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We found 4297 matches on Event Comments, 1414 matches on Author, 1186 matches on Performance Comments, 593 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 4 June: There is building, and almost finish'd here [in Richmond], a small, but very neat and regular Theatre, a little higher on the Hill than where the late Mr Penkethman's stood. We hear it will be open'd next Week by a Company...from...Lincoln's Inn Fields, and that their first Play will be the Recruiting Officer...and that they design to perform three or four Times a Week during the Summer Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Authors Farce

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Event Comment: At Penkethman-W. Giffard Booth. Written by the late facetious Mr Doggett. [Advertised also on 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Tom Of Bedlam

Dance: MMad Dance-; Dutch Skipper-Sandham upon his Toes; Drunken Man-Wilcox

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Music: Between the Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance: Roger, Essex, Rainton, Mlle Delorme, Mrs Walter; particularly The Matelots, Dutch Boor and his Frou-

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Daily Post, 18 Sept,: Mrs Oldfield...who was dangerously ill, is in a fair Way of Recovery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: Alter'd from Shakespear by the late Mr Betterton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Second Part Of King Henry Iv Part Ii With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff And Justice Shallow

Performance Comment: King-Mills; Prince of Wales-Williams; Lancaster-Wm. Mills; Westmoreland-Bridgwater; Lord Chief Justice-Boman; Archbishop of York-Roberts; Archbishop of Canterbury-Corey; Hastings-Watson; Falstaff-Harper; Shallow-Cibber; Poins-Oates; Bardolph-Shepard; Hostess Quickly-Mrs Wetherilt; Doll Tearsheet-Mrs Shireburn; Falstaff's Boy-Miss Robinson; Pistol-Cibber Jr; Silence-Griffin.

Afterpiece Title: The Strollers

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #54 11s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Dance: SScottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; Two Pierrots-Poitier, Nivelon; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; Numidian-Glover, Miss LaTour

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 23 Oct,: Yesterday being the Anniversary of the Princess Royal's Birth-Day, a Masque was prepared at His Royal Highness's Command, on that Occasion, by Mr Rich, and perform'd by his Company in His Royal Highness's@Gardens at Cue, which were illuminated with above a thousand Lamps

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Masque

Performance Comment: The company from Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Related Works
Related Work: The Harlot's Progress; or, The Ridotto Al' Fresco: With a Grand Masque call'd, The Judgment of Paris; or, The Triumph of Beauty Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #73 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Related Works
Related Work: The Rape of Proserpine: With The Birth and Adventures of Harlequin Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest Or The Inchanted Island

Performance Comment: Prospero-Mills; Hypolita-Mrs Cibber; Trincalo-Harper; Mustachio-Cibber Jr; Ventoso-R. Wetherilt; Ferdinand-W. Mills; Miranda-Mrs Mills; Dorinda-Miss Raftor; Caliban-Johnson; Ariel-Miss Robinson; Infernal Spirits-Bowman, Rainton, Tenoe; Grand Spirit-Haughton; Alonzo-Fielding; Gonzalo-Oates; Neptune-Rainton; Antonio-Cory; Sycorax-Hallam; Amphitrite-Mrs Roberts; Watermen-Harper, Bridgwater, Rainton, Houghton, Oates, Wright; Winds-Essex, Lally, Rainton, Haughton.
Cast
Role: Ventoso Actor: R. Wetherilt

Afterpiece Title: Patie and Peggy

Related Works
Related Work: Patie and Peggy; or, The Fair Foundling Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Williamson. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love Or The World Well Lost

Performance Comment: Cleopatra-Mrs Williamson; all the Men's Parts-Gentlemen for their Diversion; With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.
Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

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Event Comment: Receipts: #43 11s. Daily Journal, 9 Jan.: Last Thursday Morning the Celebrated Actor Mr Boheme...died

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: As17310104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: As17310104

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. Receipts: #26 14s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; French Sailor-Salle, Mrs Laguerre

Event Comment: UUniversal Spectator, 6 Feb.: Dy'd, after a lingering Illness in the 38th Year of his Age, Mr Charles? Williams, a celebrated Tragedian belonging to...Drury-Lane

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lover

Related Works
Related Work: The Lover Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Porus

Event Comment: Benefit Mr Savage, Author of several Poetical Pieces. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Event Comment: Receipts: #77. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

Cast
Role: Stheno Actor: Salway
Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Dance: HHarlequin-Mrs Booth; Last new Dance-Miss Robinson,

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Dryden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All For Love

Related Works
Related Work: The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub Author(s): Sir George Etherege

Afterpiece Title: Cephalus and Procris

Event Comment: Revised, with many Additions, by the Author and newly done into English by Mr Humphreys. [King, Queen, Prince, and three eldest Princesses present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Event Comment: Benefit Harper. Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Dance: II: Rainton, Mrs Walter; III: Miss Robinson; IV: French Gardener and his Mistress-Rainton, Mrs Walter; V: Drunken Man-Harper

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach Opera

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Raftor. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Song: Singing In Italian and English-Miss Raftor

Dance: TTambourin-Miss Robinson; English Maggot-Rainton, Mrs Walter