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6617 results for: Keyword - Genest's News Clippings
We found 3201 matches on Event Comments, 2672 matches on Performance Title, 1553 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

2901
11 April 1743 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17430217, but Prue-Miss Hippisley, from the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden; Snap-Freeman; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bambridge; Nurse-Mrs Haughton; Jeremy-Miss Royer; Epilogue [kindly sent to his [Milward's] Widow the Night before by the Gentleman who wrote The Man of Taste [James Miller]-Cibber. (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.)

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

2902
23 February 1744 @ Inner Temple

Event Comment: At the Temple Punch House, by Inner Temple Gate Tony Aston exhibits a dialogue between Abigail and Vellum, Dorinda and Scrub, Hob and Mary...Prologue, Epilogue, and Pasquin.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

Performances

2903
20 April 1744 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Miss Talbot [Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: TThe Rapture-; and a favorite song out of Solomon called Tell me Gentle Shepherd Where-Miss Talbot

2904
18 August 1746 @ Southwark

Event Comment: Benefit Phillips, former Harlequin to the Old House, now a Prisoner. [Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library. Performance not named, but bill says This Day.

Performances

2905
09 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Prince and Princess of Wales. A Free Benefit for Quin. Receipts: #88 13s., plus #136 15s. from tickets. [Garrick had written Quin he was too ill to play in the mainpiece but would act in his farce. Notice of 23 March about Amphitheatre repeated.] Tickets deliver'd out for 9 March will be taken. To prevent mistakes none will be admitted into the Boxes but by tickets deliver'd by Quin, and at the Office in the Box Lobby.--General Advertiser. If any Gentlemen or Ladies shall be displeased with the alteration in the Performance of the Play [i.e., Garrick's absence] the money shall be return'd.--Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: As17461231

2906
20 April 1747 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Woodward. [Receipts: #81 3s. 6d., plus #59 9s. from tickets. Charges #63.] Paid Servandoni #10 10s. Paid Price a bill for carpenter's work at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre last week #2 19s. 9d. Tickets to be had of Woodward at his lodgings in King St. (near the Churchyard Gate) Covent Garden; at the Bedford Coffee House; at the Salutation Tavern in Nicholas Lane; and of Page at the stage door. Tomorrow The Distress'd Mother and Miss in her Teens, the part of Fribble by Garrick.--General Advertiser. Daily Advertiser: By Particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. [On 13 April Woodward published a letter of thanks to the former schoolfellow who sent him this speech, promised to present it, and assured him that no copy would be made. See Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

Entertainment: Between Play and Afterpiece: An Alarm to Britons-the Spirit of King Henry V (After the manner of Shakespeare's Chorus) usher'd in with Trumpets, Kettle Drums and other Warlike Instruments

2907
11 February 1748 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benfit for a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Observing in yesterday's General Advertiser some Verses to the Lady Georgina Spencer, and other Ladies, intending a Benefit that is to be Tomorrow on her Interest, in favour of a Gentleman who has wrote for the Stage.--Unidentified newspaper clipping in Folger scrapbook

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

2908
30 March 1748 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Cushing; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Cook; Cherry-Miss Rawlinson who never appeared on any Stage before; rest of the parts-Gentlemen from the theatres (Theatrical Clippings Folger Library).

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

2909
12 September 1748 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Lee, Yeates Sen & Jun and Warner's Booth, Southwark. Mrs Bracegridle died, at her House in Howard St. (Theatrical Clippings, Folger Library.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unnatural Parents Or The Fair Maid Of The West

2910
26 March 1757 @ Drury Lane Theatre

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

2911
04 October 1782 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Walloons

Afterpiece Title: The Wishes

2912
25 July 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second Or The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

2913
26 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: End: a Dance-

2914
07 December 1702 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: None

Performance Comment: [Friendship Improved is listed by Genest, II, 263; but the only notice in the newspapers is an announcement of the publication of the play.]

2915
27 January 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks Or The Yeoman Of Kent

2916
05 June 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Theodosius Or The Force Of Love

Music: The best Masters

Dance: As17030601

2917
01 November 1703 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marry Or Do Worse

2918
06 March 1704 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Albion Queens Or The Death Of Mary Queen Of Scotland

2919
18 May 1704 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music , to be expressed in the large Bills-

2920
31 July 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Playhouse To Be Let With Sganarella The Blacksmith Of Paris

Afterpiece Title: Mock Pompey

Song:

Dance:

2921
30 October 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

2922
28 April 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

2923
25 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

2924
24 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mackbeth

2925
27 November 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love