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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Address: Catherine St., Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5JF | Map It
Phone: 020/7494-5000
www.theatre-royal.com

Category: Arts/Performance Venues
Location: Soho and Covent Garden

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Fodor's Review:

This is London's best-known auditorium and almost its largest. Since World War II, its forte has been musicals (past ones have included The King and I, My Fair Lady, South Pacific, Hello, Dolly!, and A Chorus Line)—though David Garrick, who managed it from 1747 to 1776, made its name by reviving the works of the by-then-obscure William Shakespeare. It enjoys all the romantic accessories of a London theater—a history of fires (it burned down three times, once in a Wren-built incarnation), riots (in 1737, when a posse of footmen demanded free admission), attempted regicides (George II in 1716 and his grandson George III in 1800), and even sightings of the most famous phantom of theaterland, the Man in Grey (in the Circle during matinees).