Theatre Architects and Builders who Built, Adapted, or Converted Theatres which are featured on this site (original) (raw)

About Frank Matcham
An interview with Frank Matcham
Frank Matcham's House in Southend on Sea

His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
Her Majesty's Theatre / Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen (1897 access Alterations / 1910 Auditorium Redesign and Improvements)
Battersea Park Open Air Theatre
Brixton Theatre
Birmingham Alhambra (Unbuilt)
Birmingham Empire Palace
Bolton Theatre Royal (1888 rebuild)
Bolton Victoria Theatre (1896 Structural Alterations)
Bolton Grand Theatre
Buxton Opera House
Canterbury Theatre, Westminster (1889 Alterations)
Gaiety Theatre, Manchester (1912 Reconstruction of the former Comedy Theatre)
Croydon Hippodrome (1910)
Derby Grand - (1893 and 1900 Alterations)
Dublin Theatre Royal (Second)
Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
Empire Theatre, Chatham
Grand Opera House, Belfast
Grand Theatre, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
Grand Theatre of Varieties, Ipswich (Unbuilt)
Grand Theatre, Stockton
Ipswich Hippodrome
Ipswich Picture House Theatre
Alhambra Opera House, Brighton
Alexandra Theatre, Stoke Newington
Gaiety Theatre, Glasgow (1880 Renovation and Redecoration)
Grand Theatre, Brighton
Granville Theatre, Walham Green, Fulham
Hippodrome Theatre, Brighton
Hanley Empire
Prince's Theatre, Bristol (1889 and 1902 Alterations)
Bristol Hippodrome
Empire Theatre, Cardiff
Empire Palace, Birmingham
Empire Theatre, Liverpool (Reconstruction of former Alexandra Theatre 1896)
Empire Theatre, Newport
Olympia Theatre, Liverpool
Olympia Theatre, Glasgow
Opera House, Southport
Palace Complex, Blackpool
Prince's Theatre, Portsmouth (1891 Rebuild and 1907 Renovations)
Queen's Theatre, Keighley (1900 Rebuild)
London Hippodrome
Everyman, Cheltenham
Chiswick Empire
Crouch End Hippodrome
Marlborough Theatre, Islington
Middlesex Theatre of Varieties
Palace Theatre, Hull
Grand Theatre and Opera House, Hull
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Elephant & Castle Theatre, London (With J. T. Robinson)
Finsbury Park Empire
Rose and Crown Music Hall, Greewich, London
Grand Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man
Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man Hackney Empire
Hammersmith Palace (1909 Alterations)
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)
Royal County Theatre, Reading (1895 Rebuild)
Royal Opera House, London (1884 Conversion for Circus Use)
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 (1896 Alteration)
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
Queens Theatre, Stoke on Trent (1896 Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Blackburn (1887 Alterations)
Theatre Royal, Colchester
Theatre Royal, Hanley (1887 Rebuild with C. J. Phipps)
Theatre Royal, Great Yarmouth (Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Portsmouth (1900 Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Rochdale (1889 Alterations and 1895 Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Tudour Street, Sheffield (1897 Alterations)
Tivoli Theatre, Strand, London (1891 Remodeling)
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 Hippodrome Theatre
Manchester Palace Theatre
Empire Palace Theatre, Newcastle
St. Helens Theatre Royal
Tower Circus, Blackpool
Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
Wakefield Theatre Royal Opera House (1894 Rebuild)
Willesden Hippodrome
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
Tivoli Theatre, Hull (1926 Proposed Alterations)
Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane (1919 Alterations)

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

About C. J. Phipps

His Majesty's 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 (With Spencer Chadwick)
Gaiety Theatre Dublin
Theatre Royal, Eastbourne
Garrick Theatre, London
Gaiety Theatre, Hastings
Gaiety Theatre, London (First Theatre)
Her Majesty's Theatre, London
Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool (Alterations 1867, and Alterations 1879)
Rotunda, Liverpool (1878 Reconstruction with E. Davies and Son)
Royal Globe Theatre, London (1890 Alterations)
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 (1887 Rebuild with Frank Matcham)
Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1865)
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Theatre Royal, Portsmouth (1884 Theatre)
Empire Theatre, Portsmouth
Theatre Royal, Tudour Street, Sheffield (1880 Auditorium Remodeling)
Theatre Royal, Swansea (1867 Renovation and Redecoration)
Olympic Theatre, London (1883 Reconstruction)
Opera House / Theatre Royal, Leamington Spa (With Osborne & Reading)
Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street, London (1880 Rebuild)
Philharmonic Hall, Islington (1874 Redecoration)
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 (Original 1890 Build and 1910 alterations)
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
Theatre Royal, Torquay
Theatre Royal, Worcester (1875) (And 1878 Rebuild)
Hoxton Varieties, London
Wolverhampton Grand

The Carlton Hotel (Completetd by Isaacs and Florence in 1899)

About Bertie Crewe

Accrington Hippodrome (1908 Rebuild)
Aldershot Hippodrome
Aldershot Theatre Royal (With Sprague)
Bedminster Hippodrome, Bristol
Birmingham Hippodrome (Alterations for Cinema Use 1917)
Chesterfield Hippodrome (1922 Auditorium Alterations)
Devonport Hippodrome
Royal Hippodrome, Belfast
Empire Theatre, Kingston
Empire, Croydon 1897
Empire, Burnley (1911 Auditorium Rebuild)
Empire Palace, Wolverhampton (1906 Refurb)
Glasgow Palace Theatre
Glasgow Hippodrome
Golders Green Hippodrome
Hamilton Hippodrome (From plans used for the Glasgow and Paisley Hippodromes)
Hippodrome Theatre, Portsmouth
Hippodrome, Southampton (1905 Rebuild of the Prince of Wales Theatre)
Hippodrome Wolverhampton (Alteration of the former Empire Palace Theatre 1921
Kings Palace Theatre, Preston
London Opera House, Kingsway
Lyceum Theatre, London (1904 Rebuild)
Palace Theatre, Redditch
Brickwell's Theatre, Paisley
Hippodrome, Paisley
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 (Consulting Architect to T. P. Bennett & Son Architects)
Sheffield Hippodrome
Shaftesbury Theatre, London - Present Theatre
Southend Hippodrome
Southend Garon's Imperial
Olympia Theatre, Shoreditch (1889 Rebuild of the National Standard Theatre, with W. G. R. Sprague.
Manchester Palace Theatre (1913 Auditorium Reconstruction)
Metropole, Camberwell (With Sprague)
Olympic Theatre, London (1893 Reconstruction With Sprague)
Oldham Palace of Varieties
Royal Hippodrome, Liverpool
Stoll Theatre, London
Theatre Royal, Blackburn (1909 Refurbishment)
Theatre Royal, Lincoln (With W.G.R. Sprague)
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds 1906 alterations
Glasgow Hippodrome
Glasgow Pavillion
New Bedford Theatre, Camden Town (1898 Rebuild)
New Tivoli Theatre of Varieties, Liverpool
Tivoli Theatre, Strand, London (1925 complete rebuild with Gunton & Gunton)
Woolwich Grand / Hippodrome

About William George Robert Sprague

Aldershot Theatre Royal (With Crewe)
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
Hippodrome, Whitstable
Holloway Empire Theatre
Ambassadors Theatre, London
Broadway Theatre, New Cross
Lyeum Theatre, Newport
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
Metropole, Camberwell (With Crewe)
Norwich Hippodrome / Grand Opera House
Olympic Theatre, London (1893 Reconstruction With Crewe)
New Theatre, Northampton
New Theatre, Oxford (1908)
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Novello Theatre, London
Palace Theatre, Reading
Palace Theatre, Blackburn (With J. T. Wimperis and Arber)
Penge Empire
Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
Terris Theatre / Rotherhithe Hippodrome
Theatre Royal, Lincoln (With Bertie Crewe)
Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich
Shakespeare Theatre, Clapham Junction
St. Martin's Theatre, London
Streatham Hill Theatre (With W. H. Barton)
Wyndham's Theatre, London

