The Curtain Theater, in Curtain Close, Finsbury…

The Curtain Theater, in Curtain Close, Finsbury Fields, Shoreditch, opens in 1577 as the second such public playhouse (after The Theatre) to be built in the London environs.

Henry Lanman, who was the theater's manager from 1582 to 1592, may have been responsible for its creation.

Though it is said to have resembled the nearby Theatre, little is known of its construction or dimensions.

The Children of Paul's, affiliated with St. Paul's Cathedral as early as 1378, is in 1577 formed as a theatrical company under the direction of Sebastian Westcott.