Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

As early as March-April 1788 AY 's backers Eliza Dawson and Wilmer Gossip were suggesting that a play would offer a better chance of financial return than poetry. Yearsley drafted her lost play Bawdin at...

She wrote a farce which she submitted to Robert Elliston , manager of Drury Lane (and an old friend who later proposed marriage to her). But he did not accept her play. In 1829 (after...

This literary satire was the first fruit of his wish that she should write a series of dramas for young people. Its manuscript survives in the Bodleian Library . Sheridan rejected it for Drury Lane

In general JB was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald , for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Baillie...

MJY 's poem, in fast-moving heroic couplets, opens with Genius invoking the aid of Fancy. Fancy insists that the most beautiful and versatile of the muses is Thalia (who presides over comedy). After urging the...

After asking the actor George Powell to help her get it accepted at Drury Lane, she had then taken it to the other theatre, and claimed that Powell plagiarised it in his The Imposture Defeated...

Mary Berry and Anne Damer both offered comments and revisions four years before this play was published. Lady Louisa Stuart did the same (through Walter Scott) in 1809.

BL collaborated with Nona Shepphard on The Drury Lane Ghost, staged in London in 1989, Peter Pan, 1991 (in which she played the voice of Tinkerbell), and The Sleeping Beauty, 1992. On...

Despite the volume's title, The Ruffian Boy had been in print well before this, and had spawned several theatrical incarnations. These included one based on the story, written by Edward Ball and produced at Norwich...

It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular. It had been completed by 1777, but rejected by Thomas Harris of Covent Garden , who then produced Hannah More 's Percy instead. Tragedy...

A musical drama by PG was accepted for production, but then lost, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , new manager of Drury Lane Theatre .

Many of CG 's sixteen plays (often but not all light comedy), have remained unpublished, though produced on stage in London and New York. The earliest of these, the blank-verse tragedy Nitocris, was...

The same year it played at the Theatre Royal itself, and also reached print.

FB 's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick and John Rich had rejected this tragedy for the stage.

EG 's last comedy, The Times (a sentimental piece adapted from Goldoni ), opened at Drury Lane .