Theatre Royal

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Venue Theatre Royal
Other Names Mason's Concert Hall, Victoria Theatre
Royal Victoria Theatre, Queensland Theatre
Address 80 Elizabeth Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
Australia
Notes Opened on April 18, 1881. Closed as a theatre in December 1959. Demolished as part of the development of the Myer Centre in 1987. Prevously on this site: Mason's Concert Hall opened on 25 January 1865. Victoria Theatre in 1865, the Royal Victoria Theatre in 1867 and Queensland Theatre in 1874.
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Latitude | Longitude -27.470977 | 153.025302
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C B Dobson - Actor

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Alice Norton - Actor

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Constance Charles - Actor and Singer

Harold Chichester - Actor

Harrie Collet - Actor

Ursula Faucit - Actor

F C Grove - Writer

Alice Hamilton - Actor

Walter Hunt - Actor

Arthur Hunter - Actor and Singer

Dorothy L'Estrange - Actor and Singer, Singer

Herman Merivale - Writer

Katie Potter - Actor and Singer

Percy Shannon - Actor and Singer

Harry Thurston - Performer

George Leonard Wallace - Comedian, Performer, Producer

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Lorimer Baird - Actor

Maida Beverley - Actor

Wilkie Collins - Playwright

Walter Cornock - Actor, Stage Manager

Fred Coyne - Actor

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Jack McGowan - Actor

Lily Melrose - Actor

William Archer - Translator

Rene Barlee - Actor

J M Barrie - Playwright

Ada Clyde - Actor

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Harry Douglas - Actor

Eddie Edwards - Comedian, Performer

Sadie Gale - Performer

Harry Hermann - Playwright

J B Hickie - Adminstrator: Business Manager, Lessee

Dora Isaacs - Actor and Singer

Elliott Johnston - Scenic Artist

C E King - Director

H F Maltby - Playwright

Beryl Meekin - Performer

Gaston Mervale - Producer

Ray Phillips - Scenic Artist, Set Designer

Roy Rene - Performer

Harrington Reynolds - Actor

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E B Russell - Actor

Matt Ryan - Actor

Agrati - Adminstrator: Business Manager

Charles Albert - Actor

Selwyn Armstrong - Scenic Artist

Kathleen Arnold - Actor

Doris Ashwin - Actor

Athelstane - Actor

Jean Atholl - Actor

Jack Auburn - Juggler

Jean Barlow - Actor

Barry - Performer

Phillip Bartholomae - Playwright

Violet Beard - Actor

Beaumont - Actor

Benvenuti - Musician

Alice Bertram - Actor and Singer

Thomas Bolton - Actor

Dion Boucicault - Playwright

Bracy - Performer

A Brandon-Cremer - Administrator

Arthur Branscombe - Actor

Emma Bronton - Actor

Peter Brooks - Performer

Thompson Buchanan - Playwright

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Robert Butt - Performer

Hall Caine - Playwright

John Cairns - Actor

Keturah Campbell - Musical Director

Terry Campbell - Performer

Sydney Carden - Singer

Leon Caron - Conductor

William P Carr - Director

Dulcie Cherry - Actor

Arthur Choules - Mechanist

Jimmy Clark - Comedian

Sydney Clarke - Performer

George Cohan - Playwright

Harry Cowan - Comedian

Clemence Dane - Playwright

Charles Darrell - Playwright

A Darvill - Actor

Zora Dawn - Actor

Freddy Dawson - Actor

Irma Dearden - Actor

Ike Delavale - Company Director

Alan Devereux - Actor

Norma Drayton - Actor

Eileen Dunne - Performer

Mona Duval - Actor

George Eaton - Actor

Edwards - Actor

James Ewing - Actor

Edward Fairfax - Actor and Singer

Edward Farley - Actor and Singer

S A Fitzgerald - Actor

Lorna Forbes - Actor

Henry Ford - Actor

C Francis - Actor

George Fredericks - Actor and Singer

Peter French - Actor

Sam Gale - Singer

Roy Gennette - Comedian

Frank Gerald - Actor

Arthur Glynn - Actor

Leslie Gordon - Actor

Gore - Actor

Nell Douglas Graham - Actor

