[2] The theatrical newspaper The Era reported on the interior of the theatre: The prospectus for the new theatre announced: Kingston had intended to open with Pains and Penalties, a new play by Laurence Housman, but the official censor declined to license its production because the theme – the divorce of George IV and Caroline of Brunswick – was uncomplimentary to the royal family.

[8] Lillah McCarthy temporarily took over the management of the house in March 1911 and Bernard Shaw had his first commercial success there, with Fanny's First Play in April.

Later in the year Sybil Thorndike, her brother, Russell and her husband Lewis Casson presented a two-year run of Grand Guignol melodramas at the Little Theatre.

Later productions included plays by John Masefield, Elmer Rice, Galsworthy, Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, Luigi Pirandello and Henrik Ibsen.

[16] Price's biggest box-office success was Hsiung Shih-I's Lady Precious Stream, which she staged four times, the longest revival running for 456 performances.

[16] The theatre was closed from June to December 1938, after which Herbert Farjeon took over the management and wrote Nine Sharp, a revue with music by Walter Leigh.

[21] In April 1940 Farjeon opened what was intended to be a season of Restoration drama, with Alec Clunes, Hermione Baddeley, Max Adrian and Ursula Jeans in Miles Malleson's production of William Wycherley's The Country Wife.