page_title: Theatre Royal, Dublin
section_title: The fourth Theatre Royal
hierarchical_section_title: Theatre Royal, Dublin / The fourth Theatre Royal
caption_attribution_description: Just around the corner from the Queen's, Warden &amp; Willmot's Robinson Crusoe was wowing audiences at the Theatre Royal on Hawkins Street at Christmas 1916... Date: December 1916 Printed by: David Allen &amp; Sons, 40 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin Size: 44 x 29 cm NLI Ref.: &lt;a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000514822" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;EPH E336&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: Over the centuries, there have been five theatres in Dublin called the Theatre Royal.
  In the history of the theatre in Great Britain and Ireland, the designation "Theatre Royal", or "Royal Theatre", once meant that a theatre had been granted a royal patent, without which "serious drama" theatrical performances were not permitted by law. Many such theatres had other names.
context_section_description: The fourth Theatre Royal opened on 13 December 1897 by the actor-manager Frederick Mouillot with the assistance of a group of Dublin businessmen. The theatre was designed by Frank Matcham and built on the site of the Leinster Hall theatre, which in turn had been built on the site of the third Theatre Royal. It had seating for an audience of 2,011 people.
  This new theatre found itself in competition with the Gaiety Theatre, which prompted Mouillot to try to attract as many big name stars and companies as possible. At first, the theatre was noted for its opera and musical comedy productions. On 28 April 1904, Edward VII attended a state performance at the theatre.
  Mouillot died in 1911 and one of his partners, David Tellford took over the running of the theatre. As musical comedy went out of fashion in the early years of the 20th century, the Royal started to stage music hall shows on a regular basis. In one such show in 1906, a young Charlie Chaplin performed as part of an act called The Eight Lancashire Lads. In its final years, the Theatre was also used as a cinema. It closed on 3 March 1934 and demolished soon after.
caption: Theatre poster from 1916
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