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14971 results for: Keyword - John Day
We found 11034 matches on Author, 3059 matches on Event Comments, 1992 matches on Performance Comments, 823 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

276
13 April 1710 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Betterton. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. To which will be added Three Designsv, Representing the Three Principal Actions of the Play, in Imitation of so many great Pieces of History Painting, where all the real Persons concern'd in those Actions will be plac'd at proper distances, in different Postures peculiar to the Passion of each Character. In his Apology (I, 117-18) Cibber said that Betterton...when being suddenly seiz'd by the Gout,...submitted, by extraordinary Applications, to have his Foot so far reliev'd that he might be able to walk on the Stage in a Slipper, rather than wholly disappoint his Audience. He was observ'd that Day to have exerted a more than ordinary Spirit, and met with suitable Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

Related Works
Related Work: The Maid's Tragedy Author(s): John Fletcher
Related Work: The Maid of Honour Author(s): John Philip Kemble

277
05 August 1712 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In Daily Courant and Spectator, 2 Aug., The Guardian had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feign'd Innocence

Related Works
Related Work: Feign'd Innocence; or, Sir Martin Marall Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Song: A Dialogue between a drunken Rake and a Town Miss-Pack, Rainton

Dance: The last new Morrice Dance-Prince, others

278
12 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for The Adventures of Five Hours taken this day. Receipts: #72 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Related Works
Related Work: The Island Princess Author(s): John Fletcher

Music: As17150125

Dance: delaGarde, duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Mrs Bullock

279
30 November 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear, and since revis'd with several Alterations. A new comedy, The Artful Wife, announced for this day, is deferred to 3 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Related Works
Related Work: The Jealous Doctor, or, The Intriguing Dame Author(s): John Rich

Song: Ray

Dance: As17171022

280
15 January 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Longville. Tickets delivered for The Twin Rivals taken this day. Receipts: money #35 6s.; tickets #28 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Related Works
Related Work: The Pilgrim Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Executed Author(s): John Rich

Dance: Dupre, Moreau, Thurmond Jr, Cook, Newhouse, Pelling, Cook Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mlle Gautier, Miss Smith

281
14 February 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Dupre. Receipts: #43. Scipio Africanus, announced for this day, is deferred to 15 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Related Works
Related Work: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine Author(s): John Rich

282
09 May 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Ray and Mrs Moore. On this day a warrant for establishing an Academy of Music was issued. See Lord Chamberlain's Office, 7@3 and 5@157, p. 228

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Related Works
Related Work: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Author(s): John Fletcher

Song: Ray

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Santlow, Wade, Mrs Bicknell, Topham, Miss Tenoe, Miss Lindar

Music: A new Piece for the Ecchoe Flute-Paisible

283
07 January 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is to be had this Day at the Theatre. Afterpiece: With all the Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and other Decorations. Receipts: #86 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Second

Afterpiece Title: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine

Related Works
Related Work: Amadis; or, The Loves of Harlequin and Colombine Author(s): John Rich

284
06 October 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Request of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Addison. Receipts: #30 14s. 6d. [In Daily Courant, 5 Oct., The Orphan had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer; Or, The Haunted House

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers

Related Works
Related Work: The Cheats; or, The Tavern Bilkers Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: The Cheats Author(s): John Wilson

285
28 January 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Fryar, who has played but once since the days of King Charles, and taught three Queens to Dance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Half Pay Officers

Afterpiece Title: Hob's Wedding

Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Leigh
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley

Dance: The Bashful Country Maid, Irish Trot-Peggy Fryar

286
15 April 1723 @ Moorfields

Event Comment: At a Booth on Windmill Hill. London Journal, 20 April: On Monday Night last one Mr Redshaw, one of the Actors belonging to the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields, being to be kill'd in Jest in the Play of Darius on Windmill Hill, was kill'd in Earnest, for he was accidentally run into the Eye, of which Wound he died the Day following. [In British Journal, 20 April, the name is Redstraw; in Freeholder's Journal, 20 April, it is Rackstraw.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Darius, King Of Persia

