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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Congreve"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Congreve")') 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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6763 results for: Keyword - Mr Congreve
We found 4243 matches on Event Comments, 1502 matches on Author, 1142 matches on Performance Comments, 528 matches on Performance Title, and 5 matches on Roles/Actors.

2376
31 January 1754 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Words as wrote by Congreve; musick-Philidor. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s. The Theatre will be kept warm until the Company comes. To begin at 6:00 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Power Of Harmony

2377
30 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Composer. Afterpiece: Written by Congreve and set to Music by Dr Arne. Receipts: #206 19s. [cash], plus #51 18s. from tickets (Boxes 148; Pit 74; Gallery 38). Total income #258 17s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess Or The History Of Dioclesian

Afterpiece Title: To conclude with the Masque ofThe Sultan

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Judgement of Paris Author(s): William Congreve

Music: II: A Concerto on the Violin-Hay; End Opera: A Concerto on the Haut@Bois-Simson

2378
14 August 1767 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, Treasurer. Afterpiece: A Farce (for that Night only) taken from Congreve's Play of the Old Batchelour. Neville MS Diary: Half past six went to the Haymarket...out could not get into the Pit, Boxes or Galleries

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: Fondlewife and Laetitia

Song: II: DuBellamy

Dance: IV: Fingalian-; End: Italian Peasants, as17670805

Entertainment: PPost@Haste Observations from his Journay to Paris-Shuter (for that Night only)

2379
18 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The playbill announces The Way of the World, Love and War, and The Deserter, but "King being ill, the play was worse. For instead of Congreve's brilliant dialogue in The Way of the World there was, what few epithets can reach, The Castle of Andalusia" (World, 19 Dec.). The substitute for Love and War is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #140 18s. (136.16; 4.2)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

2380
15 August 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

2381
12 March 1673 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Lovers

2382
December 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alphonso King Of Naples

2383
February 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Neglected Virtue Or The Unhappy Conquerors

2384
05 September 1696 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

2385
07 June 1698 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

2386
February 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure Or Beauty The Best Advocate

2387
10 May 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Trick for Trick

Dance: Amorous Swain, as17350327

2388
14 March 1741 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

2389
06 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship

2390
24 November 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

2391
01 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

2392
16 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Don Saverio

2393
22 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Grand Scotch Dance, as17491031

2394
22 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

2395
03 November 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17581016

2396
22 September 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

2397
25 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Spring

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17621023

2398
23 May 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

2399
12 May 1768 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

2400
10 January 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: False Delicacy

Afterpiece Title: The Jubilee