Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Local nameTheatre Royal, Drury Lane
LocationLondon, UK

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane. The present building, opened in 1812, is the most recent of four theatres that stood at the location since 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". For most of that time, it was one of a handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" drama in London.

The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the English Restoration.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane

Official Website http://www.theatreroyaldrurylane.co.uk/

Twitter https://twitter.com/@TheatreRoyalDL

Phone +44 844 412 4660

Address Catherine Street London, WC2B 5JF, UK

Coordinates 51°30'46.803" N -0°7'12.689" E

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