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7415 results for: Keyword - Lady August
We found 4892 matches on Performance Comments, 2523 matches on Event Comments, 507 matches on Performance Title, 200 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

176
12 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: we went by water to Salisbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went out again, and by coach to the Theatre, and there saw The Scornful Lady, now done by a woman, which makes the play appear much better than ever it did to me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

177
June 1664 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Ladies

178
16 September 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and Mercer and I away to the King's play-house, to see the Scornfull Lady; but it being now three o'clock there was not one soul in the pit; whereupon, for shame, we would not go in....[After attending lif] to the King's house, upon a wager of mine with my wife, that there would be no acting there to-day, there being no company: so I went in and found a pretty good company there, and saw their dance at the end of the play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

179
03 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's house, and there saw good part of The Scornful Lady, and that done, would have taken out Knepp, but she was engaged

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

180
21 November 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: The King's Company. This play is on the L. C. list, 5@12, p. 17: The Scornfull Lady at court. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 344

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

181
06 June 1709 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fine Ladies Airs

182
15 December 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Afterpiece Title: Venus and Adonis Second Interlude

Dance: As17151029

183
28 March 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: Sir Harry (By Desire)-Cibber Jr; Lady Lurewell-Mrs Horton; Angelica-Mrs Booth; Standard-Mills; Smugler-Johnson; Clincher Sr-Miller; Clincher Jr-Oates; Vizard-W. Mills; Dicky-Jones; Lady Darling-Mrs Mullart; Parly-Mrs Shireburn.
Cast
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Mullart

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Officer or The Captains Lady

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Essex, Miss Robinson, Haughton, Mrs Walter

184
18 July 1748 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite Or The Earl Of Essex

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor or The Dumb Lady Curd

185
02 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Performance Comment: Worthy (the English Officer)-Mattocks; Sea Lieutenant-Dunstall; Major Hearty-Perry; Ensign-R. Smith; Soldiers, Sailors-Buck, Weller, Murden; Anna-Miss Valois, 1st time in a singing character; Duenna-Mrs White; Elvira (the Spanish Lady)-Mrs Mattocks; New Prologue-Shuter.

Dance: IV: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

186
21 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: Theseus-Barry; Hippolitus-Reddish; Lycon-Palmer; Cratander-Davies; Guards-Wheeler, Everard; Lady-Miss Platt; Ismena-Young Gentlewoman, first appearance on the stage; Phaedra-Mrs Barry.
Cast
Role: Lady Actor: Miss Platt

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: V: The Irish Fair, as17730918

187
23 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dickinson (First-gallery Office-keeper). Paid Mr Wegg half yrs. rent to Lady Day last #57 (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #287 2s. Charges: #84. Profits to Dickinson: #203 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: End: A Hornpipe-Walker

188
03 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Hidou. Paid 1 yrs. Poor's Rate for Covent Garden parish to Lady Day last #2 16s. 8d.; one yrs. ditto for St Martin's to Xmas last #60 6s. 7d. (Treasurer's Book). Main characters in the New Ballet New Dressed. Receipts: #170 3s. 6d. Charges: #66 4s. 6d. Profits to Sga Hidou: #103 9s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Cast
Role: Lady Rachel Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Ladies Frolick

Dance: I: A New Ballet (for that Night Only) call'd The Force of Love-M LaRavier (his first appearance on that stage), Sga Hidou, Como, Sga Como, Two Children, first appearance; End: The Grand Provencalle Dance, as17750202

189
23 April 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for the Widow of a Baronet [Sir Richard Perrott], and a large Infant Family. Tickets to be had of Lady Perrott, No. 28, Spring-street, Portman-square

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-Palmer Jun.; Glenalvon-Berry; Lord Randolph-Stewart; Old Norval-Franklin; Anna-Mrs Harvey; Matilda-Lady Perrott.
Cast
Role: Matilda Actor: Lady Perrott.

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London or The Happy African

Entertainment: Monologue An Occasional Address-a Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentifield])

190
14 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Cast
Role: Lady Rounceval Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day

Related Works
Related Work: Die Versöhnung Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

191
16 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Cast
Role: Lady Rounceval Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day

Related Works
Related Work: Die Versöhnung Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

192
21 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Cast
Role: Lady Rounceval Actor: Mrs Webb

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day

Related Works
Related Work: Die Versöhnung Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

193
23 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Birth Day

Related Works
Related Work: Die Versöhnung Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

194
25 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Birth Day

Cast
Role: Lady Oldcastle Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Lady Didapper Actor: Mrs Poussin
Role: Lady Newbery Actor: Mrs Bulkley. Stevens, Mrs Brett are unassigned.
Related Works
Related Work: Die Versöhnung Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

195
26 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Related Works
Related Work: Menschenhass und Reue Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

196
27 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Related Works
Related Work: Menschenhass und Reue Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

197
29 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Related Works
Related Work: Menschenhass und Reue Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

198
31 March 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Related Works
Related Work: Menschenhass und Reue Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lady Loverule Actor: Miss Heard

199
10 April 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Related Works
Related Work: Menschenhass und Reue Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

200
11 April 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Related Works
Related Work: Menschenhass und Reue Author(s): August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard