Royalty Theatre
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The Royalty Theatre was a London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho. Originally opened on May 25 1840 as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School, it had several names during the nineteenth century. It was The Royal Soho Theatre from January 1850, the New English Opera House from November 5 1850, and the Theatre Francais from 1861. In 1872 the Theatre became know as the Royalty Theatre and retained this name (though occasionally being known as the New Royalty Theatre) until closure in 1938 and demolition in 1953.
An earlier theatre also named the Royalty existed in Wells Street, Wellclose Square, London from 1787 until the early part of the nineteenth century.
A modern Royalty Theatre was opened in the basement of an office block at Portugal Street near Aldwych in 1960. This was bought by the London School of Economics and renamed the Peacock Theatre in 1996. It is a lecture hall by day and a venue for the Saldler's Wells theatre company by night.
External links
- [History of the Royalty Theatre] at arthurlloyd.co.uk
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