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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Ann Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Ann Williams")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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12380 results for: Keyword - Ann Williams
We found 10791 matches on Author, 1837 matches on Performance Comments, 454 matches on Event Comments, 56 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12226
25 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Tatler, 26 May. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, William Bowen announced that The Stratagem, advertised for this day as his benefit, is deferred and that tickets for it will be accepted on 1 June at Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

12227
06 February 1711 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

12228
17 March 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

12229
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

12230
28 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well If It Takes

12231
23 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

12232
23 February 1720 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Fletcher; Concerto-Matthew Dubourg; Solo-Kytch

12233
09 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Dance: Shaw, Weaver, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe

12234
08 May 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Dance: Desnoyer, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

12235
16 February 1722 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-Castrucci, Kytch

12236
07 May 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock, Boval, Mrs Bicknell, Miss Tenoe

12237
06 March 1723 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Violin-Michael Christian Festin; Lute-Francisco Weybough; Hautboy-Kytch [but see hay]

12238
29 April 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams. By Her Royal Highness's Command

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Constancy

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; particularly Myrtillo-

12239
26 February 1724 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Concerto, Solo on Hautboy-Kytch; Solo on Violin-Michael Festing; Sonata-Mr China

12240
03 August 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

12241
17 May 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Rob. Williams, Mrs Whitherilt [Mrs Wetherilt], Mrs Boman, Miss Davison. Afterpiece: Set to Musick by Mr Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Music: Mainpiece: Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Mr Henry Purcell-

Dance:

12242
03 August 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 3 Aug.: Mr Williams, one of the Comedians belonging to the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, is dead

Performances

12243
13 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

12244
23 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

12245
30 November 1731 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

12246
28 April 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd If She Cou'd

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: Singing in Italian-Roberts

Dance: TThe Masques-Essex, Thurmond, Houghton, Lally Jr, F. Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers

Performance Comment: Tench, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson, Miss Williams, Mrs Delorme, Miss Mears, Mrs Rogers.

12247
17 August 1732 @ Tottenham Court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Wife Well Manag'd; Or, Cuckoldom Prevented

Related Works
Related Work: A Wife Well Manag'd Author(s): Susanna Centlivre

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin; or, The Life and Death of Dr Faustus

12248
10 February 1733 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles

12249
19 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

12250
31 May 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Set to Musick after the Italian Manner. The Habits and Decorations entirely New. [Probably by Eliza Haywood and William Hatchett, with music by Arne.] 7 p.m. 5s., 3s., 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Opera Of Operas; Or, Tom Thumb The Great