Theatre Design and Construction by Ernest Runtz 1913
Ernest Runtz Obituaries

Century Theatre, Strand, London
Empire Theatre of Varieties, Hastings
Crown Theatre, Peckham
Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel (1894 Rebuild)
Royal Holborn Theatre of Varieties
Forth Theatre Royal, New Street, Birmingham
Middlesbrough Empire
Theatre Royal, Cambridge (1896)
Grand Opera House, Norwich / Norwich Hippodrome (1899 Proposed Design but Eventually designed by W.G.R Sprague)

The Gaiety Restaurant, Strand, London next to the Gaiety Theatre (With Norman Shaw as Consulting Architect)

Theatre Design and Construction by Ernest Runtz 1913
Ernest Runtz Obituaries

New Theatre, Cardiff
Palace Theatre, Halifax
Second Gaiety Theatre, London
Theatre Royal, Birmingham (1904 Rebuild)

About Robert Cromie

Apollo, Hammersmith
Dewsbury Playhouse
Dalston Picture House (Dalston Theatre Rebuild With F. Edward Jones)
Davis Theatre, Croydon Granada Exchange Cinema, Chichester
Hippodrome, Rochdale (1920 Redesign) New Theatre, Hull
Paris Cinema, London
Prince of Wales Theatre, London
Princess Cinema, Dagenham
Plaza / Granada, Sutton
Regal, Winchester
Regal, Kingston
Regal, Wimbledon
Ritz, Ipswich
Royal Court, Sloane Square, 1952 restoration
Ritz Cinema, Southend

About Walter Emden

City Theatre, Sheffield
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 - 1871 and 1888
Royal Globe Theatre, London (1870 Alterations)
Palace Theatre, London
Royal York Palace of Varieties, Southampton (Rebuild 1897)
Royal Albert Music Hall, Canning Town (1891 Reconstruction)
Imperial Theatre, Westminster (1898 Alterations)
Tivoli Theatre, Strand, London
Lyceum Theatre, Ipswich
Empire Theatre, Swansea (With W. L. Griffiths)
Newcastle Theatre Royal (Internal Reconstruction with W. Lister Newcombe 1895)
St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, London (New Entrance 1888)
Theatre Royal, Barnsley (With Herbert Crawshaw)

Odeon (Paramount), Oxford Street, Manchester
Imperial Theatre, Brighton Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, London (With Frank T. Verity)
Gaumont Palace Theatre, Peckham (With Frank Verity)

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

About Thomas Verity

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
Royalty Theatre, London (1883 Rebuild)

Carlton Theatre, Haymarket (With S. Beverley)
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)
Imperial Theatre, Westminster (1901 Reconstruction)
Proposed Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London (Unbuilt)
Gaumont Palace Theatre, Peckham (With S. Beverley)

Verity & Hunt's Theatres featured on this site

About Thomas Verity
About G. H. Hunt

Spa Theatre, Scarborough

Verity & Beverley's Theatres featured on this site

The Pavilion Theatre, Weymouth (1960 Rebuild)
Paramount Theatre, Birmingham
Paramount Theatre / Odeon, Newcastle
Paramount Theatre / Odeon, Leeds Paramount Theatre / Odeon, Manchester
Carlton Theatre, Haymarket, London
Ritz / Capitol Theatre, Horsham (Consultants to the architects Goodman & Kay)

About James Wylson

Prince's Theatre, Glasgow

About Wylson and Long

Alhambra Complex, Blackpool
Chelsea Palace Theatre
Dalston Theatre
East Ham Palace Theatre
Empress Theatre. Brixton
Euston Palace of Varieties
Lyric Theatre, Bath
London Pavilion (1900 Remodelled)
Pavilion Theatre, Newcastle
Palace Theatre, Walthamstow
Regent Theatre, King's Cross Tottenham Palace of Varieties Alhambra Theatre, Blackpool
Empire Theatre, Bristol
The Oxford Music Hall (1893 Rebuild and 1901 Redecoration)
Pavilion Theatre, Winter Gardens, Blackpool (1897 Auditorium Reconstruction)

Hilldene House, Hampstead (Mr. Long's House in Hampstead)

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

Obituary
King's Theatre, Edinburgh - Builder
King`s Theatre, Kirkcaldy - Builder

King's Theatre, Edinburgh - (With James Davidson)
King's Theatre & Opera House, Kirkcaldy (With William Williamson)
The Palace Theatre, Kirkcaldy
The Opera House, Dunfermline (1921 Rebuild)

