Founded by Ashley Dukes as a new stage for plays by poets.
The plaque gives 1931 as the start date, but Wikipedia gives 1933. Possibly for those first 3 years it was a home for the Ballet Club and not yet a theatre.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Mercury Theatre
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Mercury Theatre
Here stood the Mercury Theatre, 1931 - 1987, founded by author and playwright...
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Henry Condell
Fellow actor and friend of William Shakespeare and John Heminge. Heminge and Condell had been co-partners with Shakespeare in the Globe Theatre. On his death the plays existed only in the form of ...
1 memorial
Theresa Cornelys
Opera singer, actress and adventuress, was born in Vienna, née Imer. First came to England in 1746. In 1760 rented Carlisle House, a large mansion at the south-east corner of Soho Square, where she...
1 memorial
Chester Players
The clergy encouraged the staging of mystery plays from around 1350. Performed in English these taught the Christian stories to the people who could not read, nor understand the Latin used in chur...
1 memorial
Grand Order of Water Rats
Show business charity with headquarters at The Water Rats Public House in the Gray's Inn Road.
7 memorials
Charles Macklin
Actor and playwright. Probably born in County Donegal, Ireland in about 1699. Lived in Bow Street.. Died at home in Tavistock Row.
1 memorial