Records of Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland 1890 -1996

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Records of Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland 1890 -1996

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Glasgow University Library Special Collections

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Royal Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd (theatre company: 1977- : Edinburgh, Scotland)

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The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, opened on 10 September 1883 under the management of J B Howard (died 1895) and F W P Wyndham (died 1930), a partnership which in 1895 became Howard & Wyndham Ltd . All of the great actor managers and their companies appeared at the Lyceum - Wilson Barrett (1846-1904), Sir Frank Benson (1858-1939), Edward Compton, George Edwardes and Sir Donald Wolfit (1902-1968) among others. The 1930s saw the Brandon Thomas seasons while the 1940s and 1950s ...

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh Civic Theatre Company

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Royal Lyceum Theatre Company Ltd

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Howard & Wyndham Ltd.

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Howard & Wyndham Ltd. operated for over 90 years as a theatre-owning, management and production company, running a number of key theatres, especially in Scotland. They were particularly noted for their pantomimes which were carefully tailored to the tastes and interests of local audiences. The company was founded in 1895 to extend an existing 1883 partnership between Irish-born John B. Howard (1841-1895) and Edinburgh born Frederick WP Wyndham (1853-1930) which had f...