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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "John Evelyn"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "John Evelyn")') 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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11804 results for: Keyword - John Evelyn
We found 9825 matches on Author, 1691 matches on Performance Comments, 1191 matches on Event Comments, 323 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

9926
30 May 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Laugh When You Can

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia

Performance Comment: Captain Patrick-Johnstone; Darby-Munden; Quiz (1st time)-Simmons; Marshal Ferbelin-Claremont; Father Luke-Waddy; Olmutz-Emery; Rupert-Denman; Adjutant-Davenport; Mabel Flourish-Mrs Gilbert; Norah-Miss Mills; Flora-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Captain Patrick Actor: Johnstone
Related Works
Related Work: Love in a Camp; or, Patrick in Prussia Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Song: End I: The Sailor's Journal-Incledon; In course Evening: Young William was a seaman true-Incledon; All get drunk together-Townsend; United Englishmen-Munden; The Anchor Smiths-Townsend

9927
07 June 1800 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro E Timoteo

Related Works
Related Work: Alessandro e Timoteo Author(s): John Dryden

Dance: End I: A New Bacchanalian Divertisement Ballet, as18000422; End Opera: Rinaldo e Leonora, as18000530

9928
10 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Dance: III: Hornpipe in Fetters-Blurton

9929
14 June 1800 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro E Timoteo

Related Works
Related Work: Alessandro e Timoteo Author(s): John Dryden

Dance: As18000607

9930
08 July 1800 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alessandro E Timoteo

Related Works
Related Work: Alessandro e Timoteo Author(s): John Dryden

Dance: End I: A New Bacchanalian Divertisement Ballet, as18000422; End Opera: Laura et Lenza, as18000628

9931
12 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Related Works
Related Work: Peeping Tom Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis All a Farce

Related Works
Related Work: Tis All a Farce Author(s): John Till Allingham

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Related Works
Related Work: Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack Author(s): John Fawcett

9932
29 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew And The Doctor

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis All a Farce

Related Works
Related Work: Tis All a Farce Author(s): John Till Allingham

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Related Works
Related Work: Peeping Tom Author(s): John O'Keeffe

9933
31 July 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Related Works
Related Work: The Agreeable Surprise Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: Fortune's Frolick

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Related Works
Related Work: Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack Author(s): John Fawcett

9934
08 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Young Quaker Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Afterpiece Title: Obi

Related Works
Related Work: Obi; or, Three-Finger'd Jack Author(s): John Fawcett

9935
20 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: What A Blunder

Cast
Role: Sir Sturdy O'Tremor Actor: Johnstone
Related Works
Related Work: The Irish Mimick; or, Blunders at Brighton Author(s): John O'Keeffe
Related Work: What a Blunder! Author(s): John Dany

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Related Works
Related Work: The Prisoner at Large Author(s): John O'Keeffe

9936
26 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Cast
Role: Kenrick Actor: Johnstone
Role: John Actor: Abbot

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Related Works
Related Work: The Poor Soldier Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Song: In course evening: Sweet Echo-Mrs Mountain; accompanied on the Hautboy-Forster=; The Soldier Tir'd-Mrs Mountain

9937
29 August 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. [Forster is identified by MS annotation on hay playbill now at Harvard.] Morning Chronicle, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cambro-britons

Performance Comment: Llewellyn-Barrymore; Shenkin-Emery; Cadwall-Palmer; Gwyn-Suett; O'Turloch-Johnstone; Bard-J. Palmer; King Edward-Caulfield; Prince David-A Gentleman (1st appearance [Forster]); Dynevor-Trueman; Mortimer-Klanert; Herefore-Davenport; Edwin-Abbot; Elinor-Miss DeCamp; Lady Griffith's Shade-Mrs Gibbs; Winifred-Mrs Bland; Chorus of Bards and Peasants-Sawyer, Little, Kenrick, Caulfield Jun., Dibble, Aylmer, Willoughby, Thomas, Ms Hale, Ms Masters, Ms Gaudry, Ms Butler, Ms Leserve, Ms Norton.
Cast
Role: O'Turloch Actor: Johnstone

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Related Works
Related Work: The Agreeable Surprise Author(s): John O'Keeffe

Song: End: Paddy's Description of Pizarro; or, Mr Paddy O'Doody and his Cousin Shaun Shaugnessy's Treat to the One Shilling Gallery-Johnstone

