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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

The posters, she later wrote, made her nice pocket-money. Her portrait of Ivor Novello (the playwright, composer, and actor best-known for his music to the World War I song Keep the Home Fires...

Garrick sported this lavish headgear in The Provoked Wife by Vanbrugh at Drury Lane .

The following season, 1777-8, MR 's salary was £2.10s. weekly. She received in addition the profits from at least two benefit performances. She also acted, this season and the next, at benefit nights for the...