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)
Old Kent Picture House, London (1926 Enlargement)
Prince Edward Theatre, London
Piccadilly Theatre, London (With Bertie Crewe)
New Cross Kinema
Whitehall Theatre / Trafalgar Studios

Scarborough Opera House
Futurist Theatre, Scarborough
Harrogate Grand Opera House
Savoy Theatre, London
Shaftesbury Theatre, London (1909 Alterations)

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

Oxford Music Hall rebuild 1873

Concert Halls and Assembly Rooms by Ernest Woodrow, 1895

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

Scotia Music Hall, Glasgow

Scotia Variety Theatre, Glasgow (With Campbell Douglas) Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

Comedy Theatre (1955 Alterations with Alistair Macdonald) Phoenix Theatre, London (With Bertie Crewe)
Granada Cinema, Woolwich, London
Granada Tooting (With Theodore Komisarjevsky)
Granada Theatre, Dover ( With Theodore Komisarjevsky) (First Theatre Built by the Granada Chain)
Granada Theatre, Shrewsbury (With Theodore Komisarjevsky)
Wimbledon Theatre

Granada Woolwich
Granada Tooting (With Cecil Masey)
Granada, Kingston (With Cecil Masey and George Coles)
Phoenix Theatre, London
Gaumont Theatre, Manchester
Granada Theatre, Dover ( With Cecil Masey) (First Theatre Built by the Granada Chain)
Granada Theatre, Shrewsbury (With Cecil Masey)
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, Harrow
Granada, Maidstone
Granada, Walthamstow
Granada, Willesden
Empire, Edmonton
Empire, West Ham
Empire, Willesden

Humphreys Restaurant / Sun Music Hall
Daly's Theatre, London (With C. J. Phipps)

Chadwick & Watson's Theatres featured on this site

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
Empire Theatre, Dewsbury
Empire Theatre, Rotherham
Hippodrome, Rotherham

Royal Court, Liverpool
About James B. Hutchins

Dominion Theatre, London
Empire Theatre, Cardiff (1915 Alterations)
Empire Theatre, Glasgow (1931 Rebuild)
Empire Theatre, Liverpool (1925 Alterations)
Empire Theatre, West Hartlepool
Empire Theatre, Sunderland
Empire Theatre, South Shields
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
New Theatre, Oxford (1933)
Newtown Palace, Birmingham
Mayflower, Southampton
Palace Theatre, Sunderland (1903 Alterations)

Olympia Theatre, Glasgow

Palace Theatre, Aberdeen

Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
Palace Theatre, Huddersfield

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

Alhambra Palace of Varieties, Hartlepool

Infiormation on Freeman here.

About J. T. Robinson

Elephant And Castle Theatre (And Frank Matcham)
Hengler's Grand Cirque, London
Hengler's Grand Cirque, Hull
Hengler's Grand Cirque, Liverpool
Park Theatre, Camden, London Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, London
Early Theatre Royal, Hull
Albion Theatre, Poplar
Grecian Theatre, Shoreditch
Theatre Royal, Leeds (1876 Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Margate
Old Vic, London - (1871 Reconstruction)

Alexandra Theatre, Hull
Carlton Theatre, Birmingham

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

The Great Yarmouth based local architect Arthur S. Hewitt came from Suffolk and lived in Gorleston, next to Great Yarmouth, until he emigrated to Canada in 1921. He died there in December 1922.

Windmill Theatre Great Yarmouth
Empire Theatre Great Yarmouth

The Llandudno based Architect, Businessman, and Councilor, Arthur Hewitt was born in 1876 and designed many notable buildings in North Wales, he died in 1951.

