The Palace Theatre in Cambridge Square is a sort of halfway house on the ambitious tour which Sir John Gielgud is undertaking at the head of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company now presenting "Much Ado About Nothing" and "King Lear." Already the players have appeared in Vienna, Zurich, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague, and when their season at the Palace finishes on September 17th, they will go back to the Continent to give performances in Berlin, Hamburg, Oslo and Copenhagen before returning to visit six major cities in the United Kingdom. Finally there is to be a short season at Stratford-upon-Avon. Qielgud has been deeply moved by memorable receptions in Austria, Holland and Switzerland. Neither he nor Peggy Ashcroft had previously played in Vienna, but they made new reputations overnight and could easily have stayed twice as long playing to capacity audiences. After every performance people in the stalls surged down to the front and continued to applaud most-enthusiastically until the company had taken at least fifteen curtains. That was not all; when Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft would leave the theatre by the stage door best part of an hour later, they would be greeted by several hundred people, waiting to clap and cheer them as they stepped into their car.

...In the theatre, the spectator is stationary as he watches and listens to the spectacle moving before him. If an actor has to give emphasis to a particular gesture or expression he must draw the attention of the audience to himself by taking up a conspicuous position, or by striking a pose or making a movement or pause that will lead the other actors to look at him; and whatever he does must be performed so obviously that it cannot fail to be observed by the most distant members of his audience. His makeup, even his stage-whispers, must be exaggerated for the same purpose.

The Palace Theatre in Cambridge Square is a sort of half-way house on the ambitious tour which Sir John Gielgud is undertaking at the head of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company now presenting "Much Ado About Nothing" and "King Lear." Already the players have appeared in Vienna, Zurich, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague, and when their season at the Palace finishes on September 17th, they will go back to the Continent to give performances in Berlin, Hamburg, Oslo and Copenhagen before returning to visit six major cities in the United Kingdom. Finally there is to be a short season at Stratford-upon-Avon.

In December 1955, Moscow theatre-goers saw "Hamlet" played by an English company under the direction of producer Peter Brook. The performances were given at the Moscow Art Theatre. The troupe was formed especially for the staging of "Hamlet" by the Tennent TheatreCompany founded  by  H.  Beaumont  in   1942.
Theatre organization in England is such that only a few theatres have their own permanent company. Troupes are formed for a season, sometimes for a single play, the director inviting from various places the actors whom he considers most suitable to appear in the parts.

"Are you going to the Red Army Theatre?" Essex asked.
"I put that off," Katherine said. "I'm going to the Bol-shoi   to  see  'Giselle.'"1
"You had better hurry."
"I shan't be late," Katherine said. "I'm never late."