However a theatre was later opened in the nearby village of Grahamston (around the site of the Glasgow Central train station) in 1764.
Jackson decided to expand the theatre in 1802 but instead moved to a new bigger premises in Queen Street in 1805.
In the meantime the Dunlop St theatre was now run by John Henry Alexander as a pantomime venue.
As part of the Black Lives Matter campaign in 2020, many of Glasgow's streets in the Merchant City area – named after the Tobacco Lords – were unofficially renamed by anti-racism protesters.
Dunlop Street was alternatively named Joseph Knight Street, after the celebrated abolitionist, once a slave transported back to Scotland in 1769, who took his legal battle through the Scottish courts to make Scotland the first country in the world to ban slavery.