Related Works
Related Work: Darius, King of Persia Author(s): John Crowne

287
21 January 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #130 18s. Daily Post, 22 Jan.. Last Night...the Prince of Wales went...to see the New Entertainment of Apollo and Daphne, which has been acted several Days with great Applause; the Contrivance of the Whole being very ingenious, and the Scenery and Decorations as splendid as any Thing that has yet appeared of that Kind

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Fortune Teller

Related Works
Related Work: The Female Fortune Teller Author(s): Charles Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Related Works
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne Author(s): John Hughes
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin Mercury Author(s): John Thurmond
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Apollo and Daphne; or, Harlequin's Metamorphosis Author(s): John Thurmond

288
23 March 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: In Daily Post, 22 March, Albion Queens had oeen advertised for this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Thurmond

289
20 August 1728 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Song: As17280722

290
15 April 1729 @ Upper Moorfields

Event Comment: At Yeates' Booth. At 6 p.m. each day this week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

291
02 May 1729 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #31 9s. 6d. In Daily Courant and Daily Journal The Jew of Venice had been advertised for this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Related Works
Related Work: Hob's Opera Author(s): John Hippisley
Related Work: Sequel to the Opera of Flora; or, Hob's Wedding Author(s): John Hippisley

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

292
06 November 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of His Royal Highness. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. [Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Ashburnham and Colonel Townshend, attended. In Daily Post, 5 Nov., The Conscious Lovers had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Thurmond

293
10 December 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Afterpiece: A New Entertainment. [In Daily Post, 9 Dec., The Fair Penitent had been announced for this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Related Works
Related Work: Wit Without Money Author(s): John Fletcher

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Distresses of Pierot

Afterpiece Title: With the Scene of Apollo and Daphne

294
25 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Majesties' Command. Pit and Front Boxes put together at 5s. [For an account of this performance, see Lord Hervey and his Friends, pp. 156-57. Mrs Theophilus Cibber died on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Related Works
Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks

Dance: Essex, Haughton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

295
31 January 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: As it was perform'd last Week before their Majesties and all the Royal Family for the Benefit of Mrs Porter. The Judgment of Paris, which was intended to be perform'd this Night, is deferr'd for a few Days, upon Account of some Alterations in the Machinery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite; Or, The Earl Of Essex

Related Works
Related Work: The Unhappy Favourite; or, The Earl of Essex Author(s): John Banks

Afterpiece Title: The Boarding School Romps

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Walter, Miss Robinson

296
10 May 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Boman and Rogers. [Barton Booth died on this day.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

297
04 April 1734 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Afterpiece: From L'Amour Medicin of Moliere. A new Comedy in one Act. [Apparently not published. Author unknown.] Author's tickets for DL, 2 April, taken this day at LIF

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Related Works
Related Work: The Beggar's Opera Author(s): John Gay

Afterpiece Title: Love Is the Doctor

298
23 April 1734 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Tickets for Mrs Wignell, Mrs Vincent, Miss Baston [Miss Bincks, Daily Journal] taken this day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Squire Of Alsatia

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Related Works
Related Work: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): John Rich

299
29 April 1734 @ James Street

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 29 April: [See 22 April] They are this Evening to Act the Fatal Extravagance, and the Devil to Pay, as may be seen by their Bills, which I observe they have printed on blue Paper, on purpose to be more conspicuous. I am well assur'd if the curious Part of the Town were once to see them perform, they would need no other Invitation to frequent their House, but to be advertis'd of the Plays, and Days, on which they were to Act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

300
05 January 1736 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: The Fifteenth Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Cast
Role: King Arthur Actor: Johnson
Related Works
Related Work: King Arthur; or, The British Worthy Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: Arthur and Emmeline Author(s): John Philip Kemble