Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "R B Sheridan"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "R B Sheridan")') 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
2415 results for: Keyword - R. B. Sheridan
We found 1818 matches on Performance Comments, 385 matches on Event Comments, 310 matches on Author, 28 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

301
14 December 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by George Edward Ayscough, based on Semiramis, by Voltaire. Prologue by the author. Epilogue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see text)]: With New Scenes and Dresses. This Tragedy is a translation from Voltaire by Captain Ayscough. Mrs Yates played finely, and met with the Applause she deserved. Mrs Reddish, alias Mrs Canning, who played the part of Azema, was hissed all through, and must never perform again. Indeed she was very bad. The Play was greatly applauded (Hopkins Diary). Public Advertiser, 24 Dec. 1776: This Day is published Semiramis (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #226 3s. 6d. (224.16.6; 0.0.0; 1.7.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Semiramis

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17761031

302
15 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. ENT 2, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (also attributed to Richard Tickell). Prologue by Richard Tickell (London Chronicle, 23 Oct.). Text 1st published probably by T. Lowndes, 1795]: To conclude with a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heathv [near Maidstone, Kent, where a military encampment had been in existence for several months], from a View taken by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] With a New Overture and other Music [by Thomas Linley Sen.]. New Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Account-Book, 16 Oct.: Paid Supernumeraries & Soldiers for Camp #35 5s. 6d. Receipts: #266 0s. 6d. (258.16.0; 6.18.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

303
08 January 1779 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; P 2, attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan (see G. W. Williams in Studies in Philology, XLVII, 1950, 619-28). Synopsis of action (W. Randall, 1779) lists no parts]: The Overture and Music entirely new. With new Scenes, Machines, Dresses and Decorations. All the Scenery, Machinery, &c. designed by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. Nothing under Full Price will be taken. [For a discussion of this pantomime see Theatre Survey, II, 54-66.] Public Advertiser, 24 Feb. 1779: This Day is published an Account of The Wonders of Derbyshire and the Songs (6d.). Receipts: #225 19s. (223.18.0; 2.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire or Harlequin in the Peak

304
05 October 1780 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Richard Brinsley Sheridan [who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Afterpiece: With a Sea Fight and Procession. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] The Scenery designed by De Loutherbourg, and executed under his direction. Receipts: #236 3s. 6d. (200.17.0; 35.0.0; 0.6.6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #73 10s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsd

Dance: End I: The Butterfly, as17800921

Song: V: song-Miss Field

305
02 September 1785 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren. Mainpiece: With Permission of the Author [Richard Brinsley Sheridan]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

306
03 October 1791 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: [In 2nd piece the playbill assigns Orlando to Kemble, but "On account of indisposition, Barrymore last night performed Orlando for Kemble" (Oracle, 4 Oct.).] 3rd piece: To conclude with the Glorious Defeat of the Spanish Armada, and a Grand Procession. "Equal to any actor I ever saw, as far as his line extends, is Mr Parsons; his conception and expression of Sir Fretful Plagiary, in Mr Sheridan's Critic, are as strong and masterly as were Garrick's in Kitely [in Every Man in his Humour]; and his 'laughing without mirth' therein equally admirable" (Jonson, ed. Waldron, 171). Receipts: #251 4s. 6d. (213.6.6; 37.0.0; 0.18.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Drury

Afterpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Song: V 2nd piece: song-Miss Hagley

307
06 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [Mrs Worthington is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] Ballet: 1st time; composed by Giacomo? Gentili. Afterpiece [1st time: ENT 1, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; acted in place of The Prize, advertised on playbill of 4 Mar. Text (C. Lowndes, 1797)]: Altered from a Dramatick Entertainment performed 1794 [The Glorious First of June]. In the course of which will be introduced a representation of the late Glorious Engagement between the British and Spanish Fleets on the Fourteenth of February [1797, under Sir John Jervis, off Cape St. Vincent]. Receipts: #253 9s. (151.2.6; 100.17.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Song: III: a Masquerade Scene-; with Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Sedgwick, Dignum, Welsh, Master Welsh

Ballet: End: The Labyrinth; or, The Country Madcap. Joseph-Gentili; Robert-Grimaldi; Philip-Master Menage; Rosina-Sga Bossi DelCaro; Countess-Mrs Wild; Lauretta-Miss S. DeCamp

308
14 October 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen Of Arragon

309
18 April 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Sheridan. Tickets of Sheridan at his lodgings at Mr Ebral's, Apothecary, in Bridges St., Covent Garden; of Mr Dodsley, Bookseller, in Pall Mall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Performance Comment: As17440103, but Brutus-Sheridan (being the last time of his performing this season); Portia-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Brutus Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

310
13 December 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Sheridan. As his benefit was not appointed till last Friday, he humbly hopes that such Ladies and Gentlemen, as he shall omit to wait upon, will impute it rather to a want of time, than to a want of respect and knowledge of his duty. Tickets to be had of Sheridan at Mr Grignon's. Watchmaker, in Russell St., Covent Garden; at the Bedford Coffee House; and at Mr Dudley's, Bookseller, in Pall-Mall

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17441109, but Hamlet-Sheridan; Marcellus-Usher.
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: Lowe

Dance: Muilment

311
01 January 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aurelio And Miranda

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Song: As17981231

312
15 May 1779 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Opera [1st time; COM 3, by Carlo Francesco Badini, based on The Duenna, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan]: the Music entirely new by Bertoni

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Governante

Dance: End I: new Ballet, Les Paysans Voles-Banti, Sga Tinti, Sg and Sga Zuchelli; End II: Ballet by Fairies, as17790302End Opera: new Ballet Espagnol, La Serenade Interrompuee-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli, Sg and Sga Zuchelli, LeDet; with a Pas de Deux du Masque-Simonet, Mlle Baccelli; accompanied on the Guittar-Noferi

313
20 October 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: WWilliam Hint in a Letter (Daily Gazetteer, 31 Oct.): Mr Sheridan? was cast most improperly, into the part of Horatio; which naturally call'd for Mr Delane? in that house....but why was Mr Garrick? left out of the play. Would he not have look'd, spoke and acted Lothario?

