Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out for the Tragedy of Tragedies, with an Opera call'd, The City Apprentice Turn'd Beau, or Love in a Hamper which was to have been performed this Day, for the Benefit of Mr Green, Prompter, will be taken at this Play

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality.Daily Journal, 9 July: We hear that a Play-house is to be erected on Hampton-Green, will all Expedition, for acting Plays for the Entertainment of the Royal Family

Event Comment: Benefit Charles, the Merry Trumpeter of Oxford. At Lee's Great Booth on the Bowling Green. ...and tis well if it takes If not, the Trumpet breaks; And they that are my Friends, that come to see my Play, If it happens to rain, shall have a Coach to carry 'em away

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 18 Dec.: We hear from Southwark, that a Theatre will be ready to open there the 26th Day of this Month, on the Bowling Green, by a new Company of Comedians, who intend to play the remaining part of the Winter; and that Preparations are making in a handsome Manner for the Reception of the Gentry

Event Comment: By a New Company of Comedians who intend to Play the remaining Part of the Winter. On the Bowling-Green. To begin exactly at Six o'Clock, on the Penalty of 50 Pounds. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. The House is made commodious and warm, and the Passages new laid and rang'd with Lamps. No Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up, nor any Person to be admitted behind the Scenes

Event Comment: At Lee's Great Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green. 7 P.M

Event Comment: Daily Advertiser, 18 Aug.: His Royal Highness the Prince, and several Persons of Quality, were present at the Play Love for Love, which was acted at the Theatre upon the Green

Event Comment: At Lee's Old Theatrical Playhouse on the Bowling Green, running down Axe and Bottle Yard. 10 or 11 a.m. to 9 P.M. [Advertised through 16 Sept.]

Event Comment: At Lee's Old Theatre on the Bowling Green, behind Marshalsea Prison, down Mermaid Court, next Queen's Arms Tavern. 10 or 11 a.m. to 9 P.M. [Advertised through 16 Sept.]

Event Comment: See Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb., for a letter from Colley Cibber to the Gentlemen of the Inns of Court. Daily Advertiser, 4 Feb.: Whereas it is agreed on between several Gentlemen, to erect a New Theatre for the exhibiting of Plays, Farces, Pantomime, &c. all such Persons as are willing to undertake the said Building, are desir'd to bring their Plans for the same by the 2d of May next ensuing, in order to be laid before the said Gentlemen, the Time and Place of which Meeting will be advertis'd in this Paper on the last of April. Proportions of the Ground: The North Side 120 Feet; the West, square with the North, 130 Feet; the South 110 Feet; and the East on a Bevil, joining the Parallel. Note, There must be a Passage left to go round the Building, and the Stages to be 30 Feet wide at the First Scene; the Distance between Wall and Wall 80 Feet; and the Scene-Rooms, Green and Dressing Rooms, to be on the outside of the last mention'd Measure. The Stage to be either North or South

Event Comment: DDaily Advertiser, 17 Aug.: Yesterday Morning died at his House at Strand on the Green after three Days Illness, Mr Joseph Miller, a celebrated Comedian

Event Comment: At Lee's Booth, on the Bowling Green. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m

Event Comment: Benefit Ray, F. Shepard, Rogers, Green, Master Brooks, Miss Morrison. Tickets for the Misses Scott also taken

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. Daily Advertiser, 25 Jan.: On Wednesday night last a Disturbance happen'd at Drury-Lane Playhouse, occasion'd by one of the principal Dancers not being there to dance at the end of the Entertainment, and after most of the People in the Pit and Galleries were gone, several Gentlemen in the Boxes pull'd up the Seats and Flooring of the same, tore down the Hangings, broke down the Partitions, all the Glasses and Sconces, the King's Arm over the middle front Box was pull'd down and broke to Pieces; they also destroy'd the Harpsichord, Bass Viol, and other Instruments in the Orchestra; the Curtain they cut to pieces with their Swords, forc'd their way into the lesser Green-Room, where they broke the Glasses, &c. and after destroying every thing they could well get asunder, to the amount of about three or four hundred Pounds Damage, left the House in a very ruinous Condition. [See also London Magazine, IX (1740), 47-48, 100.

Event Comment: At Yeates' Booth, on the Bowling Green, Southwark. [Advertized through 20 Sept.

Event Comment: At Fawkes and Pinchbeck's Great Theatrical Booth on the Bowling Green, with the Large Blue Flag on the Top. By the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians from hay, gratis. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. 10 a.m. Afterpiece: Pinchbeck's curious Machinev. [Advertised also 8, 9, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 Sept.

Event Comment: Benefit Cross (Prompter), Demaimbray (Machinist), and Ray. Tickets deliver'd out by Green, Miss Thomson, and Miss Minors will be taken. Tickets for the Double Gallant will be taken. Rylands MS.: I had tickets. Receipts: #105

Event Comment: WWoodhouse's Booth on the Bowling Green

Event Comment: GGreat Fives Court on Bowling Green. By Yeates Jun's Company of Comedians. 2s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d. [Notice repeated 9, 10, 11 Sept.

Event Comment: At the Old Theatre, on the Bowling Green. A Concert, etc. Benefit Daniel. 6 p.m. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. First Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Event Comment: At the Old Theatre. Advertisement for the Publick Good: Whereas a pack of Strolling Players, who by the Laws now in force are liable to be punished by His Majesty's Justices/of/the/Peace as vagrants and vagabonds, lately infested the villages of Clapham, Stackwell and Borough of Southwark and other places in the County of Surrey and have made several riots and have contracted several debts with His Majesty's liege subjects and have given out printed handbills and Tickets for several of their benefits, particularly that the play called the Recruiting Officer and the Entertainment called Flora, or Hob in the Well would be performed on Monday Night Last at Yeates Old Theatre in the Bowling Green in Southwark and Several Gentlemen and Ladies were prevailed on and paid for majy tickets and went in coaches expecting to see and hear the proposed entertainments but the said strollers neither performed nor returned the money advanced for such tickets though demanded, this Advertisement is therefore hembly recommended to the serious consideration of the justices of the peace for the said county of Surrey and also to give a friendly caution to unwary people not to be imposed upon by such persons in the future.--Daily Advertiser, 8 Nov. [See 27 Nov. at hay] On Tuesday last the Court Leets for the Town and Borough of Southwark...Likewise directed the Constables to use their utmost Endeavours toward suppressing the Acting of Plays...and avoiding all unlawful Games and Plays....By the Statue, no Plays to be acted but in Westminster, or Place of his Majesty's Residence, on forfeit of #50.--London Courant, 6 Nov

Event Comment: [This benefit was originally scheduled for the Old Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark, but after the fiasco and obloquy of 3 Nov. and the newspaper notice of 8 Nov. the promoter changed theatres.

Event Comment: At Lee and Yeates' Great Tiled Booth on the Bowling Green. A Droll [long synopsis given]. To begin at Twelve o'clock Noon. [Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. 6d.] The Til'd Booth is the largest and most Commodious in the Fair. The Stage is very long and sufficient to show the Burning of Troyv to the Greatest Advantage (Daily Advertiser). [Notice repeated 10, 11 Sept.

Event Comment: A concert, etc. at the New Theatre, Bowling Green. Benefit for Phillips (Daily Advertiser)