[1] It was the oldest theatre building in North America before it was demolished in 1913.
[3] It was founded by the American Company, who regularly used the building during their tours to the city for about thirty years onward.
[4] David Douglass, a member of the company, built it, and it became the first permanent theatre building in North America in 1766.
[3] On April 24, 1767, at the Southwark, the American Company staged The Prince of Parthia by Thomas Godfrey, the first production in the United States of a play written by an American.
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