The Prince’s Theatre in Oxford Street Manchester England was built at a cost of £20000 in 1864. Under the artistic and managerial leadership of Charles Calvert Manchester’s most celebrated actor-manager it soon became a great popular success. The theatre’s first production Shakespeare’s The Tempest took place on 15 October 1864; Calvert himself played Prospero and his wife took the role of Miranda.
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