Title role posters & prints

Portrait of a Gentleman, said to be the actor James Quin, in the Title Role of Addison's Cato Bartolomeo Nazzari

Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of 'Theodora', by Victorien Sardou Georges Clairin

Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of Saint Teresa of Avila in the play 'La Vierge d'Avila' by Mendes, produced... Georges Clairin

Crown worn by Boris Christoff in the title rôle in Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. Russia, c.1960-1970 Unknown

Hortense Schneider in the title role of Offenbach's operetta 'La Grand Duchesse de Gerolstein' French School

Matilda Kschessinska in the title role of the ballet La Esmeralda Anonymous

Ducroisy in the title role of Tartuffe in 1668 Hippolyte Lecomte

Hamlet, 2016 Royal Shakespeare Company

Gentleman's Outfits English School

Margot Fonteyn in Pomona at the Sadler's Wells Theatre Gordon Anthony

Ira Aldridge as Othello. England, mid-19th century Unknown

Title Page for 'The Parliament of Women', 1656 English School

Constance Drever, British actress Rotary Photo

Mademoiselle George Baron Antoine Jean Gros

Margot Fonteyn and Alexis Rassine in Le Spectre de la rose at the New Theatre Gordon Anthony

Self Portrait as 'Scarron' James Pryde

Applying for Food Anonymous

Rudolf Nureyev, Deanne Bergsma, Monica Mason and Carole Needham in William Sakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Opera House Anthony Crickmay

Herbert Beerbohm Tree in Williams Shakespeare's Macbeth at His Majesty's Theatre Anonymous

Ira Aldridge as Othello, the Moor of Venice, 1826 James Northcote

Tamara Karsavina and Michel Fokine in 'The Firebird', 1910 French Photographer

Onoe matsusuke no raiko sitenno, The actor Onoe Matsusuke in the role of Raiko Shitenno (Minamoto Yorimitsu) Katsukawa Shunjo

Elizabeth Fretwell and Ronald Dowd in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes at Sadler's Wells Houston Rogers

Reading the Role Pierre Auguste Renoir

Onoe kikugoro no sanjo kokaji munechika, The actor Onoe Kikugoro in the role of Sanjo Kokaji Munechika Torii Kiyomitsu

Two Warriors and a Woman Around a Fire, One Warrior Appears to Be Protecting the Woman from the Other Warrior Anonymous

La Lecture du rôle (Play reading), 1876-1877 Anonymous

Bonaparte as First Consul Anonymous

Mlle Clairon in the role of Pulcherie in 'Heraclius' by Corneille French School

Mademoiselle Duchesnoy in the Role of Dido Francois Pascal Simon Baron Gerard

Arthur Bourchier in The Bishop's Move Ellis & Walery

St. Paul the Apostle Francesco (attr.) Fracanzano

June Brown in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Lisel Haas

Margot Fonteyn in The Firebird at the Empire Theatre Houston Rogers

Portrait of Mounet-Sully Theobald Chartran

Evie Greene in Kitty Grey Ellis & Walery