New Regency Theatre

The New Regency Theatre was a London theatre, active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

History

Henry Gordon Jago acquired the New Regency Theatre in the 1890s (AUDIO: The Theatre of Dreams), having sold the Palace Theatre as a result of the scandal following the Weng-Chiang incident in 1889 (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang).

Queen Victoria once attended a play at the theatre, which was a source of great pride to Jago. (AUDIO: The Theatre of Dreams)

In the 1890s, the theatre was refurbished and renovated. (AUDIO: Higson & Quick)

Jago owned the theatre until his death. Sometime later, the ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was first performed at the New Regency Theatre. It was a huge success, selling out the theatre for months. (AUDIO: Swan Song)

At 8:47 p.m. on 12 October 1940, the theatre was destroyed in the Blitz during World War II, as was the hotel next to it. (AUDIO: Swan Song, Chronoclasm)