Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 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 (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 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
Theatre in the Victorian era “Between 1860 to 1870 the Royalty, The Gaiety, The Charing Cross, The Globe, The Holborn, The Queen’s were remodeled. Later in the following decade of 1870 to 1880 The Court, The Opera Comique and The Imperial were built.”(The Theatre 27). This brief list is proof of steadily increasing interest of the common public in the theatre. According to Allardyce Nicoll, “there were nineteen theatres in London during the summer of 1851. Nearly half a century later, in 1899, London boasts sixty one theatres, thirty eight in the west end twenty three in the nearby suburban districts.”(The Theatre 28). Their significance