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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Thomas Edwards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Thomas Edwards")') 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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7749 results for: Keyword - Thomas Edwards
We found 6353 matches on Author, 1172 matches on Performance Comments, 573 matches on Event Comments, 135 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

301
21 February 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #170 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 236 paid; stage, 44 paid; balcony, 2 paid; Pit, 290 Paid and 3 orders; slips, 47 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 419 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 189 paid. For a comment on the play by Thomas Edwards, see V. M. Gilbert, Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others, Notes and Queries, August 1953, pp. 337-38

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

302
03 December 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By Ebenezer Forrest.] By Command of His Royal Highness. After the Manner of the Beggar's Opera. All the Habits and Scenes entirely New. Receipts: #161 18s. 6d. [For a comment on this performance, see Thomas Edwards to John Clerke, "Unrecorded Comments on John Gay, Henry Travers, and Others", N & Q (August 1953), p. 338.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; Or, Vulcan's Wedding

303
05 July 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Historical Tragedy Of The Civil Wars Between The Houses Of York And Lancaster In The Reign Of King Henry The Vith

304
03 January 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: THE DIVORCE

305
14 July 1798 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In 2nd piece the playbill assigns Madelon to Mrs Bland, but she, "piqued at the levy of the customary, and very proper fines on account of her non-attendance at rehearsals, stayed away from the theatre on this evening, and Mrs Edwards [sic] was obliged to undertake the part of Madelon" (Monthly Mirror, July 1798, p. 52).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

Afterpiece Title: Blue Devils

306
12 May 1731 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fall Of Mortimer

Performance Comment: Edition of 1731 lists: King Edward III-Peterson; Mortimer-Mullart; Lord Mountacute-Lacy; Sir ThomasDelamore-Jones; Sir Robert Holland-Furnival; Eitherside-Reynolds; Leicester-Wathen; Exeter-Dove; Berkley-Hallam; Nevill-Cross; Sly-Davenport; Secret-Hicks; Isabella-Mrs Mullart; Maria-Miss Price; Prologue-Furnival; Epilogue-Mrs Mullart.
Cast
Role: Sir ThomasDelamore Actor: Jones

307
13 October 1741 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

308
13 October 1742 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Song: II: Song-Beard

Music: IV: Concerto-Veracini

Dance: V: Grand Serious Ballet, as17421005

309
28 September 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

310
24 October 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tragical History Of King Richard Iii

311
29 May 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Raftor and Miss Edwards. Play By Desire. Being the last time of acting this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Performance Comment: As17450328 but Lucy-Mrs Clive, 1st time; Jenny Diver-Miss Allen; Mrs Slammekin-Miss Hippisley; Polly-Miss Edwards, 1st time; Peachum-Macklin; Lockit-Marten; Filch-Raftor; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Macklin; Mrs Coaxer-Mrs Ferguson; With the dances-proper to the opera; particularly a Hornpipe-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: Polly Actor: Miss Edwards, 1st time

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

312
28 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

313
20 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

314
02 October 1749 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: Phoebe

Related Works
Related Work: Phoebe at Court Author(s): Thomas Arne

315
27 January 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: As17561217

316
11 November 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: Lucas, Miss Hilliard

317
27 March 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End of Tragedy: Rural Merriment, as17741209

318
06 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

319
26 April 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

320
01 May 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: The Druids

321
19 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

322
03 May 1776 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward And Eleonora

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: New Dance Call'd The Academy-; in which will be introduced the New Court Minuet, Rigadoon (never perform'd before)-Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong; with a Minuet, Allemande-Mas. Dagueville, a Girl only 5 years old; to conclude with a new Cadrille-Sg and Sga Zuchelli, Dagueville, Sga Vidini; End: a New Dance call'd The Humours of the New@Market Races with all the usual performances,-Dagueville, Harris, Rudd, Mas. Holland, Miss Ross, Miss Armstrong, Sga Vidini; to conclude with the Pony Races-

323
22 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: As17831020

324
25 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Related Works
Related Work: The Gentle Shepherd Author(s): Thomas Linley Sr.

325
29 October 1783 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edward The Black Prince

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Dance: As17831020