Show Drury Lane Theater The famous London Drury Lane Inne theater dates dates' back back to leeJ 1603 when the first theater of or this name was opened on the site of a yard riding at that time In an nn aristocratic quarter of the city It was called the Theater Royal and the first play pIny produced was Beau Brau Beaumont Beaumont mont and Fletchers Fletcher's F The Humorous Lieutenant Nell Gwynne made her first appearance there two years later The first t building burned down In lej and was succeeded In 1074 by a the theater theater ater designed by Sir Christopher Wren this lasted astell until 1711 1791 1 when it was torn down The flue third one burned b down In 1800 1509 and the fourth and present the theater theater ater was opened In Drury Lanes Lane's history Is practically the history of or the English stage for the past three cen I Juries furies and Is connected conn with such names as Mrs Garrick Kern ale ble Kean I Sheridan h mind and Macready John Joio Howard played Non Norva there li ii h. Douglas In ISIS 1513 Rl nail anti ma mahn mahave have ha hn ve b hoen on on of the II I actors to tu play there he ne er n |