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Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, Theatre and Performance Archives
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Businesses (42)
- Adelphi Theatre London
- Akram Kahn Dance Company London
- Ambassador's Theatre London
- Bernard Delfont Ltd, theatrical agents and producers
- Black Mime Theatre Company
- Cambridge Arts Theatre Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Cheek by Jowl Theatre Co Ltd Edinburgh, Midlothian;London
- D'Oyly Carte, theatrical co London
- English Stage Company Ltd, theatrical producers London
- Howard & Wyndham Ltd, theatre proprietors Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Intimate Theatre Palmers Green, Middlesex
- Kinetika carnival design and participatory arts company
- Kings Head Theatre Company, London Islington, Middlesex
- Mark Baldwin Dance Company
- Marler & Marler, auctioneers, surveyors, house and estate agents London
- Michail Codron Productions, theatre producers and managers London
- Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company London
- Old Vic Theatre, London, theatre London
- Olympic Theatre
- Osiris Players, all-female theatre group
- Oxford Meadow Players Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Oz Magazine London
- Pelissier's Follies, theatre production, London London
- Prospect Productions Ltd
- Renaissance Theatre Co
- Royal Court Theatre, London London
- Royal Lyceum Theatre, London London
- Royal National Theatre London
- Shared Experience Theatre Company Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Skinning The Cat, aerial performance and contemporary circus company
- St James's Theatre London
- Talawa Theatre Co
- Tennent Theatre Company London
- Theatre Royal, Brighton Brighton, Sussex
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane London
- Tiata Fahodzi Theatre Company London
- Time Out magazine, London London
- Unity Theatre London
- Webster & Waddington Limited, theatre ticket office London
- Whirligig Theatre Company London
- Windmill Theatre London
- Wyndham's Theatre London
Organisations (24)
- Akademi: South Asian Dance UK London
- Almeida Theatre Company Islington, Middlesex
- Association of Performing Arts Collections
- Contemporary Dance Trust Ltd London
- Directors Guild of Great Britain
- Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA)
- Foco Novo Theatre Company
- League of Audiences
- London Contemporary Dance Theatre London
- Madness, UK ska band
- Meadow Players, Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Natural Movement, dance style movement
- Paines Plough, the national theatre of new plays
- Repertory Players Company London
- Richard Alston Dance Company
- Society for Theatre Research London
- Spare Tyre Theatre Company
- Stage Management Association London
- The Religious Drama Society of Great Britain
- Theatre Girls Club
- Theatres Advisory Council
- Unicorn Theatre
- Wilton's Music Hall, Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets, Middlesex
- Young Vic theatre company
Persons (157)
- Alexander, Sir George, (1858-1918), Knight, actor manager
- Arkell, Reginald, (1882-1959), Author and Playwright
- Ascherson, Dorothy Renée, (1915-2014), actress
- Baddeley, Hermione, (1906-1986), actress Broseley, Shropshire
- Barker, Ronald William George, (1929-2005), actor and comedian Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Barrett, Wilson, (1846-1904), Actor and Playwright
- Barrie, Sir James Matthew, (1860-1937), 1st baronet, playwright, novelist Kirriemuir, Angus
- Benthall, Michael Pickersgill, (1919-1974), Theatrical Producer
- Bjornson, Maria, (1949-2002), designer
- Blundall, John M, (1937-2014), puppeteer and collector
- Boucicault, Dion, (1820-1890), playwright and actor
- Brewster, Yvonne, (b 1938), theatre director
- Brook, Peter Stephen Paul, (b 1925), theatre and film director, CBE Chiswick, Middlesex
- Brotherston, Lez, (b 1961), set and costume designer
- Buckstone, John Baldwin, (1802-1879), Comedian Solicitor's Clerk
- Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley, (1836-1917), Knight Author and Journalist
- Byron, Henry James, (1834-1884), dramatist
- Caine, Sir Thomas Henry Hall, (1853-1931), Knight, novelist
