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Theatre Royal, Marylebone

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Venue Type & Location

Theatre

Overview

  • Address: 69 Church Street, Edgeware Road. For a current map, Click Here. For an historical map showing the venue (in addition to the one excerpted at right), Click Here.

  • Alternate Names: Royal Sussex, Pavilion, Portman Theatre, Marylebone Theatre, West London Theatre.

  • 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 Theatre Royal, Marylebone

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    American Southern Minstrels Minstrel Definite American Southern Minstrels
    Black Doctor Troupe (London-Marylebone, 47) Dramatic Definite Black Doctor Troupe (London-Marylebone, 47)
    Bosjesmans Exhibition Definite Bosjesmans
    Dunn, John, the British Jim Crow Dunn, John Minstrel Definite Dunn, John, the British Jim Crow
    Herbert Herbert, John Dramatic Definite Herbert
    Johnstone, J. Johnstone, J. Dramatic Definite Johnstone, J.
    Lee Lee, H. Dramatic Definite Lee
    Macready Macready, Dramatic Definite Macready
    Marylebone Pantomime Troupe (1848) Dramatic Definite Marylebone Pantomime Troupe (1848)
    Othello Troupe (Marylebone, 46) Dramatic Definite Othello Troupe (Marylebone, 46)
    Philadelphia and Mississippi Ethiopian Serenaders Minstrel Definite Philadelphia and Mississippi Ethiopian Serenaders
    Slave Troupe (London-Marylebone, 43) Dramatic Definite Slave Troupe (London-Marylebone, 43)
    Slave Troupe (London-Marylebone, 51) Isaacs, Rebecca Dramatic Definite Slave Troupe (London-Marylebone, 51)
    Sutton, Sambo Dramatic Definite Sutton, Sambo

    Events at Theatre Royal, Marylebone

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Unknown - London, London (city-county) Dunn, John, the British Jim Crow
    Variety - London, London (city-county) Marylebone Pantomime Troupe (1848)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Macready
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Lee
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Herbert
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Macready
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Slave Troupe (London-Marylebone, 51)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Johnstone, J.
    Variety - London, London (city-county) American Southern Minstrels
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Othello Troupe (Marylebone, 46)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Philadelphia and Mississippi Ethiopian Serenaders
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Black Doctor Troupe (London-Marylebone, 47)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Black Doctor Troupe (London-Marylebone, 47)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Black Doctor Troupe (London-Marylebone, 47)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Philadelphia and Mississippi Ethiopian Serenaders
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Black Doctor Troupe (London-Marylebone, 47)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Philadelphia and Mississippi Ethiopian Serenaders
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Black Doctor Troupe (London-Marylebone, 47)
    Minstrel Show - London, London (city-county) Philadelphia and Mississippi Ethiopian Serenaders
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Philadelphia and Mississippi Ethiopian Serenaders
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Slave Troupe (London-Marylebone, 43)
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Sutton, Sambo
    Circus - London, London (city-county) Bosjesmans
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Sutton, Sambo
    Dramatic - London, London (city-county) Sutton, Sambo

    Bibliographic Sources

    View a list of abbreviations.

    • London: The Library Association, 1970
      pp.253-5.
    • Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1981
      p.94. (Under West London Theatre)
    • (Under Directories - Dickens's Dictionary of London)
    • London: Adam and Charles Black, 1863


      “MARYLEBONE THEATRE, Church Street, Paddington, built in 1842, enlarged in 1854, will hold 2000 persons” (214).
    • London: H.G. Clarke & Co., 1851


      “MARYLEBONE THEATRE, Church Street, Paddington .A small but neat house, tastefully decorated, devoted to the representation of the Shakspearian drama” (129).
    • New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1925
      pp278-289.
    • Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1885


      ”MARYLEBONE THEATRE, New Church Street, Edgeware Road. Dramas and farces” (39).
    • London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868


      “MARYLEBONE THEATRE, Church-street, Paddington, was built and opened in 1842, as a ‘penny theatre:’ it was enlarged in 1854, to hold 1200 persons” (785).
    • London: David Bogue, 1855
      p719.

      The information provided within this source is much the same as that given within the 1868 edition of the book.

      In addition, this edition also contains the following: “Shakspeare’s plays have been admirably performed here”.
    • London: H.G. Clarke & Co., 1851


      The information provided within this source is similar to that given within London in all its Glory, also published by H.G. Clarke, & Co.

      In addition, this source also contains the following:
      “Lessee, Mr. Stammers, and previously to his suicide, in Newgate, under the management of the late Mr. G. Watts, who collected a very good working company around him, and met with very great success. Doors open at half-past six o’clock; peformances [sic] commence at seven. Admission: stalls, three shillings; boxes, two shillings; pit, one shilling; gallery, sixpence. Second price at nine o clock stalls, one shilling and sixpence; boxes, one shilling” (221).