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<p>stars of music hall".</p>

<p><big>History</big></p>
<p>Hackney Empire is a <a href="page.php?w=grade_II%2A_listed_building">grade II* listed building</a>. The theatre was built as a music hall in 1901, designed by the architect <a href="page.php?w=Frank_Matcham">Frank Matcham</a>. Architecture scholar <a href="page.php?w=Nikolaus_Pevsner">Nicholas Pevsner</a> described the "splendid Hackney Empire, with its ornate <a href="page.php?w=terracotta">terracotta</a> exterior and sumptuous seventy-seven galleried auditorium" as a key example of Victorian and</p><p>
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