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Theatre Architects and Builders who Built, Adapted, or Converted Theatres which are featured on this site.

 

J. J. Alley
John Arthur
Robert Black
S. Beverley
J. G. Buckle
Robert Alexander Briggs
J. P. Briggs
Campbell Douglas and James Sellars
Spencer Chadwick
Chadwick & Watson
Bertie Crew
Robert Cromie
William Stewart Cruikshank
Walter Emden
Richard Knill Freeman
Theodore Komisarjevsky
Finch, Hill, and Paraire
E. L. Paraire
Thomas Guest
James Bushell Hutchins

Cecil Masey
Frank Matcham
W. and T. Milburn
C. J. Phipps
Jethro T. Robinson
Ernest Runtz
Runtz & Ford
John Rust
Roland Satchwell and Ernst Roberts
W. G. R. Sprague
Edward A. Stone
J. D. Swanston
Frank Tugwell
Thomas Verity
Frank T. Verity
Verity & Hunt
James Wylson
Wylson & Long
Earnest A. E. Woodrow

 

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
Derby Hippodrome
Dublin Theatre Royal (Second)
Dewsbury Theatre Royal
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Alhambra Opera House, Brighton
Alexandra Theatre, Stoke Newington
Grand Theatre, Brighton
Hippodrome Theatre, Brighton
Prince's Theatre, Bristol
Bristol Hippodrome
Empire Theatre, Cardiff
Empire Theatre, Liverpool
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
Paragon Theatre of Varieties, London
Richmond Theatre
Richmond Karsino Theatre
Metropolitan Music Hall, London
Middlesbrough Theatre Royal
Theatre Royal, Hanley
Empire Theatre, Nottingham
Empire Theatre, Sheffield
Empire, Leeds
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Winter Gardens Theatre, Morecambe
Empire Theatre, Newcastle
Lyceum Theatre, Newport
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, Stratford East
Borough Theatre, Stratford East
Terry's Theatre, Strand, London
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
Manchester Gaiety Theatre
Manchester Hippodrome Theatre
Manchester Palace Theatre
Empire Palace Theatre, Newcastle
Woolwich Empire

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
Her Majesty's Theatre, London
Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Rotunda, Liverpool
Royal Opera House, Londonderry
Royal Theatre, Northampton
Hengler's Circus, London
Lyceum Theatre, London
Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Theatre Royal, Hanley
Theatre Royal, Nottingham
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street, London
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
Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Tivoli Theatre, Strand, London
Vaudeville Theatre, London
Prince of Wales Theatre, London
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindley Street, Edinburgh
Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow
Hoxton Varieties, London

 

Bertie Crewe's Theatres featured on this site

Aldershot Hippodrome
Bedminster Hippodrome, Bristol
Royal Hippodrome, Belfast
Empire Theatre, Kingston
Empire, Croydon 1897
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)
Oldham Palace of Varieties
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)
New Olympic, London
New Theatre, Northampton
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


Robert Cromie's Theatres featured on this site

The Regal, Winchester
The Regal, Kingston
Davis Theatre, Croydon
Prince of Wales Theatre, London
New Theatre, Hull
Dewsbury Playhouse
Plaza / Granada, Sutton
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

 

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, London
Humphreys Restaurant / Sun Music Hall
Trocadero Music Hall

 

Frank T. Verity's Theatres featured on this site

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

 

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
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

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, Stratford East
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

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

Robert Alexander Briggs

Iinventor of the Panic Bolt

 

Also see:

London's Lost Theatres - Article

London's Theatres and Music Halls Past and Present
London's Lost Theatres and Music Halls
London's Current West End Theatres
Leicester Square Theatres Index
Britain's Provincial Theatres
London's Pre 1907 West End seating plans
London Theatreland Maps 1860 1882 1900 1951 2002

Working Dimensions of London Theatre Stages 1960
Theatre Architects