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1803 results for: Keyword - R. Bentley
We found 1737 matches on Performance Comments, 236 matches on Event Comments, 24 matches on Author, 21 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

101
14 June 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Man

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Performance Comment: Mr Sturdy-Kemble; Bentley-Williamson; Captain Berry-Iliff; Frank-Barrett; Miss Tabitha-Mrs Webb; Mrs Sturdy-Mrs Powell; Miss Eliza Sturdy-Miss Heard; Nanny-Miss Prideaux; Miss Sukey-Mrs Taylor.
Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Williamson

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Entertainment: Monologue. Before: Occasional Address-Bensley

102
16 June 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: Half an Hour after Supper

Performance Comment: Mr Sturdy-Kemble; Bentley-Evatt; Captain Berry-Iliff; Frank-Farley; Miss Tabitha-Mrs Webb; Mrs Sturdy-Mrs Edwin; Miss Eliza Sturdy-Miss Heard; Nanny-Mrs Whitfield; Miss Sukey-Mrs Taylor.
Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Evatt

103
29 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: Mr Sturdy (1st time)-Wewitzer; Bentley-Evatt; Captain Berry (1st time)-Palmer Jun.; Frank-Farley; Miss Tabitha-Mrs Webb; Mrs Sturdy-Mrs Edwin; Miss Eliza Sturdy-Miss Heard; Nanny-Mrs Whitfield; Miss Sukey-Mrs Taylor.
Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Evatt

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

104
17 June 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: Mr Sturdy-Wewitzer; Bentley-Evatt; Captain Berry-Palmer Jun.; Frank-Bland; Miss Tabitha-Mrs Webb; Mrs Sturdy-Mrs Edwin; Miss Eliza Sturdy-Miss Heard; Nanny-Mrs Whitfield; Miss Sukey-Miss DeCamp.
Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Evatt

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

Song: In 2nd piece: Singing-Cooke, Kenrick, Willoughby, Linton, Dorion, Aylmer, Little, Brown, Lyons, Miss DeCamp, Miss Dall, Miss Fontenelle, Mrs Powell, Mrs Masters, Mrs Bramwell, Mrs Hatton

105
20 February 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: Mr Sturdy-Benson; Bentley-Caulfield; Capt. Berry-Cooke; Frank-Bland II Miss Elizabeth Sturdy-Miss Heard; Miss Sukey-Miss De Camp; Tabitha-Mrs Booth; Mrs Sturdy-Mrs Heard; Nanny-Mrs Hale .
Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Caulfield

Afterpiece Title: HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

106
12 July 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: Mr Sturdy-Benson; Bentley-Pindar; Capt. Berry-Palmer Jun.; Frank-Bland//Miss Elizabeth Sturdy-Miss Heard; Miss Sukey-Miss De Camp; Tabitha-Mrs Booth; Mrs Sturdy-Mrs Heard; Nanny-Mrs Hale .
Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Pindar

Afterpiece Title: THE LONDON HERMIT

Afterpiece Title: THE LIAR

107
16 June 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Performance Comment: Mr Sturdy-Benson; Bentley-Caulfield; Capt. Berry-Palmer Jun.; Frank-Bland; Miss Elizabeth Sturdy-Miss Heard; Miss Sukey-Miss DeCamp; Tabitha-Miss Tidswell; Mrs Sturdy-Mrs Heard; Nanny-Mrs Hale.
Cast
Role: Bentley Actor: Caulfield

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: New Hay at the Old Market

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

108
November 1659 @ Middle Temple

Event Comment: On 23 Nov. 1659 John Page, the Treasurer of the Middle Temple, entered in his records: Music, four nights at 30s., and acting The Clown four nights at 10s. (See A Calendar of the Middle Temple Records, ed. Hopwood, p. 167. See also Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, V, 1314.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countryman Or Clown

109
May 1660 @ The Red Bull Theatre

Event Comment: This play was entered in the Stationers' Register, 29 June 1660, but not printed. A Prologue and Epilogue (Epilogue spoken by Cupid) to a play of this title were printed in Jordan's A Rosary of Rarities, p. 17, but these may refer to an earlier performance. (See Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, IV, 684-85.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Hath Found Out His Eyes; Or, Distractions

110
09 March 1671 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: William Cartwright's The Lady Errant was licensed by Sir Henry Herbert to the Duke's Company on this date. See Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, III, 128-32

Performances

111
07 February 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair American

Performance Comment: Admiral Dreadnought-King (1st appearance in that character); Bale-Parsons; Carbine-Suett; Summers-Barrymore; Boreas-Chapman; Col. Mountfort-Palmer; Rachael-Mrs Wrighten; Miss Bale-Miss Wheeler; Miss Kitty Dreadnought-Mrs Hopkins; Mrs Bentley [in subsequent bills called Mrs Wilmot]-Mrs Hedges; Miss Melcomb-Miss Simson; Angelica-Miss Phillips .

Afterpiece Title: The Triumph of Mirth

112
10 February 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Jackson, Cartwright, Holland, Osborne, Frederic, Mitchell, Edwards, Porter, Henley, Connell (with a new Irish sons in character); A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]), Mrs Bolton, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Ponsonby, Mrs Henley, A Lady (2nd appearance [unidentified]). [Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Gregory Granby, Sir ThomasLoveby, George Granby, Frank Bentley, Solomons, Levi, Waddle, Scandal, Dennis, Robert, Waiter; Eliza Wentworth, Mrs Dornbush, Miss Harcourt, Charlotte Harcourt, Lady Loveby, Susan, Miss Nancy, Miss Kitty, Maid.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

113
02 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In IV a Masquerade Scene. [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Bentley, Bynam, Dale, Edmonds, Faux, Fisher, Gregson, Gaurion, Kent, Munday, Ross, Robson, Robinson, Smith, Sherwood, Stevens, Townsend, Webb, Whitmell, Wyber, Wells, Wyatt, Waterer, Mrs Byrne will be admitted.] Receipts: #31 14s. (8.11.0; 13.16.6; 0.7.0; odd money: 8.19.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

114
26 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Judas Maccabaeus

Music: I: Concerto on Violin-Mr ThomasLinley

115
27 November 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Circassian

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Music: In Act III of mainpiece an Epitbalamium [not listed in playbill, but see17811129]

116
22 June 1789 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Swop

117
13 August 1791 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in Spain

118
23 July 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Don Pedro

119
19 April 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: The Purse

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

120
15 May 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wandering Jew; or, Love's Masquerade

Dance: As17970513

121
02 June 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

122
01 November 1662 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ignoramus; Or, The Academical Lawyer

123
02 June 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Biter Bit; or, The Humours of Harlequin and Scaramouch

Afterpiece Title: The Throwsters Opera

124
28 January 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Married Libertine

125
31 January 1767 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexities

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Dance: End: The Gallant Peasants, as17670113