Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Drury Lane Theatre was dark this night as a mark of respect for DG , actor-manager and playwright, who had died that morning at 5 Adelphi Terrace, London.

While the family resided in London, theatre-going provided another much-welcomed form of education and entertainment. EG once attended a production of The Caravan, featuring John Kemble , in which Carlo, the famous Newfoundland...

As a means of earning money she went on the stage. In January 1734 she appeared at Drury Lane , and in April that year she organised her own benefit at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre

SL 's father, John Lee , was a quarrelsome and impecunious actor. The year of her birth he acted at Richmond and Covent Garden , with an interim desertion to Drury Lane , where, however...

At the time her first play was produced DM was said, perhaps not accurately, to be having an affair with Skipwith , co-manager of Drury Lane .

Charlotte's father, Colley Cibber , was an actor, manager of Drury Lane Theatre , and Poet Laureate: he had become an unfaithful husband before Charlotte was born, and he was at the peak of his...

Actress Sarah Siddons had her first triumph at Drury Lane , four months after the birth of her fifth and last child.

Tom Sheridan , CN 's father, son of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan , bore the same name as his famous eighteenth-century grandfather, the actor, and great-grandfather, the clergyman and schoolmaster. He had been an...

As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (who later talked with high praise of her),MMB acquired a wide acquaintance in London. She became a close friend...

There opened at Drury Lane Theatre a comedy entitled Love in Many Masks, by John Philip Kemble , which was adapted from AB 's The Rover.

Seventeen years after the brief, inglorious appearance of The Sister, Sir John Burgoyne raided it for his successful comedy The Heiress, which opened at Drury Lane on 14 January 1786. Twenty years after...

The British Library copy is 161 g. 56. An advertisement says that William Rufus Chetwood (prompter at Drury Lane ) had hoped to get it staged, but it was delayed by the author's ill-health. Again...

Garrick succeeded in a reform which put an end to on-stage audience seating at Drury Lane .

The Drury Lane theatre audience demonstrated its consumer power by compelling Garrick to alter the regular opening time.

Drury Lane Theatre was left in parlous condition at the retirement of David Garrick ; the next manager to make his mark on it was Richard Brinsley Sheridan , who now became joint-manager with three others.