It was built in 1879 as part of a development by the Central Halls Company chaired by David Rattray,[1] and was one of the first theatre designs of Frank Matcham.
In 1895 it was one of the four theatres brought together by Baillie Michael Simons of Glasgow in a new company Howard & Wyndham Ltd.
In his Erchie MacPherson story, "Jinnet's First Play", first published in the Glasgow Evening News on 24 October 1904, Munro has Erchie take his wife Jinnet to a production of Arthur Wing Pinero's play Letty at the Royalty.
[4] It was rebuilt after a fire in 1953 but demolished in 1959, and replaced by St. Andrew House, a large concrete office block, which is now an hotel.
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