Novelty Theatre

The Novelty Theatre (later renamed the Great Queen Street Theatre from 1900 to 1907, and the Kingsway Theatre from 1907 to 1941) was a London theatre. It was located on Great Queen Street, accessed off Little Queen Street until 1905, and from the new Kingsway road from 1905 onwards. The theatre closed in 1941 and was demolished in 1959. The first theatre on this site was built to designs by Thomas Verity and decorations by E. W. Bradwell, opening on 9 December 1882. Its first show was the comic opera Melita or the Parsee's Daughter, composed by Henry Portet, with a libretto by Juba Kennerley. It hosted, among other notable works, a revival of Les Cloches de Corneville and Ascot, by Percy Fendall, in 1883. Edward Solomon and James...