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16092 results for: Keyword - Mr John Croft, Esq
We found 9843 matches on Author, 5362 matches on Event Comments, 2798 matches on Performance Comments, 848 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

876
15 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Related Works
Related Work: Don Sebastian Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: Don Sebastian, King of Portual Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Captive Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Song: ( B By desire )Mad Bess-Beard; The Charms of Polly Willis-Mrs Clive

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

877
04 December 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden

878
18 March 1746 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love; Or, The World Well Lost

Related Works
Related Work: All for Love; or, The World Well Lost Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: Philaster; or, Love Lies a Bleeding Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: Secret Love; or, The Maiden Queen Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: An Evening's Love; or, The Mock Astrologer Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The British Enchanters: or, No Magick like Love Author(s): John Eccles

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Song: II: Lowe; III: Polly Willis-Mrs Clive

Dance: IV: Muilment

879
05 December 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

880
16 January 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden

881
23 February 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Dance: As17470220

882
09 April 1747 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Related Works
Related Work: The Royal Merchant Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Song: Brett

Dance: As17461124

883
17 October 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

Related Works
Related Work: The Scornful Lady Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: II: Dance-Cooke

884
16 November 1747 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

885
26 December 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Berry; Ferdinand-Lee; Caliban-I. Sparks; Trincalo-Macklin; Stephano-Arthur; Gonzalo-Burton; Antonio-Mozeen; Mustachio-Blakes; Ventoso-Ray; Hippolita-Mrs Woffington; Ariel (with Proper Songs)-Mrs Clive; Dorinda-Mrs Green; Miranda-Mrs Mozeen; Sycorax-Taswell; Alonzo-Winstone; Clerk-Vaughan; Dance of Aerial Spirits-Mlle Janeton Auretti; Dance of Winds-Cooke; Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits in grotesque characters-Mathews; Concluded with the Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite-; the original Waterman's Dance-with proper Scenes, Machines,.
Cast
Role: Grand Dance of Fantastic Spirits in grotesq Actor: Mathews
Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden

886
20 April 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Judgment of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): John Weaver

Dance: Cooke, Janeton Auretti

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

887
18 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17480506; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

888
21 September 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

889
21 November 1748 @ New Wells, London Spa, Clerkenwell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

890
09 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

891
10 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: I: (By Desire) Savoyards, as17480920; II: Dutch Dance, as17481203

Music: Between Play and Afterpiece: a piece of Music-the Child

892
15 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Related Works
Related Work: The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): John Thurmond
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

Dance: Villeneuve, Madem. Contair, her 1st appearance on the English Stage

893
05 October 1749 @ The Tiled Booth Blackheath

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

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

Afterpiece Title: The Amours of Harlequin

Dance: [Entertainments unspecified.

894
10 October 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Husband; or, A Journey to London Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Little French Lawyer

Related Works
Related Work: The Little French Lawyer Author(s): John Fletcher

895
04 December 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Related Works
Related Work: The Provok'd Wife Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda: With the Rape of Colombine; or, The Flying Lovers Author(s): John Weaver

896
19 December 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Related Works
Related Work: The Confederacy Author(s): John Vanbrugh

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Dance: SSwedish Gardeners-Master Maltere, Miss Anne Foulcade; The Wooden Shoe Dance-Master Maltere, Miss Foulcade their 1st appearance any stage (General Advertiser)

897
05 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Related Works
Related Work: The Tempest Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond

Dance: III: New Comic Dance, as17491228

898
15 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond

899
16 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond

900
24 January 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): John DaltonJohn Milton

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Related Works
Related Work: A Duke and No Duke Author(s): John Thurmond