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The Theatre Royal is an Edwardian theatre on Thames Street in Windsor in Berkshire. The present building is the second theatre to stand on this site and opened on 13 December 1910. Built for Sir William Shipley and Captain Reginald Shipley, it was a replacement for their previous theatre which was built in 1815 and had burnt down in 1908. The present theatre was designed by Frank Verity, the son of the theatre architect Thomas Verity. The building is Grade II listed and is the only unsubsidised producing theatre to operate all year round in the United Kingdom.
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Olympic Theatre was the name of five former 19th and early 20th-century theatres on Broadway in Manhattan and in Brooklyn, New York.
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- 1 2 3 Saerchinger, César (1920). "Musical Landmarks in New York". The Musical Quarterly. Vol. 6. p. 77-78.
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- ↑ "The Past and Present Religious and Racial Conditions of "Oldest New York"". Federation. Vol. 3, no. 4. December 1904. p. 37.
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