Southend Garon's Imperial
National Standard Theatre, Shoreditch
Manchester Palace Theatre
Metropole, Camberwell (With Sprague)
Olympic Theatre, London (1893 Reconstruction With Sprague)
Oldham Palace of Varieties
Royal Hippodrome, Liverpool
Stoll Theatre, London
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds 1906 alterations
Glasgow Hippodrome
Glasgow Pavillion
New Bedford Theatre, Camden Town
New Tivoli Theatre of Varieties, Liverpool
Woolwich Grand / Hippodrome

 

W. G. R. Sprague's Theatres featured on this site

About W. G. R. Sprague

Aldwych Theatre, London
Balham Royal Duchess Theatre
Bradford Empire
Camden Theatre
Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill Gate
Coventry Opera House
Croydon Empire 1906
Empire Palace, Stratford East
Grand Theatre, Fulham
Guilgud Theatre, London
Kennington Theatre
Kings Theatre, Hammersmith
Kilburn Empire
Holloway Empire Theatre
Ambassadors Theatre, London
Broadway Theatre, New Cross
Lyeum Theatre, Newport
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
Metropole, Camberwell (With Crewe)
Norwich Hippodrome
Olympic Theatre, London (1893 Reconstruction With Crewe)
New Theatre, Northampton
New Theatre, Oxford (1908)
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Novello Theatre, London
Penge Empire
Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Terris Theatre / Rotherhithe Hippodrome
Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich
Shakespeare Theatre, Clapham Junction
St. Martin's Theatre, London
Streatham Hill Theatre
Wyndham's Theatre, London

 

Ernest Runtz's Theatres featured on this site

Century Theatre, Strand, London
Empire Theatre of Varieties, Hastings
Crown Theatre, Peckham
Pavilion Theatre, Stepney
Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties
Forth Theatre Royal, New Street, Birmingham
Middlesbrough Empire

Runtz and Ford's Theatres featured on this site

New Theatre, Cardiff
Palace Theatre, Halifax
Second Gaiety Theatre, London

Robert Cromie's Theatres featured on this site

Dewsbury Playhouse
Dalston Theatre (Cinema Rebuild)
Davis Theatre, Croydon
New Theatre, Hull
Prince of Wales Theatre, London
Plaza / Granada, Sutton
Regal, Winchester
Regal, Kingston
Regal, Wimbledon
Royal Court, Sloane Square, 1952 restoration
Ritz Cinema, Southend

 

Walter Emden's Theatres featured on this site

Ealing Theatre (With George Pargeter)
Terry's Theatre, Strand, London
Trafalger Square Theatre, London
Duke of York's Theatre, London
Garrick Theatre, London
Royal Court, Sloane Square, London x 2
Palace Theatre, London
Royal York Palace of Varieties, Southampton (Rebuild 1897)
Imperial Theatre, London
Tivoli Theatre, Strand, London
Empire Theatre, Swansea (With W. L. Griffiths)
Newcastle Theatre Royal (Internal Reconstruction with W. Lister Newcombe 1895)

 

S. Beverley's Theatres featured on this site

Odeon (Paramount), Oxford Street, Manchester
Imperial Theatre, Brighton
Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, London

 

John P. Briggs' Theatres featured on this site

Doncaster Grand Theatre
Tunbridge Wells Opera House
York Grand Opera House
Royal Court, Wigan (1899 Alterations)

 

Thomas Verity's Theatres featured on this site

Empire Theatre, Leicester Square (First)
Novelty Theatre, Holborn
Comedy Theatre / Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Criterion Theatre, London
Humphreys Restaurant / Sun Music Hall
Trocadero Music Hall
Folly Theatre, London

 

Frank T. Verity's Theatres featured on this site (Son of Thomas Verity.)

Carlton Theatre, Haymarket
Empire Theatre, Leicester Square (Alterations)
Embassy Theatre, High Holborn
Plaza Theatre, Lower Regent Street
People's Palace, Bristol - (Rebuild)
Scala Theatre, Charlotte Street
Shepherd's Bush Pavilion
Theatre Royal Windsor (1910)

 

Verity & Hunt's Theatres featured on this site

Spa Theatre, Scarborough

 

James Wylson's Theatres featured on this site

Prince's Theatre, Glasgow

 

Wylson and Long's Theatres featured on this site
(Oswald Wylson was the son of James above)

