Court Theatre

…he became manager of the Court Theatre with J.E. Vedrenne and introduced the public to the plays of Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, John Galsworthy, John Masefield, and Gilbert Murray’s translations from Greek. His original productions of the early plays of George Bernard Shaw were especially important. His wife, Lillah McCarthy,…

He became actor-manager at the Court Theatre (1875) and from 1879 to 1888 worked at the St. James’s Theatre, establishing his position as a leading actor. He became actor-manager of the Garrick Theatre in 1889, producing Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s plays The Profligate and The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith and making…