I was interested to read about the long-lost Curtain Theatre and the mystery of its location (News, June 14, page 5). My ancestor, the Jacobean playwright John Webster, was known to work for James Burbage of The Curtain as a boy actor and therefore also with Shakespeare. Having traced my family tree to Webster's father, a cart-maker in Southwark, it has always struck me as odd that I should end up working for a compa…
SOURCE: The Stage at 07:16AM on June 28, 2012