Gateway Theatre
This collection includes minutes, photographs, presscuttings and programmes.
The Gateway Theatre was situated at no 41 Elm Row, a section of Leith Walk in Edinburgh. The site was a veterinary college in 1890, and reconstructed as Pringle's Picture Palace in about 1910. This closed in the 1930s and the building was subsequently used as a theatre by a group of amateur actors. In 1946, however, the premises were gifted to the Church of Scotland who formed their own repertory company. By 1953 the Church decided to hand it over to a fully professional independent company. The company was formed with Robert Kemp in charge and was to include many of Scotland's finest actors; its repertoire included many plays by contemporary Scottish dramatists. The theatre closed just as Edinburgh corporation was acquiring the Royal Lyceum to establish a civic theatre in 1965.
How to find material relating to the Gateway Theatre
- Browse a list of documents or events associated with the Gateway Theatre or use the Name Search option on the Scottish Theatre Archive Search
See also
- National Library of Scotland: Scottish Theatre Programmes database: collection of programmes, playbills and posters. These items from theatres and other venues date from the 19th century onwards
