Queens Theatre, Poplar programme for the week commencing Monday November 30th 1953. The Queens Theatre opened on Poplar High Street in 1898 on a site that had been used by earlier establishments from at least the 1860s. It was remodelled several times, closed in 1958 and was demolished in 1964. Included on the programme are Dick Emery and Charlie Drake in a double act that only lasted for one season.