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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "John Williams"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "John 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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22509 results for: Keyword - John Williams
We found 20147 matches on Author, 3212 matches on Performance Comments, 1527 matches on Event Comments, 373 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

22376
July 1694 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: According to the testimony of Sir Thomas Skipwith, 10 Dec. 1694, the young actors played during the vacation nearly thirty days without Betterton, Williams, Bright, Kinaston, Sandford, or Mrs Betterton, and made sufficient money to keep them over the vacation. L. C. 7@3, 17 Dec. 1694, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 374

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22377
29 October 1694 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

22378
May 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Cibber, Apology, I, 201-2, for his account of the mistake Betterton's Company made in not retaining Williams and Mrs Mountfort-Verbruggen, and of the problems of Rich's Company. In this passage Cibber implies that Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Caesar were acted at Drury Lane soon after the division of the companies

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22379
28 December 1695 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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22380
27 October 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman

22381
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephthas Rash Vow

22382
25 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

22383
08 March 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

22384
23 August 1699 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fryar Bacon Or The Country Justice With The Humours Of tolfree The Miller And His Son ralph

22385
15 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

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22386
29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

22387
20 March 1700 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Post Man, 16-19 March 1700: For the benefit of Mrs Hudson and Mr Williams, to morrow being Wednesday the 20th instant, in the Great Room in York Buildings, will be performed an extraordinary entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. At the desire of several Ladies of Quality, with a new Prologue to be performed by Jo. Haines

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

22388
October 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perjured Husband Or The Adventures Of Venice

22389
03 March 1701 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Vocal and Instrumental Music-

22390
06 March 1701 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

22391
10 March 1701 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit the Widow of Thomas Williams, who perform'd in the Theatre Royal. At 8 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music, particularly that celebrated Song, set by the late Mr Henry Purcell (for the Yorkshire Feast)-the best Masters of each Profession in England performing their Parts

22392
11 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroyd

22393
13 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

22394
March 1702 @ no theater listed

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22395
24 September 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbiline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

22396
07 October 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Brittain The Great Protector Of His Country

22397
01 November 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marry Or Do Worse

22398
29 June 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams. At the desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Mr Southern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Song: Purcell's From Rosy Bowers-Leveridge

Dance: A French Peasant and his Wife-duRuel, Mrs duRuel; Punchanello-Cherrier

22399
31 July 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let With Sganarella The Blacksmith Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

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22400
11 December 1706 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert