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17426 results for: Keyword - Mr William Smith
We found 10821 matches on Author, 4811 matches on Event Comments, 4282 matches on Performance Comments, 806 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

17301
July 1694 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: According to the testimony of Sir Thomas Skipwith, 10 Dec. 1694, the young actors played during the vacation nearly thirty days without Betterton, Williams, Bright, Kinaston, Sandford, or Mrs Betterton, and made sufficient money to keep them over the vacation. L. C. 7@3, 17 Dec. 1694, in Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 374

Performances

17302
29 October 1694 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. By Elkanah Settle. See Celia Fennes, Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (1888), pp. 242 ff, for an account of a Lord Mayor's show in the late seventeenth century

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

17303
May 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Cibber, Apology, I, 201-2, for his account of the mistake Betterton's Company made in not retaining Williams and Mrs Mountfort-Verbruggen, and of the problems of Rich's Company. In this passage Cibber implies that Hamlet, Othello, and Julius Caesar were acted at Drury Lane soon after the division of the companies

Performances

17304
27 October 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Rich's Company. This performance is known by a playbill in the Folger Shakespeare Library: At the New Theatre, in Little Lincolns-Inn Fields, this present Wensday the 27th of October, will be presented, A Comedy call'd, The Committee, or The Faithful Irishman. No Persons to Stand on the Stage. Nor any Money to be after Return'd [sic] the Curtain is Drawn up. By his Majesties Servants. Vivat Rex. [The playbill is reproduced, opposite page 230, in William VanLennep, Some Early English Playbills, Harvard Library Bulletin, VIII (1954).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

17305
23 August 1698 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: Post Boy, 20-23 Aug. 1698: Jephtha's Rash Vow: Will be play'd again this Bartholomew Fair at Blakes and Penkethman's Booth, over against Hosier Lane. [See also William King, 25 Aug. 1698.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jephtha's Rash Vow

17306
15 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: According to the London Post, 24-27 Nov. 1699, William Joye, a strong man showing dexterities of strength, performed before The King at Kensington

Performances

17307
29 November 1699 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: London Post, 24-27 Nov. 1699: [William Joy] being oblig'd to leave Town in order to pursue some other Method, can shew but twice, which will be God-willing on Wednesday and Friday next at the Theatre in Dorset Garden, beginning Precisely at 11 a Clock, being resolved to shew no more before he leaves the Town

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

17308
11 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Bowen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Libertine Destroy'd

17309
13 June 1701 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Penkethman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

17310
March 1702 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: [King William died on Sunday 8, and the playhouses were forbidden to act until after the Coronation, 23 April.

Performances

17311
24 September 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by the famous Author William Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbiline King Of Brittain; The Great Protector Of His Country

17312
07 October 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the Famous William Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline King Of Brittain; The Great Protector Of His Country

17313
01 November 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By William Walker. Not advertised in Daily Courant, but this date accepted as premiere by Nicoll, p. 363 and Genest, II, 303.] Preface: It was so hem'd in between the Benefits that it seem'd meerly Confin'd to the Limits of a Single Night before hand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marry; Or, Do Worse

Related Works
Related Work: Marry; or Do Worse Author(s): William Walker

17314
31 July 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Sir William Davenant; but Originally by the famous French Dramatick Poet Monsieur Moliere. [Genest, II, 352, surmises that the company probably acted Acts I, II, and V of The Playhouse to be Let.] Afterpiece: A Burlesque Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let; With Sganarella, The Blacksmith Of Paris

Related Works
Related Work: The Playhouse To Be Let Author(s): Sir William Davenant

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

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17315
11 December 1706 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

17316
02 April 1707 @ York Buildings

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Hall, Daughter to William Hall, who formerly had the Consort of Musick at his House in Norfolk-street. At 7 p.m. Tickets 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the greatest Masters

17317
22 April 1707 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Williams and Willer [Weller?]. Tickets delivered for Saturday 23 taken this night

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Song: As17070327

Dance: As17070403

17318
05 June 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's The Mistress

Related Works
Related Work: The Disappointment: or, The Maid's the Mistress Author(s): William Taverner

17319
25 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: See Tatler, 26 May. [In Daily Courant, 24 May, William Bowen announced that The Stratagem, advertised for this day as his benefit, is deferred and that tickets for it will be accepted on 1 June at Sganarell; or, The Cuckold in Conceit.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

17320
06 February 1711 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit William Mears and Friend Hale. In the Town Hall at St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark. Tickets 1s. 6d. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

17321
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

17322
28 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: '[By William Taverner.] Never Acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis Well If It Takes

Related Works
Related Work: Tis Well if it Takes Author(s): William Taverner

17323
23 December 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit William Cobston. By Subscription

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

17324
23 February 1720 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit William Douglass, commonly called the Black Prince. At 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-; Singing-Mrs Fletcher; Concerto-Matthew Dubourg; Solo-Kytch

17325
09 May 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit William Mills and Chetwood, Prompter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Marriage

Dance: Shaw, Weaver, Boval, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe