Kettering Savoy

The Kettering Savoy was a theatre and cinema in Russell Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.

The Kettering Savoy was originally known as the Coliseum Theatre. It opened in 1910 in a building which had been built seven years earlier, but a fire gutted it in 1937. The theatre was rebuilt and reopened on 21 May 1938 with a screening of the Hollywood film Big City , starring Spencer Tracy and Luise Rainer, and a variety show on stage. Over the years, numerous stage productions were held in the theatre, and several prestigious actors appeared on stage here in their earlier careers. It was annexed by the Clifton Cinemas circuit on 25 August 1944, and the Northampton Repertory Company were based there between 1949 and 1951; it was described as the Northampton Repertory Theatre's outpost. In 1951, a Lionel Hamilton production of The Romantic Young Lady, from the Spanish of Gregorio Martínez Sierra, starring Jean Charlesworth, Peter Bell and Ronald Radd was put on at the Savoy. In 1951, Jim Dale made his stage debut as a stand-up comedian at the theatre, and was discovered there by Carroll Levis.

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