Alhambra Complex, Blackpool
Chelsea Palace Theatre
Dalston Theatre
East Ham Palace Theatre
Empress Theatre. Brixton
Euston Palace of Varieties
Regent Theatre, King's Cross
Tottenham Palace of Varieties
Alhambra Theatre, Blackpool
Empire Theatre, Bristol
The Oxford Music Hall 1893
Pavilion Theatre, Winter Gardens, Blackpool (1897 Auditorium Reconstruction)

 

J. J. Alley's Theatres featured on this site

Metropole, Manchester
Royal Osborne, Manchester
Hulme Hippodrome, Manchester
Hulme Playhouse, Manchester
Queens Park Hippodrome, Manchester
Pavilion, Liverpool

 

William Stewart Cruikshank's Theatres featured on this site

King's Theatre, Edinburgh - Builder

 

J. D. Swanston and James Davidson's Theatres featured on this site

King's Theatre, Edinburgh - Architects

 

Edward A.Stone's Theatres featured on this site

Astoria Theatre, Charing Cross Road
Astoria Theatre, Streatham
Astoria Theatre, Brixton
Astoria Theatre, Old Kent Road
Astoria Theatre, Finsbury Park
Broadway Palladium Cinema (New Entrance)
Prince Edward Theatre, London
Piccadilly Theatre, London (With Bertie Crewe)

Frank Tugwell's Theatres featured on this site

Scarborough Opera House

HarrogateGrand Opera House

 

Finch, Hill, and Paraire's Theatres featured on this site

Weston's Music Hall
Theatre Royal, Holborn
Britannia Theatre, Hoxton
The Sun Music Hall
Royal Cambridge Music Hall, Shoreditch
Philharmonic Hall, Islington
Evans's Supper Rooms, Covent Garden
Oxford Music Hall original 1861

 

E. L.. Paraire's Theatres featured on this site

Oxford Music Hall rebuild 1873

 

Earnest A. E. Woodrow's Theatres featured on this site

Grand Theatre, Clapham
Camberwell Palace of Varieties
Collin's Theatre, Islington (1897 Reconstruction)

 

Robert Black's Theatres featured on this site

Scotia Music Hall, Glasgow

 

Campbell Douglas and James Sellars' Theatres featured on this site

Scotia Variety Theatre, Glasgow

 

Cecil Masey's Theatres featured on this site:

Phoenix Theatre, London (With Bertie Crewe)
Granada Cinema, Woolwich, London
Wimbledon Theatre

 

Theodore Komisarjevsky's Theatres featured on this site:

Granada Woolwich
Phoenix Theatre, London
Gaumont Theatre, Manchester
Lewisham Hippodrome (1931 Redecoration)

And Theatres by Komisarjevsky not yet listed on the site:
Granada, Bedford
Granada, Clapham Junction
Granada, East Ham
Granada, Dover
Granada, Kingston
Granada, Harrow
Granada, Maidstone
Granada, Shrewsbury
Granada, Tooting
Granada, Walthamstow
Granada, Willesden
Empire, Edmonton
Empire, West Ham
Empire, Willesden

Spencer Chadwick's Theatres featured on this site

Humphreys Restaurant / Sun Music Hall
Daly's Theatre, London

Chadwick & Watson's Theatres featured on this site

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
Empire Theatre, Dewsbury

James Bushell Hutchins' Theatres featured on this site

Royal Court, Liverpool
About James B. Hutchins

William and Thomas Milburn's Theatres featured on this site

Dominion Theatre, London
Empire Theatre, West Hartlepool
Empire Theatre, Sunderland
Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Empire Theatre, South Shields
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
New Theatre, Oxford (1933)
Mayflower, Southampton

John Arthur's Theatres featured on this site

Olympia Theatre, Glasgow

John Rust's Theatres featured on this site

Palace Theatre, Aberdeen

Roland Satchwell and Ernst Roberts' Theatres featured on this site

Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
Palace Theatre, Huddersfield

J. G. Buckle's Theatres featured on this site

Royal English Opera House, Cambridge Circus
Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus
Theatre Royal, Stratford East
Hoxton Varieties

Richard Knill Freeman's Theatres featured on this site

Alhambra Palace of Varieties, Hartlepool

Infiormation on Freeman here.

