Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "the King"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "the King")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
9969 results for: Keyword - the King
We found 10005 matches on Roles/Actors, 2634 matches on Performance Title, 2610 matches on Performance Comments, 1593 matches on Event Comments, and 23 matches on Author.

9376
01 February 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With all the New Scenes and Cloaths. In which above 20 Songs are chang'd. Pit and Boxes together by ticket only at half a guinea, the number not to exceed 400. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 2s. 6d. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lucius Verus

9377
03 March 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. The Pit and Boxes at half a guinea. Stage Boxes 15s. Gallery 4s. The King and a great Number of the Nobility present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amadis

9378
10 March 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. With New Scenes. Admission as 1 Feb. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

9379
07 April 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. The Pit and Boxes together at 5s. each Ticket. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

9380
06 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Castelman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And for the Entertainment of His Excellency Don Luis da Cunha, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Portugal

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Song: Turner; Mad Dialogue-Turner, Mrs Willis

Music: A New Concerto for the Little Flute-Paisable

Dance: Dupre, Dupre Jr, Prince, Boval, Mrs Santlow, Miss Younger

Related Works
Related Work: The Fairy Prince, with the Installation of the Knights of the Garter Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Related Work: The Loyal Brother; or, The Persian Prince Author(s): Thomas Southerne

9381
09 June 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, Boxkeeper. At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Being the last time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Song: Turner, Renton, Mrs Willis

Dance: As17151029

9382
30 June 1716 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. Being the last Opera that will be perform'd this Season. Admission as 4 Feb. At 6 p.m. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleartes

9383
06 November 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Ryder, Diary, pp. 359-60: Went to see the tragedy of Tamerlane which was acted with a new prologue in honour of King William and in memory of what he did for us. The play itself is good....Mills who acted the part of Bajazet did it mighty well and expressed that furiousness and rage and malice and ambition admirably well in his gesture at the end, but, which is his distinguishing character, very well kept up throughout. I observed in the general that the manner of speaking in our theatres in tragedy is not natural. There is something that would be very shocking and disagreeable and very unnatural in real life. Persons would call it theatrical, meaning by that something stiff and affected

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

9384
13 May 1717 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Antonio Bernacchi. By Command. Admission as 8 Dec. 1716. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wenceslaus

9385
07 June 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Wilks, Officekeeper, and King, Boxkeeper. Advertised as the last play of the season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wake

Dance: As17170524

9386
09 September 1717 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bullock's and Leigh's Great Theatrical Booth, in Angel-Court, next the King's Bench. Mainpiece: a Dramatick Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Soldier; Or, Love In Distress

Related Works
Related Work: The Parthian Hero; or, Love in Distress Author(s): Matthew Gardiner

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Adventures of Master Billy Softhead, His Mother, and Sister Sally

Related Works
Related Work: The Disappointment; or, The Mother in Fashion Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: Mother Shipton Author(s): George Colman, the elder

9387
13 September 1717 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 21 Sept.: We hear Mr Penkethman will bring his Action against the informing Constables, for breaking open his Booth last Friday was 7-Night, and taking him off the Stage, contrary to the King's Patent, under the Umbrage of which he acts, being sworn Servant to His Majesty; especially against such of them as were out of theirLiberty, when they executed that Office. The Fair will continue Monday and Tuesday Night

Performances

9388
28 September 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At 6 p.m. Post Boy, 28 Sept.: We hear that last Week Mr Rich made an Assignment of the New Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and his Patent granted by King Charles II to Mr Keene and Mr Bullock jun. and that they open on Saturday next, with a celebrated Play of Shakespear's call'd, Cimbiline, which will be entirely new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

9389
05 October 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not acted these Twenty Years. Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. The whole Play being new dress'd. N.B. The Play will begin exactly at Six a-Clock. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Oct., reports a rumor that J. J. Heidegger has sent to France to recruit a set of comedians to act French plays at the king's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline; Or, The Fatal Wager

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Cook, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Schoolding, Miss Smith

9390
19 December 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

9391
24 January 1718 @ Westminster School

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Miles Gloriosus

Performance Comment: Acted in Latin King's Scholars.

9392
23 May 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit King, the Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Dance: Serious and Comic Dancing-

9393
30 August 1718 @ Richmond

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. N.B. The Tickets deliver'd to Subscribers will be taken at this Play, or on Monday Night, which is the last time of Acting till after Southwark Fair. Original Weekly Journal, 30 Aug.: The King hath order'd the Comedians gf the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane to perform at Hampton-Court, during his Majesty's stay there, for which Service they are to be allow'd 100l. extraordinary each Night they Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Related Works
Related Work: Oroonoko Author(s): Thomas Southerne
Related Work: The Royal Slave Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Dance: As17180802

Entertainment: The diverting Entertainment of the Dancing Dogs, newly arriv'd from France, who had been shewn at Court with much success

9394
15 November 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: According to Cibber, Apology (II, 218-89), the warrant (dated 15 Nov.) for the performances at Hampton Court shows expenses incurred by the actors of #374 1s. 8d. The King made the dl company a present of an additional #200

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or, Perseus And Andromeda

Related Works
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda; or, The Spaniard Outwitted Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: Perseus and Andromeda Author(s): Lewis Theobald
Related Work: The Medley; or, Harlequin At-All Author(s): Lewis Theobald

9395
03 December 1718 @ Long Room

Event Comment: The Long Room in the Haymarket is next to the King's Theater and was formerly Boman's Chocolate Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: A new Concerto grosso-; a new Cantata-; violin solo-; a new concerto for Little Flute-; solo for Hautboys-; Cantata Flute solo-; piece with two harpsichords-; concerto-; solo for German Flute-; solo for Harp-; cantata-

9396
12 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. For the Entertainment of the Princesses. [The King, the Three Young Princesses, and a great Number of Nobility and Gentry also there.] Pit and Boxes 5s. Stage Boxes 7s. 6d. Gallery 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Esprit Follet

Afterpiece Title: Le Divorce

Entertainment: Dancing and Tumbling-; particularly Dancing-Mr Glover being the first Time of his Performance in publick since his return from the Court of Paris; Salle, Mlle Salle

9397
21 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. By Command. Boxes and Pit at half a guinea. Gallery 2s. 6d. At 7 p.m. The King present

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

9398
24 February 1719 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With the Addition of a new Scene. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Balourd

Entertainment: Several particular new ones-

9399
30 March 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Santlow. By His Majesty's Command. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Farce

9400
22 April 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Johnson. By His Majesty's Command. Tickets for The Scornful Lady taken. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Dance: As17190421