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12712 results for: Keyword - Mr Penkethman's New Theatre in Greenwich
We found 8123 matches on Event Comments, 3410 matches on Performance Comments, 3175 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

8051
24 June 1730 @ Richmond

Event Comment: By a Company of Comedians From the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Dance: The Celebrated Dance in Momus, to the Black Joke Tune,-Nivelon

8052
20 October 1730 @ Richmond

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 26 Oct.: On Tuesday last...the Prince of Wales and the Princess Caroline, were at the Theatre in Richmond, to see the Busy Body

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

8053
27 November 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Desire. By a Company of Comedians from all the other Theatres. In which the Character of John Moody will be preserved (by Desire)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Song:

Dance:

8054
17 December 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: The Books of the Opera will be sold at the Theatre, and no where else

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Clown

8055
14 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 14 June: The Managers of...Drury-Lane, have Orders to get Things in Readiness for the Royal Theatre at Hampton-Court, where Plays are to be acted for the Diversion of the Royal Family

Performances

8056
07 March 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit a Gentleman, late of Eaton School. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #65 6s.; tickets #88 16s. Daily Advertiser, 6 March: To-morrow...for the Benefit of a Gentleman late of Eaton School...and the Company of his School Fellows will be very acceptable to meet at the Bedford Arms Tavern...in order to proceed to the said Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance: HHornpipe-Jones

8057
12 October 1732 @ Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Persons from the Theatres but the principal Part to be perform'd by Charles the Merry Trumpeter, that is to take the Money.

Dance: HHarlequin and a Countryman-; Countryman-Charles

8058
27 November 1732 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Being the last Night of the Subscription and performing the Opera Britannia and the Transparent Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Britannia

8059
29 November 1732 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of the Antient and Honourable Society of Free Masons. N.B. The Brethren are desir'd to meet at two a-Clock at Brother Huddy's at the Theatre Tavern, there to Dine, and proceed afterwards in order to the Play. [The Epilogue is in Grub St. Journal, 7 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Dance: FFriendly Lasses-Miss Wherrit, Miss Sandham; Hornpipe, as17321125

8060
07 December 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 6 Dec. The songs in the Ballad Opera are printed and given gratis at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Betty

Dance: LLes Bergeries, as17321019

8061
05 March 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal. Benefit Mills. Daily Post, 5 March: Colley Cibber...is so ill of a Cold he is not able to Act. Daily Advertiser, 7 March: On Monday Night last a great Disorder happen'd amongst the Footmen at [dl], occasion'd by one of the Orange Women, who meeting with some Affront, as she was passing from the Theatre to the Coffeehouse, drew out her Penknife, and stabb'd a Chairman and two Gentlemen's Servants therewith, before it could be wrench'd from her, and then took Sanctuary in the Coffee-house; but the same was immediately beset, and the People refusing either to produce the Woman, or acquaint the Footmen who she was, they forc'd themselves into the Room, broke all the Glasses and China

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: Denoyer, Mrs Booth, Essex, Miss Robinson, Haughton, Mrs Walter

8062
27 March 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 28 March: Their Majesties, together with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses were again...to see Deborah...at which was likewise present one of the most numerous Audiences of Nobility and Persons of Distinction that has been ever seen in any Theatre. Egmont, Diary, I, 345: It was very magnificent, near a hundred performers, among whom about twenty-five singers. [See also Lady A. Irwin to Lord Carlisle, in Deutsch, Handel, pp. 309-10.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Deborah

8063
05 April 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: On proposals for the future of Drury Lane, see a letter from Hill to Victor in Victor, History of the Theatres, II, 188-91

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

8064
04 June 1733 @ Chelsea

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 26 May: We hear from Chelsea, that on Monday the 4th of June next, a Company of Comedians from the Theatre in Drury-Lane will open with the Recruiting Officer, and continue playing during the Summer Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

8065
22 June 1733 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 22 June: We hear that Subscriptions are actually in great forwardness for having two different Operas next Winter, one at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, under the Direction of Messrs Handel and Heydegger, and the other to be at one of the Playhouses, under the Management of Directors chosen from among the Subscribers

Performances

8066
07 November 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov.: Last Night there were Bonfires and Illuminations in the City, on account of the Arrival of the Prince of Orange; at [GF] there was a Bonfire also, and Beer for the Populace; the Side of the Theatre was illuminated with a great Number of Candles, and two large Triumphal Arches raised, and likewise illuminated

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Mad Captain

Dance: Masquerade Dance (composed by Thurmond): Le Petit Maitre-D'Vallois; Mlle-Miss Wherrit

8067
28 February 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Note, Mynheer Cajanus is prevail'd upon (at the Request of several Persons of Distinction) to stay a few Days longer in England, and will appear as usual in . .. Cupid and Psyche. [For a discussion of the theatres, see Grub St. Journal, 28 Feb.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Cupid and Psyche

8068
08 March 1734 @ Hickford's Room

Event Comment: Benefit John Richter. 7 P.M. Daily Advertiser, 9 March: Yesterday the Company of Comedians in the Hay-Market took Possession of Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

8069
08 March 1734 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Comment. Daily Advertiser, 9 March: Yesterday the Company of Comedians in the Hay-Market took Possession of Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

8070
20 May 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 20 May: A mad Company of Comedians having lately taken the Hay-market Theatre, propose to convert it into a Mad-house, and humbly hope the Town will be as mad as themselves, and come frequently to see their mad Performances. which will be madly exhibited, two or three Times a Week, during the Summer Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title:

8071
03 June 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By particular Desire. By a Company of Comedians from both the Theatres. Afterpiece: a Farce of one Act [adapter not known]. All the Characters in the Opera to be play'd in Roman Dresses. 6:30 P.M. Admission: 4s., 2s. 6d., 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera, Tragedized

Afterpiece Title: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol

8072
27 June 1734 @ Hampstead

Event Comment: Daily Journal, 27 June: We hear that a Company of Comedians from the Theatre Royal intend to entertain the Gentlemen and Ladies at Hampstead, during the Summer Season. . . . This present Thursday, by the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies, will be performed The Beggar's Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

8073
04 November 1734 @ Great Room at the Ship Tavern

Event Comment: By a Company of Comedians from the Theatres in London. At the Great Room at the Ship Tavern. Stage 2s. 6d. Pit 2s. First Gallery 1s. Second 6d. 6 P.M

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Dance:

8074
18 December 1734 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arlequin Et Sa Troupe Comediens Esclaves; Or, Harlequin And His Company Of Comedians Slaves

Performance Comment: Compos'd of three Different Plays, representing an Idiom of the French Stage, in General, beginning with a Prologue: The First Piece call'd Arcacambis, a Tragedy. The Second L'Ecole des Maris, a Comedy in Three Acts, written by Moliere. The Third Harlequin Always Harlequin, of the Italian Theatre. Cast not listed .

Dance:

8075
13 January 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted before. [By George Lillo.] Prompter, 18 Feb.: And, indeed, the Pulpit seems the properest Theatre for such Representations, and the Clergy, the properest Actors in the Religious Drama. This then, of itself, sufficiently justified the Town in its Reception of this Piece

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Christian Hero