... the long-closed theatre. Frank Bruckshaw JOHN DALBY is giving a one- man show about Colley Cibber, the actor-manager at Drury Lane at the end of the 1 7th century, as s Platform Performance at the National Theatre on Febru ary 23. It is based on Cibber's ...

... Hello Dolly at Drury Lane PETER HEPPLE REVIEWS Opened September 25 HELLO, DOLLY! is not, I think, in the top flight of musicals, losing much of the humorous charm of The Matchmaker, the Thornton Wilder play on which it is based, and replacing it with ...

... hum our from Macready's Diary, when he belaboured the provincial stock companies; and pathos too in his farewell speech at Drury Lane, de livered in 1851 by this most paradoxical of all British actors who despised himself for his calling. This was a performance ...