The Lyric Theatre was originally a music hall established in 1888 on Bradmore Grove. Its success led it to being rebuilt and enlarged on the same site twice in 1890 and 1895. The 1895 reopening, as The New Lyric Opera House and designed by theatrical architect Frank Matcham, was accompanied by an address by the actress Lillie Langtry.
In 1966 the theatre was due to be closed and demolished but a successful campaign to save it led to the auditorium being dismantled and reinstalled piece by piece within a modern shell on its current site on King Street a short distance from the former location. The relocated theatre opened in 1979.