9938
16 September 1800 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: In II: a Hornpipe-

Song: After Imitations: Sweet Echo-Mrs Mountain

Entertainment: Imitations End: Variety of Imitations-T. Trueman

9939
15 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Evelyn does not name the theatre or company, but previous offerings of Horace were given by the King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: I saw Mrs Philips's Horace acted againe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Horace

9940
23 September 1673 @ Hatton Garden

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: We [Mrs Blagge and Evelyn] went to see Paradise, a roome in Hatton Garden furnished with the representations of all sorts of animals, handsomely painted on boards or cloth, & so cut out & made to stand & move, fly, crawll, roare & make their severall cries, as was not unpretty: though in it selfe a meere bauble, whilst the man who shew'd, made us Laugh heartily at his formal poetrie

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise

9941
15 December 1674 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Saw a Comedie at night, at court, acted by the Ladys onely, viz: The Lady Mary & Ann his R. Highnesses two Daughters, & my deare friend Mrs Blagg, who having the principal part, perform'd it to admiration: They were all covered with Jewels. [It seems likely that Evelyn saw a rehearsal or was in error concerning the date of performance.] Newdigate newsletters (Folger Shakespeare Library): On Twelfe day the principallest abt ye Court divert their Matys with a Play & Opera where in ye Splendor & Grandeur of the English Monarchy will be seen (Wilson, Theatre Notes, p. 79). See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, pp. 357-58, for an order of this date, L. C. 5@141, p. 83, concerning habits for the opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto

Related Works
Related Work: Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph Author(s): John Crowne

9942
02 December 1674 @ Mr Slingsby's residence

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: [I] heard Signor Francisco on the Harpsichord, esteem'd on[e] of the most excellent masters in Europe on that Instrument: then came Nicholao Matteis? with his Violin & struck all mute, but Mrs Knight, who sung incomparably, & doubtlesse has the greatest reach of any English Woman; she had lately ben roming in Italy: & was much improv'd in that quality: Then was other Musique, & this Consort was at Mr Slingsbys Master of the Mint, my worthy friend, & great a lover of musique. [For a contemporary account of Matteis, see Roger North on Music, ed. John Wilson (London, 1959), pp. 307-11.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

9943
13 September 1660 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw in Southwark at St Margarites faire...we saw also Monkyes & Apes daunce, & do other feates of activity on the high-rope, to admiration: They were galantly clad alamode, went upright, saluted the Company, bowing & pulling-off their hatts: They saluted one another with as good grace as if instructed by a Dauncing Master. They turned heales over head, with a bucket of Eggs in it, without breaking any: also with Candles (lighted) their their hands, & on their head, without extinguishing them, & with vessells of water, without spilling a drop; I also saw an Italian Wench daunce to admiration, & performe all the Tricks of agility on the high rope, all the Court went to see her: (likewise here was her Father) who tooke up a piece of Yron Canon of above 400 pounds weight, with the haires of his head onely

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

9944
16 December 1661 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Saw a French Comedy acted at Whitehall. [See 2 Dec. 1661.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A French Comedy

9945
11 February 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw a Comedy acted before the Dutchesse of York at the Cock-pit: The king was not at it

Performances

9946
02 July 1663 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I saw the greate Masque at court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Thurmond

9947
02 February 1665 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Saw a fine Mask at court perform'd by 6 Gent: & 6 Ladys surprizing his Majestie, it being Candlemas day. Pepys, Diary, 3 Feb.: Then Mrs Pickering...did, at my Lady's command, tell me the manner of a masquerade before the King and Court the other day. Where six women (my Lady Castlemayne and Duchesse of Monmouth being two of them) and six men (the Duke of Monmouth and Lord Arran and Monsieur Blanfort, being three of them) in vizards, but most rich and antique dresses, did dance admirably and most gloriously. God give us cause to continue the mirthe!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Thurmond

9948
06 April 1665 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: In the afternoone saw acted Mustapha a Tragedy written by the E. of Orary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mustapha

9949
21 August 1667 @ Charing Cross

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: Saw the famous Italian puppet play, for twas no other

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Puppetry

9950
09 February 1671 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary; I saw the greate Ball danced by the Queene & greate Ladies at White hall Theater. [See also 6, 20, and 21 Feb. 1670@1.

Performances