The Royalty Theatre, Glasgow (later the Lyric Theatre) was a
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...
in
Glasgow at the corner of
Sauchiehall Street and Renfield Street. It was built in 1879 as part of a development by the Central Halls Company chaired by David Rattray, and was one of the first theatre designs of
Frank Matcham. In 1895 it was one of the four theatres brought together by Baillie Michael Simons of Glasgow in a new company
Howard & Wyndham Ltd. The Royalty staged plays, opera, and musical comedy and later became home to
repertory theatre
The author and journalist
Neil Munro had an association with the Royalty Theatre. In his Erchie MacPherson story, "Jinnet's First Play", first published in the ''
Glasgow Evening News'' on 24 October 1904, Munro has Erchie take his wife Jinnet to a production of
Arthur Wing Pinero's play ''Letty'' at the Royalty. Five years later, Erchie MacPherson featured as the main character in his play ''Macpherson'', produced by the Scottish Playgoers Ltd. at the theatre in 1909.
The Royalty became the Lyric Theatre in 1914 when it was sold to the
YMCA.
Royalty Theatre, Glasgow 1879-1960
Scottish Theatre Archive (University of Glasgow Special Collections) It was rebuilt after a fire in 1953 but demolished in 1959, and replaced by St. Andrew House, a large concrete office block, which is now an hotel.
External links
Royalty Theatre
Arthur Lloyd
Still of building
Virtual Mitchell
Glasgow History
References
Theatres in Glasgow
1879 establishments in Scotland
Buildings and structures demolished in 1959
Former theatres in Scotland
Theatres completed in 1879
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