Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Bells British Theatre"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Bells British Theatre")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
3165 results for: Keyword - Bell's British Theatre
We found 2604 matches on Event Comments, 540 matches on Performance Comments, 181 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1976
26 November 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

1977
28 November 1764 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Book of the opera at the Theatre. Comic opera in 3 acts by Lloyd .Music by Mr Rush. [See reduction to two-act farce, 2 March 1765. First performance in England of C. S. Favart's Le Caprice Amoureux (a parody of Goldoni's Bertoldo).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Capricious Lovers

Dance: Grimaldi, Aldridge, Giorgi, Berardi, Sga Giorgi, Miss Baker

1978
05 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: As17641123

1979
08 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004

1980
13 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Cast
Role: Sir British Blunt Actor: Beard

Dance: As17641212

1981
14 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera sold at Theatre. Composer's Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Cast
Role: Sir British Blunt Actor: Beard

Dance: As17641212

1982
15 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of opera sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Cast
Role: Sir British Blunt Actor: Beard

Dance: As17641212

1983
17 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Cast
Role: Sir British Blunt Actor: Beard

Dance: As17641212

1984
18 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of Opera to be had at Theatre. Composer's Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Guardian Outwitted

Cast
Role: Sir British Blunt Actor: Beard

Dance: As17641212

1985
29 December 1764 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17641212

1986
01 January 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [This year was published The Companion to the Playhouse; or, An historical account of all the Dramatic Writers, and their works that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland to the year 1764. Composed in the form of a Dictionary. for the more readily turning to any particular author or performance. Two vols. Dedicated to Garrick. (Who receives eleven and one-half columns of comment, more than any other dramatist.) This is the beginning of the Biographia Dramatica. This year was published Essays on Important Subjects intended to establish the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace, by John Witherspoon (President of Princeton). Vol. II, contained a Serious Enquiry into the nature and effects of the Stage," being an attempt to show that contributing to the support of a Public Theatre is inconsistent with the character of a Christian (112 pp).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Dance: III: The Medley, as17641120

1987
04 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: The Tyrolese Peasants, as17641212; II: Rural Love, as17641212

1988
09 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17641212

1989
11 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: La Femme Maitresse, as17641004; II: Rural Love, as17641212

1990
16 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17641212

1991
24 January 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Comedy by Mrs Griffith, never before acted. [Not well received the first night, but clarified and improved the second Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 59. Prologue and Epilogue printed in Public Advertiser, 28 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Platonic Wife

1992
31 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: New Scenes and Habits. Ladies send servants by 3 o'clock. The Music compiled from Favourite Airs of the most celebrated Composers. Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. [See note 16 Oct. 1764. Edition of 1765 states music by Samuel Arnold.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

1993
01 February 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

1994
02 February 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. Author's Night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17641212

1995
04 February 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Farce never acted before [by James Townley]. Farce-Ill received the first night and damned the second (Victor, History of the Theatres, III, 62)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Tutor

1996
04 February 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the opera at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: I: Dance- incidental to the opera; II: A Tambourine, as17641015

1997
05 February 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the opera at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: As17650204

1998
06 February 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of opera at Theatre. Author's night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: As17650204

1999
07 February 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: As17650204

2000
08 February 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of opera at Theatre. Send serv'ts by 3 o'clock

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: As17650204