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6189 results for: Keyword - Bannister</i>.] Half past six went into ye Pit to see $<span class=
We found 4169 matches on Event Comments, 2324 matches on Performance Comments, 405 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1826
18 May 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Written by Mr Wycherley. Carefully Revis'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

1827
24 June 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Carefully Revis'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

1828
05 July 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Receipts: #59 5s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Performance Comment: See17150614.

Dance: Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross

1829
26 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Flora's Vagaries

Song: Mimick Song of a Country Life-Mrs Willis; No Kissing At All-Renton, Mrs Willis

1830
05 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd. N.B. The Play will begin exactly at Six a-Clock. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Oct., reports a rumor that J. J. Heidegger has sent to France to recruit a set of comedians to act French plays at the king's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

1831
31 October 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Taken from the Cid of Mons Corneille. All the Habits being entirely New. With new Scenes and other Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ximena; Or, The Heroick Daughter

1832
20 October 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years [i.e., at dl]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

1833
04 May 1722 @ Clafton

Event Comment: London Journal, 12 May: Was acted at Mr Newcomb's School, formerly Mr Morland's School, at Clapton, near Hackney, the late Mr Hugh's Play...with great Applause, they having the proper Habits and Decorations. Tis said, the Lad that acted the Lady was adorned with Jewels to the Value of Six Thousand Pounds; there was a great Number of Gentry to see the Performance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

1834
23 May 1722 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. By Reason of the Length of the Days, the Hours for the Operas will be changed from Six to Seven a Clock, at which Time it will begin exactly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Performance Comment: See17211209.

1835
08 November 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Written by Dryden and Lee. Receipts: #48 3s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

1836
01 December 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Receipts: #30 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

1837
26 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Written by the late Mr Mountfort

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Greenwich Park

Song:

Dance: Particularly A Drunken Swiss-Noaseman

1838
03 July 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years. Written by Nat. Lee. With Machinery and other Decorations proper to the Play. Receipts: #39 8s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba; Or, Hannibal's Overthrow

1839
07 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Benefit Mr and Mrs Egleton. Not Acted these Six Years. Receitps: money #42 8s. 6d.; tickets #65 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Taming Of The Shrew

Dance: [End I: Scotch Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; II: Chacone-Lally, Mrs Wall; III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; IV: Running Footman's Dance-

Song: [LLove and Wine-Leveridge, Legar

1840
17 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Glover. Afterpiece: Not perform'd these Six Years. Receipts: money #34 9s.; tickets #63 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bath Unmask'd

Performance Comment: See17250227.

Afterpiece Title: Mars and Venus; or The Mouse Trap

Song: Mrs Chambers

Dance: Glover

1841
05 July 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Six Years.Receipts: #25 15s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats

Song: Two Part Song by the late Mr Henry Purcell-; beginning, And In Each Tract of Glory-Salway, Harrison

Dance: new Comic Dance called% Dame Gigogne-Mrs Anderson; Tollet's Grounds-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

1842
03 March 1729 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: N.B. Care will be taken to get every Thing in Readiness to begin exactly at six o'Clock, to prevent the Company's waiting

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lunatick

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Harlequin

1843
20 June 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. First Piece. [By Henry Carey.] Not play'd these Fourteen Years. Second Piece: Not play'd these Six Years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Contrivances; Or, More Ways Than One

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar

Afterpiece Title: Phebe; or, The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: HHarlequin-Master Lally, Miss Brett; Sultana-Miss Robinson Jr

1844
11 July 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Six Years. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late N. Tate, Esq; Poet Laureat, Author of the Tragedy of King Lear. With Scenes, Habits, Machines, and other proper Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: Phebe

Performance Comment: See17290613.

Dance:

1845
14 October 1729 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. Benefit Charles the Merry Trumpeter, a Batchelor, who used to Sound with Mr Bullock. At Lee's Booth on the Bowling Green. The Doors will be open'd at Five, and begin pricisely at Six

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Dance: AA Comic Dance between Scaramouch and a Countryman-; Countryman-Charles the Trumpeter

1846
21 September 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: To begin positively at Six o'Clock, the Beginning later the last Season being found very Inconvenient

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song:

Dance:

1847
21 January 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Complaint being made of beinning too late, it is resolv'd for the future to begin every Night exactly at Six o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Performance Comment: See17310105.

Song: Harlequin-a person

Dance: Particularly a Harlequin-a Person that never appear'd on this Stage before

1848
16 March 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lucas. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. To begin positively at Six o'clock, on Account of the Company's return at a proper Hour to St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach [Opera]

1849
27 September 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: With new Scenes and Clothes. The House is entirely new fitted up, made more commodious and warm, and the Play will punctually beghn at Six o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, The History Of George Barnwell

1850
24 May 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Not Acted these Ten Years. Written by Dr Young. Afterpiece: A Farce. [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] Benefit the Author. To begin between Six and Seven o'Clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: No Joke Like a True Joke

Song:

Dance: