A report on Royal Court Theatre, George Bernard Shaw and West End theatre

The Palace Theatre, in the City of Westminster, London, built in 1891

Scene from The Happy Land, showing the scandalous impersonation of Gladstone, Lowe, and Ayrton (1873)

Shaw's birthplace (2012 photograph). The plaque reads "Bernard Shaw, author of many plays, was born in this house, 26 July 1856".

The London Palladium in Soho opened in 1910. While the Theatre has a resident show, it also has one-off performances such as concerts. Since 1930 it has hosted the Royal Variety Performance 43 times.

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Opened in May 1663, it is the oldest theatre in London.

William Archer, colleague and benefactor of Shaw

Original interior of Savoy Theatre in 1881, the year it became the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.

William Morris (left) and John Ruskin: important influences on Shaw's aesthetic views

The Lyceum Theatre, home to Disney's The Lion King.

Shaw in 1894 at the time of Arms and the Man

Queen's Theatre showing Les Misérables, running in London since October 1985

Gertrude Elliott and Johnston Forbes-Robertson in Caesar and Cleopatra, New York, 1906

The restored facade of the Dominion Theatre, as seen in 2017

The St Martin's Theatre, home to The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play.

Dublin city centre in ruins after the Easter Rising, April 1916

The rotating hut in the garden of Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, where Shaw wrote most of his works after 1906

The Royal Court Theatre. Upstairs is used as an experimental space for new projects—The Rocky Horror Show premiered here in 1973.

West End theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue in 2016

Gilbert and Sullivan play at the Savoy in 1881

"The strenuous literary life—George Bernard Shaw at work": 1904 caricature by Max Beerbohm

Victoria Palace Theatre (showing Billy Elliot in 2012) was refurbished in 2017.

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

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Harley Granville-Barker managed the theatre for the first few years of the 20th century, and George Bernard Shaw's plays were produced at the New Court for a period.

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Constructed in 1897, Her Majesty's Theatre hosted a number of premieres, including George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in 1914.

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These include the Royal National Theatre, the Barbican Centre, Shakespeare's Globe (including the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), the Old Vic, Royal Court Theatre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, and the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

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In the 1890s Shaw's plays were better known in print than on the West End stage; his biggest success of the decade was in New York in 1897, when Richard Mansfield's production of the historical melodrama The Devil's Disciple earned the author more than £2,000 in royalties.

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In 1904 J. E. Vedrenne and Harley Granville-Barker established a company at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, Chelsea to present modern drama.

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English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

The house in Wathen Road, Dorking, Surrey, where Olivier was born in 1907

Peggy Ashcroft, a contemporary and friend of Olivier's at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, photographed in 1936

Olivier, with his first wife Jill Esmond (left), in 1932

The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Olivier honed his skill as a Shakespearean

Olivier, with Merle Oberon in the 1939 film Wuthering Heights

Olivier with Joan Fontaine in the 1940 film Rebecca

Overseas newspaper correspondents visit the set of Henry V at Denham Studios in 1943

Co-director and co-star: Ralph Richardson in the 1940s

Olivier, with Joan Plowright in The Entertainer on Broadway in 1958

Poster for Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, one of two films in which Olivier appeared in 1960

Laurence Olivier in 1972, during the production of Sleuth

In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives, and he appeared in his first film.

In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career was in the doldrums until he joined the avant-garde English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in The Entertainer, a part he later played on film.

After a series of box-office failures, the company balanced its books in 1951 with productions of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra which the Oliviers played in London and then took to Broadway.