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Garrick Theatre

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Venue Type & Location

Theatre

Overview

  • Address: 70 Leman Street, Goodman’s Fields, Whitechapel. For a current map, Click Here. For an historical map showing the venue (in addition to the one excerpted at right), Click Here.

  • Performance Space Description: Information about this venue has not yet been compiled; however, some sense of the performance space may be gleaned by following the links at right. In particular:

  • See the 'Bibliographic Sources' link for a provisional list of venue-relevant resources (both primary and secondary). Wherever possible (i.e. when the pertinent text is relatively short and/or easily condensed) this material has been transcribed, and appears beneath the appropriate bibliographic citation.

  • See the 'Events at venue' link for a listing of blackface/minstrelsy-related events that took place in this performance space (with attached bibliographic references).

    Beth Marquis

    • Troupes at Garrick Theatre

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    Red Man Troupe (Garrick, 46) Dramatic Definite Red Man Troupe (Garrick, 46)

    Events at Garrick Theatre

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Red Man Troupe (Garrick, 46)

    Bibliographic Sources

    View a list of abbreviations.

    • New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1925
      pp38-9.
    • London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868


      “GARRICK THEATRE, Leman-street, Goodman's Fields, was built in 1830, and named from its proximity to the scene of Garrick's early fame. The theatre was burnt down November 4, 1846, when it belonged to Messrs. Conquest and Gomersall, the latter remembered for his impersonation of Napoleon Bonaparte.The theatre has been rebuilt” (784).

      Also gives the theatre’s capacity (in 1866) as 1100 (789)