From 1773 to 1778, Frances Brooke and her friend, actress Mary Anne Yates, managed the King’s Theatre, also known as the Haymarket Opera House. This is the only instance (as far as we know) of an eighteenth-century London theatre being run by two women!
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The Women's Playhouse 