Which theatre did David Garrick, the famed actor manage and run from 1747-1776?
David Garrick the Jubilee. Garrick would manage the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, until his retirement from management in 1776. In his last years he continued to add roles to his repertoire; Posthumus in "Cymbeline" was among his last famous roles. Shortly before his death he worked on the production of "The Camp" with Sheridan at Drury Lane and caught a very bad cold. "The Camp" was based around the British response to a threatened invasion by France, leading some to jokingly claim that Garrick was the only casualty of the ultimately abandoned invasion. He died less than three years after his retirement,
Garrick Theatre Garrick Theatre The Garrick Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster, named after the stage actor David Garrick. It opened in 1889 with "The Profligate", a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, and another Pinero play, "The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith", was an early success at the theatre. In its early years, the Garrick appears to have specialised in the performance of melodrama. The theatre later became associated with comedies, including "No Sex Please, We're British", which played for four years from 1982 to 1986. There was previously another theatre that was sometimes