"The Vagabond King" was produced at the theatre in 1927, and in 1929, Fred and Adele Astaire starred in "Funny Face". In 1930, Sophie Tucker played in the Vivian Ellis musical "Follow a Star", and in 1923, Gracie Fields appeared here in "Walk This Way". In 1933, the theatre hosted Lewis Casson in George Bernard Shaw's "On the Rocks", followed in 1935 by "Love on the Dole", starring Wendy Hiller. The theatre closed in the late 1930s, reopening in 1942. In 1945, it hosted a Donald Wolfit season, and in 1953, Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution" played. 1956 saw "The Water Gypsies" by Vivian Ellis and A P Herbert; "Hotel Paradiso" starring Alec Guinness, Douglas Byng, Irene Worth and Billie Whitelaw; and Tyrone Power starred in Shaw's "The Devil Disciple". 1958 included "The Iceman Cometh".