Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Whitfield"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Whitfield")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
6287 results for: Keyword - Mr Whitfield
We found 4260 matches on Event Comments, 1885 matches on Performance Comments, 529 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

151
22 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Ward. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by-Fernside, for whose authorship see Kemble Mem., based partly on Love's Cure; or, The Martial Maid, probably by Philip Massinger. Incidental music by Richard Suett]. Public Advertiser, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, under the Great Piazza; of Mrs Ward; No. 6, York-street, Covent-Garden. Morning Herald, 12 June 1793: This day is published The Female Duellist (1s.). Receipts: #469 13s. 6d. (51.4.0; 33.9.0; 8.4.0; tickets: 376.16.6) (charge: #158 17s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's A Trip To Scarborough

Cast
Role: Young Fashion Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Female Duellist

Performance Comment: Characters by Whitfield, Suett, Caulfield, Hollingsworth, Bannister Jun., Bland, Mrs Jordan, Miss Collins, Miss Tidswell. Cast from text (J. Owen, 1793): Claudio-Whitfield; Don Alvarez-Suett; Antonio-Caulfield; Don Zanchio-Hollingsworth; Bombardo-Bannister Jun.; Pedrez-Bland; Clara (disguised as Lucio )-Mrs Jordan; Aurelia-Miss Collins; Jaquenet-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Claudio Actor: Whitfield

Song: End: As on the pleasant banks of Tweed-Master Welsh

152
28 May 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 2nd piece [1st time: M. INT 1, by John Whitfield]. Morning Chronicle, 18 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #442 13s. 6d. (80.6.6; 53.9.0; 12.13.6; tickets: 296.4.6) (charge: #211 11s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17941105, but Faulkland-Whitfield (1st appearance in that character); Coachman-_.
Cast
Role: Faulkland Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: A Masonic Melange

Performance Comment: Consisting of Prose, Verse and Music. The Recitations-Brother Whitfield; the Vocal Parts-Brothers Bannister, Sedgwick, Caulfield, Dignum, Trueman, Cooke.
Cast
Role: The Recitations Actor: Brother Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

153
13 May 1778 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Mrs Pitt. [2nd piece in place of The Ephesian Matron, announced on playbill of 12 May.] Public Advertiser, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 14, Crown-court, Bow-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #144 15s. [51.14; tickets: 93.1) [charge: #74 7s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, The Death Of Alexander The Great

Performance Comment: As17780422, but Roxana-Mrs Whitfield (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Lysimachus Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: True-Blue

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Poney Races, as17780421

Song: As17780511

154
07 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. [In 2nd piece the playbill retains Kemble as Doricourt, and Whitfield as Villers, but "I was ill; Whitfield played my Part" (Kemble Mem.). For Phillimore as Villers see 27 May.] Gazetteer, 7 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Great Queen-street. Receipts: #262 9s. 6d. (108.2.0; 20.11.6; 0.15.0; tickets: 133.1.0) (charge: #116 6s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Easter Pastimes

Afterpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17900322but Doricourt-Whitfield; Villers-Phillimore?.
Cast
Role: 900322but Doricourt Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Cast
Role: Don Carlos Actor: Whitfield

155
12 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. 2nd piece: From Samuel? Foote. Gazetteer, 29 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent-garden. Receipts: #220 5s. 6d. (39.0.0; 18.17.6; 2.16.0; tickets: 159.12.0) (charge: #106 19s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Cast
Role: Don Pedro Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performance Comment: Butler-Bannister Jun.; Squire-Whitfield; Candy-Miss Tidswell; Polly Pattens-Mrs Crouch; with a song-Mrs Crouch.
Cast
Role: Squire Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: As17891209

