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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Frank Roberts"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Frank Roberts")') 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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7552 results for: Keyword - Mr Frank Roberts
We found 4459 matches on Event Comments, 2258 matches on Performance Comments, 942 matches on Author, 619 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3426
27 August 1675 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Psyche Debauched

3427
02 June 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Virtuoso

3428
14 February 1677 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antony And Cleopatra

3429
27 August 1677 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

3430
30 August 1677 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

3431
01 September 1679 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

3432
03 September 1679 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

3433
29 October 1679 @ The City, London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: London In Luster

3434
31 August 1680 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

3435
01 November 1680 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

3436
10 October 1685 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3437
16 February 1686 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: An Evening's Love; Or, The Mock Astrologer

3438
30 April 1693 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Event Comment: This celebration of the Queen's Birthday presumably was given on 30 April, her birthday. The music in the Royal Society of Music gives the singers as Mrs Ayliff, The Boy, Turner, Snow, Edwards, Howell, Bowman, Damascene, Bouchier, Williams, Woodeson, Roberts. See Purcell's Works, Purcell Society, XXIV (1926), ii

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

3439
03 September 1697 @ no theater listed

Performances

3440
13 December 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: About 5 my Coz: Roberts & I went to ye Playhouse in Covent Garden, but not liking ye play, wee went to that in Lincolns inn fields, & staid till 'twas done. I saw Ld Normanby, Ld Willouby, Sir Rich. Samford &c. here (Huntington MS St 26)

Performances

3441
29 January 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: James Brydges, Diary: I went & din'd at ye fountain, after wch I went to ye Playhouse in Lincolns Inn fields, & saw my Cozen Hussys & Coz. Roberts there. I staid an act (Huntington MS St 26)

Performances

3442
28 May 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Wright, and Nailer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Music: Concerto on Little Flute-Baston

Dance:

3443
01 April 1726 @ Hickford's Room

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-the best Masters

3444
12 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Dance: End II: Lads and Lasses-; III: Dutch Skipper-Sandham; IV: Shepherd's Holiday-Burny, Sandham, Eaton, Mrs Haughton, Mrs Mountfort, Miss Sandham

Song: End I: Miss Thornowets; IV: Miss Thornowets

3445
07 May 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Roberts, Boxkeeper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: Sandham

Music: II: Welch Harp-a Gentleman for his Diversion; IV: Solo-Ravenscroft

3446
28 January 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit John Roberts, now Confin'd in the Fleet Prison. Mainpiece: Written by the late Sir John Vanbrugh

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance:

3447
04 March 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Performance Comment: As17311025, but Falstaff-Gentleman who perform'd it in Harry the Fourth; Rugby-Williams; Sir Hugh-Norris; Mrs Ford-Mrs Giffard? (Daily Advertiser) or Mrs Roberts (Daily Post).

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: LLes Amants-Burney, Mrs Wherrit

3448
08 May 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Berry, Roberts, Miss Brett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wedding

Song:

Dance:

3449
27 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

3450
03 December 1733 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Music: Second and Third Musick, as17331201 I as IV on 1 Dec

Dance: I: La Bagatelle by Essex and Miss Latour. III: Les Polichinelles by Janno and F. Tench. V: Watteau by Miss Robinson

Song: II: A Thousand Fairy Scenes (from Rosamond) by Master Arne. IV: An Air in Porus by Roberts

Performance Comment: IV: An Air in Porus by Roberts .