Lyceum Theatre
On November 21st 1887 the “New Lyceum Theatre” opened, a 1500 seat theatre designed by the prominent architect Alfred Darbyshire. In 1906 Charlie Chaplin appeared in Sherlock Holmes as Billy the Page Boy, and Stan Laurel (known then as Stanley Jefferson) appeared in Sleeping Beauty alongside Wee Georgie Wood, the world’s smallest comedian. On March 11th 1910 a fire started that completely destroyed the building. The “New Theatre” was opened on September 4th 1911. The first production in this Theatre as it stands was ‘All For Her’, based upon ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. It was known simply as “Crewe Theatre” in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1978 the theatre’s name reverted to “Lyceum”, and in 1994 a new extension was added to the replace the front of house facilities, The Gallery previously had been re-seated and the backstage area improved to a cost of approximately £1.5 million. It was re-opened on November 20th 1994 with a Gala Show and on November 12th 1996 HRH Princess Margaret officially opened the new building.
Past productions
- April in Paris, Paul Tyrer and Jamie Clark/Jane Walmsley and Michael Braham for JAM Pictures/Derby Theatre
- Dead Ringer, Ian Dickens Productions International Ltd
- Prescription: Murder, Middle Ground Theatre Company
- Sleeping Beauty
- Come On, Jeeves, Ian Dickens Productions
- Oliver!, Acton Amateur Operatic Society
- Trap for a Lonely Man, Ian Dickens Productions
- The House on the Cliff, Crewe Theatre Company
- Double Double, Ian Dickens Productions
- The Ghost Train, Ian Dickens Productions
- Love’s Labour’s Lost, English Touring Theatre
- Gaslight, Ian Dickens Productions
- Passport to Pimlico, CV Productions Ltd and Mercury Theatre Colchester
- Murder at the Vicarage, Ian Dickens Productions
- The Importance of Being Earnest, Bill Kenwright
- No Sex Please, We’re British, Ian Dickens Productions
- The Master Builder, English Touring Theatre
- The Trouble with Old Lovers, David Kirk and Sabine Productions
- The School for Scandal, English Touring Theatre
- I Have Been Here Before, Middle Ground Theatre Company
- Hedda Gabler, English Touring Theatre
- Brideshead Revisited, Charles Vance and CV Enterprises Ltd
- Dead Funny, Lee Dean and Michael Codron in association with Hampstead Theatre Productions
- The Importance of Being Earnest, English Touring Theatre
- The School for Wives, English Touring Theatre
- Hamlet, English Touring Theatre
- Blithe Spirit, Lee Dean and Theatre Royal Windsor
- Straight and Narrow, Churchill Theatre Bromley and Lee Dean
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, English Touring Theatre
- Revenge, Lee Dean
- The Heiress, Churchill Theatre Company, Sethawk Ltd, and Windsor Theatre Company
- Murder by Sex, Danny Davies Productions
- Private Lives, Lee Dean
- Mother Goose
- Wind in the Willows, Garrick House Ltd
- No More Sitting on the Old School Bench, Garrick House Ltd
- Having a Ball, Garrick House Ltd
- Second Honeymoon, Garrick House Ltd
- Love Locked Out, Garrick House Ltd
- Strictly for the Birds, Garrick House Ltd
- Something to Hide, Churchill Theatre Company
- Bent, Garrick House
- Dick Whittington and His Cat, P B Productions
- Comic Cuts, Frisby and Kemp Ltd
- Butterflies are Free, Garrick House
- What the Butler Saw, Garrick House
- Relative Strangers, Baronmoor Ltd
- The Dame of Sark
- The Lodger, Nell Gwynne Productions
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cheshire Drama Course
- Heath Street, Crewe, CW1 2DA
- Telephone: 01270 368 242
- Opened 1881
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