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Performance Comment: Horatio-Sheridan, 1st appearance here; Calista-Mrs Cibber; Lothario-Delane; Sciolto-Bridges; Alamont-Havard; Rossano-Blakes; Lavinia-Miss Budgell; Lucilla-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Horatio Actor: Sheridan, 1st appearance here

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

314
23 October 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: WWilliam Hint in letter (Daily Gazetteer, 31 Oct.): Here again we find Mr Delane ill cast for the sake of casting Mr Sheridan?; Still worse, Need I say how much better this play would have been acted had Mr Delane? play'd Pierre, and Mr Garrick? Jaffier

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved Or A Plot Discovered

Performance Comment: Jaffier-Delane; Pierre-Sheridan; Belvidera-Mrs Cibber; Renault-Berry; Duke-Winstone; Bedamour-Blakes.
Cast
Role: Pierre Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: The Amorous Goddess

315
25 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Sheridan. Lodgings at Watchmaker's opposite Tom's Coffeehouse, Russell St., cg

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: As17450307 but Othello-Sheridan.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Sheridan.

Afterpiece Title: The Anatomist

Song: III: O Peace from the Opera Alfred-Mrs Arne; IV: Rise Glory from Rosamond-Lowe; V: Gentle Shepherd-Mrs Arne

Dance: III: Signora Bettini

316
04 November 1754 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: In a fews days will be reviv'd at Covent Garden, the Tragedy of Phaedra and Hippolytus, in which Mr Sheridan will perform the part of Theseus, and Mrs Woffington that of Phaedra. Sg Francel and Sga Rossina Balbi, two Italian Dancers, arrived on Friday last from the Court of Bareith in Germany, and are engaged to perform at the same theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Tamerlane-Sheridan; Moneses-Ryan; Axalla-Smith; Omar-Gibson; Prince of Tanais-Anderson; Dervise-Arthur; Hali-White; Stratocles-Stevens; Zama-Redman; Bajazet-Sparks; Selima-Mrs Elmy; Arpasia-Mrs Hamilton; The song To Thee O Gentle Sleep-Lowe; the Usual Prologue-.
Cast
Role: Tamerlane Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

317
28 March 1761 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sheridan. Othello not acted for 5 years. [See 14 May 1759.] Miss Piercy in running off the stage, which was greatly crowded, fell down and broke her arm (Hopkins MS Notes)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-Sheridan; Iago-Havard; Cassio-Palmer; Roderigo-Yates; Desdemona-Mrs Cibber; Emelia-Mrs Pritchard; Brabantio-Burton.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

318
03 September 1770 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: hay Benefit for Sheridan. Mainpiece: As written by Mr Brooke, not acted these eight years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex

Performance Comment: Essex-Sheridan; Southampton-Aickin; Cecil-Gardner; Raleigh-Dancer; Lieutenant-Griffiths; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Burton; Nottingham-Mrs Jefferies; Rutland-Miss Hayward .
Cast
Role: Essex Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: hay The Author

Dance: hay IV: The Nosegay, as17700611

Song: hay IV: By Mrs Jewell

319
08 December 1775 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mr Sheridan's Night. Mainpiece: Not acted these 8 years. [See 29 March 1770.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father with Alterations

Performance Comment: Horatius-Sheridan, first time; Publius-Lewis; Valerius-Wroughton; Hostilius-Clarke; Valeria-Mrs Hunter; first time; Horatia-Mrs Barry; first time. In V the Triumphal Entry of Publius-.
Cast
Role: Horatius Actor: Sheridan, first time

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

320
05 March 1776 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Thomas? Sheridan. Mainpiece: Written by Congreve and now carefully revised, and corrected, by expunging the exceptionable passages, not acted these twenty years. [See 25 May 1758.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Performance Comment: Maskwell-Sheridan; Sir Paul Plyant-Quick; Careless-Lewis; Mellefont-Wroughton; Brisk-Lee Lewes; Lord Touchwood-Clarke; Lord Froth-Booth; Lady Plyant-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Froth-Mrs Green; Cynthia-Mrs Jackson; Lady Touchwood-A Gentlewoman (first appearance on the stage).
Cast
Role: Maskwell Actor: Sheridan

Afterpiece Title: The Syrens

Dance: End: The Italian Gamesters-the Zuchellis. [Query: Gardeners or the dance called simply The Gamesters? See17751011.

321
15 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Afterpiece Title: The Schoolboy

Song: ( B By desire )Mad Bess-Beard; The Charms of Polly Willis-Mrs Clive

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

322
25 January 1758 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: Pigmalion or The Statue Metamorphosed

Afterpiece Title: B By Desire The Battle of Rosbach the whole to conclude with Bryans song in honour of that day sung by Kear

Dance: I: Rural Dance-Master Settree, Miss Twist; III: Scots Dance-Froment, Miss Wilkinson

Song: III: Scots Song-Lauder; IV: young Italian Gentlewoman, 1st appearance on any stage

323
29 April 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Skeleton

Dance: B Particular Desire a Ball dance call'd the Louvre, Minuet-Lalauze, his Daughter

324
05 May 1760 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry V

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: The Drunken Peasant-Miles; Clown-Bennet; III: The Fingalian Dance, as17591102; End: The Lamp Lighters, as17600318

325
08 May 1769 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Merry Sailors, as17680920