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158 results for: Author - George Brewer
Results not only include performances of plays known to be by 'George Brewer', but also performances of associated titles, including adaptations.

1
11 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

2
13 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old

Related Works
Related Work: The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old Author(s): George Colman, the younger

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

3
14 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mock Doctor; Or, The Dumb Lady Cured

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

4
15 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse; Or, Benevolent Tar

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

5
16 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Related Works
Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): George Granville, Lord Lansdowne

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

6
18 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

7
20 June 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

8
13 July 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prisoner At Large

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

9
16 June 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

10
04 July 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Related Works
Related Work: The Spanish Barber; or, The Fruitless Precaution Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

11
07 September 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Afterpiece Title: An Olla Podrida

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

Related Works
Related Work: Bannian Day Author(s): George Brewer

12
28 November 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Nuptials [The Festival]

Dance:

13
May 1696 @ May Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King William's Happy Deliverance And Glorious Triumph Over His Enemies; Or, The Consultation Of The Pope, Devil, French King And The Grand Turk , With The Whole Form Of The siege Of Namurv, And The Humours Of A renegade French-man And brandy Jean, With The Conceits Of A scaramouch And harlequin

Related Works
Related Work: Imposture Defeated; or, A Trick to Cheat the Devil Author(s): George Powell
Related Work: Blue Devils Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Related Work: A Devil of a Lover Author(s): George Moultrie

14
18 May 1703 @ Hampstead

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; particularly a Song-[Hughes] [before Her Majesty, in Congratulation of Her Majesty's Happy Accession to the Crown; [Also several Entertainments-Mr Dean, Signior Francisco; [And three New Songs [never perform'd anywhere-Mr Hughs; [And that much celebrated Song for the Trumpet[, perform'd originally-Mr Pate [in The Island Princess, beginning Rouse ye Gods of the Main; [Also a Sonata for two Trumpets-; [and positively there will be perform'd an Extraordinary Entertainment on the Arch/Lutes-an Eminent Master [who never perform'd there before; accompanied-Mr Dean, others

15
04 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Wherein several Songs in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts; With several select Pieces of Musick- (compos'd by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell) taken out of the Operas of The Fairy Queen, King Arthur, Dioclesian, and Bonduca; And an Ode upon the Happy Accession of Her Majesty to the Throne- set to Musick by Mr Daniel Purcell, never perform'd before

Dance: L'Abbe, DuRuell, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Devonshire Girl

16
07 April 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis

Song: A new English cantata, The Britannia Compos'd on the Occasion of his Majesty's Happy Arrival in his Dominions-

Music: Several new Pieces of Instrumental Musick-

Dance:

17
03 September 1718 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Triumph; Or, The Happy Fair One, With The Comical And Pleasant Humours Of Colin, The Shepherd's Foolish Son, And His Sister Mopsa

Music: And all the Musick by Mr Heyden-

Dance:

18
22 March 1720 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Afterpiece Title: The Happy Shepherd

Song: The Tippling Philosophers at the Request of several Persons of Quality-

19
23 August 1720 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Triumph; Or, The Happy Fair One

20
25 January 1727 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: L'inganno Fortunato; Or, The Happy Delusion: With Pantalon's Concern For The Loss Of His Daughter, And His Confusion Among The Ghosts, Harlequin's Preferments, And Brighella's Love For Argentina

Dance: Dancing In Grotesque Characters-

21
21 February 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals; Or, The Happy Despair

Related Works
Related Work: The Twin-Rivals Author(s): George Farquhar

22
11 March 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy and Poor Pierot Married

23
12 March 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy

24
19 March 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not; Or, The Kind Imposter

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy and Poor Pierrot Married

25
06 April 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Happy and Poor Pierrot Married