Harry Gray - Comedian

George Greig - Producer

Ada Guildford - Actor

F Gunn - Properties Master/Mistress

Don Hanna - Performer

Alice Hardie - Actor

Harry Hart - Actor

E D Haygarth - Actor

Kingston Hewitt - Actor

Hickie - Proprietor

Laura Hopping - Actor

Avery Hopwood - Playwright

Jenny Howard - Performer

Walter Howard - Playwright

Bert Howarde - Actor and Singer

Jessie Howarde - Actor

Victor Hugo - Playwright

Vivien Humbert - Actor

Blanche Hunter - Performer

Frediswyde Hunter-Watts - Actor

A Ingram - Actor

Ellis Irving - Actor

Myra James - Actor and Singer

Harriett Jay - Playwright

G Johnson - Stage Manager

Henry Arthur Jones - Playwright

J G Joyce - Actor

Olga Kay - Performer

Arthur Keane - Actor

Sylvia Kellaway - Performer

Kiore King - Actor

Peter Kwam - Acrobat

Ted Lamarccia - Band Leader

Little Gladys Lambart - Actor

E A Lambert - Actor

Stella Lamond - Performer

Benjamin Landeck - Playwright

A R Lawrence - Actor

Edie Lawson - Actor and Singer

Shirley Lawson - Actor

Charles Le Coq - Composer

Wilson Le Couteur - Adminstrator: Business Manager

Chung Lee - Magician

Ernest Legouvé - Playwright

Philip Lewin - Actor

Phillip Lewis - Actor

Liddy - Adminstrator: Business Manager

Reggie Linton - Comedian

William Lockhart - Actor

Millie Lynne - Dancer

Duncan Macallum - General Manager

Richard Macgregor - Actor

Will Mahoney - Administrator

William Marks - Actor

Phyllis Markwell - Actor

Stanley Mckay - Producer

Ruby McKenzie - Actor

Leo McKern - Actor, Assistant Stage Manager

Kath McMahon - Performer

John Meehan - Playwright

Emelie Melville - Actor and Singer

A A Milne - Playwright

George Mocatta - Actor

Annis Montague - Performer

Robert Montana - Singer: Tenor

Dorothy Morris - Actor

Peggy Mortimer - Actor

Jack Morton - Actor

Milton Moss - Actor

Denbigh Newton - Actor

Emil Nyitray - Playwright

Frank Perrin - Comedian

Henry Pettitt - Playwright

Rose Phillips - Actor

Ted Pickering - Circus Style Performer

Robert Planquette - Composer

Charles Reade - Playwright

Jack Reading - Actor

Max Reddy - Performer

Eric Reiman - Actor

Ginger Reynolds - Comedian

Dorrie Ricketts - Performer

B Ridley - Actor

Stanley Robinson - Actor

Max Rodnay - Comedian

Betty Ross - Actor

Edith Rowett - Actor

G Runion - Actor

Milton Sands - Actor

Claude Saunders - Actor

Saville - Actor

Colleen Scott - Actor

Augustin Eugene Scribe - Playwright

Phyllis Scully - Actor

Vincent Scully - Actor

J R Setright - Scenic Artist

R Sewell - Actor

A Shaw - Actor

Gladys Shaw - Performer

Herbert Sheldrick - Actor

Arthur Shirley - Playwright

Irene Silvester - Actor

Eva Sinclair - Singer

Nellie Small - Performer

James South - Entrepreneur

D'Arcy Stanfield - Actor

Billie Stokes - Actor

Una Symes - Actor

Una Syms - Actor

F J Taylor - Lessee

C H Templeton - Actor

Ethel Templeton - Musical Director

Thomas - Mechanist

Lewis Townsend - Director

Leo Trenette - Performer

Jean Trundle - Actor

Turner - Proprietor

Charles Turner - Director

Allen Van - Performer

Nellie Veitch - Actor

G Verdi - Actor and Singer

R A Vernon - Actor

W H Vernon - Actor

Franz von Suppe - Composer

G Carlton Wallace - Playwright

Waverley Wallace - Performer

William Vincent Wallace - Composer

Doris Waraker - Actor

Genevieve Ward - Actor, Sub-Lessee

Les Warton - Comedian

Roland Watts Phillips - Actor

C E Webber - Actor

George Webster - Actor

Wheeler - Properties Master/Mistress

H J Whittington - Adminstrator: Business Manager

Allan Wilkie - Actor, Producer

Billy Williams - Musician

Les Williams - Designer

Cecily Wilson - Actor

Herbert Winslow - Playwright

Henry Wood - Playwright

Resources
  • Advertisement:  Theatre Royal, Brisbane, The Brisbane Courier, 16 December 1881, 1
  • Article:  Ross Thorne, Theatre Royal Brisbane, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 583
Data Set AusStage
Venue Identifier 11237