Royal Theater Carré
Royal Theater Carré—Dutch: Koninklijk Theater Carré—begins its story as a circus house built for Oscar Carré, the German circus director behind the family’s performances. The current venue was designed by Jan van Rossem and was officially opened on 3 December 1887, when it replaced the Rooseboom windmill at the Amstel’s city locks. Its location beside the river Amstel, close to Waterlooplein, mattered: this was a stage built for a popular audience moving through the city. In its early years, Carré could run only in winter, because Oscar’s circus travelled for the rest of the year. That changed in 1893, when Dutch theatre producer Frits van Haarlem rented the building for summer vaudeville, turning the space into an all-year venue. After Oscar Carré died in 1911, the theatre struggled until Max Gabriël rebuilt it, and later the name shifted to Theater Carré in 1920. …
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