Event Comment: Mainpiece: Originally Acted before King James the First with great Applause at the University of Cambridge. [Layfield performs] at the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Author unknown. Apparently not printed.] A New Farce of Two Acts. Receipts: #48

Event Comment: At Mr Pinkethman's New Theatre at Richmond. The First Time of Acting. At 6 p.m

Event Comment: Mainpiece: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Benefit the Author. With the Addition of some new Scenes (never acted before)

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing, compos'd by Mr Thurmond (after the Manner of the Pantomimes)

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. With a new Additional Scene of the Madness of Cobham. Receipts: money #18 11s. 6d.; tickets #44 18s

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 18 Nov.: We hear the new Entertainment of Perseus and Andromeda...from the Excellency of the Contrivance, and the Grandeur of the Scenery, meets with universal Applause

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Ballad Opera of one Act. [By Thomas Gataker,]

Event Comment: A New Opera. [Text from Metastasio. Music by Handel.] Edition of 1731: Done into English by Mr Humphreys

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: With Alterations and a new Prologue after the Italian Manner. Admission 5s., 3s., 2s., 1s

Event Comment: Benefit Hippisley. At the Particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: a new Comic Scene. Receipts: money #43 13s. 6d.; tickets #103

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham. With New Habits

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Talbot and Mrs Martin. Daily Advertiser, 22 Feb.: A Publick Rehearsal of the Opera of Dione [Wednesday 21], at the New Theatre in the Haymarket. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. 6 p.m

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Comic Interlude. [Music by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini. Prince and Princess of Wales present.

Event Comment: By Desire. Receipts: #133 12s. 6d. (Account Book); #160 (Rylands MS.). London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 23 March: On Saturday Night last, in the Entertainment of Orpheus and Eurydice, the Audience were aggreably surpriz'd with the Representation of a new Machine, in Imitation of the Travelling Chaise without Horses, the Performance of which was so extraordinary, and gave such a general Satisfaction, that the Spectators would not be contented 'till they saw it a second Time pass round the Stage

Event Comment: With Cloaths and Decorations entirely new. Receipts: #107

Event Comment: BY Command of their Royal Highnesses the Duke, and the Princesses Amelia, Caroline, and Louisa. New Habits and decorations for the dances

Event Comment: We hear the New Historical Play, call'd King Henry the Seventh, or the Popish Imposter, now in rehearsal at Drury Lane will be acted on Saturday next

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

Event Comment: Benefit Dance and Nicholson. Tom's Coffee House, Cornhill, Wednesday four o'Clock. Mr Bayes: By the unanimous Desire of a number of your Friends here assenbled, who intend to sit in judgment upon you on Friday, I take upon me to advise you in some Particulars, as to your present Undertaking. Let not any Success you might meet with at one End of the Town where the Audience must be composed of a different Class of People from what you may expect at Covent Garden, tempt you to think of mimicking an Actress whom the Town doats upon; and particularly avoid Puffing; a Scheme long ago worn threadbare, but lately quite demolish'd by an enterprizing Genius. Not even an Epilogue from the Gods would be of any Service now; and therefore if you have anything that's new, any fiery Flights of Fancy, and all that, let them lie dormant till the Time of Action, and then endeavour to elevate and surprize. Value these Hints.--Daily Advertiser

Event Comment: At the New Theatre. 7 p.m. Boxes 2s. Pit 1s. Gallery 6d

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A Farce in 2 Acts [by Garrick] never perform'd there before. The characters new Dress'd. [For comment on this piece, see Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects, printed by Dodsley, 1761, I, pp. 194 ff.: "The Pretty Gentlemen; or Softness of Manners Vindicated from the False ridicule under the Character of William Fribble, First printed in the year 1747."] Receipts: #140 (Cross); #149 (Powel)

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, at Mr Bradley's, Distiller, in Old Gravel Lane, Wapping. A Concert, etc. Prices: 2s., 1s. To begin at 6:30 p.m