Richmond Theatre in 1804 (aquatint in James Winston, The Theatric Tourist, London 1805)
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Richmond and Sheen – Richmond Theatre (1765)
1765 - A new theatre opens in Richmond, with a prologue written for the occasion by David Garrick
1831 - Edmund Kean takes a lease on the theatre and acts here until his death in 1833
1884 - The theatre, still known affectionately in Richmond as Kean's, falls on hard times and is pulled down
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Sources for this page Gascoigne 1, 45-6
Contributors to this page BG (RLHS)
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