Event Comment: Benefit for Wright and Chapman. Gazetteer, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Chapman, No. 49, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields [Wright not listed]. Receipts: #210 5s. (56/13; 1/19; tickets: 151/13) (charge: #115 10s.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Theodore. Tickets made out and delivered for the 1st of April will be admitted, and may be had of Mme Theodore, No. 5, Great Pultney-street, Golden-square. Public Advertiser, 15 May: The Ballet was founded on the French piece of Le Deserteur, of which there was retained a good deal of the

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. Public Advertiser, 14 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 22, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Tickets delivered for Friday the 14th Inst, will be admitted. Receipts: #142 13s. (63/14; tickets: 78/19) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Harris, ballet master and principal dancer. Public Advertiser, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Harris at his house, No. 43, Wells-street, Cavendish-Square. Receipts: #179 4s. 6d. (42/14/6; tickets: 136/10/0) (charge: #105)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 24 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 6, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for the Author. Play [1st time; T 5]: Written by the Rev. [Thomas] Stratford. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Tickets to be had of Dr Stratford, No. 5, Cecil-street, Strand, and of Fosbrook at the Theatre. Dr Stratford, in the overflowing of a grateful heart, is happy indeed in returning thanks to the Ladies and Gentlemen who, with equal benignity and humanity, have so generously exerted themselves in bringing forward his tragedy of Russel. Above the mean manoeuvres that have been practised by persons he had the least reason to expect such a conduct from, and which have detained him almost three years in London, at a ruinous expense, he went with a party of his friends, on Wednesday last, to the Hay-market, in support of the other Lord Russel, penned by superior genius. As he never injured an individual, he trusts every intention to defeat the success of his play will be disappointed by a generous London audience who, he still presumes to hope, will be actuated by the same noble spirit and principle that first induced the Lady and Gentleman to undertake so arduous a task as appearing on a public theatre. As many parts of the play will be expunged and altered, he begs leave to mention that it cannot be again represented till Wednesday next, when the characters of Lord Howard and Hubert will be performed by two other Gentlemen, who have generously undertaken their parts, and an entire new address will be spoken by the Gentleman who performs Lord Russel, wrote by himself. "The performers ... rendered the Doctor's Tragedy one of the most laughable farces at which we were ever present. [It] has much Calimanco in it, and where we could hear a sentence compleat (which was seldom indeed) it abounded with Fustian" (Public Advertiser, 21 Aug.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. [Kean's 1st appearance was at this theatre, 22 Mar.] 2nd piece: The Music compiled by Dr Pepusch. 4th piece: A Ballet Tragi-Comique, composed by Signor Novestris [i.e. George Colman, the elder]. Gazetteer, 23 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Raeburn, Stewart and Rae. Mainpiece: In its original state. Afterpiece: Written by the Author of the Prologue. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin at 6:00. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre; and tickets to be had at Rae's, No. 4, Wardour-street, Soho

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Under the Direction of Delpini. Subscription tickets [for 5 nights] to be had of Weltje, confectioner, St. James's-street, and of Rice at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, author unknown. MS: Larpent 651; not published]. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice at the Theatre; and Tickets to be had of Mrs Williams, the Artificial Flower Warehouse, Store-street, Bedford-square. [Mrs Williams is identified in Morning Post, 11 Feb.]

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Miss Woollery. [Author and speaker of Prologue unknown.] The characters to be new dressed, in the habits of the times. Tickets to be had of Miss Woollery, No. 5, Delahay-street, Westminster. The Doors be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland. Text, which assigns no parts, 1st published in his Posthumous Dramatic Works, Vol. II (1813), under the title of Alcanor]. Public Advertiser, 5 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson at his house in Buckingham-street, York-buildings

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Permission of the Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Mrs Pinto, formerly Miss Brett [recte Brent]. Afterpiece: With an additional scene, written by the author of the farce [Isaac Jackman], never performed in London. The Doors to be opened at 5:00. To begin precisely at 6:30. Tickets to be had of Mrs Pinto at Mrs Golden's, milliner, Blackmoor-street, Clare-market

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 12 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 39, Goodge-street, Rathbone-place. Receipts: #308 1s. (150/16/0; 11/7/6; 0/14/6; tickets: 145/3/0) (charge: #66/1/8)

Event Comment: Benefit for Lewis. Public Advertiser, 18 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Lewis at his house in Broad Court, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. Public Advertiser, 15 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. [Miss Bannister's 1st appearance at this theatre was on 28 Apr. 1784.] Receipts: #321 9s. (118/6; 22/18; 2/4; tickets: 178/1) (charge: #113 7s. 3d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy. Public Advertiser, 16 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields

Event Comment: Benefit for Kemble [who had 1st acted Macbeth at Hull, 30 Oct. 1778]. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Kemble, No. 2, Leicester Court, Castle-street, Leicester Fields. [In mainpiece the playbill retains R. Palmer as Malcolm, but "Preceding the play there was an apology, on its appearance evidently exciting doubt and trepidation in the audience [probably for fear that Mrs Siddons would be unable to appear]; but Palmer's fourth word broke the spell. R. Palmer was suddenly prevented attending the house:--what could the house do, but laugh?--Laugh they did;--'and Barrymore will read his part.' The house laughed again. And so Britannia was delivered" (Morning Chronicle, 1 Apr.). The name of R. Palmer's substitute in the afterpiece is not given.] Receipts: #293 3s. (175/2; 9/16; 0/5; tickets: 108/0) (charge: #115 10s. 3d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Public Advertiser, 17 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Receipts: #236 13s. (56/19; 30/9; 0/13; tickets: 148/12) (charge: #113 14s. 10d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 32, Gerrard-street, Soho. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Packer as Belmour, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Hull.] Receipts: #296 5s. 6d. (165/3/0; 17/7/6; 0/10/0; tickets: 113/5/0) (charge: #106)

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Ogle to King, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Barrymore.] 2nd piece [1st time: INT I, probably by Robert Baddeley. MS: Larpent 692; not published]. Receipts: #226 3s. 6d. (105/18/0; 30/11/6; 0/16/0; tickets: 88/18/0) (charge: #111 17s. 7d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Brereton. Public Advertiser, 26 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Brereton, Charles-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #262 7s. 6d. (129/3/0; 18/13/0; 0/10/6; tickets: 114/1/0) (charge: #106 7s. 10d.)

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at his house in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields