[3][4] He appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1901), and played Telemachus in Ulysses (1902), both opposite Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Courtice Pounds in both productions.

[12] In 1912 he gave an outstanding performance in the title role in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion.

At the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre he played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice (1914), Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing (1914), Orsino in Twelfth Night; (1914), and Orlando in As You Like It (1914).

[17] In 1927 Lawrence, by now known primarily as a film actor, again undertook a tour of South Africa as actor-manager of a West End theatre company putting on a repertoire of plays that included Monsieur Beaucaire, The School for Scandal, David Garrick, 13, Simon Street and Beau Brummel.

With Davis he had a daughter, Marjorie Fay Lawrence (1908–1930), who was murdered by her husband Eardley Maskall Cottrell in Gerald's home at 11 Ornan road Haverstock Hill.