1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
DATES | PRODUCTION | AUTHOR | DIRECTOR |
1930 | The Impossible Miracle | Norman H. Leaker | Madge Lackland and Norman H. Leaker |
The Government Inspector | Nikolay Gogol (translated by Constance Garnett) | Bladon Peake and Leonard Crabtree | |
As it was in the Beginning / The Magistrate | Robert C. Readett / Arthur Pinero | Robert C. Readett / Madge Lackland and Norman H. Leaker | |
1931 | Supremacy | Thomas C. Kemp | Thomas C. Kemp |
The White-Headed Boy | Lennox Robinson | Bernard Waters | |
First Crescent Theatre opens at site of 17, 18 and 19 The Crescent and Baskerville Hall | |||
1932 | Prologue / The Romantics | R. C. Readett / Edmond Rostand, translated by George Fleming | None / Bladon Peake |
The Barber and the Cow | D. T. Davies | Hewart Hayward | |
Caesar and Cleopatra | George Bernard Shaw | Bladon Peake | |
Ariadne, or Business First | A. A. Milne | Bladon Peake | |
The Voysey Inheritance | H. Granville-Barker | Bladon Peake | |
1933 | Art and Mrs Bottle | Benn Levy | Bladon Peake |
The Magic of an Hour / La Malquerida | Jacinto Benavente | Bladon Peake | |
Shakespeare | Harold Rubenstein and Clifford Bax | Bladon Peake | |
In the Park / Marriage | Gilbert Cannan / Nikolay Gogol | Joel Harris / Bladon Peake | |
The Roof | John Galsworthy | Kingsley Read | |
1934 | Hollywood Holiday | Benn W. Levy & John van Druten | Bladon Peake |
Don Abel Wrote a Tragedy | Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker | Norman H. Leaker | |
Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Bladon Peake | |
The Proposal / Androcles and the Lion | Anton Chekhov / George Bernard Shaw | Erin Knight / Thomas C. Kemp | |
She Passed through Lorraine | Lionel Hale | Cecil M. Abbott | |
Foundations | John Galsworthy | Leonard Crabtree | |
The Old Adam | Cicely Hamilton | Kingsley Read | |
1935 | The Circle | Somerset Maugham | Norman H. Leaker |
Anna Christie | Eugene O’Neill | Cecil M. Abbott | |
The Devil’s Disciple | George Bernard Shaw | Thomas C. Kemp | |
Sheppey | Somerset Maugham | Norman H. Leaker | |
The Witch | John Masefield | Cecil M. Abbott | |
This Woman Business | Benn Levy | Eric Knight | |
1936 | He Who Gets Slapped | Leonid Andreyev | Cecil M. Abbott |
Supremacy | Thomas C. Kemp | Eric Knight | |
Take Two from One | Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra, translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Baker | Kingsley Read | |
Accent on Youth | Samson Raphaelson | Cecil M. Abbott | |
Noah | Andre Obey | Eric Knight | |
The Plough and the Stars | Sean O’Casey | Norman H. Leaker | |
1937 | Abraham Lincoln | John Drinkwater | Eric Knight |
Yesterday | Margaret Macnamara | Charles Perks | |
King Lear | William Shakespeare | Eric Knight | |
Charles and Mary | Joan Temple | Cecil M. Abbott | |
The Little Man / Masses and Man | John Galsworthy / Ernst Toller | Norman H. Leaker | |
The Black Eye | James Bridie | Eric Knight | |
1938 | The Good Fairy | Ferenc Molnar | Norman H. Leaker |
Joy | John Galsworthy | Charles Perks | |
Parnell | Elsie Schauffler | Eric Knight | |
The Trial of Jesus | John Masefield | Norman H. Leaker | |
The Great Adventure | Arnold Bennett | Kingsley Read | |
Professor Bernhardi | Arthur Schnitzler | Sam Johnson | |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | Norman H. Leaker | |
Ah, Wilderness | Eugene O’Neill | Eric Knight | |
1939 | Gallows Glorious | Ronald Gow | Kingsley Read |
Punch and Go | John Galsworthy | Eric Knight | |
The Playboy of the Western World | J. M. Synge | Eric Knight | |
The First Legion | Emmet Lavery | Norman H. Leaker | |
The Man who pays the Piper | G. B. Stern | A. C. Howard | |
Power and Glory | Karel Capek | Kingsley Read | |
Theatres close due to outbreak of Second World War |
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