Palladium Theatre

The building opened on 29th October 1888 as the Alhambra Opera House and Music Hall. It was designed by noted theatre archirct Frank Matchum. It was closed on 9th September 1911. Re-named the Palladium Theatre, it re-opened on October 30, 1911 staging vaudeville in the evening and films in the afternoon. It closed in March 1912. On 6th April 1912 it reopened as the Grand Cinema Deluxe, but soon reverted back to the Palladium name still a cinema which was independently operated. In 1924 it was taken over by the Blue Hall Cinemas circuit. In July 1929 it screened its first sound film; Ruth Chatterton in “The Doctor’s Secret”.

On 15th April 1935 it was taken over by the Oscar Deutsch chain of Odeon Theatres Ltd, and it was given a new Art Deco style façade, designed by cinema architect Andrew Mather, and was re-named Odeon on 8th June 1935. On 28th November 1937 the cinema reverted to its former name of the Palladium Theatre on the opening of the towns' new Odeon around the corner on West Street (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures). The Palladium Theatre was closed on 26th October 1940 due to wartime conditions.

In 1942 it was taken over by an independent operator.

The Palladium Theatre closed on 26th May 1956 with Kenneth Moore in “Genevieve” & Dirk Bogarde in “Doctor in the House”. It stood unused for several years and was demolished in 1963. The Brighton Centre (conference and concert venue plus Odeon cinemas) now occupies the site (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures).

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