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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Will Richards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Will 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 - Will 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.

776
01 October 1746 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

777
24 September 1747 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: To the Author of the General Advertiser: Sir: Several Parodies on the favourite Soliloquy in Hamlet having appear'd lately, and all of the serious and grave Kind; the following Attempt in Burlesque, if you think it will be agreeable to the Publick, is at their and your Service: Yours, Rigdum Funnidos. @To drink, or not to Drink? that is the Question--@Whether 'tis easier for a Man, to suffer@The Pangs and Horrors of Outrageous Thirst;@Or boldly venture on a Sea of Liquor.... Receipts: #140 (Cross); #111 19s. 6d. (Powel)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

778
22 January 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught

779
26 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Polish Dance, as17471109; III: Dutch Dance, as17471128; IV: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; V: A Ball Dance, call'd The Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

780
01 October 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: V: Savoyards, as17480920

781
13 April 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Lethe and Jumpedo

Performance Comment: Frenchman-Garrick the only character listed; see17490407. The whole to conclude with an extraordinary and surprising performance of the Original Seignor Capitello Jumpedo, who after entertaining the audience with a Hornpipe-Seignor Capitello Jumpedo; will in a manner entirely new, Jump down his own throat-Seignor Capitello Jumpedo.

782
28 April 1752 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fair Quaker Of Deal; Or,the Humours Of The Navy

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

783
16 October 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

784
31 October 1754 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

785
21 October 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Lover His Own Rival

786
14 May 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Oracle

Dance: HHornpipe-Mathews

787
26 September 1757 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

788
18 April 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: A Minuet-Noverre, Miss Macklin

789
15 May 1759 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bennet and Legg. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Song: III: A Song-Legg

Dance: IV: The Drunken Peasant, as17590430 V: The Threshers, as17581016

790
01 October 1759 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, A Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

791
23 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

792
08 October 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, The Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disappointment

793
18 September 1761 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, The Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet

Related Works
Related Work: The Chaplet Author(s): William Boyce

Dance: Sg and Sga Maranesi

794
09 November 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Afterpiece Title: The Coronation

795
22 January 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lyar

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Dance: II: The Pedlar Trick'd, as17620107; End: The French Country Gentleman, as17611210

796
21 April 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Blakes. Tickets deliver'd for The Way of the World, and by Mess. Settree and Hayes will be taken. Positively the last time of performing Mainpiece this season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17620330 but William Wealthy-Blakes; Richard Wealthy-Burton; Loader-Bransby; Dick-Vaughan.
Cast
Role: William Wealthy Actor: Blakes

Entertainment: II: Hearts of Oak-Mrs Vincent, Mrs Baker; End Play: By particular Desire, and for that night only, Bucks Have at Ye All-King as17620330

Related Works
Related Work: A Midsummer Night's Dream Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: Twelfth Night Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Adventures of a Night Author(s): William Hodson
Related Work: Love Betray'd; or, The Agreable Disapointment Author(s): William ShakespeareWilliam Burnaby
Related Work: The Fairy Tale Author(s): William Shakespeare
Related Work: The Soldier's Festival Author(s): William Shield

Dance: After Entertainments: the Louvre and Minuet-Settree, Miss Blagdon (his scholar)

797
30 April 1762 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Costollo, Mrs Pitt, Stede. Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. No Building on Stage. Tickets sold at the door will not be admitted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Minor

Performance Comment: As17620122, but[probably the full length play of 10 Nov. 1761] The Minor-Dyer; Richard Wealthy-Hull; Sir William Wealthy-Costollo; Smart-Wignell; Canker-R. Smith, rest as17611110.
Cast
Role: Sir William Wealthy Actor: Costollo

Afterpiece Title: Marplot in Lisbon

Dance: II: New Comic Dance, The Woodcutters-Leppie, a young gentlewoman his scholar; IV: The Taylors, as17620107

Entertainment: After: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Shuter (This Night only)

798
16 November 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, The Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

799
28 December 1762 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

Dance: II: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17621119

800
24 October 1763 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband; Or, Journey To London

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer