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2844 results for: Keyword - Theatre at Exeter
We found 2486 matches on Event Comments, 409 matches on Performance Comments, 53 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1651
11 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

1652
11 March 1765 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Yates. Set to music by Yates. Pit and Boxes 5s. Gallery 3s. The Serenata published this day at 6d. Books of the performance to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Choice Of Apollo

Music: Concerto on German Flute-Florio; Concerto on Violincello-Siprutini; Concerto on Harpsichord-Yates; First Violin, Concerto-Barthelemon

1653
16 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Send Serv'ts at 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre. Love in a Village deferr'd. Miss Brent ill

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

1654
23 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Books of opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Cheats of Scapin

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

1655
28 March 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Twenty-sixth Night. Send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books o Opera at Theatre. Last time of performing this opera till after Easter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17641212

1656
28 March 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. By Particular Desire. Upper Gallery 3s. 6d. The House will be doubly Illuminated for the Upper Boxes and Upper Gallery to read their Books. Books of the opera to be had at the Theatre. Nor will any Pit Tickets be admitted into the Gallery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antigonus

Dance: As17650105

1657
08 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of opera at theatre. [Miss Hallam became Mrs Mattocks on or about Easter Sunday (Winston MS 9).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

1658
12 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Clarke. None admitted behind Scenes. Books of the Entertainment (a Musical Afterpiece, perform'd but once) to be sold at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Artifice

Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Miss Pitt; End: A Tambourine, as17641015

1659
13 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: II: A Tambourine, as17641015

1660
20 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Books of the Opera at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: II: Rural Love, as17641212

1661
22 April 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mattocks. Ladies send serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17641001

1662
01 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Tenducci. Send Serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of the Opera at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Dance: I: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003; II: Rural Love, as17641215

1663
02 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull. Books of the afterpiece to be had at the Theatre. Afterpiece: Founded on the plan of the old Ballad of that name. The songs adapted to old English, Irish and Scotch tunes. [Shuter's Prologue is Larpent MS 218, wherein he enters in character of a Ballad singer, interrupting the music as the overture comes to a close. He sings snatches from some ten old ballads, stopping in the midst of each to comment on the superiority of modern circumstances which parallel those referred to in the old ballads. As the bell rings he introduces the afterpiece.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Afterpiece Title: The Spanish Lady

Dance: IV: The Jealous Woodcutter, as17641101

1664
04 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Send Serv'tS by 3 p.m. Books of the Opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: II: The Last New Dance-Miss Wilford[, as17650423

1665
13 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Perry, Dibdin. Mainpiece: Acted but once these two years. Afterpiece: Perform'd but twice. None admitted behind Scenes. Books of the Afterpiece to be sold at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Shepherd's Artifice

Dance: II: A Medley Hornpipe, as17650430 End: Rural Love, as17641212

1666
14 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Books of Opera at Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: II: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

1667
21 May 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Send Serv'ts by 3 p.m. Books of Opera at Theatre (Twenty-Ninth Night)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Dance: II: A New Dance-Miss Wilford

1668
16 September 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. First Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr Sarjant (ONLY) Book-Keeper, at the Stage-Door of the Theatre. No Person can be admitted behind the Scenes. Nor any money returned after the curtain is drawn up. To begin exactly at 6 o'clock. [Customary note repeated on each bill.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

1669
08 October 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A comic opera [by Bickerstaffe never performed before. Books of the opera at the Theatre. The music by the most eminent composers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

1670
01 November 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Scheduled for performance, but theatres closed on account of the death of the Duke of Cumberland.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

1671
14 November 1765 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. Those ladies and gentlemen who have taken places in the Boxes are desired to be at the theatre earlier than usual, to prevent mistakes; and to send their servants by 3 o'clock. [Garrick's first appearance. He afterwards played only occasionally 7 or 8 nights.] Disturbance at Drury Lane. Those not in black insulted, one young gentleman from Bond Street had a sword run into his eye (Winston MS 9)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Daphne and Amintor

1672
23 November 1765 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By Command of their Majesties. A new serious Opera. Pit and Boxes put together and no Persons to be admitted without Tickets, which will be delivered this Day, at the Office, at Half a Guinea each. Gallery 5s. By their Majesties Command no Persons whatsoever to be admitted behind the Scenes or in the Orchestra. Gallery, Pit and Boxes to be opened at Five. 6:30 p.m. [Repeated in the subsequent bills.] Messrs Crawford, Vincent, and Gordon most humbly request that the Nobility and Gentry, Subscribers to the Operas for the ensuing Season, will please send their Subssciptions to Andrew Drummond and Co., Bankers at Charing Cross; or to Crawford, at the theatre, where attendance will be given every day from Ten to Two, to receive Subscriptions, and the names of the Subscribers who are pleased to honor the Managers with their Protection to enable them to get the Tickets engraved before the Operas begin (Public Advertiser through October and November)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Eumene

Dance: NNew Dances-

1673
06 December 1765 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: A New Musical Comedy in 3 Acts never performed before. New Scenes and Habits. Book of the Comedy to be had at the Theatre. [Richard Cumberland's second dramatic piece, and first one to be performed (Genest, V, 104).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Summer's Tale

Dance: I: The Garland, as17651003; II: A New Grand Ballet, call'd The Gallant Shepherds-Fichar, Sga Manesiere, Miss Wilford

1674
18 January 1766 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpece: By Desire. [An article appeared in the St James Chronicle; or, British Evening Post proposing reserved seats for the theatre, and suggesting a method by which to operate the system.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Plain Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Hermit

1675
20 January 1766 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [Playbill notes this performance as the Fifth. See 16 Dec. 1765.] Books of the Comedy to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Summer's Tale

Dance: I: The Village Romps, as17651019; II: The Garland, as17651003