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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "City of London"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "City of London")') 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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1870 results for: Keyword - City of London
We found 892 matches on Event Comments, 695 matches on Performance Title, 403 matches on Performance Comments, 1 matches on Roles/Actors, and 0 matches on Author.

251
15 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Charles The First

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but See17370303.

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

252
20 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing).

Afterpiece Title: Hymen's Triumph

253
22 April 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), bUt see17370322.

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Dance:

254
22 April 1737 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17361203.

Afterpiece Title: The Madhouse

255
10 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17361106.

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

256
12 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but See17370219.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

257
17 May 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but See17370219.

Afterpiece Title: The Eunuch; or, The Darby Captain

258
13 September 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see below.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

259
04 October 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing).

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

260
05 November 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing) See17371104.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

261
17 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing), but see17380114.

262
18 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Performance Comment: (London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing) See17380114.

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

263
18 January 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Northern Lass

Performance Comment: London Daily Post and General Advertiser missing, but Genest, III, 549, lists: Sir Philip-Ryan; Sir Paul-Hippisley; Tridewell-Hale; Anvil-Bridgwater; Widgin-Chapman; Bulfinch-Rosco; Pade-Arthur; Howdye-Neale; Widow Fitchow-Mrs Horton; Northern Lass-Mrs Vincent.

Afterpiece Title: The Dragon of Wantley

264
16 October 1777 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: London Chronicle, 17 Oct.: In Act IV Macklin 'very properly declined the orator, but pleaded from his feelings and the predetermined purpose of his heart.' [Mrs Barry, as Mrs Dancer, had 1st acted Portia at Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, 9 Dec. 1761, and at dl, 24 Mar. 1768.] Receipts: #205 8s. (204.19.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: End III: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17770924; End IV: As17771008

265
11 March 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: London Chronicle, 12 Mar.: "The chorusses were more in character than we ever remember, from the circumstance of mixing women's voices with the boys'.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus; Acis And Galatea

Music: End Part I: concerto on the hautboy-Parke; End Part II: concerto on the violin, as17780306

266
12 September 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tu Quoque; Or, The City Gallant

267
April 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Heiress; Or, Sir Timothy Treatall

268
17 May 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Heiress; Or, Sir Timothy Treatall

269
16 November 1685 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

270
13 August 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Heiress; Or, Sir Timothy Treatall

271
30 April 1703 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Rivals; or, The School Boy

Music: As17030423

Dance: The Devonshire Girl, being now upon her Return to the City of Exeter, will perform three several Dances, particularly her last New Entry in Imitation of Mademoiselle Subligni, Whip of Dunboyn by Mr Claxton, her Master-The Devonshire Girl; ...And at the desire of several Persons of Quality (hearing that Mr Pinkeman hath hired the two famous French Girls lately arriv'd from the Emperor's Court), They will perform several Dances on the Rope upon the Stage, being improv'd to that Degree, far exceeding all others in that Art.-two famous French Girls; Newest Humours of Harlequin , as perform'd by him before the Grand Signior at Constantinople-father of two famous French Girls; Also the Famous Mr Evans, lately arriv'd from Vienna, will shew you Wonders of another kind, Vaulting on the Manag'd Horse, being the greatest Master of that kind in the World-Mr Evans

272
30 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humour Of The Age

Afterpiece Title: An Interlude of City Customs

Dance: DuRuel; Also an extraordinary comical entertainment, Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchinello-

273
14 August 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

274
12 September 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

Dance: A little Girl, Mrs Elford's Scholar

275
28 September 1705 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

Song: A Two Part Song Compos'd by the late Famous Mr Eccles for Her Majesty's Birthday-Cook

Dance: Imitation of a Country Farmer's Daughter-Mrs Bruce; also a Chacone-Mrs Bruce, taught by Elford