abstract:The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on the Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days.
Sir Peter Hall apologises to Downton Abbey actress Laura Carmichael after he "unintentionally disrupted" her West End debut in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the VaudevilleTheatre.
If you still feel like driving, another half hour and you will hit Uniontown, where the State Theatre Center for the Arts (www.statetheatre.info), a 1922 movie and vaudevilletheatre designed by architect Thomas W Lamb, puts on concerts, musicals and classic films.
Some of the silent actors were theatre- or vaudeville-trained, some were just good-looking people who were drawn to Hollywood, and did what they were told to do or imagined that they needed to do.