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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

West End theatre building in Covent Garden, London, England, UK

25 dated entries naming Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, drawn from 21 separate years between 1663 CE and 1814 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

  • 1663May 7 – The King's Theatre, now called "Drury Lane", opens in London.source
  • 16637 May – opening of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.source
  • 1672January 25 – The Theatre Royal, located at the time on Bridges Street in London, burns down. A replacement structure is built on Drury Lane in 1674.source
  • 167225 January – the Theatre Royal in Bridges Street in London burns down, forcing the King's Company to relocate to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre while the Theatre Royal is rebuilt in Drury Lane.source
  • 167426 March – Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, re-opens, having been rebuilt after a fire in 1672.source
  • 1690October 21 – The play Amphitryon by John Dryden, based on Molière's 1668 play of the same name, receives its first performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.source
  • 1692November 8 – William Mountfort's play Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond is given its first performance, premiering at the Drury Lane Theatre.source
  • 1693March – William Congreve's first play, the comedy The Old Bachelor, is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.source
  • 1696Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.source

18th century

  • 17068 April – George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.source
  • 1706April 8 – George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.source
  • 17095 February – dramatist John Dennis devises the thundersheet as a new method of producing theatrical thunder for his tragedy Appius and Virginia at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.source
  • 17142 February – Nicholas Rowe's tragedy Jane Shore premieres at the Drury Lane Theatre in London and is a popular success.source
  • 1717March 2 – Dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain, shown at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, The Loves of Mars and Venus.source
  • 17172 March – dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain, shown at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, The Loves of Mars and Venus.source
  • 172810 January – The Provoked Husband a comedy based on an unfinished John Vanbrugh play completed by Colley Cibber premieres at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It appears to be the hit of the theatre season until eclipsed by The Beggars Opera a few weeks later.source
  • 173510 May – Charles Macklin unintentionally kills fellow actor Thomas Hallam after a dispute during a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. He is later tried and convicted of manslaughter.source
  • 1741February 14 – Irish-born actor Charles Macklin makes his London stage debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, pioneering a psychologically realistic style with Shakespeare's text revived, replacing George Granville's melodramatic adaptation The Jew of Venice. Kitty Clive plays the travesti role of Portia.source
  • 174528 September – the song later to become the British national anthem "God Save the King" is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in a setting by Thomas Arne.source
  • 1777May 8 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners, The School for Scandal, is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.source
  • 1779First performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Critic at the Drury Lane Theatre in London.source
  • 178210 October – Sarah Siddons makes a triumphant return to the Drury Lane Theatre in London in the title role of Garrick's adaptation of Thomas Southerne's Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage.source
  • 179811 October – Elizabeth Inchbald's play Lovers' Vows, adapted from Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe, is first performed at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.source

19th century

  • 180924 February – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London is destroyed by fire.source
  • 181426 January – Actor Edmund Kean makes his London debut in an adult leading role as Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.source

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