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Old Houses in Drury Lane (1875) by William R. Richardson. The street originated as an early medieval lane referred to in Latin as the Via de Aldwych, which probably connected St. Giles Leper Hospital with the fields of Aldwych Close, owned by the hospital but traditionally said to have been granted to the Danes as part of a peace treaty with King Alfred the Great in Saxon times.
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 present building, opened in 1812, is the most recent of four theatres that stood at the ...
The Theatre Royal Wakefield is a theatre in Wakefield, England, which dates back to 1894. [ 2 ] The theatre was originally known as the Theatre Royal and Opera House and dates back to the 1770s. [ 2 ] The theatre lies on the corner Westgate and Drury Lane. It was designed in 1894 as the Wakefield Opera House, by theatre architect Frank Matcham ...
The Phoenix was located in the middle of the area bounded today by Drury Lane, Great Queen Street, Great Wild Street, and Kemble Street. The entrance to the theatre was in Cockpit Alley, which ran from Drury Lane to Great Wild Street; the present-day Martlett Court is off Drury Lane roughly opposite where the entrance to Cockpit Alley was. [13]
The main frontages of the tower, on Drury Lane and Fenwick Street, featured sections of three bays which were faced in alternating bands of glass and green faience panelling, flanked by sections which were canted and faced in Portland stone. Internally, the principal room was the main trading hall, which was located inside the podium.
The original Drury Lane Water Tower Place opened in 1976, but was closed in 1983 and became a movie theater. [1]Drury Lane Theatre group founder Tony DeSantis later spent $9 million to transform another movie theater located nearby on 175 East Chestnut Street just off Michigan Avenue into a showplace for live performances in Chicago.
Gillian Lynne Theatre. The Gillian Lynne Theatre (formerly New London Theatre) is a West End theatre located on the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden in the London Borough of Camden. The Winter Garden Theatre occupied the site until 1965. On 1 May 2018, the theatre was officially renamed the Gillian Lynne Theatre in honour ...
The company remained there until 1671. Meanwhile, the King's Company moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [4] where they stayed. The founder of the Duke's Company (and Poet Laureate) Sir William Davenant, was a proponent of changeable scenery and theatrical machinery, which he is credited with introducing to the English public stage. [5]