Princess Theatre, Oxford Street

Green-tinted postcard showing the Princess Theatre within a streetscape of Oxford Street in London. The theatre has a large, arched opening on the first floor. A canopy, bearing the name of the theatre and of the current production ‘Theodora’, covers the main entrance. A theatre had occupied the site since the late 1830s, and in 1880 it was almost completely rebuilt by noted theatre architect C. J. Phipps. Apparently, the works were so radical that part of an adjoining building occupied by a jeweller fell down. The theatre lasted just 22 years.