 Location Map: | View Location Map |
 Seating Plan: | View Seating Plan  |
 Tube Station: | Covent Garden (250m) |
 Rail Station: | Charing Cross (625m) |
 Bus Routes: | 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 29, 59, 68, 76, 77A, 91, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 521, RVI (terminus outside theatre) |
 Parking: | Single yellow lines on Russell Street. NCP in Drury Lane. Taxi rank at Covent Garden Piazza end of Russell Street. |
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| Total Seats: | 2196 |
| No of Bars: | 3 |
| No of Food Point: | 3 |
| No of Parking Spaces: | 3 |
 Guide Dogs: | Guide dogs not allowed into the auditorium but theatre staff can look after them in an office. |
 Infra-Red: | Infra-red system with 10 headsets. Best reception in centre Stalls and centre Circle. Headsets available from duty manager in main foyer. Induction loop at Box Office. |
 Disabled Access: | Entrance to theatre through signposted door on Russell Street which leads into the left of the Stalls. The door has a bell on the outside. 4 spaces for wheelchairs users, L1 and 35 and K1 and 35, companions can sit in the same row. Transfer seating to aisle seats, wheelchairs can be stored in the Stalls store room (maximum of 2 scooter transferees). |
 Disabled Toilet: | Adapted toilet to the left inside Russell Street entrance, beside the Stalls. |
 Toilets: | Adapted toilet to the left inside Russell Street entrance, beside the Stalls. |
 Steps: | 6 steps up to front entrance through swing doors into main foyer and Box Office. Box Office counter to right. 20 steps down then 17 up to Stalls with handrails on both sides, 39 to Dress Circle with a handrail on the right, 61 to Upper Circle with a handrail on both sides. Top stair of each group is highlighted. Theatre open 1 hour before performance. |
 Bars Access: | 6 licensed bars. Stalls bar 17 steps down from the Stalls - some seating, fairly large. Further bars at Dress Circle, Upper Circle and Balcony. |
 Air Conditioning: | Yes |
 Owner: | Really Useful Theatres |
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663, making it the oldest London theatre. For its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre" and thus one of the most important theatres in the English-speaking world. Through most of that time, it was one of a small handful of patent theatres that were granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music) drama in London.