Jethro Thomas Robinson's Theatres featured on this site

About J. T. Robinson

Hengler's Grand Cirque, London
Park Theatre, Camden, London
Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, London
Early Theatre Royal, Hull
Albion Theatre, Poplar
Grecian Theatre, Shoreditch
Theatre Royal, Leeds (1876 Rebuild)

Thomas Guest's Theatres featured on this site

Alexandra Theatre, Hull
Carlton Theatre, Birmingham

Samuel Beazley's Theatres featured on this site

Adelphi Theatre, London
City of London Theatre
Lyceum Theatre, London (First Wellington Street Building)
St. James's Theatre, London
Theatre Royal, New Street, Birmingham

Arthur S. Hewitt's Theatres featured on this site

Windmill Theatre Great Yarmouth
Empire Theatre Great Yarmouth

G. B. Rawcliffe's Theatres featured on this site

Empire, Burnley
Victoria Opera House, Burnley

Owen and Ward's Theatres featured on this site

Opera House, Kidderminster
Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
Hippodrome, Poplar
Hippodrome Wigan
Her Majesty's Theatre, Walsall
Imperial Theatre, Bordesley, Birmingham

W. H. Ward's Theatres featured on this site

The Grand Theatre of Varieties, Birmingham

G. F. Ward's Theatres featured on this site

The Palace Hippodrome, Warrington
The Hippodrome, Middlesborough

Fowler and Hill's Theatres featured on this site

Avenue Theatre / Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London
National Opera House, Thames Embankment (Never Completed)
Prince of Wales Theatre, Southampton

Darbyshire & Smith - Alfred Darbyshire's Theatres featured on this site

Exeter Theatre
Royal Court Theatre, Warrington
Palace Theatre, Manchester

J. C. Maxwell's Theatres featured on this site

Theatre Royal, Blyth With William Hope
Metropole Theatre, Glasgow With William Hope
Grand Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne With William Hope
Queen's Theatre, Leeds With William Hope
Theatre Royal, Middlesborough With William Hope
Grand Opera House, Middlesborough With William Hope

Cambell and Horsley's Theatres featured on this site

Theatre Royal, Hyde
Crown Theatre, Manchester

W. Vaughan's Theatres featured on this site

Lyric Theatre, Liverpool

Lewin Sharp's Theatres featured on this site

Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Camberwell Palace (1908 alterations)

R. T Johnson's Theatres featured on this site

Theatre Royal, Wigan (Rebuild and Restoration 1890)
Empire Palace Music Hall, Wigan (Rebuild of Alexandra Music Hall 1892)
Royal Court Theatre, Wigan

Crouch and Butler's Theatres featured on this site

Gaiety Theatre, Birmingham (Reconstruction 1897, with William Hope)

William Hope's Theatres featured on this site

Gaiety Theatre, Birmingham (Reconstruction 1897, with Crouch and Butler)
Grand Theatre, Swansea
Theatre Royal, Blyth With J. C. Maxwell
Metropole Theatre, Glasgow With J. C. Maxwell
Grand Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne With J. C. Maxwell
Queen's Theatre, Leeds With J. C. Maxwell
Theatre Royal, Middlesborough With J. C. Maxwell
Grand Opera House, Middlesborough With J. C. Maxwell
Grand Theatre, Southampton

Wiliam Wilkins the Younger's Theatre featured on this site

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds 1819

Thomos Angelo Moore and Sons Theatres featured on this site

People's Palace, Sunderland
Theatre Royal, Leeds (1876 Rebuild)
Victoria Music Hall, Hartlepool (1863 Alterations)
Wear Music Hal, Sunderland (Converson of old Theatre Royal in 1863)

Alfred Bedborough's Theatre featured on this site

The Royal York Music Hall, Southampton
The Royal Aquarium, London

Bucknell and Jennings Theatres featured on this site

Pavilion Theatre, Swansea
Adelina Patti Theatre, Swansea

William Bakewell's Theatres featured on this site

The Coliseum, Leeds

Prescott and Bold's Theatres featured on this site

The Grand Theatre and Hippodrome, Leigh, Lancashire

Frederick W. Hingston's Theatres featured on this site

The Putney Hippodrome
The Kilburn Empire

John Stanley Beard's Theatres featured on this site

The Palace Theatre, Putney
The St. James's Picture Theatre, London (Later to become the Westminster Theatre)
Pyke's Cinematograph Theatre, Shepherd's Bush (1923 Reconstruction)
The Forum Theatre, Fulham

William Alexander's Theatres featured on this site

Her Majesty's Theatre, Dundee
Gaiety Theatre, Dundee

James Hutton's Theatres featured on this site

The People's Palace, Bristol
Prince of Wales Theatre, Dundee
The Palace Theatre, Dundee

Oliver and Leeson's Theatres featured on this site

The Empire Palace, Newcastle (1890)

Robert Alexander Briggs

Iinventor of the Panic Bolt