55°51′54″N 4°15′18″W / 55.865°N 4.255°W / 55.865; -4.255 The Royalty Theatre, Glasgow (later the Lyric Theatre) was a theatre in Glasgow at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Renfield Street. It was built in 1879 as part of a development by the Central Halls Company chaired by David Rattray,[1] and was one of the first theatre designs of Frank Matcham. In 1895 it was one of the four theatres brought together by Baillie Michael Simons of Glasgow in a new company Howard & Wyndham Ltd. The Royalty staged plays, opera, and musical comedy and later became home to repertory theatre[2] until it became the Lyric Theatre in 1914 when it was sold to the YMCA.[3] It was rebuilt after a fire in 1953 but was demolished in 1959, and replaced by St. Andrew House, a large concrete office block, which is now a hotel.

In his Erchie MacPherson story, "Jinnet's First Play", first published in the Glasgow Evening News on 24th October 1904, Neil Munro has Erchie take his wife Jinnet to a production of Arthur Wing Pinero's play Letty at the Royalty Theatre.[4]

References

  1. ↑ The Theatre Royal:Entertaining a Nation by Graeme Smith published 2008
  2. ↑ THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND - Notes on the governance, management, artistic policy and marketing of Glasgow Repertory Theatre, 1909 to 1914, The Laughing Audience
  3. ↑ Royalty Theatre, Glasgow 1879-1960, Scottish Theatre Archive (University of Glasgow Special Collections)
  4. ↑ Munro, Neil, "Jinnet's First Play", in Osborne, Brian D. & Armstrong, Ronald (eds.) (2002), Erchie, My Droll Friend, Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, pp. 267 - 271, ISBN 978-1-84158202-3


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