In 1574 the city authorities are given powers to restrict playhouses, forcing the actors to find new premises in the suburbs. this becomes a golden opportunity for john brayne and his brother-in-law, james burbage, who in 1576 build a new theater, simply called the theatre, at shoreditch, just half a mile north of bishopsgate. the following year a second theater, the curtain, is built just two hundred yards away. despite some heavy op­position from puritan preachers and moralists, both theaters are success­ful. –the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england, ian mortimer which sentence accurately describes the progression of events? because city authorities restricted playhouses, new theaters were built in the suburbs. because theaters were successful in the suburbs, new theaters were built in the city. because city authorities restricted playhouses, puritan preachers expressed heavy opposition.