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The Edinburgh Festival Theatre (originally Empire Palace Theatre and later shortened to Empire Theatre) is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is used primarily for performances of opera and ballet, large-scale musical events, and touring groups. After its most recent renovation in 1994, it seats 1,915.
The group had grown to over 50 theatres when Stoll withdrew his in 1910 to run them as a separate business. The first Royal Command Variety Performance was planned for Sir Edward Moss's Edinburgh Empire in the Coronation year 1911 but it burned down and instead was held at the London Palace Theatre in 1912, owned then by Sir Alfred Butt, a competitor of Moss, who later joined its alliance ...
Edinburgh Festival Theatre: Edinburgh November 7, 1892 1,915 Operator – Capital Theatres Edinburgh Playhouse: Edinburgh 1929 3,059 Owner – Ambassador Theatre Group: Empire Theatre (Glasgow) Glasgow 1897–1963 2,100 Empire Theatre (Hackney) Hackney 1901; rebuilt in 2004 1,275 Empire Theatre (Liverpool) Liverpool March 9, 1925 2,348
Empire Cinemas multiplex cinema chain with 14 locations and 131 screens; Empire Palace Theatre, later simply the Empire Theatre and now the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
1911: On 9 May: Sigmund Neuberger, a vaudeville performer known as "The Great Lafayette", died in Edinburgh's Empire Palace Theatre while performing his "Lion's Bride" illusion after a stage lamp sparked a fire that killed Neuberger, his double, the lion, and ten other performers.
In The Sketch, 17 January 1900. Sir Horace Edward Moss (12 April 1852 – 25 November 1912) [1] was a British theatre impresario and the founder chairman and joint managing director of the Moss Empires Ltd theatre combine which he created in 1899, and floated on the Stock Exchange, after first joining forces with Richard Thornton of Newcastle and later with Oswald Stoll then operating in Wales.
Edinburgh Playhouse – 3,059 seated [3] Edinburgh Corn Exchange – 3,000 for concerts [4] Usher Hall, Edinburgh – 2,200 seated, 2,900 with standing, 1,970 cabaret [5] Ross Bandstand, Princess Street Gardens - 2,500 seated [6] Edinburgh Festival Theatre – 1,915 seated [7] Leith Theatre, Edinburgh – 1,500 seated [8] King's Theatre ...
Edinburgh: Usher Hall: 21 April 1975 23 April 1975: Preston: England: Preston Guild Hall: 24 April 1975: Leicester: De Montfort Hall: 25 April 1975 27 April 1975: Liverpool: Empire Theatre: 28 April 1975 29 April 1975: Manchester: Palace Theatre: 30 April 1975 2 May 1975: Cardiff: Wales: Capitol Theatre 3 May 1975 5 May 1975: Bristol: England ...