A report on West End theatre, Palace Theatre, London and Laurence Olivier

The Palace Theatre, in the City of Westminster, London, built in 1891
The Palace Theatre
Olivier in 1972
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.
Ivanhoe programme cover from the theatre's first night
The house in Wathen Road, Dorking, Surrey, where Olivier was born in 1907
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Opened in May 1663, it is the oldest theatre in London.
Maud Allan as Salome with the head of John the Baptist
Interior of All Saints, Margaret Street
Original interior of Savoy Theatre in 1881, the year it became the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.
Les Misérables played at the Palace Theatre from 1985 to 2004
Peggy Ashcroft, a contemporary and friend of Olivier's at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, photographed in 1936
The Lyceum Theatre, home to Disney's The Lion King.
Singin' in the Rain at the Palace Theatre, London
Olivier, with his first wife Jill Esmond (left), in 1932
Queen's Theatre showing Les Misérables, running in London since October 1985
The Old Vic (photographed in 2012), where Olivier honed his skill as a Shakespearean
The restored facade of the Dominion Theatre, as seen in 2017
Olivier, with Merle Oberon in the 1939 film Wuthering Heights
The St Martin's Theatre, home to The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play.
Olivier with Joan Fontaine in the 1940 film Rebecca
The exterior of the Old Vic
Overseas newspaper correspondents visit the set of Henry V at Denham Studios in 1943
The Royal Court Theatre. Upstairs is used as an experimental space for new projects—The Rocky Horror Show premiered here in 1973.
Co-director and co-star: Ralph Richardson in the 1940s
West End theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue in 2016
Olivier with Leigh in Australia, 1948
Gilbert and Sullivan play at the Savoy in 1881
Olivier and Leigh in 1957
Victoria Palace Theatre (showing Billy Elliot in 2012) was refurbished in 2017.
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
Olivier in 1939

The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London.

- Palace Theatre, London

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

- Laurence Olivier

The Palace Theatre opened in 1891.

- West End theatre

In 1930, Laurence Olivier had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives.

- West End theatre

The Entertainer, starring Laurence Olivier, transferred to the theatre from the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.

- Palace Theatre, London

Tony Richardson's production for the English Stage Company transferred from the Royal Court to the Palace Theatre in September 1957; after that it toured and returned to the Palace.

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

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