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We found 4063 matches on Event Comments, 768 matches on Performance Title, 515 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: This day Published The Englishman Returned from Paris, as it is performed at Covent Garden. By Samuel Foote, Esq: Printed for Paul Vaillant, at 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17551114; Fingalian-Miss Hilliard

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, late Macklin's in Covent Garden. At the particular Desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden. By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: SShakespear Society. Anniversary Meeting of this Society will be held this Day, at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern in Covent Garden. Dinner will be on the table at Three. E.B. Secretary

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Athalia

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden. By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Mainpiece [by Edward Young]: not acted these 30 years. Part of Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Servants allowed to keep places on the Stage. Tomorrow, not acted these 20 years, Ulysses for the Benefit of Mrs Woffington. A Young lady, remarkably handsome, appeared in the Pit of Covent Garden Playhouse on Monday Night last; she had on a white hat with pink ribbons; a pink colour'd Cardinal trimm'd with white fur, which she took off on account of people spitting down from the slips...She was standing near the Pit Door before the play began, but soon had room made for her at the end of one of the seats (Daily Advertiser, 22 March)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Busiris King Of Egypt

Afterpiece Title: The Knights

Dance: FFingalian Dance, as17551126; Les Statues Animees, as17560302

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden. To begin at 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: At the Great Piazza Coffee Room, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lecture

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire. Benefit for Mr Blakes who spoke ye Ep: upon the Ass (Cross). Tickets at Blakes's House, Duke's Court, Bow St., Covent Garden, and at stage door. Receipts; #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Scrase & Mathews (Cross). Tickets of Scrase at Tauranac's Wine Vault, in James St., Covent Garden, and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #130 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song:

Dance: [As express'd in the Bills of the Day (playbill). Advance notice.]

Event Comment: Notice is hereby given, that the Annual Feast of the Shakespeare Society will be held on Wed. 2nd of March next, at the Shakespeare's Head Tavern in Covent Garden; and that tickets are left with the Master of that House to be disposed of to the Gentlemen who subscribed for Tickets for the last Feast, and who are to call for them at any time within thirty days from the date thereof. Such tickets as are not in that time called for will be delivered to the Stewards to be otherwise disposed of. The person's name to whom a Ticket is deliver'd will be endors'd thereon, and no other person can be admitted thereby. E. B. Secretary (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Event Comment: TThe Author Publish'd at 1s. Printed for and sold by R. Francklin, in Russel St., Covent Garden; and P. Valliant, in the Strand. Receipts: #160 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Foote for ye farce (Cross). Mainpiece:Not acted these 12 years. [See 20 Nov. 1745.] Austin did Bertran r(first time) (Indiff) (Cross). Tickets to be had of Foote at the Whalebone Warehouse in James St., Covent Garden, and of Varney at the stage door. Part of pit laid into boxes. Receipts: #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: SShakespear Society. The Annual feast of this Society will be held this day at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden. Dinner will be on the Table at 3 o'clock (Public Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Event Comment: Tomorrow at noon will be publish'd the Tragedy of Douglas as it is in acting at Covent Garden. Printed for A. Miller in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Triumph Of Time And Truth

Event Comment: Benefit for Barry. Tickets to be had of Barry at his house in Bow St., Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Dance: As17561217

Event Comment: Benefit for Mossop. Tickets at his lodgings in Newton's Warehouse, in Tavistock St., Covent Garden; and of Varney. [The Dramatic Register No 17 commented favorably upon Mossop's performance noting especially his fine modulation of voice. It also castigated a recent scurrilous attack upon Mossop. See Theatrical Clippings.] Receipts: #300 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Event Comment: Benefit for Sparks. Tickets and places to be had of him at Gresham's Warehouse, the Crown in York St., Covent Garden, and of Crudge at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: As17570103

Event Comment: Benefit for Ross. Tickets of Ross at his house in Bow Street, Covent Garden. Receipts. #200 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Event Comment: Benefit for Dyer. No Building on the Stage. Tickets of Dyer at Mr Eastgate's, Hosier, in Great Russel St., Covent Garden, and of Crudge at the Stage Door

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman Returned from Paris

Dance: FFingalian Revels, as17570329

Event Comment: Benefit for Berry. Tickets of Berry at Mr Pope's Peruke Maker in Russel St., Covent Garden; of Mr Hyde, Engraver, in Cutter Lane, Cheapside; and at the Stage Door. Receipts: #147 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Song: I: Miss Young

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Davies. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. Tickets to be had at Mr Davies's No 16 in New Crown Court, Covent Garden. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: IV: Minuet-Miss Pritchard