The Prince's Theatre was a theatre on Park Row in Bristol in England which was built in 1867 and was destroyed by bombing in 1940 in the Bristol Blitz during World War II.[1] Owned by members of the Chute family for most of its existence, at one time the theatre was the Bristol venue for many of the country's leading touring actors and theatrical companies in addition to being one of the most renowned pantomime houses in the country[2] before briefly becoming a music hall and latterly a cinema. The actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry made their last appearance together under Irving's management at the Prince's Theatre in The Merchant of Venice in 1902.[3]
- ^ Don Carleton, The Prince's Theatre, Bristol (Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 55, 1983), 30 pp.
- ^ Prince's Theatre Bristol ticket stub - University of Bristol Theatre Collection
- ^ Sandra Richards, Rise of the English Actress, Palgrave Macmillan (1993) - Google Books p. 127