Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out for the Tragedy of Tragedies, with an Opera call'd, The City Apprentice Turn'd Beau, or Love in a Hamper which was to have been performed this Day, for the Benefit of Mr Green, Prompter, will be taken at this Play

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality.Daily Journal, 9 July: We hear that a Play-house is to be erected on Hampton-Green, will all Expedition, for acting Plays for the Entertainment of the Royal Family

Event Comment: LLee-Harper Booth, on the Bowling Green

Event Comment: Benefit Charles, the Merry Trumpeter of Oxford. At Lee's Great Booth on the Bowling Green. ...and tis well if it takes If not, the Trumpet breaks; And they that are my Friends, that come to see my Play, If it happens to rain, shall have a Coach to carry 'em away

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 18 Dec.: We hear from Southwark, that a Theatre will be ready to open there the 26th Day of this Month, on the Bowling Green, by a new Company of Comedians, who intend to play the remaining part of the Winter; and that Preparations are making in a handsome Manner for the Reception of the Gentry

Event Comment: By a New Company of Comedians who intend to Play the remaining Part of the Winter. On the Bowling-Green. To begin exactly at Six o'Clock, on the Penalty of 50 Pounds. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. The House is made commodious and warm, and the Passages new laid and rang'd with Lamps. No Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up, nor any Person to be admitted behind the Scenes

Event Comment: Benefit Charles, the Merry Trumpeter of Oxford. At Mrs Lee's Booth on the Bowling Green

Event Comment: At Lee's Great Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green. 7 P.M

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 Aug.: His Royal Highness the Prince, and several Persons of Quality, were present at the Play Love for Love, which was acted at the Theatre upon the Green

Event Comment: At Lee's Old Theatrical Playhouse on the Bowling Green, running down Axe and Bottle Yard. 10 or 11 a.m. to 9 P.M. [Advertised through 16 Sept.]

Event Comment: At Lee's Old Theatre on the Bowling Green, behind Marshalsea Prison, down Mermaid Court, next Queen's Arms Tavern. 10 or 11 a.m. to 9 P.M. [Advertised through 16 Sept.]

Event Comment: Benefit Winstone and Miss Cole. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. [Tickets for Mrs Anderson, Villeneuve, Rainton, and Master Green taken.]

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb., for a letter from Colley Cibber to the Gentlemen of the Inns of Court. Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb.: Whereas it is agreed on between several Gentlemen, to erect a New Theatre for the exhibiting of Plays, Farces, Pantomime, &c. all such Persons as are willing to undertake the said Building, are desir'd to bring their Plans for the same by the 2d of May next ensuing, in order to be laid before the said Gentlemen, the Time and Place of which Meeting will be advertis'd in this Paper on the last of April. Proportions of the Ground: The North Side 120 Feet; the West, square with the North, 130 Feet; the South 110 Feet; and the East on a Bevil, joining the Parallel. Note, There must be a Passage left to go round the Building, and the Stages to be 30 Feet wide at the First Scene; the Distance between Wall and Wall 80 Feet; and the Scene-Rooms, Green and Dressing Rooms, to be on the outside of the last mention'd Measure. The Stage to be either North or South

Event Comment: Benefit Pelling, Dukes. Tickets for Villeneuve, Master Green also taken

Event Comment: LLee-Hallam Booth on the Bowling Green at the Bottom of Ax@and@Battle@Yard, behind the Marshalsea. By the celebrated Company from Bartholomew Fair; 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Presumably performed from Wednesday 7 through Thursday 15

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. Egerton 2320: Receipts: #80. A quarrel betwixt Mr Quin and Mrs Cibber about dressing in ye Green Room

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 Aug.: Yesterday Morning died at his House at Strand on the Green after three Days Illness, Mr Joseph Miller, a celebrated Comedian

Event Comment: At Lee's Booth, on the Bowling Green. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, F. Shepard, Rogers, Green, Master Brooks, Miss Morrison. Tickets for the Misses Scott also taken

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Daily Advertiser, 25 Jan.: On Wednesday night last a Disturbance happen'd at Drury-Lane Playhouse, occasion'd by one of the principal Dancers not being there to dance at the end of the Entertainment, and after most of the People in the Pit and Galleries were gone, several Gentlemen in the Boxes pull'd up the Seats and Flooring of the same, tore down the Hangings, broke down the Partitions, all the Glasses and Sconces, the King's Arm over the middle front Box was pull'd down and broke to Pieces; they also destroy'd the Harpsichord, Bass Viol, and other Instruments in the Orchestra; the Curtain they cut to pieces with their Swords, forc'd their way into the lesser Green-Room, where they broke the Glasses, &c. and after destroying every thing they could well get asunder, to the amount of about three or four hundred Pounds Damage, left the House in a very ruinous Condition. [See also London Magazine, IX (1740), 47-48, 100.

Event Comment: Benefit Peirson, Treasurer. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A Farce. [Author not known. Tickets at Peirson's, the Green Door in Great Queen Street.

Event Comment: Benefit Cashell, Yates, Green

Event Comment: At Yeates' Booth, on the Bowling Green, Southwark. [Advertized through 20 Sept.

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Phillips. At the Playhouse on the Bowling Green. The plays to be acted gratis. The Doors to be open'd at Four, and to begin precisely at Seven

Event Comment: Benefit Peirson, Treasurer. Tickets at Peirson's, the Green Door, Great Queen Street