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3070 results for: Keyword - Theatre in Richmond
We found 2529 matches on Event Comments, 586 matches on Performance Comments, 86 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

876
14 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre and there saw King and no King, well acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Kinge And No Kinge

877
28 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then with Mr Shepley to the Theatre and saw Rollo ill acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

878
27 April 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: After dinner with Mr Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see The Chances

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

879
05 May 1661 @ no theater listed

Event Comment: On Sunday Charles, Duke of Cambridge, the son of the Duke of York, died. On 7 May 1661, Francis Newport wrote to Sir Richard Leveson: The Duke of Cambridge dyed on Sunday in the afternoon and was buryed yesternight without any solemnity, noe mourning in the Court for him (HMC, Sutherland MSS, 5th Report, Appendix, 1876, p. 151). If the theatres were closed because of this death, the closure was for not more than ten days

Performances

880
16 May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there saw the latter end of The Mayd's Tragedy, which I never saw before, and me thinks it is too sad and melancholy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid's Tragedy

881
25 May 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, wher I saw a piece of The Silent Woman, which pleased me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

882
04 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw Harry the 4th, a good play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourthe Part I

883
08 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre and there saw Bartholomew Faire, the first time it was acted now-a-days. It is a most admirable play and well acted, but too much prophane and abusive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

884
22 June 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, The Alchymist, which is a most incomparable play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

885
04 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, and there I saw Claracilla (the first time I ever saw it), well acted. But strange to see this house, that used to be so thronged, now empty since the Opera begun; and so will continue for a while, I believe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Claracilla

886
23 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw Brenoralt, I never saw before. It seemed a good play, but ill acted; only I sat before Mrs Palmer, the King's mistress, and filled my eyes with her, which much pleased me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Brenoralt [or, the Discontented Colonel]

887
25 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw The Jovial Crew, the first time I saw it, and indeed it is as merry and the most innocent play that ever I saw, and well performed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

888
31 July 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and there I saw The Tamer Tamed well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tamer Tamed

889
14 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Alchymist

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchemist

890
26 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, and saw the Antipodes, wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Antipodes

891
27 August 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Hence my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw The Joviall Crew, where the King, Duke and Duchess, and Madame Palmer, were; and my wife, to her great content, had a full sight of them all the while. The play full of mirth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jovial Crew

892
06 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, and saw Elder Brother ill acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Elder Brother

893
07 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife and I...to the Theatre, where we seated ourselves close by the King, and Duke of York, and Madame Palmer, which was great content; and, indeed, I can never enough admire her beauty. And here was Bartholomew Fayre, with the puppet-show, acted to-day, which had not been these forty years (it being so satyricall against Puritanism, they durst not till now, which is strange they should already dare to do it, and the King to countenance it), but I do never a whit like it the better for the puppets, but rather the worse

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bartholomew Fair

894
09 September 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: 'It is not certain what company played at this theatre ont his day Pepys, Diary: To Salisbury Court play house, where was acted the first time 'Tis pity Shee's a Whore, a simple play and ill acted, only it was my fortune to sit by a most pretty and ingenious lady, which pleased me much

Performances

Mainpiece Title: 'tis A Pity She's A Whore

895
25 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Much against my nature and will, yet such is the power of the Devil over me I could not refuse it, to the Theatre, and saw The Merry Wives of Windsor, ill done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

896
26 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Abroad with my wife by coach to the Theatre to shew her King and no King, it being very well done

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King And No King

897
28 September 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. An edition, undated but possibly issued about this time, refers to its being acted at Vere Street. The edition has no cast, no prologue, no epilouge. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and his daughter and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw Father's own Son, a very good play, and the first time I ever saw it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Father's Own Son

898
02 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: We [Pepys and his wife] went to the Theatre, but coming late, and sitting in an ill place, I never had so little pleasure in a play in my life, yet it was the first time that ever I saw it, Victoria Corombona. Methinks a very poor play. Pepys, Diary, 3 Oct.. I...calling at Sir W. Batten's, where his son and his wife were, who had yesterday been at the play where we were, and it was good sport to hear how she talked of it with admiration like a fool

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vittoria Corombona

899
04 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: Captain Ferrers and I to the Theatre, and there came too late, so we staid and saw a bit of Victoria, which pleased me worse than it did the other day. So we staid not to see it out

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Vittoria Corombona

900
08 October 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: And late after dinner took Mrs Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a frolique, to my great expense, and there shewed her part of the Beggar's Bush, without much pleasure, but only for a frolique

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Beggar's Bush