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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Penkethmans New Theatre in Greenwich"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Penkethmans New Theatre in Greenwich")') 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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12712 results for: Keyword - Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich
We found 8123 matches on Event Comments, 3410 matches on Performance Comments, 3175 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

12126
09 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17591102

12127
10 November 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: As17591102

12128
01 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

12129
08 December 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Fair

Song: Lowe

12130
05 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: II: The Threshers, as17591005

12131
08 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: HHornpipe-Miss Dawson; Country Dance-Characters in the Play; End II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard

12132
19 January 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

12133
01 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17600108

12134
11 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Comus

12135
16 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Dances incident to the Opera. Likewise, a Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville [probably The Plowman]

12136
21 February 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. A Tragedy [By John Home]. I went to my Office and then slept [?] in at Drury Lane w here I see Mr and Miss Hayes, Lady Lindores who I see into a coach, I slept in at Covent Garden Gallery before the play, but see nobody I knew so I would not stay, otherwise I would have went out as I had set my mind on the Beggar's Opera for once more, but waived it all & went to my Office (Hailey Brietzcke Diary, Vol. 197, p. 72)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Aquileia

12137
29 February 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise Lost

Music: Concerto On Organ-Stanley; Solo on Violin-Giardini

12138
08 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Spirit of Contradiction

12139
17 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband; Or, The Accomplish'd Fools

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: WWhen Gentle Parthenissa-Lowe

Music: Several pieces on the Harp, particularly the favourite Irish Ballad Ellen@a@Roon, with variations, -Evans

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17591102; The Plowman, as17591121

12140
18 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake; or, Hob in the Well

Dance: II: A Comic Dance-Granier, Miss Hilliard; End: The Lamp Lighters-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville

12141
20 March 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Part of the Pit railed into Boxes and Stage will be formed into Amphitheatre, where servants will be admitted to keep places. Afterpiece: Farce of Two Acts never before acted. [MacMillan lists the characters from the Larpent MS and points out that no indication of assignment appeared: Sir John Bayfield , Sir Charles Freelove , Sir James Trueman , Mr Lovenight , Captain Squander , Lady Bayfield , Miss Croston , Lady Di Clatter , Miss Gibberish , Mrs Lovenight , Miss Prue , Mrs Goodfellow , and servants . Two deputy licensers seem to have been operating at this time, for Garrick sends his plays to Edward Capel, and Rich his to Chetwyn.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Every Woman in Her Humour

Dance: TThe Cow Keepers, as17600313

12142
20 March 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant; Or, The Beggar's Bush

Dance: TThe Dutch Skipper-Poitier

Entertainment: E+Extravaganza. Shuter will entertain the audience in an Oratorical, Poetical, Operatical Method (never befoer attempted) with a Comic Extravaganza call'd A Day of Taste; or, London Raree Show-Shuter being a Ranelagh Breakfast, a Coffee House Conversation, An Auction at Noon, and the Choice Spirits at Night; conclude with: The Cries of London-. *uó‘cg To which will (By Desire) be added (for this Night only) Mr Shuter's Droll that was perform'd at Bartholomew Fair, call'd The English Sailors in America. Mackfinnen (the Irish Volunteer)-Shuter; Princess-Miss Dawson, her first Time of speaking on the stage

12143
10 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

12144
11 April 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

12145
11 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: I: A Shepherdess-Miss Wilford , Scholar to Poitier Sr; II: The Pygmalion Dance-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford; End: A Minuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Wilford

12146
15 April 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

12147
03 May 1760 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

12148
28 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

12149
03 June 1760 @ Mary-le-Bone Gardens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Serva Padrona

12150
04 September 1760 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Adventures Of Timur Koran

Afterpiece Title: The Heroic Taylors