7 March 2019
Lecture Series
The Frankenstein Phenomenon (change from printed programme)
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Notes and Queries
An intriguing query came into the members’ interests mailbox the other week. Darren Smith collects old theatrical autographs, photographs and other memorabilia, and this one foxed him, so he wrote to us asking if anyone could decipher it. Within an astonishingly short period of time, our committee member Michael Read had pinned it down. Do *you* have a query you'd like to put to the Members At Large of the STR?
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Two Events about Richmond Theatre by Frank Matcham
30 January 2019
Critics Circle Theatre Awards 2018
21 January 2019
Scottish Opera in Matcham splendour
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Matcham’s Masterpieces on Film
10 January 2019
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Smedley on Smedley
13 November 2018
Response to Darren Smith
6 November 2018
Can anyone identify this quotation?
24 July 2018
New monograph on Thomas ‘Jupiter’ Harris
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