Theatre goer posters & prints

Escapologist entertaining theatre-goers in the 'pit' queue, London Anonymous

The Optic Curls Anonymous

The Wagnerites, 1894 Aubrey Beardsley

Masquerades and Operas, Burlington Gate, 1724 William Hogarth

Masquerades and Operas, Burlington Gate, 1724 William Hogarth

A Critical Audience on the Question of 'Step-Dancing', c.1870s English School

The Opera A W Huffam

The Wings of the Opera c.1887 Jean Louis Forain

Auditorium of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia Mihaly Zichy

In the Gallery of the Hamburg State Theatre, c.1880 Hans Speckter

Coriolanus, 1989 Terry Hands

An Argument in the Corridors of the Opera, 1889 Jean Beraud

Street musicians, London Anonymous

Pidgeon Hole - A Convent [sic] Garden contrivance to coop up the gods, 1811 Thomas Rowlandson

The laughing audience William Hogarth

An Audience at Drury Lane Theatre Thomas Rowlandson

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1994 Adrian Noble

Exterior view of the Garrick Theatre 1958 Staff

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2002 Richard Jones

King John, 2006 Josie Rouke

The Interior of the Pantheon in Oxford Road Richard Earlom

As You Like It, 1996 Steven Pimlott

The Shoemaker's Holiday, 2014 Phillip Breen

Henry V, 2007 Michael Boyd

The Revenger's Tragedy, 1969 Trevor Nunn

At the Theater James Hayllar

A Parody on Macbeth's Soliloquy at Covent Garden Theatre Anonymous

Strolling actresses dressing in a barn William Hogarth

In the Loge, ca 1878 Anonymous

Theatrical Pleasures,, ca. 1835 Theodore Lane

Theater Audience Hippolyte Michaud

Julius Caesar, 2012 Gregory Doran

The Tempest, 2006/7 Rupert Goold

Travesties, 1974 Peter Wood

The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1968 Terry Hands

Love's Labours Lost, 1975 David Jones