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 had written it after fleeing to Blois in France with her family after a theatre riot greeted a performance of Voltaire 's Mahomet, and had intended it to be the first of a...

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...

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...

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.

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...

CT 's first play, Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy, opened at Drury Lane .

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...

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...

SSW adapted The Travellers; or, Prince of China: An interesting story from an opera, The Travellers, with music by Domenico Corri and libretto by Andrew Cherry , which had opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

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

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.

JP wrote several plays. She had already refused one invitation to write for Drury Lane when in March 1816 she met and was impressed by both Edmund Kean and his wife, Mary . Mary described...