Song: As17891209

156
11 May 1791 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2] Translated from the French [La Nuit aux Aventures; on, Les Deux Morts Vivants, by Antoine Jean Bourlin, dit Dumaniant] by Mrs Inchbald, the Author of I'll Tell You What, Such Things Are, A Simple Story, &c. [Larpent MS 900; not published. In 1797 altered by J. C. Cross as An Escape into Prison. "In January 1788 Mrs Inchbald was translating an unnamed French play, acted three years later as The Hue and Cry" (James Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald, 1833, I, 255-56). "Mrs Inchbald is now adapting La Nuit aux Aventures, by Dumaniant" (World, 26 Jan. 1788). In the text of Dumaniant's play the dramatis personae is the same as that in the Larpent MS. Author of Prologue unknown.] Morning Chronicle, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Great Piazza, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #263 13s. (68.19.0; 31.7.6; 3.13.6; tickets: 159.13.0) (charge: #116 4s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: The Hue and Cry

Performance Comment: Characters-Whitfield Hollingsworth, Bland, Bannister Jun., Burton, Suett, Phillimore, Williames, Maddocks, Lyons, Alfred, Webb, Miss Collins, Mrs Williames; Larpent MS lists the parts: Count Abeville, Don Lewis, Don Juan, Perroquet, Fabio, Sanchez, Corregidore, Jailor, Grim, Donna Leonora, Inis. Prologue-Bannister Jun.
Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Whitfield Hollingsworth, Bland, Bannister Jun., Burton, Suett, Phillimore, Williames, Maddocks, Lyons, Alfred, Webb, Miss Collins, Mrs Williames

157
14 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Jaffier, but "On Saturday evening Whitfield played the part of Jaffier in the room of Kemble, at four hours notice, and happy it was for Whitfield that an opportunity offered to prove how much his talents have been kept in the shade; his conception of the part was critically without error, his delivery of Otway's language with good emphasis and his pathos extremely natural and interesting" (Diary, 16 Apr.).] Receipts: #296 6s. 6d. (254.14.6; 38.14.0; 2.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Performance Comment: As17920128, but Bedamar-Benson; Jaffier-Whitfield; Spinosa-Caulfield; Mezzano-Lyons.
Cast
Role: Jaffier Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

158
17 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. Mainpiece: In Act V a Masquerade. Morning Herald, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Receipts: #416 13s. (80.1; 34.8; 7.2; tickets: 295.2) (charge: #157 18s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Performance Comment: Doricourt-Whitfield; Hardy-Baddeley; Sir George Touchwood-Wroughton; Flutter-Bannister Jun.; Saville-Barrymore; Villers-Benson; Courtall-R. Palmer; Silvertongue-Banks; Crowquill-Jones; Mountebank-Maddocks; French Servant-Wewitzer; Porter-Alfred; Dick-Hollingsworth; Gibson-Lyons; Letitia Hardy (with a song)-Mrs Jordan; Mrs Racket-Miss Pope; Lady Touchwood-Mrs Kemble; Miss Ogle-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Doricourt Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: Conclude: with a Country Dance-the Characters

159
22 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. Times, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 10, Clifford's Inn. Receipts: #343 6s. 6d. (60.6.0; 3.16.0; tickets: 279.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Performance Comment: Sir Robert Ramble-Lewis; Solus-Waddy; Irwin-Pope; Harmony-Munden; Lord Norland-Murray; Placid-Whitfield; Hammond-Powel; Edward-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Mrs Placid-Mrs Mattocks; Miss Wobourn-Miss Chapman; Miss Spinster-Mrs Davenport; Lady Eleanor Irwin-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Placid Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Hooly and Fairly

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Dance: In 2nd piece: Highland Reel, as17980428

Song: End III 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

160
11 May 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield and Miss Ambrose. Receipts: #192 17s. (69.10; tickets: 123.7) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Performance Comment: As17801010, but Sylvia-Mrs Whitfield.
Cast
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Whitfield.
Role: Clerimont Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

