For more than 140 years, audiences in Edinburgh have come here for ballet, opera, touring productions, and new plays. Opened in 1883, the Royal Lyceum Theatre was designed by the celebrated Victorian architect C. J. Phipps, one of the most prolific theatre designers of the 19th century. Built in the grand Victorian Renaissance style, the Lyceum's elegant façade on Grindlay Street hides a richly decorated auditorium with balconies, gilded plasterwork, and deep red velvet designed to create a dram