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It depends on how you define "old"!
If you define it as "the oldest auditorium" (the auditorium being the bit you sit in to watch shows), Bristol Old Vic (officially called the Theatre Royal, Bristol) lays claim to being the oldest theatre in Britain (built 1766), followed by the Theatre Royal Margate (1787), then the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmonds (1819).
If you define "old" as "the oldest theatre site", then there's some competition depending on how you define it again, but there has been a theatre continuously on the site of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, since 1663. The current building is the fourth theatre on the site, dating from 1812.
However, there are sites with theatres on now that had theatres (or some other form of entertainment venue) on them before 1663 which are older, but these haven't been continuously in use.
And we can't forget The Globe (even though it is 300 yards or so from the original site of Shakespeare's Globe), which is a replica of Shakespeare's Bankside theatre.
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