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

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
Croydon Hippodrome (1910)
Derby Grand (Alterations)
Dublin Theatre Royal (Second)
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
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
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
Holborn Empire
Holloway Empire
Empire Palace, Leeds
Lewisham Hippodrome
London Colliseum
London Palladium
Lyric, Hammesmith
Palace Theatre, Leicester
Paragon Theatre of Varieties, London
Richmond Theatre
Richmond Karsino Theatre
Metropolitan Music Hall, London
Middlesbrough Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Hanley
Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1870 Reconstruction)
Empire Theatre, Nottingham
Empire Theatre, Sheffield
Empire, Leeds
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Winter Gardens Theatre, Morecambe
Royalty Theatre, Morecambe
Empire Theatre, Newcastle
New Coss Empire
Phillharmonc Hall, Islington
Islington Empire
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
Theatre Royal, Great Yarmouth (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
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
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
Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Theatre Royal, Hanley
Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1865)
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Theatre Royal, Swansea (1867 Renovation and Redecoration)
Olympic Theatre, London (1883 Reconstruction)
Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street, London
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
London Opera House, Kingsway
Lyceum Theatre, London
Palace Theatre, Redditch
Phoenix Theatre, London
Piccadilly Theatre, London
Poplar Queen's Theatre
Regent Theatre, King's Cross
Nottingham Hippodrome
Sadler's Wells 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
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
New Ambassadors Theatre, London
Broadway Theatre, New Cross
Lyeum Theatre, Newport
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
Metropole, Camberwell (With Crewe)
Olympic Theatre, London (1893 Reconstruction With Crewe)
New Theatre, Northampton
New Theatre, Oxford (1908)
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Novello Theatre, London
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

 

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
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

 

J. P. Briggs' Theatres featured on this site

Doncaster Grand Theatre
Tunbridge Wells Opera House
York Grand Opera House

 

Thomas Verity's Theatres featured on this site

Empire Theatre, Leicester Square (First)
Novelty Theatre, Holborn
Comedy Theatre / Harold Pinter 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
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)

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

 

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)

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

 

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
Granada Cinema, Woolwich, London
Wimbledon Theatre

 

Theodore Komisarjevsky's Theatres featured on this site:

Granada Woolwich
Phoenix Theatre, London
Gaumont Theatre, Manchester

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

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

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

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
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
Her Majesty's Theatre, Walsall
Imperial Theatre, Bordesley, Birmingham

Fowler and Hill's Theatres featured on this site

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

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

Exeter Theatre

J. C. Maxwell and William Hope's Theatres featured on this site

Theatre Royal, Blyth
Metropole Theatre, Glasgow
Grand Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne
Gaiety Music Hall, Birmingham
Grand Theatre, Swansea

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)

Robert Alexander Briggs

Iinventor of the Panic Bolt