- Campbell, Beatrice Stella, (1865-1940), actress
- Carroll, Paul Vincent, (1900-1968), Playwright
- Casson, John, (1909-1999), theatre director
- Christie, Bunny, (b1962), theatre set designer St Andrews, Fife
- Chudleigh, Arthur, (fl 1877-1932), theatre proprietor
- Cibber, Colley, (1671-1757), actor, dramatist
- Cole (casting), Muriel, (1914-2012), assistant director and casting director, film Willesden, Middlesex
- Colman, George, (1732-1794), Dramatist
- Colman, George, (1762-1836), Dramatist
- Cook, Ida, (1904-1986), author and campaigner for Jewish refugees Sunderland, Durham
- Cook, Louise, (1901-1991), campaigner for Jewish refugees
- Cooke, George Frederick, (1756-1811), Actor
- Cooke, Thomas Potter, (1786-1864), Actor
- Cooper, Thomas Frederick 'Tommy', (1921-1984), magician and comedian Caerphilly, Glamorgan
- Coward, Sir Noel, (1899-1973), Knight, playwright and composer
- Cowley, Graham, (fl1980-2015), theatre manager and producer
- Craig, Edward Henry Gordon, (1872-1966), English modernist theatre practitioner
- Dean, David, (1944-2017), wardrobe supervisor, technical manager and costume designer
- Dennis, Felix, (1947-2014), publisher Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
- Dolin, Anton, (b 1904), Ballet Dancer
- Evans, Dame Edith Mary, (1888-1976), actress
- Fagon, Alfred, (d 1986), playwright
- Fechter, Charles Albert, (1861-1875), Actor and Dramatist
- Ffrangcon-Davies, Dame Gwen Lucy, (1891-1992), actress London
- Fielding, Harold Lewis, (1914-2003), theatre producer Woking, Surrey
- Fraser, Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline, (b 1932), writer
- Fry, Christopher, (1907-2005), playwright
- Garrick, David, (1717-1779), actor
- Gielgud, Sir Arthur John, (1904-2000), Knight, actor and theatre director
- Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck, (1836-1911), Knight, dramatist
- Glyn, Elinor, (1864-1943), Novelist
- Goodman, Henry, (b1950), actor
- Goolden, Richard Percy Herbert, (1895-1981), actor London
- Granville-Barker, Harley, (1877-1946), actor, dramatist and critic
- Grossmith, George, (1847-1912), Singer and Author
- Guest, Ivor Forbes, (1920-), Solicitor and Ballet Historian
- Hale, Owen, (1920-1995), theatre actor and publisher
- Hammond, Harry, (1920-2009), photographer London
- Harvey, Sir John Martin-, (1863-1944), Knight and actor manager
- Harvey, Polly Jean, (b1969), musician and songwriter
- Hay, Gladys Elspeth, (1909-1979)
- Hay, Will, (1888-1949), Film Stage and Radio Actor
- Hayes, Patricia, (1909-1998), actor
- Hockley, Edgar, (1860-1938), theatre designer Walthamstow, Essex
- Hodges, Mark Willie, (1923-2005), Head of the Office of Arts and Libraries
- Horniman, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka, (1860-1937), theatre manager
- Hunt, William Holman, (1827-1910), painter
- Irving, Sir Henry, (1838-1905), Knight, actor
- Jeffery, Douglas Hannaford, (1917-2009), theatre photographer
- Jones, Henry Arthur, (1851-1929), dramatist
- Kemble, Henry, (1848-1907), Actor
- Khan, Keith, (b 1963), Director of Keith Khan Associates
- Knowles, James Sheridan, (1784-1862), dramatist
- Kyncl, Ivan, (1953-2004), photographer
- Labouchere, Henry Du Pre, (1831-1912), journalist and politician
- Lane, Terry, (b1937), theatre director
- Lawrence, Gertrude, (1901-1952), Actress
- Lazaridis, Stefanos, (1942-2010), stage designer
- Leacroft, Richard, (1914-1986), architect, stage designer, author and illustrator
- Lehmann, Beatrix, (1903-1979), actor, theatre director and author
- Leigh, Vivien, (1913-1967), actress
- Loss, Joshua Alexander, (1909-1990), violinist and band leader
- Lunn, Joseph, (1784-1863), Dramatist
- Macdonald, Nesta, (1914-2015), historian of Russian ballet
- Mackay, Mary, (1855-1924), novelist
- Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell, (1847-1935), Knight, composer
- Marowitz, Charles, (1932-2014), Theatre Director, Playwright and Theatre Critic
- Masefield, John Edward, (1878-1967), poet
- Matcham, Frank, (1854-1920), Theatre Architect
- Mathews, Charles James, (1803-1878), Actor and Dramatist
- Matthews, Richard P, (fl 1930-1969), author
- Maugham, William Somerset, (1874-1965), novelist and playwright
- Mavor, Osborne Henry, (1888-1951), playwright
- McEwan, Geraldine, (1932-2015), actor
