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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr John Stephens"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr John Stephens")') 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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16620 results for: Keyword - Mr John Stephens
We found 10393 matches on Author, 5176 matches on Event Comments, 3072 matches on Performance Comments, 855 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15251
09 May 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

15252
20 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover's Melancholy

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17471215; V: Pastoral Dance, as17480326

15253
25 May 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

Dance: III: Tambourine-Anne Auretti; V: Dutch Dance, as17471128

15254
01 August 1748 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or A Trip To The Jubilee

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Dance: Phillips

15255
10 September 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

15256
22 September 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

15257
26 September 1748 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: New Pantomime Entertainment

Song: III: Genius of England-; End: New Mad Tom-Platt Sen

15258
12 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

15259
21 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17481019

Music: As17481019

15260
07 November 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

15261
14 November 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

15262
15 November 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Don John Actor: Winstone
Related Works
Related Work: Much Ado about Nothing Author(s): John Philip Kemble

15263
16 November 1748 @ The New Theatre, Mr Bradley's Distiller, Old Gravel Lane, Wapping

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, The Virgin Unmasked

15264
01 December 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Auction Of Pictures

Music: A Piece of Musick-the Child between the parts of the Auction

15265
14 December 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

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

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

15266
03 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busie Body

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

15267
17 January 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Related Works
Related Work: Coriolanus; or, The Roman Matron Author(s): John Philip Kemble
Related Work: The Invader of His Country: or, The Fatal Resentment Author(s): John Dennis

15268
20 January 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Music: I: By Desire, a piece of Music-the Child

Dance: II: Savoyards, as17480920; V: New Scotch Dance, as17490118

15269
06 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr Johnson--went off very well for 4 acts, ye 5th Hiss'd greatly (Cross). 'Tis hop'd no Gentlemen will take it ill they can't be admitted behind the scenes. [Cast from first edition, but listed in order of actors given in General Advertiser, except Caraza -Burton omitted by General Advertiser, and Murza -King omitted from 1st edition.] Receipts: #180 (Cross); #194 11s. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Related Works
Related Work: Mahomet and Irene Author(s): Samuel Johnson

15270
15 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Tomorrow will be publish'd, at 1s. 6d. Irene. A Tragedy, acted at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, by Mr Samuel Johnson, Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall Mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Paternoster Row. [In 1749 was published an Essay on Tragedy, with a Critical Examen of Mahomet and Irene (T. P. Barton@Collection, Boston Public Library).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

15271
20 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author Tickets to be had as 9 and 14 Feb. [The Gentleman's Magazine this month gave a nine-column article to the Plan and Specimens of Irene a Tragedy by Mr Samuel Johnsin acted at Drury Lane from 6-20 February inclusive." In it plot was first retold, then excerpts from speeches were given which illustrated the beautiful expression of the moral values contained in the play: "To instance every moral which is inculcated in this performance, would be to transcribe the whole; but, however difficult I shall select a few." No comments are made upon the stage presentation, all is presented upon the basis of examination of the text. William Shenstone thought not much of it as a play. See Letter to Lady Luxborough 22 March.] Receipts: #110 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mahomet And Irene

Related Works
Related Work: Mahomet and Irene Author(s): Samuel Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: SSavoyards, as17480920

15272
10 March 1749 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

15273
13 March 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

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

Dance: Comic Dancing-Master J. and Miss Granier

15274
16 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

15275
20 March 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Dance: I: Savoyards, as17480920; V: L'Entree de Flore, as17481027

Music: II: Concerto on Flute, as17480917