Stephen Joseph Theatre

Founded in Scarborough by theatrical pioneer Stephen Joseph, The Stephen Joseph Theatre was originally in 1955, a tiny theatre in the round on the first floor of the Public Library.

The theatre flourished and in 1976 moved to a supposedly temporary home on the ground floor of the former Scarborough Boys' High School at an initial conversion cost of £40,000.

It wasn't until 1996, after a £5.2m conversion of the local Odeon cinema after its closure, that the Stephen Joseph Theatre gained itself at permeant home. The new theatre, known simply as the Stephen Joseph Theatre opened on 30th April 1996 and has two auditoria: The Round, a 404-seat in the round and The McCarthy, a 165-seat endstage/cinema. The building also contains a restaurant, shop, and full front-of-house and backstage facilities.