The Palladium Theatre, Llandudno
The Savoy Theatre, Llandudno
Winter Gardens Theatre, Llandudno

Empire, Burnley
Victoria Opera House, Burnley

Opera House, Kidderminster Lyceum / Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
Gordon Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
Hippodrome, Poplar
Hippodrome Wigan
Hippodrome, Bishop Auckland
Her Majesty's Theatre, Walsall
Imperial Theatre, Bordesley, Birmingham
Palace Theatre, Carlisle
Theatre Royal, Smethwick, Birmingham
Theatre Royal, West Bromwich (1896 Rebuild after Fire)

The Grand Theatre of Varieties, Birmingham
The Theatre Royal, Aston, Birmingham

The Palace Hippodrome, Warrington
The Hippodrome, Middlesborough
The Darlington Hippodrome

The Regent Theatre, Great Yarmouth

Opera Comique, London (F. H. Fowler)

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

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

Exeter Theatre
Royal Court Theatre, Warrington
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Prince's Theatre, Manchester (1869 Reconstruction, 1873 Ceiling Alterations, 1901 Structural Alterations)
Lyceum Theatre, Crewe (1887 Rebuild)

Borough Theatre, North Shields With William Hope
The Grand Theatre, Edinburgh (Unbuilt) With William Hope
Theatre Royal, Blyth With William Hope
Majestic Theatre, Leeds (With Pascal J. Stienlet)
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
Grand / Hippodrome Theatre, Margate With William Hope
Grand Theatre, Southampton With William Hope

Maxwell & Tuke's Theatres featured on this site

Winter Gardens, Southport
Cambridge Hall, Southport
Blackpool Tower
New Brighton Tower

Theatre Royal, Hyde
Crown Theatre, Manchester

Lyric Theatre, Liverpool

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

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

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

Borough Theatre, North Shields With J. C. Maxwell
Hippodrome, Stockton-onTees
Gaiety Theatre, Birmingham (Reconstruction 1897, with Crouch and Butler)
Grand Theatre, Swansea
The Grand Theatre, Edinburgh (Unbuilt) With J. C. Maxwell
Grand Theatre, Byker, Newcastle
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 With J. C. Maxwell
Grand / Hippodrome Theatre, Margate With J. C. Maxwell

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds 1819

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)

The Royal York Music Hall, Southampton
The Royal Aquarium and Imperial Theatre, Westminster

Pavilion Theatre, Swansea
Adelina Patti Theatre, Swansea

The Coliseum, Leeds

The Grand Theatre and Hippodrome, Leigh, Lancashire

The Putney Hippodrome
The Kilburn Empire

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 (With A. Douglas Clare)
The Forum Theatre, Kentish Town (With W. R. Bennett)
The Forum Theatre, Ealing (With A. Douglas Clare and W. R. Bennett)
Capitol Theatre, Forest Hill

Her Majesty's Theatre, Dundee
Gaiety Theatre, Dundee
The Perth Theatre

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

The Empire Palace, Newcastle (1890)

The Prince's Theatre, Manchester
The Prince of Wales Theatre / Royal Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool
The Prince of Wales Theatre, Rochdale

The King's Theatre, Gateshead

(As Hope & Tasker) (Hope & Tasker was formed after William Hope died in 1906, at the age of just fourty four.)

Empire Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees
Empire Theatre, Preston - (As Bush, Hope and Tasker)

(As Bush, Hope and Tasker)

The Empire Theatre, Preston

The 2nd Olympic Theatre, Newcastle Street and Wych Street, London (1849 Rebuild)

The Regent Theatre, Ipswich
The Regent Theatre, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
The Regent Theatre, Bournemouth
Ilford Super Cinema
Gaumont Palace, Wood Green (With Ernest F. Tulley)
Gaumont Palace Theatre, Camden (With his son W. Sydney Trent, and Daniel Mackay)
Gaumont Theatre, North Finchley (With R.H.C. Golding and W. Sydney Trent
City Hall, Salisbury
Gaumont Palace Theatre, Salisbury
The Gaumont Palace, Wolverhapton (1931 Rebuild of the Agricultural Hall)
New Victoria, Preston
Regent Theatre, Dudley
Regent Theatre, Sheffield
Southport Palladium (1930 rebuild after fire)
Regent Theatre, Weymouth
The Gaumont Theatre, Haymarket (1935 Rebuild of the Capitol Theatre)

The Garrick Theatre, Southport
The Grosvenor Super Cinema, Oldham
Palladium, Southport

Joseph Potts & Son Theatres Featured on this site

Theatre Royal, Greenock
Theatre Royal Stockton-on-Tees (1865 rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Middlesbrough (1896 Proposed Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow (1863 Rebuild)

Theatre Royal, Rotherham

The Palace Theatre, Watford

The Grand Theatre, Cardiff (With Waxings & Sons)
Royalty Theatre, Llanelli, Wales (Architect T. P. Martin of Jones and Rowlands)

Day's Crystal palace, Birmingham

Theatre Royal, Birmingham (Alterations 1875)

Opera House, Blackpool (1911 Alterations)
Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens, Blackpool
Winter Gardens, Morecambe (With Frank Matcham)
Victoria Pavilion, New Brighton

Palace Theatre, Blackburn (With Sprague)
Palace Theatre, Plymouth

Cambridge Theatre London

Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow (1830 and 1840 Rebuilds)
City Theatre, Glasgow
Prince of Wales Theatre, Glasgow (1867 Rebuild of Milton Colosseum)

Marshall & Tweedy's Theatres Featured on this site

Derby Hippodrome
Devenport Hippodrome (1929 Alteration)

New Royal and Opera House, Worcester (1903 Rebuild)
Theatre Royal, Exeter (Upholstery)

The Theatre Royal, Queen Street, Glasgow

Biographical Details

Alexandra Theatre, Greenock
King's Theatre, Kilmarnock
Grand Theatre, Falkirk
Gaiety Theatre, Ayr
New Century Theatre, Motherwell

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1812)

The Theatre Royal Adelphi, 2nd Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London
The Athenaeum Centre, Warminster

The Athenaeum, Glasgow
The Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow

The Theatre Royal, Aberdeen
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (Third Theatre)

About T E Collcutt

The Royal English Opera House / Palace Theatre, London

The Capitol Theatre, Haymarket
Odeon, Leicester Square (With Harry Weedon)
Odeon, Camberwell (With Keith P. Roberts) - Formerly The Metropole / Empire Theatre
Theatre Royal, Chatham - 1938 Conversion to the Hippodrome
Leicester Square Theatre
Ambassadors Theatre, Southend (1930 Redecoration)

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1922 Auditorium Rebuild)
The Brighton Hippodrome (1916 Stage House Construction and Auditorium Alterations)
Palace Theatre, London - (1908 Ampitheatre Reconstruction)
Royal Strand Theatre - (Architect's clerk of works for C. J. Phipp's 1882 Rebuild)
Prince of Wales Theatre, Salford
Her Majesty's Theatre, London 1897 (Architect's clerk of works for C. J. Phipp's)

The Theatre Royal, Chatham (1899 original Architect and 1900 Rebuild after fire)
Town Hall, Chatham (Architect)
Barnard's Palace of Varieties, Chatham (Clerk of Works)

About Alastair MacDonald

The Leicester Square Theatre (1931 Alterations)
The Comedy Theatre, London (1955 Alterations with Cecil Masey)

The Odeon, Leicester Square (With Andrew Mather)
The Odeon, Oldham, formerly The Palace Theatre
The Odeon Cinema, now Broadway Theatre, Peterborough
The Odeon, Leicester, now The Athena
The Odeon, Scarborough / Later the Stephen Joseph Theatre
The Snow Hill, Birmingham, on the site of the former Metropole Theatre

The Broadway Theatre, Peterborough
Theatre Royal, Norwich (2007 Modernisation and Alterations)
The Westminster Theatre (2009 Proposed Replacement - Unbuilt)

William Riddell Glen's Theatres featured on this site

The Savoy Theatre, Stoke Newington
The Savoy Theatre, Wandsworth
The Olympia Theatre, Shoreditch (1939 Proposed Rebuild)
The Empire Cinema, Mile End Road (1939 Rebuild)
The Regal Cinema, Woolwich, formerly The Grand Theatre (1939 Design - Finished by C. J. Foster in 1955)
The Regal Cinema, Gloucester (Only part Constructed, finished by W. R Farrow in 1955)
The Elephant and Castle Theatre (1932 Reconstruction)
Savoy Theatre, Birkenhead (1938 Rebuild of the Theatre Royal / Scala Picture House)
The ABC Gaiety Cinema, Birmingham (1939 Rebuilding of the former Holder's Concert Hall / Gaiety Theatre)
The Westover Super Cinema / ABC, Bournemouth

Foresters Super Cinema, Bethnal Green - Formerly Foresters Music Hall
The Trocadero, Elephant & Castle
The Troc-Ette Theatre, Bermondsey 1929 (And 1932 Alterations)
The Troxy, Commercial Road, London
The Alma Kinema, Luton
The Carlton Theatre, Islington
The Commodore Theatre, Hammersmith
The Broadway Theatre, New Cross (1949 Improvements)
The Broadway Theatre, Stratford East
The Odeon, Woolwich
The Gaumont State, Kilburn
The Granada, Kingston (With Cecil Masey)
The Metropole Theatre, Victoria, London
The People's Palace Theatre, Mile End Road, London
The Theatre Royal, Croydon / Hippodrome (George Coles & Partners 1956 Rebuild as The Hippodrome)
Hoxton Varieties (1910 Improved projection box)
The Granada Theatre, Crystal Palace
The Century Cinema, Crystal Palace

T. P. Bennett & Son's Theatres featured on this site

The King's Cross Cinema, London (1952 Alterations)
The Saville Theatre, London (With Bertie Crewe)
The New Theatre, Oxford (1933 Rebuild with the Milburn brothers)

Ernest Schaufelberg's Theatres feature d on this site

Adelphi Theatre (Present)
Fortune Theatre (Present)

The Apollo Victoria Theatre (With W. E. Trent)

The Arts Theatre, London

The King's Cross Cinema, London
The Angel Picture Theatre, Islington, London

Duchess Theatre, London

New London Theatre, today the Gillian Lynne

The Windmill Theatre, London
The Dalston Theatre, London (1920 Alterations with Robert Cromie)
Lyceum Theatre, London (1919 Minor Alterations)

The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds (Assisted by James Robertson Watson)

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1901 Auditorium Alterations) (1899 Rear Extension)

Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh
Playhouse Theatre, Colchester
Green's Playhouse, Dundee
Ritz Super Cinema, Wigan

The Theatre Royal Bilston

Royalty Theatre, Chester (Altered by Frank White in 1957)

Osborne & Reading's Theatres featured on this site

The Opera House / Theatre Royal, Leamington Spa (With C. J. Phipps)

The Theatre Royal, Aston, Birmingham (1912 Alterations)

The Berwick Theatre, Berwick-Upon-Tweed
The Little Theatre, Southport

City Varieties, Leeds
The Prince of Wales Theatre, Mexborough

Goodman's Fields Theatre (1732)
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1731)

Theatre Royal, Batley (1896)

Robert Atkinson, an avowed Modernist Architect, was born in Cumberland in 1883 and died in 1952.

The Vaudeville Theatre, London (1926 Rebuild)
The Fairfield Halls, Croydon (Robert Atkinson & Partners 1962)
The Picture House, Walsall (Robert Atkinson and George Alexander)
Regent Theatre, Brighton (Not yet Listed on the Site)

The Ritz Cinema, Liverpool

The Majestic Theatre, Staines (With W. E. Greenwood)
The Majestic Theatre, High Wycombe (With W. E. Greenwood)
The Majestic Theatre, Mitcham (With W. E. Greenwood)
The Majestic Theatre, Woodford (With W. E. Greenwood)

The Majestic Theatre, Staines (With S. B. Pritlove)
The Majestic Theatre, High Wycombe (With S. B. Pritlove)
The Majestic Theatre, Wembley (With J. Field and H. J. Stewart)
The Majestic Theatre, Mitcham (With S. B. Pritlove)
The Majestic Theatre, Woodford (With S. B. Pritlove)

Robert Alexander Briggs

Iinventor of the Panic Bolt

Also see: Theatrical Architecture in 1878 - Modern Theatre Design in 1899 - Concert Halls and Assembly Rooms by Ernest Woodrow, 1895 - 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 1905 West End seating plans - London Theatreland Maps 1860 1882 1900 1951 2002 - Working Dimensions of London Theatre Stages 1960 - The Victorian Era Exhibition 1897 - Stage Mechanism by Edwin O. Sachs 1898 - Strode and Co Wrought Irong Work, Gas and Lighting - Brunskill & Loveday LTD Scenery Builders Online Archive