161
26 October 1781 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Duplicity [announced on playbill of 25 Oct.] is again obliged to be postponed on account of Henderson's Illness. [Afterpiece in place of Comus, announced on playbill of 25 Oct. In mainpicce the playbill retains Mrs Mattocks as Mrs Racket and Miss Younge as Letitia, but "Miss Younge having yesterday lost a near Relation could not play her part in the Belle's Stratagem, in consequence of which an apology was made for her Absence ... To remedy the inconvenience Mrs Mattocks last night played the character of Miss Hardy, and Mrs Whitfield that of Widow Racket" (Morning Chronicle, 27 Oct.).] Receipts: #100 6s. (97/1/6; 3/4/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Performance Comment: As17810919, but Mrs Racket-Mrs Whitfield; Letitia-Mrs Mattocks .
Cast
Role: Mrs Racket Actor: Mrs Whitfield
Role: Villers Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Golden Pippin

Dance: As17811024

162
26 September 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Lady Sneerwell to Miss Sherry, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Whitfield. Miss Sherry was ill; she died early in October.] "Sheridan has also despised the faults of another school, trap claps. Not a word in The School for Scandal is to be found in praise of Laws, Jack Tars, Innocence, an Englishman's castellum, or Liberty" (Reynolds, II, 227). Receipts: #193 13s. 6d. (155/11/0; 37/12/6; 0/10/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Performance Comment: Sir Peter Teazle-King; Sir Oliver Surface-Aickin; Joseph Surface-Palmer; Sir Benjamin Backbite-Dodd; Crabtree-Parsons; Rowley-Packer; Moses-Baddeley; Snake-Wrighten; Careless-Farren; Trip-Lamash; Charles-Smith; Mrs Candour-Miss Pope; Maria-Mrs Brereton; Lady Sneerwell-Mrs Whitfield [of CG]; Lady Teazle-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Lady Sneerwell Actor: Mrs Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Dance: As17820921

Song: In Act III of mainpiece song by Williames. [This was sung, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances, except on 10 Dec]

163
22 September 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Sir Harry's Servant to Dodd, but "King [asked that] Dodd, on account of illness, be released from his part in the farce. Whitfield was in consequence Sir Harry " (World, 24 Sept.).] Receipts: #185 12s. (133.18.0; 50.6.6; 1.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Lovel-Bannister Jun.; Duke's Servant-R. Palmer; Sir Harry's Servant-Whitfield; Philip-Baddeley; Freeman-Fawcett; Coachman-Alfred; Kingston-Lyons; Kitty-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry's Servant Actor: Whitfield

Dance: In afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-R. Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

164
02 April 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. A new and accurate edition of Isabella to be had at the Theatre. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Biron, but he being ill on Thursday night, an apology was made for Whitfield's assumption of Biron, on the ground of his having studied the character on two hour's notice" (Diary, 6 Apr.) Public Advertiser, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields. Receipts: #274 6s. 6d. (117.4.0; 15.5.6; 3.1.0; tickets: 138.16.0) (charge: #123 13s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Performance Comment: As17881028, but Biron-Whitfield; Villeroy-Wroughton.
Cast
Role: Biron Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: Sir George Wealthy Actor: Whitfield

Song: As17881028, but Vocal Parts-Mrs _Forster, Dignum

165
06 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Valentine, but "he could not play--Whitfield was Valentine" (World, 7 Nov.).] Receipts: #112 16s. 6d. (77.12.0; 32.7.0; 2.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17891003, but Valentine-Whitfield; Buckram-_; Snap-_; Nurse-_; Jenny-_.
Cast
Role: Valentine Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Dance: As17891026

166
02 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Goodall as the Queen, but she "being indisposed, Mrs Whitfield performed, or rather attempted the Queen" (Thespian Magazine, Aug. 1792, p. 53).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Performance Comment: As17920629 but Queen-Mrs Whitfield.
Cast
Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Whitfield.
Role: Nanny Actor: Mrs Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: Young Men, and Old Women

167
25 April 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett and Barrymore. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Valentine to Barrymore and Scandal to Bensley, but "previous to the play an apology was made for the appearance of Whitfield in Valentine, as Barrymore had undertaken Scandal, in consequence of Bensley's being afflicted with a violent hoarseness" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, p. 2).] Morning Herald, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 21, King-street, Bloomsbury; of Barrymore, No. 11, Bedford-street, Bedford-row. Receipts: #447 10s. (95.19; 43.16; 6.1; tickets: 301.14). (charge: #159 0s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Love For Love

Performance Comment: Sir Sampson Legend-Moody; Valentine-Whitfield; Scandal-Barrymore; Tattle-Dodd; Ben-Bannister Jun.; Foresight-Suett; Jeremy-Benson; Trapland-Waldron; Buckram-Maddocks; Snap-Fawcett; Angelica-Miss Farren; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Ward; Mrs Frail-Miss Pope; Miss Prue-Mrs Jordan.
Cast
Role: Valentine Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

168
09 May 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Goodall and Mrs Bland. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Kemble as Beverley , but "Kemble being ill, Whitfield played Beverley" (Thespian Magazine, June 1793, P. 3).] Morning Herald, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Goodall, No. 13, Russel-street, Covent-Garden; of Mrs Bland, No. 12, St. Albans-street, Pall-Mall. Receipts: #432 4s. (74.19.0; 40.1.6; 7.8.0; tickets: 309.15.6) (charge: #169 10s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: As17930422, but Sir John Restless-Wroughton; Beverley-Whitfield; Sir William Belmont-Phillimore.
Cast
Role: Beverley Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

169
10 November 1794 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains R. Palmer as Pacha, and in afterpiece Palmer as Baron Lovinski, but "R. Palmer being Ill, Benson play'd the Pacha. Palmer continuing Ill, Whitfield play'd the Baron Lovinski' (Powell).] Powell: Roman Father rehearsed at 10; Nobody at 12. Receipts: #352 15s. (279.17.6; 70.15.6; 2.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performance Comment: As17941022, but Baron Lovinski-Whitfield; Adolphus-_; Gustavus-_; Kajah-_; Tamuri-_; Camazin-_; The Horde-_Evans, _Roffey, G. _D'Egville, _Butler, _Whitmell, _Nicolini, _Keys.
Cast
Role: Baron Lovinski Actor: Whitfield

170
23 November 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Horatio to Kemble, but "The publick is respectfully informed that on account of the sudden indisposition of Kemble the part of Horatio will be performed by Whitfield" (printed slip attached to Kemble playbill).] Receipts: #238 5s. (156.12; 78.9; 3.4)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Sciolto-Aickin; Altamont-Barrymore; Horatio-Whitfield; Lothario-Palmer; Rossano-Caulfield; Servants-Phillimore, Maddocks, Webb; Calista-Mrs Siddons; Lavinia-Mrs Powell; Lucilla-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961112

171
19 September 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Honest Thieves, advertised on playbill of 17 Sept.] "The shameful neglect of Whitfield in the etiquette of dress in the character of Hastings must not pass unnoticed. He came on arranged in every point for the drawing-room, although he is supposed to be on his journey, and is informed by his companion Young Marlow that they must change their travelling dresses...An audience must naturally look to the Manager for due observance of stage decorum...and we trust that on future occasions the actor will not be allowed to sport with propriety by any fantastical display of his own, which is in direct oppostion to the character he ought to represent, and to the text with which he must be acquainted" (Times, 20 Sept.). Receipts: #197 1s. 6d. (186.0.6; 11.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Performance Comment: Hardcastle-Munden; Young Marlow-Mansel (from the Theatre Royal Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage); Hastings-Whitfield; Sir Charles Marlow-Powel; Diggory-Simmons; Slang-Rees; Landlord-Thompson; Jeremy-Farley; Roger-Abbot; Tony Lumpkin-Knight (1st appearance in that character); Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Davenport; Miss Neville-Miss Mansel; Maid-Miss Leserve; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Gibbs.
Cast
Role: Hastings Actor: Whitfield

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

172
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

173
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto; Or, The Chaste Nimph

Afterpiece Title: Calisto's Additional performers

174
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

175
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus