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8350 results for: Keyword - New Theatre in the Haymarket
We found 4951 matches on Event Comments, 2716 matches on Performance Title, 1711 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

6701
12 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [By Sandford.] All the Characters being entirely new dress'd. [The Preface gives a long account of the difficulties attendant on the production, particularly the inexperience of the amateur performers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Fop; Or, The False One Fitted

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill

6702
16 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By the New Company of Comedians. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance: Two Children, Scholars to Mrs Roussau

6703
19 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

6704
20 December 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A New Dramatick Entertainment in Grotesque Characters. N.B. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed Tickets which will be deliver'd at the Door at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #162 1s. London Journal, 28 Dec.: 'Tis said, they had not less than 260l. in the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

6705
20 December 1723 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

6706
10 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: One of the Actors being indispos'd, the new Play called The Captives is deferr'd till further Notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

6707
24 January 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses's Command. N.B. We are obliged to defer the New Tragedy, called Edwin, till further Notice. Receipts: #156 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

6708
20 February 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 14 Jan. Daily Journal, 21 Feb.: Last Night his Majesty, the Prince and Princess, with great Numbers of the Nobility, went to see the new Opera

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

6709
24 February 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: [By George Jeffreys.] With all new Habits. Receipts: money #91 6s. 6d.; tickets #2 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Edwin

Performance Comment: Edition of 1724 lists: Edwin-Boheme; Leolin-Ryan; Tudor-Hulett; Albert-Walker; Gomel-Quin; Morvid-Diggs; Matilda-Mrs Vincent; Adelisa-Mrs Parker; Prologue by Theobald-Ryan; Epilogue by Molloy-Mrs Brett.
Cast
Role: Theobald Actor: Ryan
Related Works
Related Work: The Test of Love Author(s): John Edwin, the younger

6710
29 February 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Afterpiece: With several new Scenes of Action, and comical Incidents neverperformed before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distressed Mother

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

6711
02 March 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Nivelon Jr. Afterpiece: A new Dramatick Entertainment of Dancing after the Italian Manner. Receipts: money #51 18s.; tickets #20 12s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Robbers; or, Harlequin Trapp'd by Colombine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Nivelon Sr; Piero-Nivelon Jr; Mezzetin-Glover; Scaramouch-Newhouse; Punch-Lanyam; Colombine-Mrs Rogeir.
Cast
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Newhouse

Dance: The Scating Dance-

6712
04 August 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rise And Fall Of Massaniello

Performance Comment: As17240731 With a New Prologue.

Song: As17240731

Dance: As17240731

6713
07 August 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rise And Fall Of Massaniello

Performance Comment: As17240731 With a New Prologue.

Song: As17240731

6714
02 September 1724 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At (alias Jubilee Dicky), Norris's, Chetwood's, Orfeur's, and Oates' Great Theatrical Booth, next Mr Bullock's in Bird-Cage Alley. An excellent new Droll, never acted before

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merlin The British Enchanter; Or, The Child Has Found His Father

Song: Mrs Boman

6715
17 October 1724 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: LLondon Journal, 17 Oct.: We hear there is a new Opera now in Practice...called, Tamerlane, the Musick composed by Mynheer Hendel, and that Signior Borseni, newly arriv'd from Italy, is to sing the Part of the Tyrant Bajazet. N.B. It is commonly reported this Gentleman was never cut out for a Singer

Performances

6716
28 November 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Night Scene. The Scenes being all painted from tne real Place of Action. [By John Thurmond.] Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 5 Dec.: [It] was dismiss'd with a universal hiss.-And, indeed, if Shepherd had been as wretched, and as silly a Rogue in the World, as the ingenious and witty Managers have made him upon the Stage, the lower Gentry, who attended him to Tyburn, wou'd never have pittied him when eh was hang'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shepard

6717
21 January 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [By Lewis Theobald.] The Cloaths, Scenes, Machines, Flyings, and otehr Decorations, Being entirely new. N.B. Tis desir'd that no Persons will take it ill, that they are refus'd Admittance behind the Scenes, it being impossible to perform the necessary Decorations, unless the Passages are kept entirely clear. Receipts: #174 8s. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 23 Jan.: In which was shewn the boldest Piece of Machinery that ever yet was seen upon the Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer; With The Loves of Pluto and Proserpine

Performance Comment: Harlequin-Lun; Witches-Leveridge, Salway, Harrison, Mrs Chambers; First Bird Catcher-Nivelon; 2d-Spiller; Petit Maitre-Legar; Italian-Rochetti; Pluto-Leveridge; Proserpine-Mrs Barbier; Cerberus-Nivelon; Susiphus-Glover; Prometheus-Newhouse; Ixion-Lanyon; Clotho-Mrs Ogden; Lachesis-Mrs Wall; Atropos-Mrs Legar; Furies-DuPre, Lalley, Pelling.
Cast
Role: Prometheus Actor: Newhouse
Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin a Sorcerer: With the Loves of Pluto and Proserpine Author(s): Lewis Theobald

6718
24 February 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: DDaily Post, 25 Feb.: About 11 in the Morning, a Fire broke out at the Earl of Cardigan's House in Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields...and the New Play-house, which was in great Danger, escap'd with but little Damage

Performances

6719
16 April 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mr and Mrs Legare. Afterpiece: [Author unknown.] A new Entertainment of Musick in one Interlude. Receipts: money #33 11s. 6d.; tickets #65 4s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Cornish Hero; or, Jack the Giant Killer

Dance: Proper Dances-

6720
21 April 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Le Divorce Du Mariage

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Cartouche

Performance Comment: In which a new Actress will perform, who never appeared but once on this Stage.

6721
22 April 1725 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Fille Errantes

Afterpiece Title: Arlequin Gentilhomme

Performance Comment: In which a new Actress will perform, who never appeared but twice on this Stage.

6722
23 August 1725 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: At Penkethman's and Norris's Great Theatrical Booth in the George Inn Yard, Smithfield. An excellent new Droll

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Famous History Of Semiramis, Queen Of Babylon: Or, The Woman Wears The Breeches, Containing The Distressful Loves Of The Prince Alexis An Ulamia; The Pleasant Adventures Of Sir Solomon Gundy And His Man Spider; And The Comical Humours Of Alderman Doodle, His Wife, And Daughter Hoyden

Related Works
Related Work: The Wives' Excuse; or, Cuckolds Make Themselves Author(s): Thomas Southerne

Song: Platt

Dance: Houghton, Mrs Houghton

6723
06 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: All the Characters new drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Careless Husband

6724
16 November 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With a new Scene representing a Prospect of Covent-Garden, Piazza. Written by Mr Congreve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Dance: Roger, Thurmond, Boval, Lally, Mrs Brett, Miss Tenoe, Rainton, Miss Robinson; La Folette-

6725
11 January 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Never Acted there before. Revis'd by the Author. All the Characters new dress'd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife