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Royal Theatre
Proscenium arch
The Royal Theatre, which opened in 1884, was designed by the renowned Victorian theatre
architect C J Phipps who also designed the Theatre Royal Bath, The Lyceum in Edinburgh,
Theatre Royal Glasgow and the Grand in Wolverhampton. It is a Grade II listed building.
Whilst it has a nominal capacity of 583 seats, its practical capacity is 460 given the
nature of the seating on the gallery benches. It is a 'producing' house and is supported
by workshop and wardrobe. In 1927 it became home to the Northampton Repertory Players and
has run as a producing house ever since, staging at least six 'in-house' productions each
year. Amongst many famous actors to tread the boards at the Royal, the most notable is
arguably Errol Flynn who was a member of Northampton Repertory Players in the early 1930s.
