The Playhouse Theatre - Edinburgh

The auditorium side on, viewed from the outside.

The theatre opened in 1929 as a super-cinema, and was modelled on the Roxy Cinema in New York. It was designed by the specialist cinema architect John Fairweather, most famous for his Green's Playhouse cinema in Glasgow. When it opened it was the forth largest cinema in the Uk and it is today the UK's largest working theatre in terms of audience capacity.

The building is said to be haunted by a ghost called Albert, a man in a grey coat who appears accompanied by a sudden chill in the air. He is variously said to have been either a stagehand who was killed in an accident or a night-watchman who committed suicide. I have been to a number of shows in the theatre and never seen/experienced the ghost.