The Amateur Theatre

The Amateur Theatre is a name given (formally and informally) to some venues used for amateur (or even semi-professional) productions over the years.

A prominent example is the Hope Street venue known as The Amateur Theatre (Cape Town, 1825-1851), the name being a journalists' version of the official Dutch name of De Liefhebbery Tooneel, founded by the amateur company Tot Nut en Vermaak in 1825, as an alternative venue to the Afrikaansche Schouwburg.

See Liefhebbery Tooneel