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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "G W Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "G W 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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13554 results for: Keyword - G. W. Williams
We found 10846 matches on Author, 2916 matches on Performance Comments, 874 matches on Event Comments, 120 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

876
16 January 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

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

Performance Comment: A copy of the 1690 quarto (New York Public Library) has the following MS cast which may well pertain to this season: Alexander-Mountfort; Lysimachus-Williams; Hephestion-Bowman; Cassander-Powell; Statira-Mrs Bracegirdle; Roxana-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Lysimachus Actor: Williams

877
26 January 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love The Leveller; Or, The Pretty Purchase

Performance Comment: Edition of 1704 lists: Algernoon-Griffin; Andramont-Wilks; Semorin-Mills; Sallamack-Bickerstaff; Dormantle-Thoms; Dewcraft-Williams; Belloon-Kent; Festolin-Pinkethman; Sordico-Johnson; High Priest-Bullock; Priest-Norris; Princess Dowager-Mrs Knight; Princess Constantia-Mrs Rogers; Dutchess Semorin-Mrs Cox; Sordico's Wife-Mrs Moore; Prologue-Wilks; Epilogue-Mills.
Cast
Role: Dewcraft Actor: Williams

878
04 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Ring

879
11 August 1773 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Portsmouth

880
28 October 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: May Day; or, The Little Gipsy

881
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

882
31 May 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Brothers and Sisters of Charles Williams, deceas'd. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy

Music: Select Pieces-

Dance:

883
19 January 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

884
29 June 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: G

885
03 July 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: G

886
06 July 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: G

887
08 February 1785 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: Liberty Hall; or, The Test of Good Fellowship

888
10 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: As17811022

889
25 June 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Afterpiece Title: HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS

Afterpiece Title: LODOISKA

Dance: In 2nd piece A Mock Minuet by Palmer and Miss Pope

890
21 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Escape

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

891
07 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe; or, Aesop in the Shades

Dance: III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Hornpipe-Yates

892
10 December 1663 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Step Mother

Performance Comment: . Sylvanus-Sandford?; Filamor-Bettertun?; Adolph-Young?; Tetrick-Underhill?; Fromund-Price?; Crispus-Smith?; Capito-Metborn?; Gracchus-Lovell?; Sergius-Rob. Noke?; Pontia-Mrs Williams?; Caesarina-Mrs Bettertun?; Violinda-Mrs Davies?; Brianella-Mrs Long?; The Prologue to the King-; The Prologue to the Stage-; The Epilogue to the House-the Step-Mother?; The Epilogue to the King-; Instrumental Vocal Recitative Musick by Mr Lock-.
Cast
Role: Pontia Actor: Mrs Williams?

893
May 1691 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Performance Comment: Edition of 1691: King Arthur-Betterton; Oswald, King of Kent-Williams; Conon-Hodgson; Merlin-Kynaston; Osmond-Sandford; Aurelius-Alexander [Verbruggen]; Albanact-Bowen; Guillamar-Harris; Emmeline-Mrs Bracegirdle; Matilda-Mrs Richardson; Philidel-Mrs Butler; Grimbald-Bowman; Prologue to the Opera-Mr Betterton; The Epilogue-Mrs Bracegirdle.
Cast
Role: King of Kent Actor: Williams

894
02 May 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: FFrench Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Bullock; Pasacaille-Mrs Bullock; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock

Ballet: GGrand Dance. As17260430

895
25 April 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Song: A new Song proper to the Occasion-

Dance: WWhitson Holyday-Boval, Mrs Mills; Dutch Boor and his Wife-Roger, Rainton; Sultana-Miss Robinson

896
12 April 1736 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: II: English Maggot by Villeneuve and Mrs Walter. III: Drunken Peasant by Phillips. IV: Serious Dance by Mlle Roland. V: Rover by Essex, Mrs Walter, Miss Mann, &c

897
30 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alzira; Or, Spanish Insult Repented

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Mlle Auguste

898
02 March 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Lear

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124

899
01 May 1752 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Don Quixote

Dance: II: The Pierrots-Roger, Shawford Jun; III: A Scotch Dance, as17520427 IV: A Hornpipe-Shawford Jun; V: A Comic Dance-Shawford Jun, Miss Shawford

900
12 May 1769 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Dance: II: A Hornpipe-Wright