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We spoke with Dr Kate Jordan of Westminster University earlier in the year as she was researching the take over of former cinemas as places of worship, and had come across Streatham Hill Theatre, which while not a… Read More
We’ve had a donation of programmes from Gilbert and Sullivan operas performed in the 1930s at Streatham Hill Theatre. Debbie Haughton found them in her late mother’s belongings, who left a note saying that the theatre did a… Read More
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The Streatham Festival team approached the current owners Ruach City Church through the auspices of local MP Steve Reed’s office to ask for access to the theatre for this year’s (2025) Streatham Festival. There was the possibility for… Read More
In 2024 our theatre attracted the attention of French architecture student Sixtine Compin from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon. She and her tutor met with some of The Friends on a visit to the UK where… Read More
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The V&A museum has nine boxes of material relating to Streatham Hill Theatre in its former theatre museum archives. We have been trying to see these for a while but were delayed by COVID and the V&A archive’s… Read More
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Urbandoned, a group of “urban explorers” took a sneaky look at Streatham Hill Theatre in 2023 and have today published this video. While we can’t condone trespassing, it does provide a good record of the theatre at the… Read More
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The Friends’ David Harvey and Liz Burton gave a talk about Streatham Hill Theatre to the Streatham Society, entitled “Streatham’s Sleeping Beauty”, as part of the Wandsworth Heritage Festival. 1st July 2025, 7.30pm at St. Leonard’s Church. More… Read More
In 1962, the Theatre became Mecca’s flagship bingo social club, run by Eric Morley, head of Mecca and founder of Miss World, who in 1970 called Streatham Hill “the greatest entertainment centre in Britain”. We have heard from… Read More
Back in 2017, the Theatres Trust added Streatham Hill Theatre to its “At Risk” register. Each year since, the theatre has remained on that list, and it has been confirmed today that it is still on this year’s… Read More
We’ve had another kind donation of programmes from Catherine Bennett, collected by her mum who was born in 1933 and grew up on the Clapham Park Estate. She was a “scholarship girl” at St Martin-in-the Fields High School… Read More
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