- McKnight, Linda, (1961-2021), wig maker
- Messel, Oliver Hilary Sambourne, (1904-1978), artist and stage designer London
- Michell, Keith, (1926-2015), actor Adelaide, South Australia
- Miller, Ruby, (1896-1976), actress
- Milne, Alan Alexander, (1882-1956), author, poet and playwright Kilburn, Middlesex
- Milton, Ernest, (1890-1974), Actor Author
- Morton, John Maddison, (1811-1891), dramatist
- Mumford, Frank, (1918-2004), puppeteer London
- Murray, George Gilbert Aime, (1866-1957), classicist and internationalist
- Nash, Chris, (b?1960), dance photographer
- Nicholson, Nora, (1892-1973), actress Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
- Norden, Dennis, (1922-2018), radio and television writer and television presenter
- Novello, Ivor, (1893-1951), actor and composer
- Olivier, Laurence Kerr, (1907-1989), Baron Olivier, actor
- Pack, Roger Lloyd, (1944-2014), actor Islington, Middlesex
- Parker, Louis Napoleon, (1852-1944), Musician and Playwright
- Parker, Peter, (20th cent), historian of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- Phillips, Andrew, (1965-2005), musician and photographer
- Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing, (1855-1934), Knight playwright
- Pinter, Harold, (1930-2008), CBE, actor and playwright Hackney, Middlesex
- Pollock, Eileen, (b 1947), actress and writer
- Pretty, Ali, (fl2007-2012), carnival artist, walking artist
- Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn, (1911-1977), Knight, playwright
- Reade, Charles, (1814-1884), novelist and dramatist
- Redgrave, Sir Michael Scudamore, (1908-1985), Knight Actor
- Richardson, Sir Ralph David, (1902-1983), Knight, actor
- Ricketts, Charles de Sousy, (1866-1931), painter, stage designer and writer
- Rix, Lord Brian Norman Roger, (1924-2016), Baron Rix, actor Hull, Yorkshire
- Roeg, Nicolas Jack, (1928-2018), film director and cinematographer
- Rourke, Josie, (b 1976), theatre director
- Sachs, Andrew, (1930-2016), actor
- Sandler, Jenny, (fl1970-2000), dance teacher and choreographer
- Saunders, Sir Peter, (b 1911), Knight Theatrical Producer
- Scales, Trixie, (1914-1997), actress
- Scofield, David Paul, (1922-2008), actor Edgbaston, Warwickshire
- Scott, Clement William, (1841-1904), dramatic critic
- Shaw, Charlotte Frances, (1857-1943), political activist
- Shaw, George Bernard, (1856-1950), author and playwright
- Shaw, Maxwell, (1929-1985), actor and director
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, (1751-1816), dramatist and politician Dublin, County Dublin
- Shorter, Clement King, (1857-1926), journalist and critic
- Smee, Derek, (c1933-2014), actor
- Sokolova, Lydia, (1896-1974), ballerina
- Somerset, Charles A, (fl 1827-1855), Dramatist
- Steele, Tommy , (b1936), singer and actor
- Stern, Gladys Bertha, (1890-1973), Playwright Journalist and Author
- Stone, John, (1924-2007), actor
- Taylor, Tom, (1817-1880), Dramatist and Editor of Punch
- Terry, Dame Alice Ellen, (1847-1928), actress
- Thesiger, Ernest, (1879-1961), actor
- Thorndike, Dame Agnes Sybil, (1882-1976), Actress
- Tobias Shaw, Rose, (1919-2015), casting director Poland
- Toole, John Lawrence, (1830-1906), Actor Manager
- Toye, Wendy, (1917-2010), film director
- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, (1852-1917), Knight, actor manager
- Truman, Becky, (fl1988-2009), founder, Skinning The Cat aerial performance and contemporary circus company
- Walker, Kathrine Sorley, (1920-2015), ballet critic and writer
- Waller-Bridge, Pheobe, (b1985), actress and writer Ealing, Middlesex
- Walls, Tom Kirby, (1883-1949), Actor Producer Racehorse Trainer
- Watson, Moray, (1928-2017), actor
- Watts, Chris, (fl 1960-2010), theatre lighting designer
- Webster, Benjamin Nottingham, (1797-1882), actor and dramatist
- Whitfield, Dame June Rosemary, (1925-2018), actress Streatham, Surrey
- Wills, William Gorman, (1828-1891), Irish Playwright
- Wright, Peter, (b1926) Sir, dancer and choreographer
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (2)
- NRA 23030 London: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- NRA 42617 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist and politician: misc corresp
Accessions
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