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6621 results for: Keyword - Mr Theobald
We found 4239 matches on Event Comments, 1143 matches on Performance Comments, 1066 matches on Author, 530 matches on Performance Title, and 1 matches on Roles/Actors.

1951
28 February 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: tis Well If It Takes

Performance Comment: Edition of 1719 lists: Loveless-Leigh; Oldish-Bullock Sr; Charles-Ryan; Prate-Spiller; Careful-Quin; Easy-Pack; Boy-Billy Bullock; Corinna-Mrs Bullock; Alicia-Mrs Moreau; Wishit-Mrs Knight; Isabella-Miss Willis; Beatrice-Mrs Spiller; Lucy-Mrs Giffard; Betty-Mrs Robertson; Prologue-Ryan; Epilogue-C. Bullock in the character of Harlequin ; Song written by Theobald and set to music by Babel-Pack in III.

1952
21 November 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Original Weekly Journal, 21 Nov., announces forthcoming plays: On 26 Nov. Leigh's The Pretenders and on 10 Dec. Theobald's Richard II, Alter'd and Improv'd from Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Womans A Riddle

Dance:

1953
10 April 1739 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Towards the Raising a Fund for the Erecting a Monument to the Memory of Shakespear. Written by Shakespear. London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 11 April: On which Occasion 'twas expected there would have been a greater Audience than there appear'd to be. But the Lord Burlington was pleased, out of his Regard to the Memory of so great a Man, to give Ten Guineas for himself. [The Prologue, written by Theobald and spoken by Ryan, is in London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 12 April.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet Prince Of Denmark

1954
15 May 1741 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George, and the Lady Augusta. Benefit the last Editor of Shakespear. Written Originally by Shakespear. Revised and adapted to the Stage by Mrs Theobald, with the last new Prologue and the Original Epilogue. Receipts: #100. Rylands MS.: Prince up, but did not come

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood

Opera: End II and IV: of the Play will be performed an Interlude in two Comick Scenes in Musick. betwixt Signor Capoccio, a Director from the Canary Islands, and Signora Dorinna, a Virtuosa; Capoccio-Waltz; Dorinna-Miss Hillier

Dance: I: Muzette, Tambourine-Mechell, Mlle Mechell; III: Les Niaise-Mechell, Mlle Mechell

1955
11 May 1770 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bradshaw and Mrs Dorman. Mainpiece: Acted but once these forty years. Written by Shakespeare and Revis'd by Theobald

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Falsehood

Related Works
Related Work: Double Falsehood; or, The Distrest Lovers Author(s): Lewis Theobald

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: III: Comic Dance, as17690926. *uß dl End: By Particular Desire, and for that night only: Three Old Women Weatherwise. Cramp-Hartry; Twitch-Mrs Bradshaw; Rheum-Mrs Dorman

1956
11 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. [Afterpiece in place of The Devil to Pay, announced on playbill of 10 May.] Tickets deliver'd by Daglish, Mrs Pulley and Miss Armstrong will be taken. Public Advertiser, 9 May: Tickets to be had of Farren, No. 60, Theobald's Road. Receipts: #225 18s. (37.3; 11.7; 0.4; tickets: 177.4) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Dance: End III: Minuet and Allemande-Master Daigville, Miss Armstrong; After the singing: The Force of Love, as17801018

Song: As17810504

1957
15 August 1667 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Feignd Innocence Or Sir Martin Marall

1958
12 March 1673 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Lovers

1959
December 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alphonso King Of Naples

1960
February 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Husband His Own Cuckold

1961
February 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Neglected Virtue Or The Unhappy Conquerors

1962
05 September 1696 @ Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1963
07 June 1698 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

1964
February 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure Or Beauty The Best Advocate

1965
10 May 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cato

Afterpiece Title: Trick for Trick

Dance: Amorous Swain, as17350327

1966
14 March 1741 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Parnasso In Festa

1967
06 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Friendship

1968
01 February 1749 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

1969
16 February 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provokd Wife

Afterpiece Title: Don Saverio

1970
22 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Dance: III: Grand Scotch Dance, as17491031

1971
22 January 1756 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

1972
27 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Diversions of the Morning

1973
03 November 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: As17581016

1974
22 September 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

1975
25 October 1762 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Spring

Dance: II: The Irish Lilt, as17621023