The London Stage Database team will be retiring the Legacy Search on May 1, 2025. Please take a moment before that date to reproduce any pre-2021 searches and export any resulting datasets you may wish to preserve for future use. We are making this change in order to free up computational resources for new features and data, currently in development with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Watch this space for more updates and, coming soon, new ways to keep up with the latest project developments!
Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr William Smith"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr William Smith")') 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
17426 results for: Keyword - Mr William Smith
We found 10821 matches on Author, 4811 matches on Event Comments, 4282 matches on Performance Comments, 806 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

14276
10 October 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

14277
23 October 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rose And Colin

Afterpiece Title: The Secret Tribunal

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Holman, Pope, Harley, Middleton, Hull, Macready, Powel, Claremont, Thompson, Williamson, Abbot, Miss Morris, Miss Wallis. Cast from text (T. N. Longman, 1795): Herman-Holman; Ratibor-Pope; Holstein-Harley; Ulric-Middleton; Principal Judge of the Tribunal-Hull; Duke of Wirtemberg-Macready; Badendorff-Powel; Rudolph-Claremont [in text: Williamson]; Minister of Vengeance-Thompson; Ellen Holstein-Miss Morris; Ida-Miss Wallis; Williamson, Abbot [are unassigned. Williamson, Abbot [are unassigned.

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck; or Treachery and Ingratitude

Song: In 3rd piece: a song-Townsend

14278
31 October 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

Afterpiece Title: The Secret Tribunal

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Cast
Role: Officers Actor: Williamson, Rees, Abbot, Wilde, Rayner, King

Dance: In 3rd piece: Dance, as17951026

14279
25 November 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: As17951123

14280
02 December 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

14281
02 January 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

14282
18 May 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Related Works
Related Work: The Opera of Operas; or Tom Thumb the Great Author(s): William Hatchett

Afterpiece Title: The Point at Herqui

Related Works
Related Work: The Point at Herqui; or, British Bravery Triumphant Author(s): William Shield

Dance: In 3rd piece: a new incidental Dance, as17960415

Song: In 3rd piece: songs As17960503; In Evening: Mad Bess (1st time), the Minstrel's Song [Where is that tow'ring spirit fled?] [from The Days of Yore-Mrs Clendining; Harp-Weippert

14283
26 May 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

14284
13 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Katharine And Petruchio

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: MonologueEnd 2nd piece: Monsieur Tonson-Caulfield

14285
11 July 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

14286
04 October 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Ballet: The Triumph of Love. As17961001

14287
11 October 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Related Works
Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Ballet: The Triumph of Love. As17961001

14288
20 December 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: In II: a song-Master Welsh

14289
08 April 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant; Or, A Sick Lady's Cure

Afterpiece Title: Duke and No Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Afterpiece Title: Oscar and Malvina

Related Works
Related Work: Oscar and Malvina; or, The Hall of Fingal Author(s): William Shield

14290
08 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were, And Maids As They Are

Cast
Role: Sir William Dorrillon Actor: Munden
Related Works
Related Work: The Maid of the Mill; or, The Country Revels Author(s): William Rowley
Related Work: The Widow'd Wife Author(s): William Kenrick
Related Work: The Married Un-Married; or, The Widow'd Wife Author(s): William Reeve
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): William Rowley

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

14291
12 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: British Fortitude

Related Works
Related Work: British Fortitude and Hibernian Friendship; or, An Escape from France Author(s): William Reeve

Afterpiece Title: Wives as they Were, and Maids as they Are

Related Works
Related Work: The Maid of the Mill; or, The Country Revels Author(s): William Rowley
Related Work: The Widow'd Wife Author(s): William Kenrick
Related Work: The Married Un-Married; or, The Widow'd Wife Author(s): William Reeve
Related Work: The Maid in the Mill Author(s): William Rowley

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

14292
09 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mask'd Friend

Afterpiece Title: The Folly of Age; or, The Accomplished Lady

Afterpiece Title: Barataria

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Medley

Dance: In 2nd piece: A la Parisot, Le Pas Russe-Delpini

Song: In 2nd piece: La Verginella, My dear Molly@oh! what Folly (composed by Carter)-Delpini

Entertainment: Vaudeville. In 4th piece: The Farm Yard- (from The Rape of Proserpine), with the Birth of Harlequin, and his Emancipation from the Egg Shell; The favorite Scene from Aladin of Pantaloon's Death-, and the Whimsical Lamentation of Pierrot; A Jump through a Hogshead of Fire-; and the celebrated Dying and Skeleton Scenes-

14293
16 June 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Afterpiece Title: Bannian Day

14294
29 June 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

14295
21 September 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

Related Works
Related Work: 3 Henry IV Author(s): William Shakespeare

14296
29 September 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

14297
26 October 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cheap Living

Cast
Role: William Actor: Trueman

Afterpiece Title: The Old Maid

14298
17 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Powel

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Dance: As17971115

14299
14 December 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

14300
03 February 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Related Works
Related Work: The Jew of Venice Author(s): William Shakespeare

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard