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30 May, 1766 - Theatre opened. 1800 - Third tier added to auditorium. 1800-1840 - stage floor side boxes replaced with entrance doors. 1881 - Proscenium arch built on advice from Lord Chamberlain about fire risks. 1968-72 - Peter Moro Architects demolish 19th century stage and 18th century stage housing to "modernise the theatre," replacing it with a concrete, flat proscenium arch stage - a warehouse with no spatial links to the audience in the 18th century auditorium. 2007 - Bankruptcy allows theatre to restore the 1766 stage front, allowing actors "work" the audience who sat, once more, on both sides of the stage floor. This playhouse, reopening in 2012, now works as James Saunders, Garrick's carpenter at Drury Lane, designed it to work: with spectators on both sides of the stage floor.