Actors and theatregoers
A few doors down from the Adelphi is the pretty building which houses the Vaudeville Theatre.Built in 1870, Henry Irving acted on this stage for a while, as Ronald Bergan's book The Great Theatres of London tells us.
Vaudeville Theatre today.
Interior of the newly-opened Vaudeville Theatre in 1870. Westminster Archives Centre.
Carrying on along the north side of the Strand, heading east towards Fleet Street and away from Trafalgar Square, we reach the Adelphi theatre.
The Adelphi theatre today.
Lady Precious Stream is a spoken drama adaptation of a Chinese opera (Wang Baochuan Read more »
Composed by Molly Olguin, winner of the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Poetry Competition, 2011.
In Vitrio
You're standing under the Savoy when it starts. Read more »
I had a lovely day yesterday in the company of the George Edwardes Musical Comedy society. We all gathered at Westminster Reference Library to celebrate the Edwardian theatre star Lily Elsie, who made her name in the first London production of The Merry Widow at Daly's Theatre in 1907. There was a talk by Steve Bartlett on Lily's life, accompanied by numerous illustrations from his large post-card collection. And then one by Ken Reeves (the president of the society) on the theatre of that period.
