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Society of Theatre Research

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Society of Theatre Research

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Society of Theatre Research

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Punch and Judy

Near this spot Punch's Puppet Show was first performed in England and witness...

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Chester Players

Chester Players

The clergy encouraged the staging of mystery plays from around 1350.  Performed in English these taught the Christian stories to the people who could not read, nor understand the Latin used in chur...

Group, Theatre

1 memorial
Adelphi Theatre

Adelphi Theatre

Founded as the Sans Parail by John Scott, and his daughter Jane, who was an early playwright-actor-manager.  1819 it re-opened as the Adelphi Theatre, named for the Adelphi development opposite.  1...

Group, Theatre

1 memorial
Bud Flanagan

Bud Flanagan

Born Reuben Weinthrop above his family fried fish shop in Hanbury Street, where the plaque now is. The first half of the Flanagan & Allen double act, with Chesney Allen. These two were also bot...

Person, Humour, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

Playwright and poet, for definite. Spy? Atheist? Homosexual? Shakespeare? Baptized on 26th February at St George's Church, Canterbury. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His plays inclu...

Person, Espionage, Poetry, Theatre

3 memorials
Theresa Cornelys

Theresa Cornelys

Opera singer, actress and adventuress, was born in Vienna, née Imer. First came to England in 1746. In 1760 rented Carlisle House, a large mansion at the south-east corner of Soho Square, where she...

Person, Music / songs, Theatre, Austria

1 memorial