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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Richards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Richards")') 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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4080 results for: Keyword - Richards
We found 1991 matches on Author, 1812 matches on Roles/Actors, 696 matches on Performance Title, 668 matches on Performance Comments, and 470 matches on Event Comments.

551
01 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

552
26 January 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Sylphs

553
10 May 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: End: The Frolick, as17740416 but Miss _Capon, Mrs Stephens nee $Capon

554
29 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Election

Afterpiece Title: The Elopement

555
29 October 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

556
07 November 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: No One's Enemy but His Own

Dance: End: The Merry Sailors, as17741026

557
05 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

558
31 December 1774 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

559
18 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Interlude. End: True Blue, as17750401

Dance: End Interlude: A Hornpipe-Blurton (playbill)

560
28 April 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Jacket

Dance: II: A New Pastoral Dance-Lariviere, Mrs Sutton; IV: Comic Dance-Lariviere, Mrs Sutton; V: (By Particular Desire) The Louvre, Minuet-Froment, Mrs Sutton (his scholar)

561
15 May 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: III: Sg Giorgi's Scholars

562
07 November 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates

Afterpiece Title: May Day

563
12 December 1775 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio

564
05 June 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

565
16 December 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Lord Mayor's Day

566
05 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "The leaving Percy untaken up [by Falstaff, in V.iv of mainpiece] was an improvement. The best acting was that of Mrs Pitt" (World, 6 Nov.). Afterpiece: With new Music, Scenes, Machinepy, Dresses, and Decorations. A few of the Airs compiled from Purcell, Travers, Sacchini, &c. The rest of the Music composed by Shield. The Scenery and Machinery designed by Richards and Carver, and executed by them, Hodgins, and many assistants. To conclude with the Representation of the inside of a Nabob's Palacev. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Receipts: #199 0s. 6d. (193.16.0; 5.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry The Fourth

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

567
28 October 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Life And Death Of King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

568
07 February 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

569
22 October 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

570
19 November 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Captive of Spilburg

Dance: As17981114

571
18 November 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Pavilion

572
01 February 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Thomas Overbury

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: As17761015

573
20 March 1779 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Prelude [1st time;PREL I, probably by Richard Cumberland. Larpent MS 472; not published]. Mainpiece [1st time; M 3, by Richard Cumberland, based on Calypso and Telemachus, by John Hughes]: The Overture and all the Music entirely new, and composed by Butler. With new Scenery painted by Richards and Carver, and new Dresses. Books of the Masque to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 27 Mar. 1779: This Day is published Calypso (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Prelude And Prologue

Afterpiece Title: Calypso

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Dance: In: Incidental Dances-Dagueville, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

574
31 May 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Fond Husband; Or, The Plotting Sisters

Performance Comment: Edition of 1677: Rashley-Smith; Ranger-Harris; Peregrine Bubble-James Nokes; Old Fumble-Anth. Leigh; Sir Roger Petulant-Sandford; Sneak-Jevan; Spatterdash-Richards; Apothecary-Percival; Emillia-Mrs Barrer; Maria-Mrs Marshal; Cordelia-Mrs Hughes; Betty-Mrs Napper; Governess-Mrs Norrice; Prologue-; Epilogue-Fumble; Edition of 1678 adds: Jeremy-Richards.
Cast
Role: Spatterdash Actor: Richards
Role: Jeremy Actor: Richards.

575
February 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Misery Of Civil-war