The theatre was built in 1791 by John Boles Watson in upper Westgate Street.
[1] Watson died in 1813, and the theatre was sold to the businessman John Blinkhorn in 1857.
[2] Charles Dickens once performed the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers to a capacity audience.
At its centenary in 1891, Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry both appeared with members of the Lyceum Company.
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