{"slug": "theatre-royal-drury-lane", "label": "Theatre Royal, Drury Lane", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal%2C_Drury_Lane", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1756626", "qid": "Q1756626", "description": "West End theatre building in Covent Garden, London, England, UK", "entries": 25, "years": 21, "span": [1663, 1814], "span_label": ["1663 CE", "1814 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 18}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Theatre Royal Drury Lane"], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "john-dryden", "label": "John Dryden", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moliere", "label": "Molière", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "william-shakespeare", "label": "William Shakespeare", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1663, "year_label": "1663 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 7", "text": "May 7 – The King's Theatre, now called \"Drury Lane\", opens in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988068#April–June", "title": "1663", "revid": 1365988068, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1663, "year_label": "1663 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 7", "text": "7 May – opening of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737344#Events", "title": "1663 in England", "revid": 1353737344, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1672, "year_label": "1672 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 25", "text": "January 25 – The Theatre Royal, located at the time on Bridges Street in London, burns down. 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It appears to be the hit of the theatre season until eclipsed by The Beggars Opera a few weeks later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363711553#Events", "title": "1728 in Great Britain", "revid": 1363711553, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1735, "year_label": "1735 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 10", "text": "10 May – Charles Macklin unintentionally kills fellow actor Thomas Hallam after a dispute during a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. He is later tried and convicted of manslaughter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1295950707#Events", "title": "1735 in Great Britain", "revid": 1295950707, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1741, "year_label": "1741 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – Irish-born actor Charles Macklin makes his London stage debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, pioneering a psychologically realistic style with Shakespeare's text revived, replacing George Granville's melodramatic adaptation The Jew of Venice. Kitty Clive plays the travesti role of Portia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360183595#January–March", "title": "1741", "revid": 1360183595, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1745, "year_label": "1745 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 28", "text": "28 September – the song later to become the British national anthem \"God Save the King\" is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in a setting by Thomas Arne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835334#Events", "title": "1745 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835334, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1777, "year_label": "1777 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 8", "text": "May 8 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy of manners, The School for Scandal, is first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349829024#April–June", "title": "1777", "revid": 1349829024, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1779, "year_label": "1779 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "First performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Critic at the Drury Lane Theatre in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350799745#Events", "title": "1779 in Great Britain", "revid": 1350799745, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1782, "year_label": "1782 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 10", "text": "10 October – Sarah Siddons makes a triumphant return to the Drury Lane Theatre in London in the title role of Garrick's adaptation of Thomas Southerne's Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363776945#Events", "title": "1782 in Great Britain", "revid": 1363776945, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1798, "year_label": "1798 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 11", "text": "11 October – Elizabeth Inchbald's play Lovers' Vows, adapted from Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe, is first performed at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330436787#Events", "title": "1798 in Great Britain", "revid": 1330436787, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1809, "year_label": "1809 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 24", "text": "24 February – The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London is destroyed by fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311766829#Events", "title": "1809 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1311766829, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1814, "year_label": "1814 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 26", "text": "26 January – Actor Edmund Kean makes his London debut in an adult leading role as Shylock at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358089664#January", "title": "1814 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1358089664, "section": "Events › January"}}]}