Palace Theatre

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Performance of text Edith Craig
The event took place at the Palace Theatre in London. EC 's mother, Ellen Terry , played the role of the nursery-rhyme old woman who lived in a shoe.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
138
The play was never...
Performance of text P. D. James
PDJ 's play, A Private Treason, was performed at London's West End Palace Theatre .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
276
Performance of text J. K. Rowling
Previews began at the Palace Theatre in London of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a play written by Jack Thorne in collaboration with JKR and John Tiffany . The play is in two...

Timeline

1891
The Palace Theatre of Varieties (an earlier theatre under a new name) opened at Cambridge Circus in London: its shows were more daring, more scantily dressed, than those at the Empire .
1907
The London County Council banned stage tableaus or living pictures (erotic in content), and in their place the Palace Theatre engaged Maud Allan as a solo dancer.
2 July 1912
King George V was present at the first Royal Command Variety Performance at the Palace Theatre in London.